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  • Obama, the first-rate Republican by Alexander Cockburn
    31 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    TheIndependent.UK Sunday, 26 October 2008
    Is there anything the front-runner will not say to become President? No progressive cause would have a chance with him in charge
    As a left-winger I might be expected to be supporting Barack Obama. And indeed, in these last days I’ve been scraping around, trying to muster a single positive reason to encourage a vote for Obama. Please note my accent on the positive, since the candidate himself has couched his appeal in this idiom. Why vote for (…)

  • Death of the American Empire: America is self-destructing & bringing the rest of the world down with it
    31 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Death of the American Empire: America is self-destructing & bringing the rest of the world down with it
    By Tanya Cariina Hsu
    Global Research, October 23, 2008
    I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. (Thomas Jefferson, US President; 1743 - 1826)
    America is dying. It is self-destructing and bringing the rest of the world down with it.
    Often referred to as a sub-prime mortgage collapse, this obfuscates the real reason. By (…)

  • Banks to Continue Paying Dividends
    30 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Binyamin Appelbaum
    U.S. banks getting more than $163 billion from the Treasury Department for new lending are on pace to pay more than half of that sum to their shareholders, with government permission, over the next three years.
    The government said it was giving banks more money so they could make more loans. Dollars paid to shareholders don’t serve that purpose, but Treasury officials say that suspending quarterly dividend payments would have deterred banks from participating in the (…)

  • Now Bush raids Pakistan; What’s else ?
    30 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Afghan war is 7 years old...
    A WALL Commentary
    The Pentagon calls it “Operation Enduring Freedom”: It is the undeclared war on the people of Afghanistan that Bush Junior started on October 7, 2001. It could well be called “Operation Enduring War.”
    AFGHANISTAN — The Russians could not conquer it. Do we really expect to do so?
    Both major presidential candidates support it, advocate intensifying it, and vow to achieve “victory,” whatever that is. And notwithstanding widespread (…)

  • US drone in Pakistan : And yet again !
    30 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Anwar Jalal from Pakistan
    Source : "Pakistan Observer"
    Peshawar :
    Once again US drone targeted a village of Waziristan killing about 20 people. Once again its official would claim that those killed were all terrorists. In case the killed ones are innocent children and women and portraying them as terrorists would seem to be too ridiculous then US official would once again just uttered the single and simple word “Sorry.
    While Pakistani Government high ups, on their part would once (…)

  • Obama no different to McCain, says Chavez
    30 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Care2 (Greens)
    Chavez on Obama....
    September 29, 2008 11:29 AM
    Chavez et Obama - Sources : .confidentiel.net/mecanopolis.wordpress
    Relations between Venezuela and the US will not improve even if Barack Obama becomes president, Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan leader, predicted today.
    A persistent thorn in the side of the US, Chavez told his supporters not to get their hopes up over Obama, the Democratic candidate, as there was little difference between him and his Republican rival, John (…)

  • Famous historian HOWARD ZINN is voting for NADER
    29 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    October 29, 2008 http://www.votenader.org/
    Howard Zinn now says he’s voting for Nader
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    The famous historian lives in Massachusetts, where Obama is ahead by 20 points.
    Zinn created a stir earlier when he said he was voting for Obama.
    He legitimately took some heat for supporting the corporate Obama.
    But late last night, Zinn admitted in an e-mail to our campaign that he made a mistake and now says he will vote for Nader.
    And Zinn urges all people of conscience to vote for the (…)

  • Video: Why the U.S. Economy is Going to Get Much Worse
    29 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Find out the shocking truth about who really caused the U.S. financial crisis.
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  • The “dirty little secret” of the US bank bailout
    29 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The “dirty little secret” of the US bank bailout
    27 October 2008
    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 (…)

  • Colin Powell : Crisis on January 21 or 22 (10/19/2008) videos)
    29 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Colin PMore Colin Powell on Meet the Press 10/19/2008
    Source: www.timboucher.com
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-24140087.html