Deep and arbitrary spending cuts, part of the austerity measures hatched by Congress two years ago and known as sequestration, are beginning to take a severe toll on vulnerable Americans dependent on crucial government programs. President Obama has described the sequester as a “self-inflicted wound” on the economy that could lead to another recession. Uneducated [...]
President Obama’s proposed budget is causing all sorts of political commotion for including as its centerpiece a focus on reducing deficits that is based largely on sweeping cuts to Social Security. Crafted as a compromise to lure Republican support, the president’s proposals has instead inflamed progressives for targeting Americans who rely on safety net programs [...]
HEY CHUCK, WELCOME TO AN AFGHAN DEBACLE. This is Bill Van Auken’s description of the first trip to Afghanistan of the newly confirmed U.S. Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel. To say that the inauguration of Hagel’s relations to his Afghan partner in the “war on terrorism” was inauspicious would be putting it much [...]
ARE ELDERLY AMERICANS THE “PICTURE OF AFFLUENCE?” Thatfflu is the picture drawn in a new Pew Research study of the “net worth” of American households. The average net worth of seniors of $170,500 seems “affluent” only by contrast with the almost non-existent amount of $ 3,700 for those under 35. With many older people now [...]
Will a “grand bargain” to avert the ostensible calamity of going over the “fiscal cliff” forge a legislative accord on the backs of the most vulnerable Americans? Progressives are increasingly worried about President Obama’s use of Social Security as a bargaining chip with an increasingly rancorous Congress. Not much more than a month since Election Day, [...]
GIVING “MATERIAL SUPPORT” TO THE JIHADIST ENEMY: THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. As many people languish in detention for such “crimes” as making money donations to Islamist charities, it now emerges that the Obama administration itself provided much military support for “rebel” forces in Libya by way of arms transfers to Qatar which wound up in [...]
WAYWARD U.S. DRONE BECOMES PRETEXT FOR WAR WITH IRAN. Just days after the U.S. election in which President Barack Obama and his policy to leave “all options on the table” when it comes to military action against Iran was reelected, the Pentagon announces that a U.S. drone has been shot at by an Iranian [...]
IS IT 2005 AGAIN? LIBYA HOLDS “FIRST DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS IN A HALF CENTURY”—AND THE WORLD’S CORPORATE MEDIA ARE RIGHT THERE TO CHEER AGAIN. )Dissident Voices) UK watchdog group Media Lens notes that, as Yogi Berra infamously said, “it’s deja vu all over again” as Libya holds a “democratic election” in which virtually none of [...]
WHY IS SOCIAL SECURITY IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE? HOW ABOUT THE $2.7 TRILLION DOLLARS THE GOVERNMENT HAS BORROWED OR STOLEN FROM THE SURPLUSES GENERATED BY F.I.C.A. TAXES? (Dissident Voice) Economist Allen W. Smith continues his long-term effort to educate the public about the sources of the actual financial insecurity of the aging population. The current “baby [...]
APPLAUSE! APPLAUSE! TO OBAMA FOR HELPING TO STRIP AWAY HABEAS CORPUS RIGHTS OF GITMO DETAINEES. (Brasscheck TV) Cenk Uygur offers this satirical “applause” for the President for the role of the U.S. government in generating a federal court ruling that essentially removed the right of detainees to demand trials as an earlier Supreme Court ruling [...]
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