Bowing to the right on Inauguration Day

Given his appointment to key posts, deep doubts about Obama’s direction continue to cloud his credibility with the left.  Dateline: 22 January 2009 The World Socialist Web Site The inauguration speech delivered by President Barack Obama Tuesday has been the object of near-delirious praise from the mass media and the editorial pages of the major [...]

Olbermann urges Obama to prosecute Bush & Co.

Dateline: January 20, 2009

Freedom Rider: Black Reagan

  By BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley   Wednesday, 19 January 2009 | [print_link]         When Barack Obama started praising Ronald Reagan the candidate’s apologists claimed he was just paying respect to a dead president. Now it’s clear that Obama’s affection for the raging old reactionary was heartfelt. With his latest [...]

Left Anticommunism: the unkindest cut

We told you so: centrism can’t cure shit

The Great Prevaricator strikes again : now in blackface. Obama, the silver-tongued opportunist, is a worthy member of the Centrist cabal in the power establishment. On Jan. 20, with his inauguration, America is likely to enter a long and painful period of extremely dangerous demagoguery. And, as all bright demagogues, he’ll work the symbols while [...]

Forgive and Forget?

January 16, 2009 | [print_link] OP-ED COLUMNIST, New York Times By PAUL KRUGMAN Last Sunday President-elect Barack Obama was asked whether he would seek an investigation of possible crimes by the Bush administration. “I don’t believe that anybody is above the law,” he responded, but “we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards.”

How Jewish is Hollywood?

BY JOEL STEIN Apparently still much more Jewish than the current crop of film and TV moguls would like to admit.* A poll finds more Americans disagree with the statement that ‘Jews control Hollywood.’ But here’s one Jew who doesn’t.—Joel Stein  Michael Eisner, ex-Disney chief, and one of Hollywood’s most powerful satraps, was succeeded by [...]

In defiance of Jewish passivity (?)

“DEFIANCE” / MOVIE REVIEWS Edward Zwick’s film turns Jews from victims into action heroes. How long before Hollywood does the same for Muslims? By David Cox | The Guardian (U.K)      Hawks and doves … Defiance LA Times columnist Joel Stein’s attempt to demonstrate that the Jews still run Hollywood has got people talking, not least on [...]

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