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Monday, November 3rd, 2008FFF | President Bush has been making a big hullabaloo over the fact that the Iraqi regime has not signed on to an agreement that would authorize U.S. forces to remain in Iraq after December 31. Bush says that if an agreement is not signed between him and the Iraqi government, he will cease military operations in Iraq, keeping his military forces inside U.S. bases within Iraq. Bush says that ...
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The Election-Industrial Complex
Saturday, November 1st, 2008By Walter Smolarek | As the seemingly endless period of political campaigning in the United States will soon draw to a close, we on the left must access the damage; but more importantly, we must understand the means by which the damage was dealt; the “representative democratic” system. In this execution of bourgeois democracy there were two lines of direct benefit: one to the ruling class as a whole by ...
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McCain Racism, Hypocrisy on Khalidi Issue
Friday, October 31st, 2008This Is The Lowest McCain Has Sunk Yet By Juan Cole The increasingly sleazy John McCain, who once promised to run a clean campaign, has now attacked my friend Rashid Khalidi and attempted to use him against Barack Obama. Khalidi is an American scholar of Palestinian heritage, born in New York and educated at Yale and Oxford, who now teaches at Columbia University. He directed the Middle East Center ...
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The Triumph of Ignorance: How Morons Succeed in U.S. Politics
Friday, October 31st, 2008Obama has a lot to offer, but until our education system is fixed or religious fundamentalism withers, anti-intellectuals will flaunt their ignorance. How was it allowed to happen? How did politics in the United States come to be dominated by people who make a virtue out of ignorance? Was it charity that has permitted mankind's closest living relative to spend two terms as president? How did Sarah Palin, Dan Quayle and ...
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How the Government Spies on and Prosecutes Peace Activists
Thursday, October 30th, 2008A First-Hand Account of the Ghosts of Iraq War Trial in Washington, D.C., October 20-24, 2008 By Joy First Madison, WI -- I was involved in a jury trial in Washington, DC October 20-24 for an action in the Senate gallery on March 12. In summary, five individuals, including me, were acquitted, and five people were found guilty. But what made this trial so unique was that the government attempted to hide ...
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The “Dirty Little Secret” Of the US Bank Bailout
Thursday, October 30th, 2008WSWS | In an unusually frank article published in Saturday's New York Times, the newspaper's economic columnist, Joe Nocera, reveals what he calls "the dirty little secret of the banking industry"--namely, that "it has no intention of using the [government bailout] money to make new loans." As Nocera explains, the plan announced October 13 by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to hand over $250 billion in taxpayer money to the biggest banks, ...
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Obama’s Infomercial Hits Home
Thursday, October 30th, 2008By Ruth Conniff | Barack Obama's 30-minute, prime-time infomercial played on the heartstrings of stressed-out Americans. It all worked together. The violin music, the soft focus stories, the greatest hits from some of his speeches: “We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of billionaires we have, or the profits of the Fortune 500, but by . . . whether the waitress who lives on tips ...
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Anthrax scare empties Calif. congressman’s office
Thursday, October 30th, 2008California congressman's office evacuated after it receives package labeled 'anthrax' A state office of a California congressman has been evacuated after receiving an envelope labeled "anthrax." No one was hurt after the package was received Wednesday at the Modesto office of Rep. George Radanovich. Some staffers were sent to a hospital for precautionary examinations. Radanovich spokesman Spencer Pederson says authorities have not confirmed what was in the package. A receptionist says it ...
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Elephants, Donkeys And Party X
Sunday, October 26th, 2008By ZingPao | If we truly live in a land of Freedom & Opportunity, then we should be able to vote for any political party that wants to run candidates. So why aren’t we being allowed to vote for someone other than a Democrat or Republican? The Constitution makes no mention of political parties. The simple truth is that the two major parties do not want any competition. The Republican Party ...
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Powell Lies About Iraq War after Endorsing Obama
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008By Matthew Rothschild | Save your praise of Colin Powell. Because while he was endorsing Barack Obama, he was busy rewriting the history of the Iraq War and perpetuating blatant lies about his role and George Bush’s role in the lead-up. At a press conference after his appearance on Meet the Press Sunday, Powell responded to a question about his involvement in the decisions around the Iraq War. http://www.cnn.com ...
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Bush Decides to Keep Guantánamo Open
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008By STEVEN LEE MYERS WASHINGTON — Despite his stated desire to close the American prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, President Bush has decided not to do so, and never considered proposals drafted in the State Department and the Pentagon that outlined options for transferring the detainees elsewhere, according to senior administration officials. Mr. Bush’s ...
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VIDEO: “Bush Guilty Of First Deg Murder”
Monday, October 20th, 2008Vincent Bugliosi is heard by Congressman John Conyers, Chairman House Judiciary Committee Vincent Bugliosi is heard by Congressman John Conyers, Chairman House Judiciary Committee Inquiry Hearing on Articles of Impeachment Former L.A. County Prosecutor, Vincent Bugliosi and author of "The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder", which details prosecutable evidence of ...
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The Morning After the Elections
Monday, October 20th, 2008WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO NOW? This is a message to those who got behind Barack Obama because they have been horrified and furious with the direction this society has taken over the past eight years. To those who put their deep felt desires for change in the hope that Obama will take society in a different direction. Revolution has made the argument about why such hopes are misplaced and illusory, why ...
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America’s Coup D’État in the Making
Saturday, October 18th, 2008Lew Rockwell | Following Plato, many moralists have associated political virtue with a reluctance to pursue and exercise power. To want to rule others is to be morally disqualified from doing so. The strong tendency in traditional Western political thought to disparage a desire for power has been unfortunate. Without some people governing others, basic social order could not exist, to say nothing of effecting desirable change. The prejudice against ...
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The October Surprise: Global Panic
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008By Stephen Lendman - RINF | Since 9/11, the notion of an October surprise has been around. The idea going something like this. Another real or manufactured terror attack. The dominant media stokes fear. The public is again traumatized. The Bush administration pledges all effective measures to protect national security. Formerly seizes total power. Suspends the Constitution and declares martial law. Mass detentions follow. Beginning with dissenters and elements ...
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