Immortal Technique on Obama, 9/11 truth & Corporate America. Immortal Technique: No escape from capitalism! The Big Lebowski Explains the Fiscal Cliff. The tax deal completes the first piece of a multistage showdown between President Obama and congressional Republicans over the federal budget and the economic recovery.
The Obama administration made concessions, but the concessions were small, and it is gloating that it won a larger strategic victory by breaking Republican anti-tax absolutism. Republicans, including anti-tax absolutists themselves, mostly believe they got through the first and most unfavorable stage as intact as could be. (Grover Norquist: “We’re in this impossible, upside-down position, where if you do nothing, taxes go up. That’s what we got saved from. That goes away now.”) White House Sees ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Deal as Game Changer. Jan 1, 2013 12:13pm It’s hard to find anyone in Washington happy about the outcome of the “fiscal cliff” brinksmanship.
But inside the Obama White House, senior officials are elated by what they call a significant presidential achievement: breaking longstanding Republican intransigence on taxes. The deal passed by the Senate early this morning, with the endorsement of all but seven of the 47 Republicans, would raise $620 billion in new revenue, hiking tax rates on households earning more than $450,000 a year. The income tax hike would be the first in two decades. “Keep in mind that just last month Republicans in Congress said they would never agree to raise tax rates on the wealthiest Americans,” President Obama said Monday.
Evidence of Fraud in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election: A Reader. The following article was published by Global Research one month after the November 2, 2004 elections This Reading List, a substantially expanded version of previous lists published on 11 and 15 November, has been prepared with the aim of making a wide range of readings on the subject of the integrity—or the lack of integrity—of the recent U.S. presidential election readily available.
It is being published as a companion-piece to my article “The Stolen U.S. Presidential Election: A Comparative Analysis.” Divided States of America: The Mother of all Austerity Measures. In the 2012 campaign, many Americans have realized for the first time that the US's role as a global power is no longer uncontested, something the Republicans blame on their enemy Obama, arguing that he hasn't been aggressive enough in places like Libya, Syria and Iran.
"We can neither retreat from the world nor try to bully it into submission," he said before coming into office, a statement that Republicans interpret as a sign of weakness, a conviction they feel is only reinforced by the military withdrawals during Obama's term. Obama wanted to withdraw US troops from Iraq and, by 2014, from Afghanistan, but he also had no choice. Thomas Barnett: The Pentagon's new map for war and peace.
Capitalism and the Accumulation of Catastrophe. Over the next few decades we are facing the possibility, indeed the probability, of global catastrophe on a level unprecedented in human history.
The message of science is clear. As James Hansen, the foremost climate scientist in the United States, has warned, this may be “our last chance to save humanity.” In order to understand the full nature of this threat and how it needs to be addressed, it is essential to get a historical perspective on how we got where we are, and how this is related to the current socioeconomic system, namely capitalism.
Bailout Nation. How Barack Obama learned to love Israel. I first met Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama almost ten years ago when, as my representative in the Illinois state senate, he came to speak at the University of Chicago.
He impressed me as progressive, intelligent and charismatic. I distinctly remember thinking ‘if only a man of this calibre could become president one day.’ On Friday Obama gave a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Chicago. It had been much anticipated in American Jewish political circles which buzzed about his intensive efforts to woo wealthy pro-Israel campaign donors who up to now have generally leaned towards his main rival Senator Hillary Clinton.
Reviewing the speech, Ha’aretz Washington correspondent Shmuel Rosner concluded that Obama “sounded as strong as Clinton, as supportive as Bush, as friendly as Giuliani. But Obama was not entirely insensitive to ordinary lives. Sunday Times admits 'Amazongate' story was rubbish. But who's to blame?
In criticising Dr Richard North, below, for not having checked [ eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/01/and-now-for-amazongate.html] whether there was a reference to the claim that up to "40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation" in the WWF Report, I was unaware of, and therefore omitted to mention, that Dr North had himself later spotted that there was a reference to the 40% figure in the WWF report.
His initial mistake had been corrected on another page [ eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/01/corruption-of-science.html ] (before the Sunday Times article had been written) and he had added a cross-link to the original page, which I failed to note. Apologies. It's a distressing sight but we'll have to get used to it: most of the world's prominent climate change deniers skewered on their own sword. An Energy-Independent Future - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 06/16/10.