World-News

By John Pilger

Obama s greatest achievement is having seduced, co-opted and silenced much of liberal opinion in the US.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28504.htm



In Debt Talks, Obama Offers Social Security Cuts

By Lori Montgomery

President Obama is pressing congressional leaders to consider a far-reaching debt-reduction plan that would force Democrats to accept major changes to Social Security and Medicare in exchange for Republican support for fresh tax revenue.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28503.htm



It is Time to Get Outraged

By Wendell Potter

If more Americans paid attention to the fate of neighbors and loved ones who have fallen victim to the cruel dysfunction of our health care system, they would see through the onslaught of lies and propaganda perpetrated by special interests profiting from the status quo.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28510.htm



Brzezinski Warns Inequality Could Lead to Unrest

By Eric W. Dolan

'I think we are going to slide into intensified social conflicts, social hostility, some forms of radicalism, there is just going to be a sense that this is not a just society...'

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28507.htm

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Debt ceiling charade

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

The Republicans are going to cave. They will vote to lift the debt ceiling once again, confirming what a fraud the debt-ceiling is. If it s continually lifted, then it really isn t a ceiling. Federal spending will continue soaring and increasing loads of debt will be thrown on the backs of the American people. Let us constantly keep in mind that that s the point of raising the debt ceiling - to enable these people to continue their massive spending, borrowing, and taxing binge...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-07-07.asp



Obama pushing for cuts to Social Security, Medicare

Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

07/07/11

For months, the standard narrative among progressive commentators was that Republicans were outrageously exploiting the debt ceiling deadline to impose drastic entitlement cuts on a resisting and victimized Democratic President (he s weak in negotiations!), but The Post article makes clear that the driving force behind these cuts is the President himself, who is pushing for even larger spending cuts than the GOP was ready to accept ...

http://salon.com/a/sHT0fAA


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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A Rebirth of Radicalism Is Needed To Heal America
http://lewrockwell.com/lazarowitz/lazarowitz57.1.html



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