By Nikolas Kozloff Author, “Revolution! South America and the Rise of the New Left” Dateline: January 22, 2010 03:06 PM Watch the U.S. media and its coverage of the crisis in Haiti, and you get the impression that Washington is a benevolent power doing its utmost to help with emergency relief in the Caribbean island [...]
January 25, 2010 A totally hollowed-out formal democracy* has replaced the deeply flawed old-style democracy. We’ve gone from bad to worse, and the show’s still far from over. By Chris Hedges Corporate forces, long before the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, carried out a coup d’état in slow motion. The [...]
By Robert Scheer THE STATE OF THE UNION is just miserable, no matter how President Obama sugarcoats it. He will claim that progress has been made in stabilizing the markets, increasing national security and advancing toward meaningful health care reform, but he will be wrong on all three counts. What he will be right about [...]
January 25, 2010 By Robert Jensen CNN’s star anchor Anderson Cooper narrates a chaotic street scene in Port-au-Prince. A boy is struck in the head by a rock thrown by a looter from a roof. Cooper helps him to the side of the road, and then realizes the boy is disoriented and unable to get [...]
Tomgram: In Haiti, Words Can Kill We need to banish the word “looting” from the English language. By Rebecca Solnit January 21, 2010. Just before Haiti was devastated by the most powerful earthquake to hit the island in more than 200 years, when, that is, it was only devastated by the hemisphere’s worst poverty, there [...]
January 19, 2010 [print_link] Emblematic of how mainstream liberals betray the interests of the people is an Obama appointee, Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, who advocates that the U.S. government create a cadre of covert agents to infiltrate anti-war groups and groups opposed to U.S.government policies in order to provoke them into actions or statements [...]
BY ROBERT KUTTNER HOW COULD THE HEALTH care issue have turned from a reform that was going to make Barack Obama ten feet tall into a poison pill for Democratic senators? Whether or not Martha Coakley squeaks through in Massachusetts on Tuesday, the health bill has already done incalculable political damage and will likely do [...]
A debacle for Obama and the Democrats Republican wins Massachusetts Senate race By Patrick Martin 20 January 2010 Republican Scott Brown won the special election Tuesday to fill the US Senate seat from Massachusetts left vacant by the death of Edward Kennedy, who held the seat for the Democrats for 47 years. Democrat Martha Coakley [...]
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