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  • lol ..just listen and watch.

  • 04:40

    Why not just support Ron Paul, since recently, neither party has ever helped out the American People? Americans know the latter.

    If Ron Paul was PRESIDENT OF THE USA, the American People will be able to see if this is a way out from the CORPORATE CONTROL. Americans should realize how hopeless Americas successful future is with the CORPORATE PUPPETS that they keep electing.

    Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich have worked together on real things to help Ameicans.

  • Obama gave a speech, hosted by Robert Rubin, Goldman Sachs CEO, in 2006 at the Hamilton Foundation of the Brookings Institute. This spells his f*** America agenda out pretty clearly from the start: cut benefits for the masses, lower taxes for the wealthy and corporations, keep funding the wars.

  • Occupy Wall Street!

  • NAFTA has been used to whipsaw American workers' wages&benefits under the THREAT of job loss. NAFTA hurt the Mexican people because it was written with specific provisions to exclude workers' right to organize& to benefit from wages levels above those of SLAVE labor. NAFTA destroyed family farm subsistence in Mexico& caused a SURGE in ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION to the U.S. OBAMA SHOULD WITHDRAW OUR country from NAFTA & ALL FREE TRADE PURSUITS BECAUSE WITHOUT A MIDDLE CLASS THERE CAN BE NO DEMOCRACY.

  • hey Bernie your thought police are in session Be a Jew and man up you coward

  • this guy is damn right. george soros and warren buffet are smart ass guys and know how to coordinate big financial contribution to obama, but the role of labor unions should be to remind him in powerful ways (read: STRIKES) that we can't fix the country by stomping out working people's chance at a life.

  • Be aware though: Every time an incumbent has been primaried in recent history, the other party won the election.

    It weakens the only member of the incumbent's party who has any realistic chance of winning - the incumbent. Giving the election to the Republican thugs would be a disastrous outcome.

  • This 'deal' was a complete DEFEAT for the people!

  • "I think when your in bed with Wall St. ...Your always with this faction"

    True, true, and true, lets become more localized, and get back to constitutional governance, We the people need this R3VOLUTION of peace!

    RON PAUL 2012 (Both teams can end by principaled men, both truly conservative, and Truely liberal!) dont cut SS obligations, allow ppl who want to opt out, opt out, and stop our wars!!

  • October 6th -- Stop the Machine -- Washington, D.C. look it up, sign-up

  • There is no time to wait for elections. It's time to take to the streets. Forget about Obama. Time to move on.

  • Nope, it's not a cave in. From the moment he appointed Geithner + Summers to his economic team it was as clear as day.

  • Obama is socially liberal but fiscally and business-like very conservative.

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  • I think he's basically right, but one needs to be wise in the allocation of money to progressive/leftist/socialist candidates. Look at the polling for the region. Give money to genuine progressives outside your region that have a chance but need a boost rather than a long shot or a cert nearby. Daily Kos elections and Act Blue are a good place to start gathering the information you need to do this. Remember, most Repugs are more rightist than their constituents. There's more room for progs TYMT.

  • This guy keeps making football references. I have no idea what they mean. Is a five yard line like some sort of home run?

  • @warbread Its more like a lay-up!

  • @warbread He explained it outside of analogy also.

    What's the point of choosing one group of people over another if they're both fucking you over?

  • @sk8tafrnk Oh! So, it's more like when you high-stick the quarterback and while he is taking his penalty shot from the 3-point line, he hits a bumper and gets the multi-ball?

  • @warbread The fact that people invest enough of their intelligence into a sport as that pretty much proves why we've let things get this bad... and still nobody is protesting.

    Just proves how effective corporate media distraction has been on more than 99% of the population.

  • @sk8tafrnk OMG are you saying you don't like the home team? I wear all of their things.

  • There are aspects of Jeff Cohen's brand of progressivism with which I disagree; but from a "political analysis" standpoint, his comments are exactly right. People who agree with Jeff's political planks should not continue falling for forever-stupid triangulation. I do want to add that, from within a different context than Jeff's, even though Obama sold out before he hit the Presidential-primary trail, Obama was weak. He still is.

  • We need more people to stand up and fight like this man. The wealthy have everything, so why make the poor pay? The wealthy have also tweaked the system where they don't pay for anything, and instead get tax breaks. America is screwed.

