Perspectives
Thousands line up at Los Angeles free clinic
Healthcare and the social crisis in America
By Patrick Martin, August 17, 2009
Just as the New Orleans Superdome, packed with refugees from Hurricane Katrina, shocked the world in 2005, the scene in Inglewood, California gives a glimpse of the social crisis devastating America.
Economic nationalism on the rise in Europe
By Stefan Steinberg, August 15, 2009
Since passing anti-protectionist resolutions at the last G20 summit, European governments have enacted a series of protectionist measures aimed at securing the interests of their own domestic banks an...
The Massachusetts model
The New York Times and Obama’s health care counterrevolution
By Kate Randall, August 14, 2009
The New York Times has again come to the defense of Obama’s health care proposals with an editorial praising the Massachusetts health care system.
Obama’s Abu Ghraib solution
By Bill Van Auken, August 13, 2009
Attorney General Holder has reportedly determined that only so-called rogue interrogators who went beyond the criminal methods approved by the Justice Department will be investigated for the systemati...
What is behind the opposition to the Obama healthcare plan?
By Patrick Martin, August 12, 2009
President Obama’s proposed restructuring of the US healthcare system has come under ferocious attack over the past week. Right-wing activists, in many cases organized by groups affiliated with the R...
Paulson and Goldman Sachs: A dirty secret of the Wall Street bailout
By Barry Grey, August 11, 2009
An article in Sunday’s New York Times sheds a measure of light on the corrupt relationship between government officials and the banks which underlies the multi-trillion-dollar bailout of Wall Street...
A corrupt election in Afghanistan
By James Cogan, August 10, 2009
It is widely acknowledged that the August 20 presidential election in Afghanistan will be characterised by vote-rigging and the bribing or intimidation of voters in the areas under US-NATO control.
The assassination of Baitullah Mehsud
By James Cogan, August 8, 2009
The American political establishment and the US media, along with Washington’s client government in Islamabad, are reveling in the reports that missiles launched from an unmanned US Predator drone o...
Mounting popular opposition to the war in Afghanistan
By Stefan Steinberg and Barry Grey, August 7, 2009
In the face of mounting popular opposition to the slaughter in Afghanistan, the US and European governments are stepping up their intervention and making clear that the neo-colonial occupation is open...
Stocks, profits up—Jobs, income down
Whose recovery?
By Patrick Martin, August 6, 2009
As the Obama administration and the corporate-controlled media tout the supposed signs of an economic recovery, American workers confront a worsening job market, declining real incomes, and the spread...
A further step toward a police state
Obama seeks to institutionalize indefinite detention
By Tom Eley, August 5, 2009
The Obama administration is considering the creation of a special prison and court complex on US soil to process and hold current and future terrorist suspects. It would include a facility to indefini...
CIA director issues a warning to Congress
By Bill Van Auken, August 4, 2009
CIA Director Leon Panetta used a Washington Post opinion column Sunday to warn Congress against pursuing any investigation into the crimes carried out by the agency under the Bush administration.
