Nurses Union: Senate Bill Isn’t Real Health Reform

by Michael Whitney, FireDogLake
The National Nurses United, a brand new union created earlier this month and the largest professional group of nurses in the country, officially opposes the Senate health care bill.  NNU, a member of the AFL-CIO, slammed the Senate bill as a giveaway to the insurance industry that falls far short of real reform.
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Times columnist David Brooks exposes “left” supporters of Obama health plan

by Joe Kishore, WSWS
Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks, a fairly conscious representative of his class, is among the more perceptive commentators in the bourgeois media. Writing primarily for the benefit of the political and corporate elite, Brooks often attempts to cut through the fog of lies used by politicians to sell their reactionary [...]

First of All… He Does Lie. Second… You SHOULD have Called Bush a Liar

by Scott Creighton
All Lit Up with No Place to Go
The fake progressive blogosphere is lit up today over the republican lawmaker who had the audacity to yell out “You lie!” during Obama’s speech last night. And that is just as they want it because the Obama/DLC/Clintonista White House certainly appreciates a good distraction when they [...]

The Next Costume Design for AR-15 Guy

by Scott Creighton
I would just like to ask AR-15 Guy, “Chris”, a question… you know that song “Proud to be an American”?
So you go out to an event after consulting with the local police (who we know MUST have consulted with the Secret Service to get permission to allow you to do it), wearing your [...]

Breaking Quarantine: How the Obama Administration is Infecting the Global Economy

by Scott Creighton
Look at it this way: the rest of the industrialized world views our unique, selfish, greedy, primitive form of commodity driven healthcare as a hideous indictment of the weakness of the American citizen.  In their eyes, we don’t have enough brains or heart to stand up and demand what the rest of the [...]

Ahhh, the old “Estimated Cost Increase Reduction” Trick

by Scott Creighton
According to a recent article by Greg Palast, Big Pharma (by way of Billy Tauzin) met in secret with our president and promised to reduce their projected cost increases over the next 10 years “UP TO” a whopping 2%.  So in fact, they aren’t even guaranteeing the $80 billion dollar savings on the [...]

A Little News from what Obama calls “The Right War”

by Scott Creighton
Ex-ISI Chief talks about Afghanistan (by way of Kenny’s Sideshow) -  Before the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, the country produced about 4,500 tons of opium per year.  By the end of the Taliban reign in 2001 that number was down to 50 tons. The Taliban had reduced the production of opium [...]

The Obama opiate: Crisis deepens, crowds cheer

(now that we are done with the FAKE DISSENT, let’s get back to the real threat)
by Larry Chin, Global Research
Six months since taking the reins, the Barack Obama administration has met its primary objective. It has swiftly ramped up the murderous imperial agenda inherited from Bush-Cheney while the masses, pacified and deceived by the appeal [...]

Obama touts economic “recovery”

(now that we are done with the FAKE DISSENT, let’s get back to the real threat)
by Tom Eley and Barry Grey, WSWS
The Obama administration and the media have seized on second quarter gross domestic product (GDP) data to promote the notion that the recession is ending and “recovery” is underway. This effort is summed up [...]

Federal Reserve Paying Banks to Freeze Credit

by Scott Creighton
I remember the head of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, I think, testifying before congress back in Sept. of last year stating that the treasury department had worked out a deal with the Federal Reserve so that they would tighten the credit markets. In effect worsening the depression we are going through right [...]