Perspectives
Government debt: a new stage in the global financial crisis
By Nick Beams, February 9, 2010
The tremors on global financial markets signal a new stage in the financial crisis brought on by fears of vast social struggles as governments attempt unprecedented cuts in jobs, wages and social serv...
After the defeat in Massachusetts, Democrats lurch to the right
By Patrick Martin, February 8, 2010
In the three weeks since the special election to the US Senate in Massachusetts, the party which controls the White House and has huge majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives ha...
US to launch Fallujah-style attack in Afghanistan
By Bill Van Auken, February 6, 2010
As US and British troops prepare to attack the town of Marjah in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, military commanders and the media are openly comparing the operation to the siege of Fallujah, one of...
A dangerous rise in US-China tensions
By John Chan, February 5, 2010
In the rift over US arms sales to Taiwan, the determination of both the US and China to take a tougher stance, regardless of the consequences, raises the spectre of an open rift in diplomatic and poli...
Bankers defiant at Davos World Economic Forum
By Stefan Steinberg, February 4, 2010
Two years on from the biggest financial crisis to strike world capitalism since the 1930s, leading international bankers made clear at last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that the...
Obama’s budget reveals the bankruptcy of American capitalism
By Patrick Martin, February 3, 2010
There is one overriding message in the budget proposal released by the Obama administration Monday: American capitalism is in decline and faces national bankruptcy.
US exonerates authors of Bush torture memos
By Kate Randall, February 2, 2010
The Obama Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility has concluded that Office of Legal Counsel lawyers who penned the infamous memos justifying torture under the Bush administration...
Obama courts the Republican right
By Patrick Martin, February 1, 2010
The 90-minute televised meeting between President Barack Obama and the House Republican caucus, broadcast over the cable networks Friday, was an extraordinary exposure of the right-wing consensus with...
The real state of the union in 2010
By Barry Grey, January 30, 2010
In his State of the Union speech Wednesday night, President Barack Obama avoided any direct and concrete presentation of the actual state of US society.
Behind Sri Lanka’s political infighting: US-China rivalry
By Peter Symonds, January 29, 2010
Following Tuesday’s presidential election, Colombo has become a hotbed of rumour and intrigue. Far from ending the campaign brawling, the election has set the stage for deepening political instabili...
German government falls in behind US strategy for Afghanistan
By Stefan Steinberg`, January 28, 2010
The “new approach” by Germany in Afghanistan is now clear, i.e., more of the same criminal military occupation that has already brought death and misery to hundreds of thousands of Afghans in a wa...
US Marines in Haiti: Back to colonialism
By Bill Van Auken, January 27, 2010
The US Marines sent to Haiti by the Obama administration are being told to model their mission on the “success” of the 20-year occupation of Haiti by US Marines that ended in 1934.
