Submitted by libbyliberal on Thu, 01/10/2013 - 2:40pm
Kevin Zeese addresses the unfriendly to ordinary citizens end-of-2012 "fiscal deal" from Obama and Congress and the further challenges to come.
"... Congress passed a watered down fiscal cliff package that will raise taxes on everyone, but the worst is yet to come, and this “deficit cutting” measure contains some surprises.
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"... Obama has been laying the ground work to cut social insurances since 2010.
Read below the fold...
Submitted by libbyliberal on Sat, 09/15/2012 - 8:02pm
Protests at US embassies are occurring throughout the Middle East and beyond. Four days thus far and counting.
Over a dozen deaths and hundreds of injuries.
The triggering catalyst was an ugly anti-Islamic video posted on YouTube but Bill Van Auken of wsws explains something even the most obtuse American should know by now, “underlying them [the upheavals] is deep-seated anger over the wars and oppression inflicted by American imperialism over the decades.” Read below the fold...
Submitted by libbyliberal on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 3:20am
Re-POST from 4-8-10
Citigroup's Rubin's and Prince's "Duh" testimony in Congress about the financial crisis! So, sorry, America. We had no idea. Is that as good as the accountability gets?
Time to resurrect the story of Brooksley Born this week and try to sustain in our memory how clearly it indicts these masters of the universe who have gang-raped Americans of their financial security. The truth of Born's story won't be highlighted with any help from a corporate-loving media, unfortunately, or a Congress that colluded with the financial clique headed by Greenspan that "killed" messenger Born's message OVER A DECADE AGO. Read below the fold...
Submitted by libbyliberal on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 1:36pm
(528 Obama-dumping days until 2012 election-Hugh's Obama's Scandals List)
Dana Frank reports that 70 members of the US Congress are calling for suspension of U.S. military and police aid to Honduras because of how, especially in the last two months, there has been a serious acceleration of government repression.
Frank also reports that ousted President Zelaya will be allowed to return to the country: Read below the fold...
Submitted by libbyliberal on Thu, 03/31/2011 - 5:45am
(586 Obama-dumping days until 2012 election-Hugh's Obama's Scandals List)
Pepe Escobar of Asia Times has been analyzing closely the Libyan War or, as he corrects himself per the White House, a "time-limited, scope-limited military action.”
On the Libyan Rebels' Military Commander:
And what about the INC's new military commander, Khalifa Hifter - a former Libyan army colonel who spent nearly 20 years in Vienna, Virginia, not far from the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley? Progressives will love to learn that the romantic "rebels" are now led by a CIA asset.
On the Rebel Coalition: Read below the fold...
Submitted by Hugh on Thu, 09/23/2010 - 1:21pm
Most of us who write on the economic history of our economic woes do indeed begin with Carter. We tend to cut him some slack, probably more than we should, because he was dealing with a bad recession and some temporary pro-business legislation during such a period would not be unusual and might even be useful. The problem is that when the recession went away these measures didn't. By then Reagan was President and voodoo supply side/trickle down economics was all the rage. Bush I was a continuation of the trends begun under Reagan. Read below the fold...
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Submitted by Paul_Lukasiak on Wed, 07/23/2008 - 1:06pm
Two weeks ago, OpenLeft initiated an effort to “diversify its front page” by publishing a series of posts which it described as being on the topic feminist and womanist perspectives on Hillary Clinton's withdrawal from the race -- and why this matters to progressives. After an excellent start with a post by Melissa McEwan, the experiment has failed. Read below the fold...
Submitted by twandx on Tue, 07/22/2008 - 8:58am
We were told that most people are not against a woman becoming president - just not "that" woman, Hillary Clinton, and this is seen as OK - a choice.
Yet when many people express the opinion that they are not against a black becoming president - just not "that" black, Brack Obama, this is pounced on - as racist.
Obama and most Democrats/Liberals used to be very critical of Bush's throwing out any part of the Constitution he wanted to that did not serve his political purposes.
Yet BO had no problem with throwing the FOURTH AMENDMENT under the bus, and except for a few strong, intelligent supporters, most swallowed hard and found excuse after excuse for his treating the Constitution just like Bush - especially the MSM. Read below the fold...
Submitted by BoGardiner on Thu, 07/03/2008 - 7:43am
Environmentalists, social activists, feminists, atheists, political junkies... our modern Swifts and Voltaires. George Carlin blended anger and satire to blissful perfection, Grist Magazine is doing it for environmentalism, and Melissa McEwan does it for sexism and racism at Shakesville.
As the Obama euphoria fades, expect much more of this, from 23/6:
The Reader's Guide to Maureen Dowd Read below the fold...
Submitted by Mandos on Thu, 06/19/2008 - 5:21pm
It has been kindly pointed out to me that there is an error (in good faith, based on not checking the facts on another post and/or misreading the post) in my last post on flags. I feel obliged to correct this with another post, because I feel the content of my post still stands even after the factual error has been corrected.
Hillary Clinton did not participate in the attempt at adding a flag-burning amendment to the Constitution. She instead attempted to defuse it by proposing a non-amendment that very narrowly fit the Constitution as interpreted generally by the courts. Consequently, this paragraph, Read below the fold...
Submitted by Mandos on Wed, 06/18/2008 - 8:52pm
There are reasons to prefer Clinton to Obama. There are easily arguable reasons to be angry that Clinton is not presently likely to be a Presidential candidate in the general election. You can even make a case for not voting for Barack Obama. You can make an even better case for not voting at all.
But there are a few moderately popular reasons for preferring Clinton to Obama that disturb me. A variant of one of these is present in this post at The Confluence. Read below the fold...
Submitted by cg.eye on Sun, 06/08/2008 - 7:59am
(reposted from a comment on Avedon's blog)
How can leverage be built, or used, without the threat of a negative outcome?
If votes from Clinton supporters are desired, doesn't someone have to ask for them?
Doesn't someone have to stop insulting them by continually saying their opinions are invalid, that their power is either illusory or unimportant, or that they are delusional for wanting to wield that power in the first place?
Since there are no third parties worth even that much of a damn to consistently field downticket candidates in every state, how else should Clinton supporters -- who have been called everything from bitches, dried-up divorcees, to racists -- behave, but to offer their votes to the McCain campaign if their policy concerns are not discussed with respect? Read below the fold...
Submitted by Paul_Lukasiak on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 11:40am
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