“Tonight, Barack Obama was declared the winner of the U.S. Presidential election. Obama ran a centrist, lackluster campaign that was fueled by an avalanche of campaign donations from corporate America.  The losers were poor and working class people all over the country.” by Billy Wharton from The Socialist Webzine Although, Mitt Romney was the other corporate funded candidate in the race, it... 

“Job creation has been and will continue to be the most obvious way that Obama has sold out working people throughout America.” Obama’s State of the Union – Too Little Too Late by Stewart Alexander, 2012 Socialist Party USA Presidential Candidate from The Socialist Webzine  The phrase that came to mind immediately upon hearing President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech is “too... 

Obama Out of Touch with the American People by Billy Wharton January 25, 2011 -Tonight’s State of the Union speech revealed just how far out of touch President Barack Obama is from the reality of working people in America. What a distance from the White House to the unemployment line. From the Rose Garden to the food pantry. Tonight’s State of the Union sent the message one final time that the... 

Andrea Pason and Billy Wharton, co-chairs Socialist Party USA The recent disclosure of thousands of top-secret documents by Wikileaks and the Washington Post media project “Top Secret America,” makes one point perfectly clear – the American people need to act now to stop the US military and the growing security state. With hundreds of bases worldwide and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the... 

by Billy Wharton Americans desperately need healthcare. The need is so desperate that many are buying into a “something is better than nothing” philosophy to support a healthcare bill that actively works against their own interests. The bill that Barack Obama plans to sign into law is being dubbed a “reform,” but what it actually amounts to is a corporate restructuring that will solidify the... 

by Billy Wharton From the start, Barack Obama’s presidency has seemed like one big public relations campaign. Tonight’s State of the Union address did little to dissuade one from this view. Sagging under the weight of depressed dreams of hope and change, he desperately needed to appear as though he was doing something to address the growing needs of the American people. Emphasis on the “appearances,”... 

by Billy Wharton About 450 people took part in anti-war protests in NYC tonight. The demos were scheduled the day after Barack Obama announced an escalation of the war in Afghanistan by committing 30,000 more American military troops. Three demos took place – two in Times Square and one that began at Union Square and is rumored to have ended at Rockefeller Plaza. The mood was somber yet determined... 

Socialist Party USA Statement While citizens in most other industrialized nations enjoyed the benefits of publicly administered healthcare from the aftermath of WW II forward, Americans have suffered under a healthcare system dominated by private corporations. For-profit healthcare has produced negative health outcomes at all levels of the system. More than 48 million people have no health insurance,... 

by Billy Wharton If a bill is passed on Capitol Hill, money is sure to have changed hands. There is not much “School House Rock” idealism left in Washington these days. Bills do not become laws through a democratic process of debate, compromise and ratification. Money greases the skids, shapes the end product and determines what is or isn’t debated from the floor. No surprise then that a large... 

by Thom Good from Next Left Notes NEW YORK — As the war in Afghanistan heats up — the Left responds. What Frontline is calling “Obama’s War” rages on and seems to be intensifying. In September, General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan (USFOR-A), submitted a 66 page report to Defense Secretary Robert Gates calling for more troops in the Afghanistan theater. According... 

by Billy Wharton from Examiner.com Few punches are pulled in California Newsreels’ documentary adaptation of Maggie Mahar’s 2006 investigative book Money Driven Medicine. This physician-centered film exposes the infrequently examined ways in which a privately controlled health care system impinges on the relationship between doctor and patient. As Dr. Andrey Espinoza argues in the film, there... 

by Billy Wharton published on the MRZine The frequently imbibing comedian W. C. Fields once proudly declared: “Everything I do is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.” The adjectives used by Fields perfectly characterize the role of the private health insurance industry in the debate about health care reform. As the debate intensifies more and more private health care profits are being...