"President Barack Obama, continuing to pose as a populist man of the people when he finds it necessary or beneficial, stands exposed as the chief representative of the interests of the American ruling elite and the standard bearer in the assault on the working class."

That article is unduly pessimistic in my view. I think conditions not too dissimilar from some recited are present at this stage of a recovery from a serious recession. Anyway, the above sentence tells me that the author is just about taking shots at the U.S.