The Hope and Change Dog and Pony Show With vague allusions to populist promises and admonition of his stubborn Republican opposition, the Great Capitulator ramped up his act like it was 2008 all over again….
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Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people’s resistance to the war on…
Ron Paul is the only anti-war candidate running for president. More than that: he wants to do away with overseas bases and reduce the military to the strictly defensive force envisioned in the Constitution; one…
[anyplayer:url=http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20120120/04-15-00-ftp-colin-washington.flv] Just when we thought the debt ceiling debate was all but over at least for now. Congress proved this week that battles for the Obama administration continue over the nation’s debt. The House of…
Mexican political analyst Alfredo Jalife-Rahme analyzes the recent Pentagon and White House strategic and budgetary options. While an extremist fringe continues to nurture the unaffordable dream of US domination over the entire globe, President Obama…
Like Obama, Mitt Romney is a wind-up doll for Wall Street and the bankers. There is virtually no difference between them despite all the fetid air from the GOP propaganda machine. Romney’s Bain Capital…
The United States’ defence strategy unveiled by President Barack Obama in Washington on January 5 has been occasioned by the need to slash the spending of the Pentagon by nearly half a trillion dollars over…
[anyplayer:url=http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20120114/05-22-00-sng-collin-washington.flv] Hampered by a sluggish economic recovery, lackluster jobs creation and a reelection campaign President Obama is doing the inevitable. He officially asked Congress for an additional 1.2 Trillion dollars– so the US can pay…
New York Times cites administration officials as saying that the U.S. President chose clandestine communication to express to Iran’s Supreme Leader that an Iranian move in the strategic waterway would trigger an American response. The…
Pensions and health care plans for US troops will be drastically reduced under a new budget presented by US President Barack Obama on Thursday. Not all aspects of the DoD will be annihilated, however. [anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/usa/news/obama-panetta-pentagon-strategy-251/i3b17fe3528ba39e0960d6e4ddb057b14_gayane-grab-0100.flv]…