It has been 100 days of Barack Obama in office. Reviewing his policy, the election honeymoon was not that sweet to begin with and many in the US seem disappointed. Prominent economist Paul Craig Roberts is among those. Did Barack Obama live up to the expectations of his voters? What kind of changes has he brought to the country? Where do people see his failures and what do they credit as his achievements? Economist Paul Craig Roberts shared his feelings with RT.

John Pilger's 1983 film about the small nation of Nicaragua and its right to survive investigates the corruption in Central America. In 1979, the Sandinistas won a popular revolution in Nicaragua, putting an end to decades of the corrupt US-backed Somoza dictatorship, but freedom and democracy were concepts to ‘radical’ for the Reagan administration, and the "threat of a good example" had to be crushed.

There will be no punishment for the so-called ‘officers’, there never is. The corrupt Bush government gave them license to beat, club, break bones, fracture skulls, tazer, strip search, beat children, women, kill, torture, and do pretty much anything they want to the slavish people. And don’t expect Obama to ‘change’ it.

I again asked for the name of his boss. He again refused. At this point officer Jennings asked me to come with him. I complied and walked about 30-40 feet away from the podium. Officer Jennings asked to see my boarding pass. I reached into my left front pocket and retrieved my locker ticket. I said ‘oops and placed it in my front right pocket’. I reached back into my left front pocket and pulled out the one dollar bill I had placed in it. Officer Jennings took the dollar bill out of my hand and threw it on the ground. I then reached back into my left front pocket and retrieved my boarding pass and handed it to him. I then respectfully asked officer Jennings if he would please pick up my dollar bill he threw on the ground.

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“Why is this happening in the United states of America?” the young minister asks… Poor fellow thought he had constitutional rights, they nearly tazered and beat him to death for that foolish notion.

jónsi and alex have completed their first album together, entitled ‘riceboy sleeps’. the 68 minute album has 9 tracks and will be released july 20th on parlophone records. the instrumental album was recorded in iceland and played solely on acoustic instruments, with appearances by amiina and the kópavogsdætur choir. more info on the album can be read in the full press release. http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/news/

These mortgage brokers deserve at least the same treatment as an eighteen-year-old kid arrested for pot, which is to be thrown into prison for a year. But instead, nothing is done to them. They are granted some kind of perverse license to prey on the people, helping the banks to bleed and enslave the people, financially destroying millions of families. The banks and corporations profit on the people’s suffering twice: first by looting their financial system into collapse and a second time when the children of the masses join the military in their financial desperation and are ground up like hamburger meat in wars fought for profit.

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