Pick Your Poison

June 6 2011 by rowan wolf in CORPORADOES, GUEST AUTHOR, IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, INEQUALITY |No Comments

By Joel Hirshhorn One of the hardest truths to accept is that for most sources of pain hitting humans there seems to be nothing effective for government to do.  Nowadays, those of us who do not gobble various distractions but work to stay connected to reality see two dreadful conditions.  Nature seems mad as hell.  [...]

Lies and More Lies About Economic Resources

March 3 2011 by rowan wolf in AMERICAN BRAINWASH, ANNOTATED NEWS, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, INEQUALITY, QUICK TAKES, SCUM WATCH, Video |No Comments

This is a cut from the DemocracyNow! broadcast for March 3, 2011. It covers the ongoing resistance in Wisconsin, and the lies of the RepubliCons. Special feature with David Cay Johnston. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IJ4E5UJabw[/youtube] Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

US downwardly revises fourth quarter GDP

March 3 2011 by rowan wolf in CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, FEATURED, GUEST AUTHOR |No Comments

By Barry Grey. Republished from WSWS. In a further sign of economic weakness, the Commerce Department on Friday downwardly revised its figure for US economic growth in the final three months of 2010. The department reported that the US gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 2.8 percent on an annual basis in the fourth quarter, [...]

Time to ask: How long must the Obama "honeymoon" last?

April 2 2009 by tom rigbert in IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, IMPERIALISM, INEQUALITY, U.S. POLITICIANS |1 Comment

April 2, 2009 Give Obama a Chance to Do What? By Kevin Gosztola IF IT WEREN’T FOR ALL THE EXCUSES BEING MADE for Obama’s and his administration’s actions, I would feel a whole lot better. I think others who suffered under the Bush Regime would too. The populist anger across America is refreshing. People are [...]

Has a Katrina Moment arrived? / By Frank Rich

March 24 2009 by tom rigbert in IMPERIALISM, U.S. POLITICIANS |1 Comment

Dateline: New York Times | March 21, 2009 | Op-Ed   Why has there been so little transparency and so much evasiveness? The answer is that too many of the administration’s officials are too marinated in the insiders’ culture to police it, reform it or own up to their own past complicity with it. By Frank Rich A [...]

Take the Steering Wheel out of Geithner's Hands / Arianna Huffington

March 23 2009 by tom rigbert in U.S. POLITICIANS |No Comments

“In light of what has happened since then, that outcome must now be viewed as a tragic surrender to Geithner, Summers, and the political/Wall Street class — a “victory” that could lead to the unraveling of the president’s entire economic policy….”