Photo Credit: todbaker Fracking on Shaky Ground: How Our Latest Fossil Fuel Addiction Is Linked to Earthquakes When the mayor of Youngstown, Ohio decides to buy earthquake insurance, you know we’ve got a big problem. January 9, 2012 | To what should be the surprise of no one, earthquakes caused by the junkie gas sector’s hydraulic fracturing process, [...]
Bill Mckibben’s lastest Time to Stop Being Cynical About Corporate Money in Politics and Start Being Angry Buying Congress in 2012 by Bill McKibben My resolution for 2012 is to be naïve — dangerously naïve. I’m aware that the usual recipe for political effectiveness is just the opposite: to be cynical, calculating, [...]
withayou (CC-BY) HERE COMES THE CAPITAL STRIKE EMAIL PRINT SHARE SHARE Posted on Nov 26, 2011 From his seat in Congress, House Speaker John Boehner announced in mid-September that American business owners would continue to hold the nation’s wealth (and thus the public welfare) hostage until government granted them the “low-tax, deregulated world they wanted,” writes journalist [...]
Barack Obama unveils $447bn jobs plan President Barack Obama addresses a joint session of Congress. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters President uses televised address to urge Republicans to end ‘political circus’ and approve American Jobs Act to bring down unemployment reddit this Ewen MacAskill guardian.co.uk, Friday 9 September 2011 01.35 BST Article history Barack Obama used [...]
Barack Obama’s jobs speech faces Republican boycott The jobs plan is part of President Obama’s attempt to reverse a rapid drop in the polls. Photograph: Martin H Simon/Martin H Simon/Corbis Multibillion-dollar jobs plan faces stiff opposition from Republicans who are already branding it a re-election gimmick • How has US unemployment changed over time? [...]
The Election March of the Trolls 18 Illustration by Mr. Fish By Chris Hedges We have begun the election march of the trolls. They have crawled out of the sewers of public relations firms, polling organizations, the commercial media, the two corporate political parties and elected office to fill the airwaves with inanities and absurdities [...]
Does AIPAC Have Only Two Major Donors? John Boehner and Eric Cantor By Grant Smith * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz A large congressional delegation is heading for Israel. During three weeks of recess, 55 Republicans and 26 Democrats will enjoy “educational” trips funded by the American Israel Education Foundation, a tax-exempt nonprofit located in the same [...]
Barack Obama with ‘his Republican nemesis’, Speaker John Boehner, during a crisis meeting on US debt in July. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images ‘There are two superpowers in the world today,” the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman declared in 1996. “There’s the United States and there’s Moody’s Bond Rating Service. The US can destroy you [...]
Pentagon lands extra $50 billion out of debt deal By Stephen C. WebsterTuesday, August 2nd, 2011 — 11:06 am Out of a bill that was supposed to cut government spending and waste wherever it is found, lawmakers managed to cobble together an additional $50 billion for the U.S. Defense Department‘s budget, using an accounting trick [...]
China‘s economic boom may be inflating a real-estate bubble: residential housing investment now accounts for 9 per cent of gross domestic product [EPA] When my old gang and I were 14 or 15 years old, many centuries ago, we yearned for immortality in the fiery wreck of a bitchin’ ’40 Ford or ’57 Chevy. Our J.K. Rowling was Henry Felsen, [...]
US House speaker John Boehner: his inability to keep his congressional colleagues’ ‘ass in line’ has deadlocked the debt ceiling talks. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters When speaker John Boehner took the gavel from House minority leader Nancy Pelosi in January, Republicans cheered a new era in Washington, inaugurated by an all-out assault on women’s reproductive rights, the administration’s [...]
President Barack Obama has pinned his hopes on Senate leaders to reach an eleventh hour agreement to raise US debt ceiling. Photograph Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Barack Obama cleared his diary for the weekend on Friday night to try to find a deal on the US debt crisis as Congress prepared to stay in session ready [...]
