Governments of developed countries have lost their way. They do not understand the problems facing their economies, and have allowed right wing economic ideologues to stampede them into premature and…
If Obama wants to know which of these two men he will be facing in the 2012 election, he could find the answer from a French-born anthropologist who could be…
In a preview of the jobs speech he will deliver on Thursday to Congress, President Obama told a Labour Day rally in Detroit that there are numerous roads and bridges…
I don’t usually repost other people’s writings, but this article is too hard-hitting and important to pass up. If we want to understand better what is wrong with the economy…
From TPM.com, Why Far-Off Canadian Tar Sands Have Become Make-or-Break Issue For Obama With Enviros: For six days and counting now, hundreds of protesters have gathered outside the White House…
stop-tar-sands.jpg The State Department just released their Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The 27-page document does not flag any significant en...
Towards the end of the interview, after expressing utter dismay at the relentless barrage of criticism that’s levelled against Barack Obama, Dave asks: “I would like to know, how would…
The world had just watched in befuddlement as the mighty USA has reeled from the impact on its governance of a large group of members of Congress who have united…
The Republican Teabaggers hijacked his 50th birthday party. The bad news keeps on coming.We're watching him getting greyer by the day.He's under attack from the savage right, and the racial…
It’s been amusing, if not a little sad, to see the right wing trying to outdo each other criticizing Obama for having a birthday party. They’re all pissed but none…
In just over 15-months Americans will choose their next president. At this point Barack Obama's future hinges on the Republicans fielding a really terrible candidate, somebody like Michelle Bachmann. In…
Well I see the ghastly game is finally over, and many progressives are accusing Obama of caving in to the fanatical teabaggers. Settling for a Satan Sandwich.Democrats had no shortage…
What startled visitors at Mount Rushmore this morning.
As I am writing this, President Obama announced a deal to avoid default on US government debt. If lawyers think in terms of courts, then what would be the legal…
It's a scary and surrealistic spectacle. The most powerful nation on earth being held hostage by a group of fanatical teabaggers, who are dragging the President, the country, and the…
Image by Images_of_Money The current debate in Washington as to whether or not and under what conditions to raise the debt-ceiling has for the past week dominated global news coverage…
If I was in U.S. House Speaker John A. Boehner’s shoes I would have agreed to President Obama’s terms in raising the country’s debt ceiling.Why? Well I think it’s because…
Which of these sounds like a true leader, a president one can get behind: the man who strongly and emphatically declares what he thinks is morally right and acts accordingly,…
Perhaps it’s just because he appeals to my deeply cynical inclination regarding politics in general, but MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell seems to be providing the sharpest, most insightful commentary these days…
The "negotiations" surrounding raising the debt limit in the United States is a particularly poignant example of the oh-too-funny-if-not-so-serious circus of partisan, brinkmanship showboating that dominants so much of American…
