World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/26-10

Common Cause: For Now, It Appears Senate Returning to Dysfunction-as-Usual
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/01/26-19

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Obama Economic Policy: Change or More of the Same?
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/01/26-7

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Winning the Future for Whom?

Maya Schenwar, Truthout: "In the context of the State of the Union, and of Washingtonspeak on the whole, what does 'democracy' mean? This brand of 'democracy' certainly does not include the voices of the poor - the people who are disenfranchised due to their lack of access to basic necessities, the people who, more than anyone, need their government to care. This spectacle of contention and frustration and mess is ultimately a battle between a narrow sliver of very similar perspectives.... Does 'working together,' then, connote simply uniting the voices and interests of 'moderate' Republicans and 'centrist' Democrats, in Congress and in corporate America? A real democracy represents Gary, Indiana as boldly as it represents Washington, DC."

http://www.truth-out.org/winning-future-whom67166

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The revolving-door polity of corporatism

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

By now ... Barack Obama?s fondness for turning high-powered corporate executives into federal government footmen is no secret. From Tim Geithner, to William Daley, to Roger Altman, the President has been very cozy with big business indeed, and not just big business, but the biggest. It is, to be sure, a very confused, twisted political lexicon that would adjudge the President as hostile to business, but that judgment is no more absurd than the myth that to be pro-business is to be pro-free market...

http://c4ss.org/content/5900


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Geithner
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=William+Daley
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GOP
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Institute+for+Public+Accuracy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Maya+Schenwar
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=David+D'Amato
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