In one of the most astonishing speeches ever given from the senate floor, progressive Democrat, Senator Elizabeth Warren, called out the Obama administration for being a wholly owned subsidiary of Citibank.
Tag: Barack Obama
A closer look at the 5.9% unemployment rate
If you dig around the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website, you will learn that 20 percent of American families do not have a single person employed and 41 percent of all civilian, working-age Americans are without a job.
Russell Brand analyzes Obama’s ISIS/ISIL war speech
When I watched Obama’s first speech on his plans to go after ISIS (now ISIL), I felt physically ill. As I watched his strange
Council on Foreign Relations: West is responsible for Ukraine crisis
Given the ongoing, ludicrous, and mostly fictional coverage of Ukraine in the American media that relentlessly depicts Vladimir Putin as an evil, crazed, aggressive,
Which country is the greatest threat to world peace?
At the close of 2013, WIN/Gallup published the results of a massive world opinion poll in which they asked over 66,000 people from 65
Alternative views on Ukraine and the downing of MH-17
For more credible views on current events, I look to independent scholars and independent investigative journalists who are not employed by corporate media, either
Suing over executive orders: Politics as usual
There’s an adage that all politics is local. It makes a lot of sense; most issues are bread and butter ones that occur in
Iraq: Who is behind ISIS?
Mainstream media tells us that ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham) is a sort of “al Qaeda Gone Wild”—an army of well-equipped,
Dangerous beliefs: US moral superiority and our right to world hegemony
[by Madonna Gauding] In the windowless rooms of American corporate media, the assumption of U.S. hegemony is echoed on the alphabet TV channels and
Global derivatives markets 20 percent larger than before the crash
What’s a derivative? The word “derivative” may ring a bell because Wall Street speculation in “innovative financial instruments” such as derivatives, helped tank the economy