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Znet Article Cooke: Health Care Battle Ends; War on Social Security Begins

Znet Article, March, 31 2010 Shamus Cooke
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Drunk with success over their Health Care bill passing, the Democrats are now lusting after even greater conquests. With the celebratory hangover still aching, the Democrats lurch forward towards a hasty drive to “reform” Social Security.

Znet Article Cooke: Defeat in Victory: the Democrat's Health Care Bill

Znet Article, March, 23 2010 Shamus Cooke
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What looks like a big victory for Obama and the Democrats may be their greatest undoing. It’s true that the passage of Obama’s health care bill represents a significant political victory for the Democrats. But sometimes a battle won could equal...

Znet Article Cooke: The Fight to Save Public Education

Znet Article, March, 09 2010 Shamus Cooke
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March 4 was historic. It will be remembered as the day that people began to fight back against the destruction of public education. The student and teacher led offensive took place in cities across the country; teachers, students and school work...

Znet Article Cooke: How Obama’s Health Care “Reform” Kills Health Care

Znet Article, March, 05 2010 Shamus Cooke
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It’s difficult to understand a subject when those explaining it are motivated not by truth, but profit. In the case of health care, both Democrats and Republicans have huge financial incentives to obscure, mislead, or lie. Instead of common sense...

Znet Article Cooke: The Great Bi-Partisan Deception

Znet Article, February, 17 2010 Shamus Cooke
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Some cancer is too aggressive even for chemotherapy. The US political system is infected with such a disease; and we may be witnessing the first death spasms. In a country ravaged by war and economic crisis, with tens of millions of people suffer...

Znet Article Cooke: Will Obama’s Corporate Tax Breaks Create Jobs?

Znet Article, February, 08 2010 Shamus Cooke
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Optimism dominated Obama’s State of the Union address. He confidently stated that the financial system had stabilized, and economic growth had begun. It was the same “we’ve turned the corner” cheerleading that begun on day two of the recession; an...

Znet Article Cooke: Taxing the Rich Wins in Oregon

Znet Article, January, 30 2010 Shamus Cooke
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Victory! Thousands of Oregon workers fought valiantly over the past weeks to ensure that corporations and the rich will see their taxes raised, so that social services, health care, and education could be saved. Massive phone banking operations,...

Znet Article Cooke: Torture Never Stopped Under Obama

Znet Article, January, 26 2010 Shamus Cooke
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By definition the U.S. continues to practice torture. Yes, Obama outlawed some especially shocking forms of torture — water boarding, for example — but other types of torture were not labelled “torture” and thus continue.

Znet Article Cooke: How Liberals Strengthen the Right Wing

Znet Article, January, 24 2010 Shamus Cooke
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The Democrats look around, blindly, after losing their long-held Senate seat in Massachusetts, and with it their Senate super-majority. They wrongly blame the voters, or their “populist” opponent, but rarely themselves. The Democrats’ clai...

Znet Article Cooke: Labor Officials Bend to Democrat Pressure on Health Care

Znet Article, January, 19 2010 Shamus Cooke
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All the outrage that certain high-ranking labor officials showed in response to the Democrat's "Cadillac" health care tax turned out to be a big act.

Znet Article Cooke: The Economic Crisis Ends; the Political Crisis Begins

Znet Article, December, 25 2009 Shamus Cooke
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First Iceland, then Ireland, now Greece. Much of Europe is mired in inescapable debt and bankrupt nations, the result of crashing banks, bank bailouts, and soaring unemployment. The U.S. and U.K. watch from a distance, knowing their turn is next.

Znet Article Cooke: End the Fed? Or End the Market Economy?

Znet Article, December, 10 2009 Shamus Cooke
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When Republican Congressman Ron Paul recently introduced legislation to audit the Federal Reserve, diverse sections of the political spectrum applauded. And rightfully so. The Fed's role in the still-developing bank bailouts is one of utter secre...

Znet Article Cooke: Obama's Fraudulent "Job Summit"

Znet Article, November, 19 2009 Shamus Cooke
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If the President had offered us a job summit a year ago, he might have been taken seriously. Now, however, after more than six million jobs have been lost - and with the bottom still falling - Obama's brain storming get-together can only be treat...

Znet Article Cooke: What Is At Stake With Free Trade

Znet Article, November, 16 2009 Shamus Cooke
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In the ten years since the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle, global opposition to free trade and "globalization" has exploded. The general public now has a basic understanding of how the world economy works … against them: com...

Znet Article Cooke: The Coming U.S. Budget Attack

Znet Article, November, 09 2009 Shamus Cooke
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The United States is moving backwards…fast. State budget cuts are decimating essential health and social services; public education is being destroyed; the social safety net is in tatters. To make matters worse, all of this is occurring when th...

