World-News

Wrights 2012
by R. Lee Wrights

01/27/12

A year ago, after President Barack Obama s State of the Union message I wrote an op-ed entitled 'The State of the Union is a State of War.' Lamentably, a year later, after his 2012 address I am compelled to write that the State of the Union is still a state of war. And there s no sign that the wars will come to an end anytime soon, particularly so long as Democrats, Republicans, and their corporate and special interest supporters keep using our tax dollars to fund these wars so that they can benefit and profit...

http://tinyurl.com/82c9tmq



Dictates to the Union

Strike the Root
by Emmett Harris

01/27/12

It was a long, boring, and typically dangerous speech. It was a speech boasting of spending cuts promised in the future balanced against spending increases delivered in the past and intended for the future. ... The one truth that threads its way throughout the oration is power, power wielded by and concentrated in the federal government generally and the presidency specifically. Whether one views this as good or bad, Obama promised much more of the same...

http://www.strike-the-root.com/dictates-to-union



The greatest threat

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

01/27/12

There s always a Looming Danger, an Ominous Threat lurking somewhere, that s the War Party s bread-and-butter. ... The Threat has great value to our rulers: they cling to this narrative because it justifies their power, and their insatiable desire for more...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/01/26/the-greatest-threat/



What Obama should have said in his State of the Union speech

Hawaii Reporter
by John Stossel

01/30/12

Has Barack Obama learned nothing in three years? Last night, during his State of the Union address, he promised 'a blueprint for an economy.' But economies are crushed by blueprints. An economy is really nothing more than people participating in an unfathomably complex spontaneous network of exchanges aimed at improving their material circumstances. It can t even be diagrammed, much less planned. And any attempt at it will come to grief...

http://tinyurl.com/8yv54ah


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

--------

Laura Flanders on the State of the Nation

Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: The discussion includes Laura s views on economic equality, the war in Afghanistan, cultural and political divisions in the U.S., and contemporary grassroots movements who are working to better the lives of the middle class people and the poor.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/14606-truthout-tv-laura-flanders-on-the-state-of-the-nation

--------

Deranging America

By Linh Dinh

Each speech by the President is a vapid pep talk with no correlation to reality, yet, clouded by virtual or real narcotics, many of us still clap and cheer.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34042.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=SOTU
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=corporat
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=war+party
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=equality
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=middle+class
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=poor
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=R.+Lee+Wrights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Emmett+Harris
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Stossel
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Laura+Flanders
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ted+Asregadoo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Linh+Dinh
-----