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  • America’s Secret war in Pakistan
    9 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Marines with long beards and without uniforms
    Posted on October 8, 2008 by Moin Ansari
    There have been reports of US incursions into Pakistan. This report clearly discusses the good, the bad and the ugly
    JALALABAD, Afghanistan – U.S. military officials don’t talk about our secret war in Pakistan.
    Don’t even ask, I was told, on U.S. military bases in Afghanistan at Bagram and Jalalabad.
    Don’t ask about the remotely-controlled American drones armed with missiles that are now (…)

  • Noam Chomsky: America is not a Democracy (video)
    9 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-22718571.html

  • After Bailout, AIG Executives Head to Resort
    9 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Peter Whoriskey
    Less than a week after the federal government offered an $85 billion bailout to insurance giant AIG, the company held a week-long retreat for its executives at the luxury St. Regis Resort in Monarch Beach, Calif., running up a tab of $440,000, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) said today at the the opening of a House committee hearing about the near-failure of the insurance giant.
    Showing a photograph of the resort, Waxman said the executives spent $200,000 for rooms, (…)

  • “Invasion Of The Sea-Smurfs”
    9 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Amy Goodman
    Democracy Now!
    A little-noticed story surfaced a couple of weeks ago in the Army Times newspaper about the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team. “Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months,” reported Army Times staff writer Gina Cavallaro, “the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks.” (…)

  • Obama, McCain, and Nader (video)
    9 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Three Way Presidential Debate - Obama, McCain, and Nader
    Want to see Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader in the debates? Here’s what you can do about it:
    Call Barack Obama at 866-675-2008.
    Hit 6 to speak with a campaign volunteer and insist that Ralph Nader and other ballot qualified third party candidates be included in the upcoming Presidential debates.
    Then, e-mail the executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates Janet Brown at jb@debates.org
    Tell her to end the (…)

  • BAILOUT: America’s Financial Ruin
    8 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    BAILOUT: America’s Financial Ruin
    By Patrick Wood, Editor October 6, 2008
    When push came to shove, Humpty Dumpty discovered the shortest distance to the cobblestones below: straight down.
    Being quite dead, Humpty’s body is stinking up the whole neighborhood. The eyewitnesses call it murder. The coroner, bypassing the eyewitnesses, rules it an accident. The public clamors for taxpayer funds to clean up the mess. Congress passes a bill for superglue to be liberally applied to the broken (…)

  • Sen. Barbara Mikulski: Dubya Made Her Do It!
    8 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “He who makes excuses accuses himself.” - A French Proverb
    Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), on Sept. 22, 2008, was up to one of her old tricks—talking out of both sides of her mouth! She was on the Senate floor, on Capitol Hill, reading an anti-bailout rant. (1) If you didn’t know any better, you would think that she was a hero of the Middle Class. Sen. Mikulski pretended to rage about how Dubya had a track record of “stampeding” the U.S. Congress into voting for draconian laws, such as the (…)

  • First Blood : Broke after Wall Street crash, desi kills family, self
    8 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    S Rajagopalan | Washington
    An unemployed Indian American financial manager gunned down five members of his family and took his own life - after seeing his fortune wiped out by the stock market collapse.
    Karthik Rajaram, 45, an MBA in finance who had worked for top accounting firms and was part-owner of a financial holding company, shot his wife, three children and mother-in-law in the head before turning the gun on himself in their gated community home in Los Angeles last weekend. He (…)

  • Betrayed by the bailout: The death of democracy
    7 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Online Journal Oct 6, 2008
    By William John Cox Online Journal Contributing Writer
    On Friday, October 3, 2008, the American people were betrayed by those whom they had elected to represent them. The members of Congress who voted for the Wall Street “bailout” violated their oath of office to “support and defend the Constitution” . . .”that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same” . . .”and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to (…)

  • Bail Out The Homeowners! By Paul Craig Roberts
    7 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Counterpunch 04 October, 2008
    I s the Paulson bailout itself as big a fraud as the leveraged subprime mortgages?
    Yesterday, here on CounterPunch , I discussed the bailout as proposed and noted that the proposal cannot succeed if it impairs the US Treasury’s credit standing and/or the combination of mark-to-market and short-selling permits short-sellers to prosper by driving more financial institutions into bankruptcy.
    A reader’s comment and an article by Yale professors Jonathan Kopell (…)