Dateline for original piece: The Nation June 19, 2009 By William Greider The most disturbing thing about Barack Obama’s call for financial reform was the way in which the president falsified our predicament. He tried to make it sound as though everyone was implicated in the financial breakdown and therefore no one was really [...]
BREAKTHROUGH ON A CRITICAL FRONT: JEWS CONFRONT ZIONISM Prominent rich American Jews like NYC’s mayor Bloomberg, or the scions to the Seagram’s fortune (the Bronfmans), constitute a tiny percentage of Jewish opinion, but it’s the only one receiving constant and ubiquitous attention throughout the corporate media (which many of them own outright, too, as is [...]
The new American Clean Energy Act: Exposing the fraudulence of centrist “solutions” to systemic problems. By Patrick O’Connor / The World Socialist Web Site29 June 2009 RELATED (SEE BELOW) Dennis Kucinich: “Why I voted No. Passing a weak bill today gives us weak environmental policy tomorrow”— Zionlib Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) serves as House Energy Committee [...]
ONCE AGAIN, INSPIRATION FROM ANIMALS The inscrutable innocence of animals often gives us lessons in charity and acceptance. So it was with the remarkable “odd couple” formed by Owen and Mzee. (As readers may recall, in December 2004, a frightened young hippo, christened “Owen”, separated from his family by a devastating tsunami, bonded with an [...]