OBAMA’S NEW TAX PLAN WOULD SLASH CORPORATE RATES BY UP TO 10 PERCENT. (New York Times) Seeking to beat potential Republican vials to the fore of the “tax debate,” President Obama on Wednesday announced sweeping proposals for overhauling the nation’s corporate tax code. Currently sitting at a listed rate of 35 percent, the White House [...]
At a pace much faster than anyone could have projected, the landscape of campaign finance in American politics has undergone a dramatic transformation to a point where deregulated outside groups hold a distinct advantage over individual campaign war chests. The monumental presidential contest of 2012 appears to be the dawn of the super-PAC age in [...]
IN SOUTH AFRICA, THE FREEDOM CHARTER IS A DEAD LETTER (BUT NOT TO WORRY, NELSON MANDELA’S PICTURE IS ON THE NEW SOUTH AFRICAN CURRENCY.) (Black Agenda Report) The current President of South Africa, of the revolutionary ANC party, makes it clear that nationalization of the mining industry, as pledged in the 1950s-era Freedom Charter of [...]
Monday featured two landmark occasions in the struggle for marriage equality, more evidence that the tide of public and political opinion is turning on the issue. But historic advances in gay rights in individual states are often tempered by greater restrictions elsewhere, as was the case this week, and it will likely remain the pattern [...]
Already poised to blow out records for the most expensive campaign in American history, the financial stakes attached to the 2012 presidential election were raised to unprecedented levels by a monumental flip-flop from Barack Obama. Having long promised to raise as much as one billion dollars in direct donations to the campaign to win a [...]
NEO-CON KEYBOARD WARRIORS ARE IN FULL CRY: AS IN “WE WANT A WAR, AND WE WANT IT NOW!” Pepe Escobar of Asia Times uses some of his globe-circling travel time to read neo-con “intellectual” Niall Ferguson, and finds Ferguson’s arguments for invasion of Iran all too typical of a raging effort by neo-cons to promote [...]
WHITE HOUSE PREPARED TO CHOOSE POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY OVER WOMEN’S HEALTH. (Salon) The skirmish between the Obama administration and the Catholic Church and other religious organizations over contraceptives has made headlines for much of this week. Indignant religious leaders and their media allies have bashed the federal government for ruling as part of the new health [...]
The actions taken by the United States on Monday may not be a formal declaration of war against Iran, but it represents the most significant escalation yet in the use of coordinated international pressure on the Iranian regime. Actual hositlieis are the next logical step. The new round of sanctions announced by the United States on Monday [...]
America’s war in Afghanistan, now slogging into its 11th year of active operations, may be coming to an end sooner than the US government and military officials have publicly stated. If comments from Barack Obama’s secretary of defense are to be believed, US troops may be leaving in significant numbers by the middle of next year. [...]
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES DISPLAY SOME BAD MANNERS, ALL BECAUSE OF A LITTLE GENOCIDE. (Black Agenda Report) Australian Prime Minister and opposition leader join in condemning protests in which aborigines were displaying their “righteous anger” in a way which puts a damper on Australia Day festivities. The opposition leader says that all Australians love their native population, [...]
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