Debt Madness Was Always About Killing Social Security SHARE 0 AP / Carolyn Kaster House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio looks on during a news conference at the Republican National Committee. By Robert Scheer This phony debt crisis has now passed through the looking glass into the realm where madness reigns. What should have been an [...]
US House Speaker John Boehner Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters As the feather fight in the US government,has a nap, it would be nice if we could hear some comment about what a default will really mean. Any working person can give you a detailed description about what happens after job loss leads to no money, [...]
The White House is expressing optimisim that a compromise deal can be reached before the 2 August deadline Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP The White House is drawing up emergency plans for next week’s debt crisis deadline in the event that Congress fails to reach a last-gasp compromise. With only six days left, the White House dismissed [...]
This page has been saying for quite some time that voodoo rhythm economics is realy about making those lower in the enforced hierarchy as per the inoculated delusion pay for the lifestyle of the rich and the elite. The contribution to the general fund by the rich is inordinately small and often non-existent, as these [...]
Debt Is A Crisis By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/debt-crisis What if the imminent banging of Uncle Sam‘s skull into the looming debt ceiling isn’t a crisis, but the very concept of debt is? The debt ceiling has been lifted numerous times without fanfare or fainting spells. All we face this week is a fabricated opportunity to [...]
The US debt crisis has deepened after a collapse of negotiations between Congress leader John Boehner (left) and Barack Obama. Photo: Reuters/Jason Reed Democrats and Republicans are locked into a dangerous game of seeing who will crack first over the national debt crisis, with the White House warning that the next few days could be stressful [...]
Debt ceiling talks between Barack Obama and John Boehner have broken down, throwing the US into economic uncertainty. Photograph: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP The US is on the brink of a major economic crisis after negotiations between Barack Obama and Republican Congressional leaders over the national debt dramatically broke downon Friday. Obama, showing anger, passion and [...]
Boehner, the House speaker, said it is time for Obama to ‘step up’ his efforts to find a solution to the debt crisis [AFP] Watching the pretences of the political underlings to the elite pretending to have any real say in what will happen to the monster cancer of capital would be amusing if the effects [...]
Discussion on a deficit reduction deal has stalled after five consecutive days of negotiations between Republicans and Democrats. In order to borrow beyond August 2, the United States must raise its $14.3 trillion debt ceiling. This week, Standard & Poor’s became the second of the major credit rating agencies to place U.S. debt under review, [...]
Obama has proposed to slice trillions of dollars from social security programmes, but wants tax increase for rich [EPA] As an August deadline looms before his government to pay its debt, the US president has said “time is running out”. “We’re running out of time. That’s the main concern that I have at this point,” Barack Obama said on [...]
President Barack Obama and a bipartisan group of congressional leaders will meet on Monday to continue working on a deal to avert a looming US debt default. Obama and Republican and Democratic leaders met for roughly an hour and a half on Sunday in a bid to break an impasse on deficit reduction talks to [...]
AMY GOODMAN: The New York Times reported Saturday President Obama rejected the views of top lawyers at the Pentagon and Justice Department when he decided he had the legal authority to continue American military participation in the air war in Libya without congressional authorization. The Obama administration continues to face congressional opposition to the ongoing Libya [...]
Bruce Fein is the founder of the American Freedom Agenda. He served in the US Justice Department under President Reagan and has been an adjunct scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, a resident scholar at the Heritage Foundation, a lecturer at the Brookings Institute, and an adjunct professor at George Washington University. He was an advisor [...]
UVA/Reagan War Hawk Defends Obama’s War By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58179 When a national television program this week needed to find a spokesperson for the right of presidents to launch wars without congressional authorization, it turned — to the great shame of us University of Virginia alumni — to Robert Turner. He is the co-founder of [...]
Two More Merc Firms Get Big Iraq Contracts Posted: Wed, 04 May 2011 21:01:24 +0000 Two more security firms have won contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars to build the State Department a private army in Iraq. The department confirms to Danger Room that longtime Iraq contractor Triple Canopy and newcomer Global Strategies Group will [...]
