PRESIDENT OBAMA “THROWS IN THE TOWEL” ON POPULISM AND “INTEGRITY” IN HIS ADMINISTRATION Two obscure cabinet appointments with an outsized impact on the daily lives of Americans made by President Obama in the last month offers a startling look at the true course the president’s second term will take, argues Norman Solomon. Penny Pritzker [...]
Like the election campaigns that vaulted the individuals they celebrate into office, modern American presidential libraries have become a hotbed of influence peddling, big money, and secret donations. While the outward appearance of the libraries and museums constructed by and for former presidents are the epitome of civic pride and an homage to public service, [...]
Overwhelming public support for tighter gun laws is failing to spur action in Washington, where lawmakers are struggling to pass a “watered down”gun control bill that pro-gun groups have stuffed with measures actually loosening many restrictions on gun purchases. Five months after the Newtown tragedy that briefly united the public and their politicians into a [...]
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 [...]
Net neutrality and other efforts to promote internet fairness and prevent a corporate stranglehold on Americans’ access to the web and other telecommunication technology may be at risk thanks to a prospective new head of the agency that oversees the nation’s telecom industry. President Obama’s first chairman of the Federal Communications Commission announced last week [...]
Political posturing has trumped science and environmental concerns in the long and tortured journey to the increasingly inevitable construction of the massive Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the US Gulf Coast. Bipartisan pressure is building on President Obama both sides await a delayed decision from the White House on whether the pipeline will [...]
The world’s largest purveyor of sugary drinks has made an unprecedented public embrace of its own culpability in America’s struggle with obesity and the costs associated with an overweight population. A new video released by Coca-Cola to considerable buzz bluntly labels obesity the “issue of this generation” and makes a vague admission that calories from [...]
The 2012 election will be the most expensive in history thanks to fewer regulations on political fundraising, and the national party conventions that kick off this week with the Republicans gathering in Tampa are similarly being transformed by the avalanche of big money and corporate largess. The Republican National Convention in Florida and next week’s [...]
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS WILL NOW LITERALLY POLICE THE WORLD. While military police units have been a part of the United States armed forces and specifically the Marine Corps for decades, a new breed of “MP’s” is being trained by the military for missions that go well beyond their traditional role. Previously used as [...]
More than two years after the Supreme Court decimated campaign finance regulations with their Citizens United decision creating the dreaded “super-PAC” and allowing unlimited and anonymous donations from individuals and corporations, a conservative oil tycoon from Oklahoma has become an embodiment of the fears voiced by activists and critics of the Court’s ruling. While the [...]
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