I guess they think they should decide what we need to know. The overriding significance of the tens of thousands of documents posted by WikiLeaks is their detailed exposure of the atrocities carried out by the US occupation against the people of Afghanistan. The cumulative impact of one report after another is a portrait of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Obama’
A lie exposed
July 20th, 2010
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Is this what you would call progressive social reform? In fact, Obama’s plan to gut health care was part of the unfinished business of the corporate-government offensive against the working class launched in the 1980s. This was also signaled by the Democratic president’s attack on health benefits for auto workers during last year’s forced bankruptcy [...]
Obama’s “jobs program”: Poverty wages and mass unemployment
July 10th, 2010
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If this is “the right direction,” I’d hate to see the wrong one. The administration is impervious to the needs and wishes of millions of workers who are struggling to keep a roof over their heads and their families fed. But Obama jumps to attention when Wall Street speaks.
Supreme Court nominee Kagan placates Republican right at confirmation hearing
July 2nd, 2010
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It amazes me that liberals will always say we need to vote for the lesser of two evils in Presidential elections because they might get to choose a Supreme Court Justice. But look at the people they pick. In choosing Kagan to replace Stevens, for years the most liberal member on the court, especially in [...]
US commander recalled from Afghanistan after mocking Obama
June 23rd, 2010
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This is how coups start. The remarks of McChrystal and his aides are indicative of the open contempt with which large sections of the US military command regard the civilian government and the bedrock constitutional principle of civilian control over the military.
Supreme Court backs use of terrorism law against free speech
June 22nd, 2010
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Goodbye First Amendment. The case represents further proof that the assault on democratic rights initiated by the Bush administration in the name of a “global war on terror” is being continued and deepened under the Obama White House.
Obama’s Oval Office speech: A cowardly cover-up of BP’s crimes
June 16th, 2010
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Do you want a short summary of Obama’s speech? It’s business as usual. No one will be held accountable, nothing will be done to prevent something like this from happening again, and those impacted by the spill will get little help. Obama’s performance was the speech of an individual and a government that are under [...]
New evidence undermines latest BP-White House estimate of spill size
June 13th, 2010
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A few facts concerning the Deepwater Horizon spill: The rate of the oil spill as of early last week was between 30,000 and 50,000 barrels (1.2 million to 2.1 million gallons) per day, and possibly higher. Fifty-three days after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon that killed 11 workers, somewhere between 63 million and 107 [...]
Frank Rich on Obama: Liberal fears and illusions
June 8th, 2010
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His inability to articulate in any way the anger of millions of Americans has raised serious doubts about his leadership. The column is significant, not for any insights it provides into the crisis of the Obama administration, but rather as an indication of the sense within the left-liberal constituency of the Democratic Party that the [...]
