“In the future everybody will be famous for fifteen minutes.” - Andy Warhol
The scene bordered on the surreal. It was like watching a play by Samuel Beckett. The location was the prestigious National Press Club (NPC) in Washington, D.C.—only blocks from the White House. At 3 PM, on June 18, 2008, a press conference, not endorsed by the NPC, was set to begin in the Holeman Lounge on the 13th floor. The room was filled to near capacity, with mostly, it appeared, representatives of the (...)
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Obama’s Accuser and the Surreal Scene at the NPC
20 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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Ralph NADER: "It is Quite Clear: Obama is a Corporate Candidate from A to Z"
19 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Democracy Now June 18, 2008
[includes video and rush transcript]
Guest: Ralph Nader, Independent presidential candidate. He is a longtime consumer advocate and corporate critic.
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader discusses his independent run for the White House, the media blackout of third party candidates, and his stance on the Iraq war, the military-industrial complex, the global food crisis, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and more.
The race for the 2008 election (...) -
Video: Sen. Barack Obama’s Accuser, Larry Sinclair, Drilled by Media
19 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
On June 18, 2008, Larry Sinclair gave a press conference at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C. He repeated his allegations against Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) concerning supposed drug and sex incidents that he said took place in Illinois, “in 1999.” After reading a five page statement, he was questioned by the media, including an opening query from this reporter. This video contains excerpts from that Q&A session. Mr. Sinclair admitted that he is a “former recreational drug user (...)
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John McCain’s Chilling Project for America (GlobalResearch)
18 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsGlobal Research, June 15, 2008 truthdig.com - 2008-06-12
by Dr. Elliot Cohen
John McCain has long been a major player in a radical militaristic group driven by an ideology of global expansionism and dominance attained through perpetual, pre-emptive, unilateral, multiple wars. The credo of this group is “the end justifies the means,” and the end of establishing the United States as the world’s sole superpower justifies, in its estimation, anything from military control over the (...) -
Obama Is A Hawk By John PILGER
16 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
5 commentsThe New Statesman 15 June,2008
In 1941, the editor Edward Dowling wrote: "The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it." What has changed? The terror of the rich is greater than ever, and the poor have passed on their delusion to those who believe that when George W Bush finally steps down next January, his numerous threats to the rest (...) -
Obama, Israel and AIPAC By URI AVNERY
11 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
CounterPunch.org
June 9, 2008
After months of a tough and bitter race, a merciless struggle, Barack Obama has defeated his formidable opponent, Hillary Clinton. He has wrought a miracle: for the first time in history a black person has become a credible candidate for the presidency of the most powerful country in the world.
Source: www.maroc-hebdo.press.ma
And what was the first thing he did after his astounding victory? He ran to the conference of the Israel lobby, AIPAC, and (...) -
McCain’s Greatest Enemy
5 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
By David Glenn Cox
So, the Presidential campaign has begun in earnest, the policies, the politics, the personalities. The character assassinations, the implications, the reflexive comments and the unsaid innuendo, but for just a moment lets drop back into a huddle. We, as a species, tend to become overwrought and miss the obvious, outside of the politics, outside of party; we tend over-complicate, while dreaming of flight we forget about gravity.
We forget the inescapable, the (...) -
First Web 2.0 President?
4 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
The NYT leads this morning with "Obama Claims Nomination; First Black Candidate to Lead a Major Party Ticket." You can see from my headline that I put a different emphasis. I’m not one of those politically correct, color-blind people who finds it indelicate to mention race or ethnicity. I think those categories are largely socially constructed, but I don’t deny that once they have been constructed, they have social and political significance. US urban politics can’t possibly be understood (...)
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The Substance Of Obama’s Liberalism
2 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy John PILGER
In this season of 1968 nostalgia, one anniversary illuminates today. It is the rise and fall of Robert Kennedy, who would have been elected president of the United States had he not been assassinated in June 1968.
Source: bvar22.iwarp.com
Having traveled with Kennedy up to the moment of his shooting at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, I heard The Speech many times. He would "return government to the people" and bestow "dignity and justice" on the (...) -
NADER : Why McCain, Obama, Clinton haven’t signed onto cluster bombs ban Bill?
1 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
May 29 2008: 111 countries agreed on a treaty to ban the use of cluster bombs, except the USA, Israel, India and China. (+ videos)
Nader.org Friday, May 30, 2008
Presidential candidate Ralph Nader wants to know why Senators McCain, Obama and Clinton have not signed onto legislation, S. 594, introduced by Senator Dianne Feinstein, that would serve as a de facto ban on the use and export of nearly all of the one billion cluster bombs in the U.S. Stockpile.
The bill has 21 Senate (...)