September 2008

Nun Describes Witnessing Prison Riots

September 22, 2008 by Staff

Overcrowding Blamed for Riots That Left 23 Dead Including 2 Americans By Artie Ojeda, NBC 7/39 Reporter / Mon., Sept. 22, 2008 SAN DIEGO – An Amercan nun who was the only outsider allowed into a Tijuana prison the day after riots broke out describes the horrifying ordeal. Riots at the La Mesa Penitentiary outside […]

Free Market Ideology is Far From Finished,

September 22, 2008 by Staff

By Naomi Klein / The Guardian / September, 22 2008 Whatever the events of this week mean, nobody should believe the overblown claims that the market crisis signals the death of “free market” ideology. Free market ideology has always been a servant to the interests of capital, and its presence ebbs and flows depending on […]

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McCain and the POW Cover-up

September 21, 2008 by Staff

The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam Research support provided by the Investigative Fund of The Nation Institute. This is an expanded version, with primary documents attached, of a story that appears in the October 6, 2008 issue of The Nation. Go here for the original. By Sydney H. Schanberg […]

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Free society was challenged in St. Paul

September 20, 2008 by Staff

by Joel Kilgour / Diluth News Tribune / September 19, 2008 ST. PAUL – It was a lose-lose situation: hundreds of riot police lining every bridge over Interstate 94, blocking traffic and blocking 2,000 anti-war marchers from downtown St. Paul on the final day of the Republican National Convention. The standoff lasted several hours, ending […]

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Dissent under fire at the Republican National Convention

September 20, 2008 by Staff

By Lydia Howell / Special to the TC Daily Planet / September 18, 2008 “Our right to protest the government and its policies is not ‘suspicious behavior’; it’s Constitutionally protected speech.” Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office I’ll admit it: since the Republican National Convention brought a militarized police occupation to St. […]

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Photos From the Tijuana Prison Riots

September 19, 2008 by Staff

Here are a few photos of the two riots at La Mesa Prison in Tijuana, September 14 & 17.

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The Union-Tribune and the CIA

September 19, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

Earlier this week, the Union-Tribune announced that it would be closing its Washington, D.C. bureau in November as part of the latest cut-backs by San Diego’s monopoly print media. But thanks to VoiceofSanDiego online news site, reporter Randy Dotinga followed up on one dark strand of the paper’s past and wrote: “According to investigative reports, […]

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Why They Chose Sarah Palin–and What to Do About It

September 19, 2008 by Staff

by Mark Crispin Miller / Notes From Underground / Sept. 16, 2008 Strategists say that Mr. McCain can now count on a more motivated social conservative base to help him in areas like southern Ohio, where the 2004 race was settled. –The New York Times, Sept. 7, 2008, A1 In investigating the 2004 election in […]

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High Turnout, New Procedures May Mean an Election Day Mess

September 19, 2008 by Staff

By Mary Pat Flaherty / Washington Post / September 18, 2008 Faced with a surge in voter registrations leading up to Nov. 4, election officials across the country are bracing for long lines, equipment failures and confusion over polling procedures that could cost thousands the chance to cast a ballot. The crush of voters will […]

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Can Obama’s Ground Game Beat GOP Vote-Robbing?

September 19, 2008 by Staff

By Tom D-Antoni / The Huffington Post / Sept. 18, 2008 As the race tightens, despite the economy’s free-fall, Democrats and progressives are looking to Obama’s “ground game” to be the under-the-radar factor that leads to his victory. As political analyst Ian Fried points out: The Obama campaign is not merely putting paid staff […]

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Tijuana Prison Riots: 17 Dead & Top Officials Fired

September 18, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

SEE UPDATE – SCROLL DOWN By Hiram Soto / UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER / 10:13 a.m. September 18, 2008 TIJUANA – In an effort to restore order after two riots, Baja California’s governor sacked the top staff of La Mesa State Penitentiary and asked the federal government to temporarily take over the administration of the volatile […]

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Wall Street and Washington – The End of A Gilded Age

September 18, 2008 by Staff

How the Rules of the Game Have Changed By Steve Fraser / TomDispatch.com / September 18, 2008 What is Washington to do as the financial system collapses? Clearly, stark differences in approach as well as in public policy have already emerged. Bail-out Bear Stearns and pump up the brokerage and investment business with new lines […]

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A Nation of Village Idiots

September 18, 2008 by Staff

by James Moore / The Huffington Post / September 18, 2008 Don’t let them tell you this economic meltdown is a complicated mess. It’s not. Our national financial crisis is readily understood by anyone who has seen greed and hypocrisy. But we are now witnessing them on a profound, monumental scale. Conservative Republicans always want […]

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Sarah Palin: Why Experience Matters

September 18, 2008 by Staff

By David Brooks / New York Times / Originally published: September 15, 2008 Philosophical debates arise at the oddest times, and in the heat of this election season, one is now rising in Republican ranks. The narrow question is this: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be vice president? Most conservatives say yes, on the grounds […]

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Hours After Adm. Mullin Assures Pakistan We Respect Their Sovereignty – We Send In Missiles

September 17, 2008 by Staff

After vows to respect sovereignty, U.S. strikes again in Pakistan By Saeed Shah • McClatchy Newspapers • September 17, 2008 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A U.S. missile strike today in Pakistan further inflamed relations between the two anti-terrorism allies, hours after the U.S. military chief vowed to “respect Pakistan’s sovereignty.” The strike against suspected militants in […]

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A Crash Course in Economic Crashes

September 17, 2008 by Staff

Each week, sometimes daily now, we slide by a new economic warning sign, by another wreck that’s already off the road. By Larry Beinhart / AlterNet / Posted September 16, 2008. The first time I was in a car crash, I was 6 or 7 years old.

