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Obama, Kissinger, Liu. What meaning does the prize have? Would the Norwegians ever have the balls, for instance, to award it to some American dissident who protested over Guantanamo, rendition, and the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan? I doubt it.

It was fun to read but far from the truth. First of all, state benefits go disproportionately to the tenth man by way of subsidies, bailouts, and state contracts ("socialism for the rich"). Secondly, the tax burden hasn't been reduced, it's been shifted to bond-holders (domestic and foreign) who...

The craven and sanctimonious Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize committee in action: (Source)

Obama finally shows his machismo, proves that he has real cojones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3SFXQfE4kk

Good link. Sounds plausible. In the US these days there's a palpable sense of drift and stagnation. The pope of hope, the chairman of change, the mocha messiah, President Obummer presides in an atmosphere of inertia, trivia, lack of focus, lack of commitment, lack of purpose. His job is to look...

No, just another of your disingenuous "arguments." The point is this holier-than-thou attitude and cheap moral posturing is easy to maintain from a safe perch several thousand miles away. If you feel that strongly about moslem barbarism -- which I doubt -- go there and do something about it. You...

Such requests are routine -- not just for the USA. What I find more interesting is the instruction to US officials to steal the credit card numbers of UN diplomats.

At dissidentvoice:

The nay-saying is orchestrated by vested interests who know full well what is happening and what will happen.

Christ Jesus, is there anyone here who's interested in the drivel you post? You have issues.

Interesting essay by Michael Hudson: And the way QE2 is being received abroad:

The one expression American liberals can't mouth is "class war." When even Warren Buffett acknowledges its existence and asserts that his class is winning the war. I agree with the following essay:

Seems like you want to have your cake and eat it too. Typical of American liberals -- to want to mitigate the egregious excesses of a system that is inherently predatory and cannot be reformed. Might as well try to make a vegetarian out of a tiger. Capitalism is about capital accumulation --...

Fairness has nothing to do with it. Societies in decline tend to exhibit increasing disparities of wealth and income. The US is a nation in decline, addicted to militarism and finance, and ossified in every sense of the word.

Good essay and sums up my outlook as well:

A good piece on USA's pay-to-play political system:

The NYT piece is on target (though not saying anything new). US politics is ossified, as is the economic structure (there's more class mobility in supposedly more stratified Europe than in the US). Widening inequality and a pay-to-play political system where the man in the street is effectively...

Is there any pride in Obama landing in India hat in hand trying to sell high-tech weaponry while sanctimoniously braying about peace? Or the USA openly torturing people? Or being stuck in a meaningless occupation in the Middle East? Or effectively having 22% unemployment annd a burgeoning...

This about sums up what I've been saying that nothing much is going to change: Where I part ways with the writer is I can't say anything positive about the Democrats, who are as complicit and corrupt. And Obama is a spineless, craven politician.

They do grasp it. But they're the paid stooges of a financial overclass in a pay-to-play political system. The US is a plutocracy masquerading as a democracy. Joe the plumber is going to get shafted each time. Collective action -- of the type the Europeans are displaying -- seems to be beyond...