  • This man is an ex-ACLU lawyer so therefore he is a piece of shit, and is a waste of oxygen, Read Bella Dodd's book School OFDarkness she was a communist -socialist and was blown away by who she found out truly runs the show after yrs of working feverishly for them. You have the cultural marxist Democrats and the Corporate Fascists Republicans both are Socialist and Progressives like this piece of shit says are all the same and behind the butterflys and rainbows they preach they are evil

  • 2 party system is miserable failure. Corporations & Wealthy have their money deep into both Dems & Republican pockets so no matter whose in office- It's Their Guy! I suggest is to kick both Dems & Repubs to the curb by voting for 3rd, 4th, 5th party candidates. Lets end this "liberal vs conservative" and/or "Republicans vs Democrats" duality, its not getting us anywhere, agree both parties are corrupt, & take back our country by voting for new party candidates who will truly represent Americans.

  • Debby Wasserman Schultz is one of the biggest farces I've seen in the while. She cheers about every piece of shit the Democrats pass. If the Democrats passed a deal that raised taxes on the rich one percent, while compromising with the tea party by deporting all immigrants legal and illegal, She would cheer and say it is the best deal EVER

  • @grandmachristine42 I only write truth

  • A third party is not an option since the US does not have a sensible electoral system. Get yourself a parliamentary, multi-party democracy.

  • Take Obama, the Dems, and the GOP down. Vote for a third party.

  • steal from the poor and give to the rich. that's the motto of the powerful.

  • The will these folks learn that the two party system is just an illusion. There is one party, and it wins every election.

  • How can a country that has to print money out of thin air to keep from defaulting on is bad debt, have 4 wars going on and military bases in over 130 country s. Obama even had the nerve to say if we don't pass this I cant guaranty that social security checks will go out. LOL how about I cant guaranty we can keep our military bases open or keep the wars going or keep the size of government growing or give congress raises or health insurance, the list goes on before you hit SS that was guaranted

  • I would say that majority of both party politicians fit the title description.

  • "This deal accomplishes that". Riiiggghhhttt........All the dems accomplished was preventing any chance of getting elected again.

  • Rep or Dem are still two faces of the same coin... The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over(Voting) and expecting a different result. The system has to be thrown out and redone where the root of the evil(money) is no longer the predominate way of thinking or living. we need to totally expand our conscious to the point that we, all people in all countries matter and that being from one country dosen't mean that people in other countries are our underlings we all matter!

  • 8) Gaza blockade continues, will veto Palestinian state at UN General Assembly.

    9) Refused to stop foreclosures

    10) Refused to bail out States like California, forcing them to cut services like Education and Health.

    11) No prosecutions for the Wall Street frausters that have ruined the US and world economy.

    As Michael Hudson always says only a Democratic President can get away with such a monumental scam.

  • Obama has been a fraud, liar, and charlatan from day one!

    1) Continued the wars of aggression, and expanded them to Pakistan, Libya, Somalia.

    2)Refuses to remove US forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, even after the wars "end"

    3) Refused to prosecute Military and CIA torturers & kidnappers.

    4) Refused to publish new prisoner & civilian abuse videos & pictures ala Abu Ghraib II.

    5) Supported the TARP ban bail out.

    6) Wall Street financed him in 2008.

    7) Opposes new Glass-Steagall Act.

  • Unions should run the world. dirty little tricks and child labor have undercut them at the expense of decency and at the expense of the people.

  • I'm amazed that there are still people, including educated people who are still surprised that there are only superficial differences among the various political parties, who quietly co-operate with each other, when important decisions being made. In this interview for example, lots of times and words wasted on unnecessarily complicated details, which in the final analysis are irrelevant. Also, the tired, old solutions, what Mr. Cohen advocates during the interview are completely futile.

  • I like Kucinich, and I think he's pretty much the only Democrat who isn't completly corrupt. I actually voted for him in the 08 primary. But these last few years have shown him to be weak at times when it matters the most (to me at least).

    I'll be voting Ron Paul this go around. A lot of what he wants is the same: ending the wars, legalizing marijuana, cutting the 1.7 trillion "owed" to the Fed in interest instead of SS and Medicare. And his consistant voting record that proves he's legit.

  • @Demosthenes0725 He wants to abolish SS and Medicare, finan. aid for the students, and everything else...

  • @dharmaatdawn Actually he said he wouldn't have cut SS, but he doesn't like it because he thinks it would be better run privately. Instead he'd put in place an "opt-out" option, & he thinks people will be in favor of that. Financial aid let's universities get away with raising tuition beyond what's affordable, and loan subsidies help corps loanshark students into massive debt. There was a time when 1 year of college was paid off over a summer job & no one need financial aid. He wants that again.