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The Party Police

September 17, 2008 by Staff

The National Conventions Are Over But Controversy Still Stands On How They Were Run by Amy Goodman / DemocrayNow / September 17, 2008 (Sept 10, 2008) — The Democratic and Republican national conventions have passed, but controversy surrounds how they were funded and how they were run. Mass arrests of peaceful protesters, excessive police violence, […]

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Today Is Constitution Day – a Day We Acknowledge the Constitution Is In Crisis

September 17, 2008 by Staff

by John Nichols / The Nation / September 17, 2008 Constitution Day has arrived without major statements from Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain on the need to restore this country’s commitment to the rule of law. In contrast, independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader’s campaign produced a video statement detailing his commitment to constitutional […]

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Obama: Find Your Inner Populist

September 17, 2008 by Staff

Obama needs to denounce the those scoundrels from both parties who got us in this financial mess. By Robert Scheer / The Nation / September 17, 2008 Gag me with a spoon, as Valley girls used to say. Did you see that McCain-Palin ad promising “tougher rules on Wall Street to protect your life savings, […]

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Book Review: Waiterrant

September 17, 2008 by Doug Porter

Waiterrant – authored by Steve Dublanica, eccobooks, 2008 Waiterrant.net was the first online blog that engaged me and made me into a believer in the medium. Let’s face it; most blogs are drivel, few last beyond the first couple of postings and even fewer have anything substantive to say. The “Waiter’s” postings (he was blogging […]

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Georgia On My Mind

September 16, 2008 by Richard Nadeau

The song “Georgia On My Mind” has been one of my favorites for many years. I have several versions of the song on CD. But lately it has been another Georgia on the far eastern shores of the Black Sea that I have been worried about. She does not bring me peace of mind.The worry […]

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Are We About to Go to War With Pakistan?

September 16, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

We have to ask this question despite the assurances we are being given. There’s been a flurry of diplomatic activity within the last 24 hours. Earlier today, Sept. 16th, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, made a hastily arranged flight to Pakistan for talks. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, meanwhile, […]

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Obama’s Youth Movement

September 16, 2008 by Staff

By Peter Dreier / The Nation / September 15, 2008 Twenty-year-old Tobin Van Ostern finished his sophomore year last spring at George Washington University, but this fall he’s enrolled in the Barack Obama campaign as a full-time organizer. The Richmond, Virginia, native started Students for Obama on his campus last year as a Facebook group. […]

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Pakistan orders troops to open fire if US raids

September 16, 2008 by Staff

by Stephen Graham / Huffington Post / September 16, 2008 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan’s military has ordered its forces to open fire if U.S. troops launch another air or ground raid across the Afghan border, an army spokesman said Tuesday. The orders, which come in response to a highly unusual Sept. 3 ground attack by […]

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Aloha Roz and Gustav, Invasive Critters, Polynesian Polluters and, Oh, Happy 50th Blue Notes.

September 16, 2008 by Staff

By David Helvarg / Blue Notes / Sept. 10, 2004 ROZ ARRIVES AT THE STROKE OF… “I’m under the airplane,” Roz informed us on the radio as we watched a jet take off from Honolulu International. Bopping around in a 24-foot towboat looking for a 24-foot rowboat five miles off Oahu reminded me of how […]

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McCain and the Depression of 2008

September 15, 2008 by Gregg Robinson

“The Fundamentals of the American Economy are strong.” John McCain before the 2008 election “Prosperity is just around the corner.” Herbert Hoover just before the 1932 election At a time when this country faces the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the American people seem set to elect the modern version of Herbert Hoover. […]

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The Dolphin Manifesto

September 15, 2008 by Richard Nadeau

Note: This manifesto was found while walking on the cliffs of Ocean Beach in San Diego. We cetacean ocean dwellers are increasingly concerned about the never ending stream of toxic, bacterial, and nutrient contaminants that are spilling daily into every nook and cranny of our watery ecosystem. Although we like humans, and have sometimes gone […]

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A Palin Theocracy

September 14, 2008 by Staff

by: Marjorie Cohn / t r u t h o u t | Perspective / Thursday 11 September 2008 John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate has invigorated a lackluster campaign. The media can’t stop talking about her. Given McCain’s age and state of health (his medical file was nearly 1,200 […]

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Palin Will Never be America’s ‘EveryWoman’

September 14, 2008 by Patty Jones

In what the AKMuckracker from the Mudflats blog called “the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state,” citizens took to the streets in Anchorage Alaska to show how they feel about Sarah Palin, her politics and to dispel any notion that she speaks for the majority of hockey moms in that state. […]

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100 San Diegans Protest Blackwater’s Otay Mesa Training Facility & the Media Ignored It

September 13, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

Local Mainstream Media Boycott Demonstration – Politicians Are a No-Show OTAY MESA, San Diego, CA. One hundred San Diegans protested on a warm Saturday afternoon, in the middle of an industrial park. They were protesting the training facility of Blackwater, the mercenary outfit that is operating just a couple blocks from the U.S.- Mexican border. […]

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