Reality TV Hits Rock Bottom

After admitting 216,000 more jobs were lost in August, Obama said, ?we?re on the right track.? What he didn't mention was that the recession is driving down wages. Combined with exploding unemployment, there's a great leap in corporate profits.

If we see the US as a corporation, then BO is the Perfect CEO. He wants to reconcile the irreconcilable. He's going to reconcile labor and management. He wants to reconcile blacks and whites and browns, left and right. This is what a corporate does.

Obama has repeatedly avowed his support for capitalist medicine, and the “right” of drug companies, the insurance companies and a host of other parasites to profit from the sick. His differences with the right are barely more than cosmetic.

Any naive hope of universal health care is fading fast in the power centers of politics. It's business as usual. More attention focused on reinforcing the huge power of the insurance, pharmaceutical and hospital industries in the United States.

As a nominee to the US Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor is reliable defender of corporate interests, siding with big business, government authority and the police far more than with the poor, the arrested or the oppressed. She is in the mainstream.

Why is corporate media so eager to cover the so-called people's movement in Iran, but unwilling to cover the anti-war movement here? In particular, cable/satellite "news," and CNN's near non-stop coverage of the 'revolution' in Iran.

This isn't socialism, but an extension of longstanding corporate welfarism. The rich and powerful turn to the government to help them whenever they can, while needy individuals get little social protection. We need to break up the too-big-to-fail ban