  • Jay almost said "republicunt" at the beginning...ooops ;o)

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  • Good stuff guys. A little too late to say that stuff if you ask me but it's late than never i guess.

  • COMMUNISTS WHERE FUNDED BY AMERICAN BANKS! Trotsky carried 12 million from New York!

  • If the Democrats punish the Democrats in the next election, they deserve what they get. Let's bring the Bushco clan back that ought to solve everything.

  • @Nieves57 Bushco never left.

  • After voting for Obama the first time, I am sorry to say if you get away from the bullshit arguments of "right VS left" and simply analyze everything he has done since taking office in a "true and false" way their is no way you can call him anything but a failure for people worth less than 100K in this country. Shockingly, the only thing were going to get from the DNC is "just stick with us again because look at the alternative" before they sell out to the corporate oligarchy once again.

  • @bigge525Please check: PolitiFact | The Obameter: Campaign Promises that are Promise Kept

  • Wasserman lie?? Who would have thunk it!

  • They cut more than medicare and social security in this debt "deal".

    I just heard grad students are no longer eligible for subsidized student loans.

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    claim the right of the security of your person !

    free humanity here we come love you all !!

    it's all common law U.C.C code all commerce law look it up, free information free your mind ! free the WORLD !!!

  • The fight is for CONGRESS, not the stupid Presidency. " Presidents don't hold power, they distract people from those who hold power" -- Hitchhiker's Guide

  • Dear Obama,

    The people you have screwed ARE NOT going to vote for you again even if it causes the evil to come a little bit sooner.

  • Elections in our current government structure accomplishes nothing. NOTHING!

  • What America needs is a far more progressive and militant trade union movement. Strike action and union protests remain the working peoples most potent weapon, even if they seldom use it.

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  • Didn't Obama appoint the former chairman of JP Morgan to be his chief of staff...??? Was that an immediate clue?

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    RON PAUL...2012!!!

  • @hob976 Yeah, and Ron ("I just have no idea how blatantly racist remarks ended up in my OFFICIAL newsletter") Paul hasn't taking any money from any special interest groups, doesn't still back supply-side economics that brought us the financial collapse of 08, hasn't basically said "fuck the handicapped if they can't climb the steps to go to work" and "civil rights for everyone is a bad thing" because government is forcing states to treat everyone equally. A sad, 80 yr old, delusional man.

  • @bigge525

    One size fits all forces businesses to not be able to make accommodations that are cost effective and can't hire or expand because of them hurting everyone. The collapse of 08 was predictable since the destruction of Brentonwoods in 1971 by Nixon. If Paul is delusional then I don't know how you characterize what you stand for looking at the State of the country. Oh, Ron Paul belittles Black youth here: /watch?v=qy6PWNNrRT8

  • @bigge525 Of course you you didn't address my point. Of course you played a "racism" card right away. You're a simple stooge.

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    Paul doesn't serve interest groups, he follows the constitution. I CHALLENGE YOU TO FIND A VOTE OF HIS THAT DOESN'T.

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    He's the most honest man in congress. You're a buffoon on Youtube. What are you going to accomplish by 75? Yeah, I thought so.

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    You just get mad at people on Youtube all day. You're ridiculous.

  • @hob976 Yeah, i did address your point because R.P. takes special interest money just like Obama. Apparently saying "of course you played the racism card" made it a false statement even though the excerpts from his newsletter are documented (LOL), and completely ignored his documented comments about the handicapped and civil rights. (shocking) Yeah, it's almost as ridiculous and pathetic as your conservative "I said it, so that makes it true" psudo-logic.

  • @bigge525 ...I put my challenge in BIG CAPITAL LETTERS so you couldn't miss it in your angry flurry...

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    How awful it must be to to spend your days typing in a RAGE on youtube. Arguing about handicap ramps... (you fucking retard)

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    I'm sure you'll want a last word. This is like an addiction for you....

  • @hob976 well how about that Meryll Lynch CEO behind Ron Reagan? was that enough clue? Our presidents are groomed by wall street and they in turn appoint them to sensitive positions without worrying about the conflict of interest. Heck they own the media! Washington and wall street are tied to the hip but the majority of us are too Snooky stupid to see between this dog and pony show and reality

  • Romney fundraiser K-Street including Goldman Sachs, Raytheon Company, AT&T, and Delta Airlines, which is currently fighting to reverse union-election laws that would make it easier for its workers to organize. J.C. Boggs, who lobbies on behalf of Prudential Financial, and SAP (among others) is also named as a host, as is Darryl Nirenberg, who lists Wal-Mart and MKW Capital, a leading venture capital firm, as clients.

