US Politics
White House bars prosecution of Bush officials who authorized torture
By Patrick Martin, April 20, 2009
President Barack Obama opposes prosecution of the Bush administration officials who authorized torture of CIA prisoners and wrote the documents laying out the pseudo-legal justification for this abuse...
Support D’Artagnan Collier, Socialist Equality Party candidate for Detroit mayor
April 17, 2009
The Socialist Equality Party announces today that it is running D’Artagnan Collier as its candidate for mayor of Detroit, Michigan in the August 4th primary elections.
Obama pledges more bank bailouts, cuts in social programs
By Tom Eley, April 15, 2009
In his “Economic Recovery” speech on Tuesday, Obama defended his administration’s bailout of the finance industry and advanced a policy of austerity that will include attacks on Medicare and So...
The looting of America
By Barry Grey, April 10, 2009
The New York Times on Thursday published a front-page article that provides further insight into the economic and class interests that are being served by the Obama administration’s economic “reco...
Obama stages surprise visit amid renewed bloodshed in Iraq
By Bill Van Auken, April 8, 2009
President Obama staged an unannounced visit to Baghdad Tuesday afternoon as a series of car-bombings and renewed clashes between Sunni militias and Iraqi security forces contradicted claims of “succ...
Obama's Wall Street cabinet
By Tom Eley and Barry Grey, April 6, 2009
White House financial disclosures released Friday reveal a cabinet comprised of multi-millionaires with close connections to the finance industry.
Obama maneuvers to protect Wall Street bonuses
By Barry Grey, March 21, 2009
Obama is attempting to navigate between placating public anger over AIG and similar outrages by Wall Street firms that have received hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer funds and satisfying th...
A change in name only
Obama administration ends use of “enemy combatant” designation
By Tom Eley, March 16, 2009
In a court filing Friday, the Obama administration abandoned the Bush administration's legal designation of “enemy combatant.” However, the filing defended the president's right to seize and hold ...
The AIG bonuses furor: the class issues
By Bill Van Auken, March 16, 2009
The Obama administration’s acquiescence to the awarding of hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses to the executives of bailed-out insurance giant AIG has graphically exposed the real class natur...
Obama at the Business Roundtable
By Tom Eley, March 14, 2009
Speaking before 65 top corporate CEOs on Thursday, President Obama delivered a paean to American capitalism and the free market.
A health care plan for big business
By Joseph Kishore, March 13, 2009
The health care “reform” plan being developed by the Obama administration is entirely subordinated to the interests of the corporate and financial elite.
Obama scapegoats teachers, continues Bush education policies
By Tom Eley, March 11, 2009
In a speech on Tuesday, President Obama outlined an education agenda that continues the central features of President Bush’s “ No Child Left Behind.”
