The United States of Plutocracy

Posted on Sep 8, 2009
By William Pfaff

The United States has for practical purposes been a plutocracy for some years now. American national elections usually function more or less correctly, except that they have become all but completely dominated by money.
The contributors of money to Senate and House campaigns are dominated by the source of that money, and the [...]

The New American Plutocracy

by Paul Kurtz
The following article is from Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 20, Number 4.
Plutocracy: (1) government by the wealthy, (2) a controlling class of the wealthy. From the Greek ploutokratia, from ploutos, wealth, and kratia, advocate of a form of government.
I am deeply troubled by the fact that in the upcoming presidential and congressional elections there [...]

Whats Really in Obama’s Healthcare Bill??

H. R. 3200- To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce
the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.
• Page 16: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is not available, [...]

FactsNews – Obama’s Healthcare Plan – A total sham!

It has been known for quite some time that Republicans are agaisnt pretty much anything a Democrat has to offer. This is bogus left-right bickering, however I agree with Republicans/Conservatives on this Healthcare Issue. The bill is another complete legislative disaster written by a few lobbyists that takes control away from the people and gives [...]

Obama administration: Guantanamo detainees have ‘no constitutional rights’

FN- B-b-but, don’t we have to go after Bush for war crimes? Meanwhile, Obama is committing more atrocities than Bush/Cheney can even fantize about…

Joe Byrne
Published: Sunday March 15, 2009

Court documents filed Friday reveal that Obama’s lawyers are arguing that Ex-Guantanamo detainees have no constitutional rights.
The Center for Constitutional Rights(CCR), a non-profit legal advocacy group, is [...]

Barack Obama’s Stealth Socialism

By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
During his NAACP speech earlier this month, Sen. Obama repeated the term at least four times. “I’ve been working my entire adult life to help build an America where economic justice is being served,” he said at the group’s 99th annual convention in Cincinnati.
And as president, “we’ll ensure that economic justice is served,” [...]

Remind all your elected servants that ….

they are bound by the Government Code of Ethics….
Code of Ethics for Government Service
House Document 103, 86th Congress, 1st Session – Passed by the Congress of the United States on July 11, 1958.
ANY PERSON IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE SHOULD:
I. Put loyalty to the highest moral principles above loyalty to persons, party, or Government department.
II. Uphold the [...]

A Civil War: Obama’s Gift to Pakistan

By Ali Khan.
June 17, 2009 “MWC” — -A civil war is brewing in Pakistan. Thanks to President Barack Obama, who is shifting the American war from Iraq to “the real enemies” operating from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Cash-strapped Pakistan could not defy Obama persuasion and decided to wage a war against its own people, the [...]

BLAST FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE: “Bin Laden scorns Obama charm offensive”

Link:http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ggUtq3Mx9csdaQ6SjekFIAnF16NA
“Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden on Wednesday scorned Barack Obama’s overture to the Islamic world and warned of decades of conflict, at the start of the US president’s Middle East charm offensive.” [Note that AFP takes for granted that CIA asset Osama bin Laden is still around. He's not. -He's dead.] Probe into ‘Bin Laden death’ [...]

Obama’s Great Illusion

by Yvonne Ridley

I wonder how many of you have woken up to the fact that America’s latest leader is really a political Houdini … an illusionist on a presidential scale.
Infront of our very eyes he has morphed from a gentle intellectual, and strong defender of human rights into a war-mongering bully who sponsors targetted assassinations and [...]