I am a lawyer, political scientist and law professor. I teach courses and conduct research on the global capital markets, business law, international human rights and labor law. My blog is Global Labor and Politics. You may read my other posts at NoQuarterUSA.net here.
Obama is clearly losing goodwill points every day that Blago-gate drags [...]

CHRIS MATTHEWS to Bill Ayers, December 10, 2008, Hardball, MSNBC: “I was a Capitol policeman at the time, so I was one of the guys that could have been killed obviously at the time you put that, your guys put that bomb in there. So I have a little personal interest. It wasn’t [...]

If you are surprised by this appointment consideration, please know that I am not. And if you don’t know who Penny Pritzker is, you can count on me to refresh your memory.
Penny was Barack Obama’s national campaign finance chair and now she would like to become Secretary of Commerce. Well I suppose we should all [...]

I wanted to wait for a few days before commenting on the import of the election of Barack Obama. As longtime readers of NoQuarter know firsthand, Barack’s skin color has been completely irrelevant to the question of his qualification to be President.
He is a quintessential enigma wrapped in a conundrum (i.e., an [...]

Steve Diamond of Global Labor and Politics blog is a professor of law and teaches courses in global capital markets, business law, international human rights and labor law. Full profile || Read his other NoQ posts, including “The Biden ‘Gaffe’: A ‘race’ for the soul of the next President?.”
The relationship between the Democratic Party’s [...]

Published September 22, 2008 at my blog, Global Labor and Politics.
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As far as it goes, Stanley Kurtz of the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center and the National Review Online, has done a reasonably good job in this essay in the Wall Street Journal of capturing the intimately close political relationship between Barack Obama and [...]

Nobody can deny that Barack Obama certainly surrounds himself with slimeballs interesting friends.
Let’s see now. Last week we discussed the 2001 failed Superior Bank of Chicago and Penny Pritzker,  Barack Obama’s Campaign Finance Chair.  Ms. Pritzker, it seems, is the Mother of the subprime lenders and the Mortgage Meltdown. She did it before it was [...]

According to Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), our current financial crisis is a direct result of “toxic instruments” of the financial institutions who created problematic home mortgage loans, particularly sub-prime mortgages. I quote the Wall Street Journal:
Several high-ranking members of Congress also appeared on Sunday morning programs, as lawmakers rushed to bring on the far-reaching [...]

Fellow former hippie and blogger over at Power and Control tossed me a link to his most interesting article on the condition of Wall Street and how it relates to Mr. Innocent, Barack Obama. The blogger’s first paragraph refreshed my memory about a piece I wrote back in April while the MSM was busy stroking [...]

As Global Labor readers are well aware the University of Illinois at Chicago denied Stanley Kurtz of National Review access to the official records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the six-year-long $160 million education reform project led by, among others, Barack Obama and Bill Ayers.
The denial of access to the archives of the CAC was [...]

From today’s editorial, “New and Not Improved“ in the New York Times:
Senator Barack Obama stirred his legions of supporters, and raised our hopes, promising to change the old order of things. He spoke with passion about breaking out of the partisan mold of bickering and catering to special pleaders, promised to end President Bush’s abuses [...]

In a previous post, I referred to Barack Obama’s interesting relationship with Wall street, Bankers and Sub-Prime lenders. I also mentioned Barack Obama’s Finance Chairperson, Penny Pritzker. We all know that Barack Obama hangs out with some interesting people and Penny Pritzker is no exception. I thought you might like to know more about Penny [...]