There is an objective significance to the reduction of the State of the Union address, an American political tradition that goes back to George Washington, to an empty and cynical media spectacle.
As Obama’s speech underscored, for the US ruling elite, the Constitution and its Bill of Rights are virtually dead letters.
Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr exudes contempt for workers and hostility to democratic rights in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published Saturday.
Obama seems to think that the danger of the growth of social opposition can be avoided with large doses of demagogy.