Znet Article Cooke: Propping Up a Broken Capitalism

Znet Article, November, 01 2009 Shamus Cooke
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Five years ago it would be unthinkable that a harsh critique of capitalism would attract a mass audience. But this is exactly what Michael Moore’s new movie — Capitalism: A Love Story — has done. The source of Moore’s success is his willi...

Znet Article Cooke: Obama’s Dirty War On Immigrants

Znet Article, October, 24 2009 Shamus Cooke
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Under Bush, immigrant communities lived in a constant state of fear — terrorized by “Homeland Security” agents arresting anyone who appeared Latino and lacked ID. Families were separated, children left parentless, property abandoned, and lo...

Znet Article Cooke: Global Warming Accelerating While the U.S. Backpedals

Znet Article, October, 18 2009 Shamus Cooke
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Two recent studies have shocked the world in regard to global warming. A phenomenon that was to happen "possibly in our lifetime" has evolved into a threat capable of transforming the world in ten years time.

Znet Article Cooke: Workers to Obama: No Recovery in Sight

Znet Article, October, 04 2009 Shamus Cooke
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After the recent unemployment numbers were announced, smug politicians promising economic recovery stuttered a bit. This wasn't supposed to happen. Mainstream economists were predicting a smooth upswing in employment, but in September 263,000 mor...

Znet Article Cooke: The First Shots of the Trade War

Znet Article, September, 23 2009 Shamus Cooke
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With the G-20 summit approaching, cheerful talk of "international cooperation" fills the White House press-room. These comments carry with them the implication that "free trade" is integral to "cooperation," a fact made explicit in the last meeti...

Znet Article Cooke: Wall Street Under Obama: Bigger and Riskier

Znet Article, September, 14 2009 Shamus Cooke
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After the financial levees broke and the crumbling banks ushered in the economic crisis, angry people clamored for drastic change in the financial system. Obama reflected these feelings well, at times using radical rhetoric to denounce the banking...

Znet Article Cooke: How to Lower the U.S. Deficit Without Killing Social Security

Znet Article, September, 02 2009 Shamus Cooke
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When it was recently announced that the federal deficit was $2 trillion higher than previously estimated, corporate vultures - after years of high-altitude circling - began their descent.

Znet Article Cooke: World Bankers Agree: The Recession is Over…Maybe

Znet Article, August, 24 2009 Shamus Cooke
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Few would consider the opinions of the world's central bankers to be unbiased or even accurate. These self-proclaimed wise men of international finance didn't see the recession coming until it blew up in their faces - a blast that destroyed their...

Znet Article Cooke: It's Official: Healthcare Reform is Dead

Znet Article, August, 18 2009 Shamus Cooke
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The "transparent government" that President Obama guaranteed during his electoral campaign has become yet another broken promise. On August 14th, the Huffington Post revealed a memo containing details of "the deal" that Obama cut with health care ...

Znet Article Cooke: Cracks Emerging in NAFTA

Znet Article, August, 13 2009 Shamus Cooke
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The once-solid North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA) is starting to show its age. The 1994 trade agreement that laid the foundation for the economic/political integration of North America is encountering serious internal ruptures, threatening futu...

Znet Article Cooke: A Cure for an Ailing Economy: Taxing the Rich

Znet Article, August, 10 2009 Shamus Cooke
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Healthcare isn't the only social ill in the U.S. that needs a serious remedy. The list is long and growing: state budget crises, unemployment, infrastructure, education, housing, food assistance, etc. These are all things that must be paid for, bu...

Znet Article Cooke: Why the U.S. Government Hates Venezuela

Znet Article, August, 04 2009 Shamus Cooke
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The propaganda wheels are turning fast. The barrage of anti-Venezuela misinformation that began while Bush was in office has intensified in recent months. Not a week goes by without the U.S. mainstream media running at least one story about the ...

Znet Article Cooke: Learning from Card Check’s Death

Znet Article, July, 20 2009 Shamus Cooke
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Maybe you didn’t hear the news: Card Check — the key provision of the Employee Free Choice Act — is dead. You might not have gotten the message because U.S. labor “leaders” are remarkably silent on the issue. Not a peep.

Znet Article Cooke: GM’s Turn on Obama’s Chopping Block

Znet Article, May, 24 2009 Shamus Cooke
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The alarm bells should be ringing day and night about what’s being prepared at General Motors — the ripple effects could produce tidal waves.

Znet Article Cooke: Obama and the Crisis of the U.S. Auto Industry

Znet Article, April, 30 2009 Shamus Cooke
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Making sense of the recent developments in the automobile industry is a difficult process. If you look to the media or the government for answers, you’ll receive a long-winded description of behind-the-scenes deals between Obama and his adviser...

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