In the Land of Blood and Honey: Hollywood Has Become Pure Propaganda

by Scott Creighton A couple weeks ago I wrote about the Christopher Noland Batman series where he remakes every comic book villain into some kind of domestic homegrown terrorist with his last offering looking to make the 99% the last of his “bad guys” for the Batman to beat down. In the Land of Blood [...]

Occupy the Education System: Students, Teachers and Parents Find New Spirit and Challenge the Attack on Public Schools

by Sarah Jaffe, Alternet “I work hard, but my grades don’t matter. But I have a voice and I will be heard!” Jordan is 13, and she’s speaking to a crowd of mostly adults, sitting on the granite steps of the New York City Department of Education at Tweed Hall. Or rather, she is speaking [...]

The Strauss-Kahn Set-Up and the Globalist Assault on Greek Sovereignty

by Scott Creighton Now that Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been successfully removed from the equation, the globalist financial institutions are free to cash in on the Great Recession they created.  They’re attempting to hammer the people of Greece into submission with new “unprecedented” levels of privatization of public assets and even calls for “outside institutions” to [...]

CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., Friday, May 20, 2011: Celebrate Illegal Murder of OBL

by Scott Creighton In two previous postings I put up photos of thousands of people protesting the austerity measures being forced on them in Spain and Greece by their own corrupt politicians and their CIA linked financial “advisers” So, as a bit of contrast, while the rest of the country here at home suffers the [...]

Tricks, Compromises, and Betrayals; The Obama™ Campaign Begins

by Scott Creighton The mechanics of the PR tricks used by the marketing agencies contracted to run this country are becoming even more sophomoric and painfully obvious. Pathetic really. Hard to imagine people get paid to write this shit. A “news” story is all across the spectrum about a mic that was “left on” which [...]

Look Over There! Look Over There! Nothing to See Here… Look OVER THERE!!!

by Scott Creighton While most of the MSM focuses entirely on Japan or the drifting fallout, winds of CHANGE are blowing through the Obama administration who are definitely taking advantage of the distraction. The president has chosen this particular moment in time to take up the question of gun control in the wake of the [...]

US vetoes UN res. condemning illegal Israeli settlements

Mondoweiss Mondoweiss Obama administration vetoes any remaining legitimacy it had to lead the “peace process.” Time to step aside.15 seconds ago  Favorite  Retweet  Reply sahoura سحر US vetoes UN res. condemning illegal Israeli settlements shows Obama is an hypocrite-liar when he pretends he wants an end to this activity. gazamom Laila El-Haddad by PalestineToday US [...]

Home Sweet Wall Street

by Robert Sheer, Truthdig A most dastardly deed occurred last Friday when the Obama administration issued a 29-page policy statement totally abandoning the federal government’s time-honored role in helping Americans achieve the goal of homeownership. Instead of punishing the banks that sabotaged the American ideal of a nation of stakeholders by “securitizing” our homesteads into [...]

The Power of Change – Obama Rewards MSNBC’s Boss for Election Bias

by Scott Creighton President Obama has sold out again. Seems to be a pattern for the man. It is being announced today that Obama is replacing Paul Volker with GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt as the head of a Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. MSNBC served in the capacity of the “All Obama All the Time” channel in the [...]

Obama Pulls a Clinton

by Robert Sheer, Truthdig Here we go again. When Bill Clinton suffered an electoral reversal after his first two years in office, he abruptly embraced the corporate money guys who had financed his congressional opposition in an effort to purchase a second term. On Tuesday in his Wall Street Journal Op-Ed piece, Barack Obama veered [...]

Obama Uses Executive Order to Begin Neoliberal Assault on Regulation

by Scott Creighton The following definition of deregulation comes from “John Williamson’s “Washington Consensus“, a list of policy proposals that appeared to have gained consensus approval among the Washington-based international economic organizations (like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank).”  The active definition of neoliberalism or “free trade” ideology. Deregulation – abolition of regulations [...]

Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich

by Chris Hedges, Truthdig … The moratorium on anti-war protests in 2004 was designed to help elect the Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry. It was a foolish and humiliating concession. Kerry snapped to salute like a windup doll when he was nominated. He talked endlessly about victory in Iraq. He assured the country that [...]

Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans

(More on one of the buried stories I covered in my article In the Name of Business: Buried Headlines of a Changing World ) from CBS News President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today. [...]

Journalism of Appeasement. Corruption, Smoke and Mirrors

(A must read) by David DeGraw, Global Research Here’s a brief summation of my recent reporting: If we continue to let our politicians and wealthy members of society live in comfort, free from the consequences of their actions, we are complicit in our own demise. Our country is so overrun with corruption, we cannot remain [...]

Obama Care’s “Personal Mandate” Ruled Unconstitutional by Federal Judge

by Scott Creighton A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that the Obama Care personal mandate, the law that requires U.S. citizens to purchase an insurance policy from a private company, is unconstitutional. I, and many others, have been against this “personal mandate” since it first appeared in Hillary Clinton’s campaign rhetoric back in late [...]