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The love affair with Obama is coming to an end, but is that all?

Last night, the American House of Representatives passed legislation to raise the debt ceiling and heavily cut public spending – a historic move if you take into account the first has never been conditional on the latter. Today, the Senate unsurprisingly passed it. This trimming of the budget was inevitable considering the normalisation of neoliberal policies. [...]

Posted Under: Capitalism,Economy,Obama,US Politics
This post was written by Max Joseph on August 2, 2011 Comments (1)

Sitting on the Fence

Massachusetts was not won by the Republicans, it was lost by Obama Yesterday’s big news from the far side of the Atlantic was the loss of one of the safest Democratic seats to Scott Brown, a man who represents possibly everything that should make us very worried about the Republicans. In Ted Kennedy’s former seat, [...]

Posted Under: Environment,Health Care,Obama,US Politics
This post was written by Salman Shaheen on January 21, 2010 Comments (1)