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  • Why I’m Not Voting for Obama
    24 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Tod CHRETIEN
    CounterPunch/Socialist Worker.
    October 23, 2008
    "TERRORIST!" "KILL him!" "He’s an Arab." "Obama Bucks." John McCain has let the dogs loose. Apparently, he’s decided that if winning the White House means whipping the right wing into a racist frenzy, he’ll lead the charge.
    The good news is that a majority of American voters are walking away from the John McCain-Sarah Palin freak show. Even David Letterman is grilling McCain.
    Tod Chretien- Source: Indymedia
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  • Letting the Market Place Work
    24 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Letting the Market Place Work By David Glenn Cox
    They tell us that we must let the marketplace work, we must never allow the heavy hand of government to impinge on our freedoms. While the rest of the industrial world has national healthcare, we in America have our freedom. Our freedom and forty-seven million people without healthcare.
    The markets must be allowed to work! The marketplace always has the best answer; wasn’t that written on the backside of those tablets once handed to Moses? (…)

  • Convergence and Avoidance in the Presidential Campaign by Ralph Nader
    24 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    CounterPunch
    October 22, 2008
    Convergence and Avoidance in the Presidential Campaign
    The three so-called presidential debates—really parallel interviews by reporters chosen by the Obama and McCain campaigns—are over and they are remarkable for two characteristics—convergence and avoidance.
    A remarkable similarity between McCain and Obama on foreign and military policy kept enlarging as Obama seemed to enter into a clinch with McCain each time McCain questioned his inexperience or (…)

  • MacCain: War Hero or War Criminal?
    23 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Robert RICHTER
    October 14, 2008 CounterPunch McCain and Rolling Thunder
    As character assassination attacks on Sen. Barack Obama have now taken over Sen. John McCain’s campaign, and because McCain cites his military experience as of prime importance, now is the time to focus closer attention on a facet of the Arizona Senator’s own character. This is related to his 23 combat missions for Operation Rolling Thunder - the Pentagon’s name for U.S. bombing of North Vietnam.
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  • A Dream Ballot for 2008
    23 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Let [the Constitution] be taught in schools, seminaries and in colleges; let it be written in primers, in spelling books and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, enforced in courts of justice. In short, let it become the political religion of the nation.” Abraham Lincoln
    Tossing and turning, American voters are having nightmares about the 2008 election. Will it be stolen again as it was in 2000 and 2004? What will a President Obama do about (…)

  • Ralph Nader: Obama headed into the Mother of All Quagmires!
    23 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

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  • The Financial Meltdown: This Time Is Different
    22 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Stephen Lendman
    Global Research, October 22, 2008
    Whatever we know about today’s financial crisis. Think we know. Eventually will know in the fullness of time. This time is really different. In 1922, Henry Ford put it this way in his book titled "My Life and Work:"
    "The (economy’s) primary functions are agriculture, manufacture, and transportation. Community life is impossible without them. They hold the world together....The great delusion is that one may change the foundation. (…)

  • US diplomacy tainted by ’militarization’
    22 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Since the fall of the Berlin Wall [in 1989], the diplomatic capacity of the United States has been hollowed out," according to the 26-page report, "A Foreign Affairs Budget for the Future", which said a continuation of the status quo cannot continue without serious damage to the US’s "vital interests".
    Oct 17, 2008 By Jim Lobe
    WASHINGTON - While the Pentagon’s budget has risen to heights not seen since World War II, United States diplomatic and foreign aid assets have largely wasted (…)

  • More W.Va. voters say machines are switching votes
    20 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    More W.Va. voters say machines are switching votes
    In six cases, Democratic votes flipped to GOP
    By Paul J. Nyden
    October 18, 2008
    Staff writer
    WINFIELD, W.Va. — Three Putnam County voters say electronic voting machines changed their votes from Democrats to Republicans when they cast early ballots last week.
    This is the second West Virginia county where voters have reported this problem. Last week, three voters in Jackson County told The Charleston Gazette their electronic vote (…)

  • Video: Iraq, Afghan Vet: “Kill Without Thought!”
    20 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bryan Casler is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of both the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. He is the Northeast Regional Coordinator for the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Speaking at a “Winter Soldier” rally in Baltimore City, on Oct. 18, 2008, he said: We were trained, intensely, to “kill without thought”...and then to “think about it later.” The military’s objective is to make its soldiers “into a killing machine.” In basic training and in boot camp, they “broke people down. You weren’t a person (…)