  • @Nieves57 oh yeah ! our respectable supreme court justices now allows corporate money in elections..

  • @hob976 An other cue was how the main stream media built him up and made him a star over night... And yes, Obama essentially hired the worse guys on wall streets. I mean he essentially hired Charles Manson to watch over the nut house. hehe! I remember a small 11 second video here on YT with Mike Gravel saying Obama was backed by wall street a month before the election. I knew exactly what that meant...

  • i was with him till he mentioned feminists. ugh

  • Obama: Beyond hope and change 11:02

  • We're watching a reenactment of a first Great Depression only this time US has a democratic Coolidge. It might be beneficial for Democrats to let Obama be voted out of White House, cleanse their party from corporate interests,and come back for 2016 with a new New Deal.

  • If you believe in deregulation of financial industry, cuts in social safety net and reduced taxation of the rich, then you're not a Democrat , not even Wall Street Democrat (sic!). You're a centrist Republican who just happens to hold a Democratic membership.

  • Jeff Cohen=100% correct! Gawd, Obama lies continuously. Many of us saw this coming from the day he first announced his choices for cabinet and management of the white house. Obama is more Republicrat than Boner.

  • I'm a liberal who has NEVER been a Democrat. I was a Green Party member for a period of time (back when Nader was involved). But I've since gone independent having "given up" not just on the Democrats and Greens but probably on the whole concept of political parties. Nice idea, but in reality they get hijacked by ideologues. I prefer to spend my time based in reality, not politics.

  • Drastic times require what? DRASTIC MEASURES, YES! WHO SAID THAT?!

    THANK YOU! Drastic times require drastic measures!

  • YES!

  • Americans are trained to be conduents of capitalism. Americans need to step out of their boxes if they want to understand the greater world. Canadians too. Time Canadians stop riding incog acting like Americans but pretending to be different.

  • Ha Ha Ha Ha...

    I wondered how long these guys would take before naming George Soros as a "good guy" on Wall Street.

    Listen at 5:30 as he gives the game away.

    Dear Real News: please tell us who is the individual/entity that funds 50% of your costs.... and is that individual/entity in any way connected to Mr Soros?

  • paul jay seems like hes getting more & more fed up w the system every day!

  • Please give us a Primary!

  • Excellent interview!

  • I didn't give a fuck about this charade until my Aunt's disability checks were on the line. She is paralyzed on the left side of her body. She worked her fucking ass off to become a dental hygienist. She has applied to every job under the sun. No one wants to hire her because she's paralyzed through no fault of her own. She really does try every day to be productive. Her only daughter is in Haiti working for the US Navy, risking her wellbeing to bring stability to other people's lives.

  • @WellIAMScottish

    Without disability benefits my wonderful Aunt will "just be" another homeless person you step over on the sidewalk. I'm really angry about this situation. I do not want to see me Aunt who is paralyzed on the left side of her body bear the brunt so rich people can brush off all their responsibilities. My Aunt and I will be in Washington DC on October 6 2011 and we don't plan on leaving until our demands are met.

  • October 6: DC: American Tahrir Square. BE THERE.

  • he's absolutely right... Obama is gonna drag the dems down... Kucinich would make an excellent president... intelligent analysis by Jeff Cohen...

  • Omfg! For the last time it is not the politician, but the system. Even if Karl Marx was president, he would sell out. To be a successful politician, in this system, you must be able to raise money from "corporate" donors. That is why every other four years or so we will either get a douchebag or a turd sandwhich. Don't waist your time on a primary challenge/ another sellout. Use your resources to change the system!

  • @dfg93353 Wow. That's the best comment I've read for awhile.

  • The progressives take the biggest hits though, so it doesn't matter right? The unions should be careful, and perhaps direct funding only to progressive represetatives.

  • fantastic interview. right on point, obama will destroy the democrat party for a generation

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  • Very true. Obama was a wolf in sheep's clothing in law school too. Apparently he got elected to editor in chief by the liberals and then let the conservatives publish.

  • Re-Puppet-an Party and Demon-Crap..........

    DE "MOCK" RACY BECAUSE THE ELITE JUST MOCK YOU AS YOU THINK YOUR IN CONTROL...... baaaaa baaaaa.

    IF YOU VOTE YOUR AN IDIOT!

    GROW UP AND EDUCATE YOURSELF OUT OF YOUR ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT & stop pretending these POLITICIANS are in control and work for YOU!

  • the whole debt ceiling debate is a weapon of mass distraction from the root problem: the federal reserve.

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