Archive for January, 2008

Nevada Result Presents Challenge for Obama, But Moral Victories Too

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Beyond Chron, CA

by Paul Hogarth‚ Jan. 21‚ 2008

While Hillary Clinton won the Nevada caucus by six points, Barack Obama can claim some moral victories from Saturday’s result. Nevada had always favored Clinton (she led by 25 points until recently) and the state has few progressives. Obama won more delegates due to the caucus system – [...]

The Fraud of Bushenomics: They’re Looting the Country

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

AlterNet, CA

By Larry Beinhart, AlterNet. Posted January 19, 2008.

The voodoo economics the Bushies have sold America obscure their systematic fleecing of the nation’s public wealth.

The New York Times made it official. The Economy is a problem!

So, now, at last we can discuss it.

Not just discuss it, in rapid order “recession” became the word of the [...]

Consider this: American Dynasties

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Consider this: If Hillary Clinton wins the presidency, and then a second term, the USA will have established family dynasties in which two families — Bush and Clinton — have ruled the land for 28 STRAIGHT years (more than a quarter century). If you consider the Vice Presidency, then add 8 more years for the [...]

Presidential Candidates Take the ‘Social’ Out of ‘Change’

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

New America Media, CA

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy and the Primaries

New America Media, Commentary, by Roberto Lovato

Editor’s Note: Presidential candidates now clamor for change, and many invoke Martin Luther King, Jr. for their own political benefit, but lost in the debate is the social movement of change, notes NAM contributing editor Roberto Lovato.

The spirit of the [...]

Space invaders: Five million aliens for Hillary

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Online Journal, FL

By Greg Palast Online Journal Guest Writer Jan 14, 2008

State Rep. Russell Pearce of Mesa Arizona has warned us: “There is a massive effort under way to register illegal aliens in this country.”

How many? According to the representative’s office, there are 5million: Democrats, he says, who are not good Americans — they’re Mexicans!

Really? Holy Cow! [...]

Iraq’s Children Still ‘Paying the Price’

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Center for Research on Globalization, Canada

by Felicity Arbuthnot Global Research

‘No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency’. Theodore Roosevelt.

‘He never slept in a bed of myths, He didn’t live his childhood’. Ali Ahmed Said, Victims of a Map, Saqi Books.

Three years before the invasion of Iraq, a small film crew were near [...]

CIA, Iran and the Gulf of Tonkin

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Middle East Online, UK

Our senior military officers need all the help they can get from intelligence officers more concerned with the truth than with ‘keeping lines open to the White House’ and doing its bidding, says CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

When the Tonkin Gulf incident took place in early August 1964, I was a journeyman CIA [...]