Voting the Fate of the Nation
Will Economic Meltdown, Race, or Regional Loyalty Be the Trump Card in Election 2008? By Chalmers Johnson / TomDispatch.com /…
Category: Economy
AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka on Racism and Obama
Very powerful indeed. Thanks dougbob for pointing it out. Posted by cameo9876 on YouTube
Posted in: Economy, Election, Labor
Tagged: Barack Obama, racism
The Specter of Wall Street
Wall Street’s Comeback as the Place Americans Love to Hate By Steve Fraser / TomDispatch.com / October 2, 2008 Wall…
Scorched-Earth Presidency
by John Feffer / World Beat / September 30, 2008 An army in retreat often destroys the land so that…
Posted in: Economy, Election, War and Peace
A New Deal, or a New New Deal?
by Howard A. Rodman / Huffington Post / posted September 30, 2008 The drunken boat that was the Modified Paulson…
CIA Official From San Diego Pleads Guilty to Fraud
San Diego Native ‘Dusty’ Foggo Is Latest Figure Caught Up in the Duke Cunningham Scandal By Debbi Baker / UNION-TRIBUNE…
BREAKING NEWS: House Rejects Bailout – Stocks Plunge 500 Points
Staff September 29, 2008 0 Comments on BREAKING NEWS: House Rejects Bailout – Stocks Plunge 500 Points
UPDATE: Stock Market Falls 777 Points – Highest Point Drop Ever ! Go here. WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives…
Posted in: Economy, Election, Energy, Media, Organizing
Gore Urges Civil Disobedience To Stop Coal Plants
by Michelle Nichols / Reuters / September 25, 2008 NEW YORK – Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al…
Posted in: Civil Disobedience, Economy, Energy, Environment, Organizing
Deal reached on $700B bailout, lawmakers say
UPDATE: Deal falls apart as GOP rank and file revolt against ‘socialism’ – go here. Bailout said to provide some…
Posted in: Economy
Urgent Confidential E-Mail From Minister of Treasury Paulson
From: Minister of the Treasury Paulson Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP Dear American: I need to ask you…
The Fruit of Hypocrisy
Dishonesty in the finance sector dragged us here, and Washington looks ill-equipped to guide us out By Joseph Stiglitz /…
Posted in: Economy
The United States of Goldman Sachs: The Bailout, The Bankers, and the Billions We Are About to Lose
Gregg Robinson September 22, 2008 1 Comment on The United States of Goldman Sachs: The Bailout, The Bankers, and the Billions We Are About to Lose
The British Economist John Maynard Keynes famously referred to capitalism as the “Casino Society”. What Americans are quickly learning, however,…
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