Timothy Geithner: Obama’s very convenient fall guy

Fri 27 Mar, AT 13:31 Alexander Cockburn

While the Treasury Secretary gets pelted with mouldy cabbages, especially by Paul Krugman, the President charms the nation

AIG bonuses threaten to sully Obama’s reputation

Fri 20 Mar, AT 12:51 Alexander Cockburn

The president is dancing on the edge of a volcano with denials of knowledge about bonuses at AIG – and he’s already been burned

Empty malls tell real story of great American disaster

Fri 13 Mar, AT 13:10 Alexander Cockburn

Like Roosevelt before him, Barack Obama will be forced to lurch to the left to save the country from wider economic desolation

How we can get back Fred Goodwin’s RBS pension

Fri 6 Mar, AT 13:46 Richard Ehrman

The simplest way to deprive Sir Fred Goodwin of his undeserved £700,000-a-year pension is to tax it back at the next Budget

Would the real Barack Obama please stand up?

Thu 5 Mar, AT 14:01 Alexander Cockburn

Three versions of the US President appear to be setting the agenda in the White House; the first seems on course for disaster

Payback time looms for George Bush and his gang

Fri 27 Feb, AT 14:37 Alexander Cockburn

The former president and his henchmen Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld could soon find themselves in the dock

Will Obama bring audacity to US dope law reform?

Fri 20 Feb, AT 15:08 Alexander Cockburn

President Obama could make himself very popular by abandoning the unpopular and unwinnable war on drugs

Tony Blair's reward for following the 'right' foreign policy

Column Wed 18 Feb, AT 15:15

Toe the line with the US and Israel and that pension fund will keep growing

Can Barack Obama really steer the US off the rocks?

Fri 13 Feb, AT 15:30 Alexander Cockburn

As the country goes into meltdown and California prints IOUs, Americans are already questioning if the president can save them

Why did Obama not see these problems coming?

Fri 6 Feb, AT 00:00 Alexander Cockburn

The president may be honest, but the trouble his nominees have had at their hearings shows that very little changes in Washington

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