Haiti & American Oppression

It’s official: the Democrats are coming after Social Security and Medicare. How refreshing that the conspiracy of silence has been broken. Now, the 'liberal' media are promoting these ideas. The gentry decides it's time to screw the proles again.

US service people are not supposed to be dying in Pakistan. It’s not Iraq, it’s not Afghanistan. There’s no agreement for combat troops to operate. Until recently, U.S. officials have repeatedly officially denied having any combat troops in place.

The media take on the Tea Party movement starts with the lie that wide layers of the population oppose the Obama administration from the right, outraged over "socialism" and "big government" and the sinister possibility of "universal health care."

With banking systems in deep trouble and worries about government debt, panic is spreading through the eurozone to Spain and Portugal. Ireland and Italy are next up for hostile reconsideration by the markets, and the UK may not be far behind.

Unemployment during a recession is used as blackmail to pressure workers to accept lower wages. Workers don't complain about these conditions because they fear being fired. There are a thousand unemployed workers who'll do the job for half the wage.

The last/only Haitian leader strongly committed to putting the welfare of the Haitian people before that of the domestic and international financial mafia was President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. But the Americans weren't going to tolerate socialism..

It's no accident that the European crisis has erupted after last week’s budget announcement by Obama. The US budget plan revealed that the current deficit is $1.6 trillion, equivalent to 10.6 percent of the country’s’ gross domestic product.

A big piece of the problem is that Washington is so overrun by lobbyists representing moneyed interests that it's become almost impossible to make policy in the open. We ned adequate public financing for candidates who refuse private funding.

Contagion is a fact of life in our interconnected global economy and financial markets. And that means investors must strap in for more gyrations in the stock and bond markets as the painful deleveraging that began in 2007 continues around the world.

It's useless to point out that the "underwear bomber" failed. The response to terrorism in the US is all about what might happen. This is what militarism is all about: promulgating fear and maintaining a massive force to deal with imaginary threats.

The White House is proposing a $708 billion war budget for the 2011 fiscal year. This includes $159 billion for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Obama is also asking for $33 billion in “supplemental” funds for covert operations in the 'Afpak' war.

During a January 2008 drug raid a white police officer shot and killed Tarika Wilson, who was unarmed and holding her one-year-old son. The impoverishment of the lower rungs of the working class calls for repressive measures to quell any unrest.