US Politics
A reply to a critic on Obama’s health care overhaul
By Joe Kishore, September 17, 2009
The World Socialist Web Site recently received a letter denouncing our position on Obama’s health care overhaul, and, in particular, our analysis of his speech to Congress last week.
US: Senate Finance Committee chair releases health care proposal
By Kate Randall, September 17, 2009
Democratic Senator Max Baucus’s proposal includes an individual mandate to purchase insurance, contains no requirement for employers to provide coverage, does not include a “public option,” and ...
Obama turns to AFL-CIO to defend health care cuts
By Jerry White, September 16, 2009
In appearances at a GM plant in Ohio and the AFL-CIO convention in Pittsburgh, Obama turned to the labor bureaucracy to defend his health care plan against growing popular opposition.
Obama advisor champions rationed health care
By Kate Randall, September 15, 2009
Ezekiel Emanuel has been placed in a strategic position to influence the Obama administration’s overhaul of the health care system based on private profit and the delivery of class-based, rationed c...
Democrats pledge more cuts in Medicare to fund Obama’s health care overhaul
By Joe Kishore, September 12, 2009
The Democratic Congressional leadership indicated its support for passing a health care bill that will pave the way for major cuts in health care
US Supreme Court set to ease rules on corporate campaign cash
By Bill Van Auken, September 12, 2009
The US Supreme Court met in a special early session Wednesday to hear arguments in a case that could strike down limited restrictions on corporate funding for election campaigns that go back a century...
The real agenda behind Obama’s health care “reform”
By Jerry White, September 11, 2009
Obama’s speech before Congress Wednesday night was deliberately aimed at concealing the reactionary content of his health care “reform” from working people.
Patriotism and personal responsibility
Obama addresses public school students
By Jerry White, September 9, 2009
Obama’s speech to public school students was laced with patriotic appeals and an insistence that deteriorating schools and worsening economic conditions are no “excuse” for failing.
Obama on Labor Day: Hollow promises of economic recovery
By Patrick Martin, September 8, 2009
Speaking to an AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic in Cincinnati, Ohio, President Barack Obama declared that the US economy is “moving in the right direction” despite the ongoing destruction of working class...
The dismissal of Van Jones
By Joe Kishore, September 7, 2009
Responding to pressure from the extreme right over his aide’s previously held oppositional views, Obama dismissed “environmental jobs czar” Van Jones.
Democrats hold town hall meetings on Obama health care overhaul
By Jeff Lassahn and Ed Hightower, September 4, 2009
Democrats are continuing a nationwide effort to drum up support for the Obama administration’s health care proposals through a series of town hall meetings being held nationwide.
Afghanistan war escalation: The Nation seeks to “protect” the Obama administration from itself
By David Walsh, September 3, 2009
The war in Afghanistan is increasingly taking center stage in American political life. The Nation and other liberal elements continue to apologize for Barack Obama, who is now preparing a major escala...
