Holding Dems like Baucus and Cantwell Accountable on Health Care

July 8 2009 by tom rigbert in IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, RIGHTWING & BIZ PROPAGANDA, U.S. POLITICIANS |3 Comments

HEALTHCARE: Holding Dems like Baucus and Cantwell Accountable The stench of “centrism” and its inherent betrayal of the public interest has rarely been as obvious as in this political struggle. July 5, 2009 By Don Smith Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) could be a poster boy for what’s wrong with the US political system, and the [...]

Olbermann: "Prosecute, Mr. President!"

May 12 2009 by tom rigbert in IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, IMPERIALISM, U.S. POLITICIANS |No Comments

OLBERMANN: “PROSECUTE, MR. PRESIDENT”  |||| MSNBC’s host Keith Olbermann has repeatedly asked Barack Obama to reconsider his stand regarding torture, and to prosecute those involved in this ghastly practice regardless of rank. Guest analyst Prof. Jonathan Turley, a leading Constitutional law scholar, has endorsed exactly the same point on a variety of occasions, both on [...]

The antiglobalizing push / Doug Henwood

April 28 2009 by archivist39 in Uncategorized |No Comments

ARTICLES OF PERMANENT INTEREST The following article appeared in Left Business Observer #71, January 1996. It was written by Doug Henwood, editor and publisher.   Antiglobalization  Since the heavily advertised death of socialism, if there’s an idea that unites much leftish economic thought today, it’s that globalization is the root of many evils. It’s a strangely amorphous enemy, [...]

Obama Brand Soars, GOP Plummets on American Illusory Exchange

April 5 2009 by tom rigbert in FEATURED, IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, IMPERIALISM, U.S. POLITICIANS |No Comments

“The responses to the poll showed that people think the economy is getting better (in the absence of substantive evidence), and that Obama has a lot to do with it.” BY GLEN FORD | Senior Editor, Black Agenda Report Barack Obama massacred George Bush at the polls this week – the New York Times/CBS poll, [...]

Obama is Far from a Radical Reformer / By John R. MacArthur

March 27 2009 by archivist39 in Uncategorized |No Comments

“An early skeptic about the left-handed phenom from Chicago, I’ve never had any illusions about Obama’s commitment to left-wing “change.” Yet that’s exactly what pundits across the political spectrum say Obama is putting forth.”