WHY DOES BARACK OBAMA HATE FDR? Despite facing slurs of “socialist” and “leftist” from his conservative opponents, President Obama is beginning to irritate fellow Democrats by seemingly turning against the party’s roots. In the same budget that guts Social Security, the centerpiece of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, the president has proposed privatizing the Tennessee Valley [...]
The darkest and most frightening echoes of the 2008 financial crisis that rocked the global economy were stirred over the past week as mega-bank JP Morgan Chase broke the news of a stunning $2 billion loss in a trading debacle similar to the kind that conspired to wreak the American economy only three-and-a-half years ago. [...]
OCCUPY PROTESTERS “SUDDENLY START SMELLING” TO LIBERAL CLASS WHEN THEY BEGIN TO CHALLENGE “PROGRESSIVE” DEMOCRATS. (In These Times) Expanding on the thesis of a new book by Chris Hedges, Joe Macare notes how “liberal” pundits like some of those who write for the Huffington Post seem to draw the line at the legitimacy of the [...]
CHINOOK DISASTER; WAS THAT TRIP REALLY NECESSARY? (National Journal) A gas-shortage era of questioning whether gasoline consumption is justified by a given trip is reprised as questions are raised about the necessity of the “rescue” mission in Afghanistan that resulted in the loss of 38 lives, Early reports that the Navy Seals “rescued” an Army [...]
MARCHING TO ARMAGEDDON: THE JEREMIAD OF PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS. (Counterpunch) Roberts, the former Reagan under-Secretary of the Treasury, issues one of his strongest condemnations of the combination of economic mismanagement and imperialist misadventure which has taken the U.S. and the world to the brink of self-destruction. While “economists” disguise the seriousness of unemployment and fail [...]
“PRISON REFORM” IS IN THE AIR; AND WHAT’S THAT ALL ABOUT? (Black Agenda Report) In Georgia as throughout the country, says Marietta GA resident Bruce Dixon, prison reform has come down pretty much to reducing costs to the state of its incarceration policies, as if they were no structural flaws in conditions within prisons and [...]
INTERNET CENSORSHIP BEGINS AT HOME. (Intel Hub) As U.S. government agencies condemn suppression of popular access to the internet in countries with “suppressive” regimes, an article on the Intel Hub website indicates that this practice is occurring throughout the world. The internet search engine Google, which operates the popular YouTube site on which citizens post [...]
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