The dream and the reality are far apart and the chasm is growing bigger with each passing day, affirms our correspondent Italy—at once anarchic, stubbornly individualistic and communitarian—is no longer everyone’s second motherland. Her warmth, her legendary charms and generosity, even her sense of humor captured in numerous postwar films, have been eroded by a [...]
By Amitabh Pal, November 12, 2009 A false note of triumphalism is marking the twentieth anniversary of the dismantling of the Berlin Wall. Certainly, the demise of the Stalinist system that ruled the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was for the good. But it is wrong to assert—as many commentators are doing—that the people there [...]
ExtremeInequality.org Greed at a Glance November 16, 2009 This Week What has the potential to save more lives, the insurance reforms in the landmark health care bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month or the higher taxes on the rich the bill imposes to pay for those reforms? This rather odd [...]
Obama stops before Iraqi vets graves at Arlington. “The Americans and British eventually learned the unnecessarily costly lesson in Iraq that what Iraqis thought and did would wholly determine if foreign forces were going to be shot at or not. Mr Fox claims the US and Britain will not be in Afghanistan in defense of the Afghan government, but if we are not doing that, then we become an occupation force. A growing belief that this is already the case is enabling Taliban fighters, who used to be unpopular even among the Pashtun, to present themselves as battling for Afghan independence…”
Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009 By Patrick J. O’Donoghue US plotting control of South America via Colombia, charges President Chavez. No one who knows the U.S. track record on Latin America can doubt the veracity of Venezuela’s assertion. VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O’Donoghue reports: Communication & Information (Minci) Minister Blanca Eekhout has held a press [...]
By Scottish Socialist Appeal supporters Wednesday, 18 November 2009 Saturday November 14th saw the Scottish Defence League’s attempt at a Glasgow city centre rally fail miserably. The group spent most of the day confined in a pub, protected by hundreds of police, before being forced onto chartered buses in the face of a much larger counter [...]
Barack Obama may go down in history as one of the great presidential con men of any century. Meanwhile, the insurance industry will emerge vastly more powerful, buttressed by newly-created public-private structures…This should have been the year for single payer, or something close enough to it that the real deal might be achieved in another year or two. Some optimistic folks still think real health care reform can be resurrected sometime soon to replace Obama’s disastrous legislation. But that would be extremely difficult. Obama is establishing a private system backed by the federal government that will envelop virtually every citizen. The insurance industry will emerge vastly more powerful, buttressed by newly-created public-private structures nearly impossible to dismantle absent a general political upheaval in the United States.
Dateline: October 15, 2009 How the Bankers Bought Washington What really hurts is not so much that American politicians are for the most part utterly corrupt and unprincipled, but that they sell the public interest for crumbs By ANDREW COCKBURN Smart investors have certainly had plenty of opportunity to make money lately. Gold is up [...]
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