Thomas L. Knapp: “9/11 fell on Saturday this year, and few US cable channels missed the opportunity to turn the preceding five days into ‘all 9/11, all the time’: A terror-themed riff on the Discovery Channel’s ‘Shark Week.'”
Thomas L. Knapp on Orwellian language.
Kevin Carson: “Frankly, if I were a banker, a billionaire, or a Fortune 500 CEO, I’d consider Obama’s anti-Wall Street rhetoric a pretty modest price to pay for his pro-Wall Street policies.”
Ross Kenyon explains that Obama’s call for $50 billion to be spent on transportation infrastructure hurts local and regional businesses by subsidizing the transportation of goods from more distant firms, and thus further entrenches corporate domination of the marketplace.
Kevin Carson explains that governments “win” the Drug War by NOT winning it.
David D’Amato on President Obama’s six-year plan to magically “create jobs”.
Darian Worden doesn’t like the sound of “Your papers, please.”
Kevin Carson explains what school is really all about.
David D’Amato warns us not to buy the hype about Obama’s “peace talks” between the State of Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Kevin Carson provides them.
Kevin Carson on the irony of productive action circumventing monopolistic restrictions (which designed to create artificial scarcity) being called “theft”.
David D’Amato discusses why the manufactured milestone of alleged withdrawal of “combat troops” from Iraq (while other troops continue with combat) is irrelevant.
Thomas L. Knapp on Obama’s phony announcement “that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended.”
Kevin Carson: “When you play by the rules, the house wins — because the rules are mainly designed to benefit the people who make the rules.”
Darian Worden on asking important questions.
David D’Amato explains that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke only wants you to think of “the economy” as a distinct entity so that he can paint himself as its caregiver.
Kevin Carson explains what’s really going on.
Thomas L. Knapp: The Internet doesn’t change everything, but it’s what we have right now.
Kevin Carson on the trend toward RFID chipping of your recyclable items bin to make sure you’re being a good little citizen.
C4SS Contributing Writer Nick Ford offers his analysis of the issues raised by Wikileaks.
