Time may have come to bail out of the Obama ship

August 25 2009 by archivist39 in AMERICAN BRAINWASH |1 Comment

Has Obama lost the trust of progressives, as Krugman says? By Glenn Greenwald salon.com 8/21/09 Paul Krugman has an excellent column [1] today arguing that progressives have backlashed so intensely over the prospect of Obama’s dropping the public option because — for reasons extending far beyond specific health care issues — they no longer trust [...]

Stomach fortitude and principles missing

August 25 2009 by archivist39 in AMERICAN BRAINWASH |1 Comment

Lessons in Leadership: Why Obama Needs to Brush Up on His FDR By Arianna Huffington Watching the gun-toting, Nazi-sign-holding town hall crazies, the talk radio charlatans, and the Palin-infected politicos, my first instinct has been to rally around President Obama and defend his handling of the health care debate against this Cuckoo’s Nest menagerie. But [...]

The End of Retirement? Social insecurity increases

August 25 2009 by archivist39 in AMERICAN BRAINWASH |No Comments

Crosspost with http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/248.php#continue The   B u l l e t • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 248 • August 13, 2009 After decades of steady assault on working class gains, the corporate class is winning in North America, and its model of “pauperization” is pushing across continents. By Sam Gindin The attack on private [...]

Sorry folks, the end of asskissing is nowhere in sight

August 25 2009 by archivist39 in AMERICAN BRAINWASH |No Comments

Killing Yourself with Kindness By Robert Kuttner Will somebody please explain to me why Barack Obama is still on his bipartisan kick? Ever since Obama’s first efforts to reach out to Republicans, with his cabinet appointment of two Republicans, Gates at Defense and LaHood at Transportation, and his appeasement of Republican tax-cutting demands in the stimulus [...]

Evolution and Revolution of the Central Banking System

August 25 2009 by archivist39 in AMERICAN BRAINWASH |No Comments

Global Power and Global Government: Evolution and Revolution of the Central Banking System by Andrew Gavin Marshall PART ONE Introduction The global political economy itself is being reorganized into a world government body, consisting of one center of global power where the socio-political-economic power of the world is centralized in one institution. This is not [...]