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If the change President-elect Obama has promised includes a halt to America’s wars of aggression and an end to the rip-off of taxpayers by powerful financial interests, what explains Obama’s choice of foreign and economic policy advisors? Indeed, Obama’s selection of Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff is a signal that change ended with Obama’s election. The only thing different about the new administration will be the faces.
Rahm Emanuel is a supporter of Bush’s invasion of Iraq. (…)

The illegal settlement movement, supported by every Israeli administration to date, has burgeoned out of control and its right wing leaders are vehemently opposed to negotiating land for peace.
We will probably see the present Foreign Minister and Kadima party leader, Tzipi Livni - if she forms the next government and takes over from Ehud Olmert, now interim PM - use the same stalling tactics with the Palestinian Authority that have, up until now, allowed land grabs from the Palestinians (…)

Wall St falls amid fresh concerns over toxic assets
By Alistair Gray in New York Published: November 12 2008 13:55 | Last updated: November 12 2008 21:43
Wall Street stocks neared fresh five-year lows on Wednesday after the US Treasury’s backtrack over toxic mortgage assets renewed investor concerns over authorities’ ability to deal effectively with the financial crisis.
Several financial stocks hit new bottoms and the sector sank 6.9 per cent overall after Hank Paulson, treasury (…)

Financial Crisis: Washington’s $5 Trillion Tab
Elizabeth Moyer, 11.12.08, 05:15 PM EST
Fighting the financial crisis has put the U.S. on the hook for some $5 trillion a report says. So far.
For all the fury over Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s $700 billion emergency economic relief fund, it seems downright puny when compared to the running total of the government’s response to the credit crisis.
According to CreditSights, a research firm in New York and London, the U.S. government (…)

US Issues Uprecedented DEFCON 1 ALERT Russian Military Analysts are reporting in the Kremlin today that the United States Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, has alerted his World-Wide military commands to begin preparations for the raising of America’s Defense Condition (DEFCON) “on or about” October 7th to their highest status DEFCON 1.
United States ally Israel has, likewise, raised its alert status to their highest level, and as we can read as reported by the World Tribune News (…)

Who are the Architects of Economic Collapse? Will an Obama Administration Reverse the Tide?
by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, November 9, 2008 Most Serious Economic Crisis in Modern History
The October 2008 financial meltdown is not the result of a cyclical economic phenomenon. It is the deliberate result of US government policy instrumented through the Treasury and the US Federal Reserve Board.
This is the most serious economic crisis in World history.
The "bailout" (…)

"A Second 9/11": An Integral Part of US Military Doctrine
by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, October 31, 2008
For several years now, senior officials of the Bush administration including the President and the Vice President have intimated, in no certain terms, that there will be "a Second 9/11".
Quotations from presidential speeches and official documents abound. America is threatened:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10767

Financial Meltdown: The Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History How to Reverse the Tide and Democratize the US Monetary System
by Ellen Brown
Global Research, October 17, 2008
author’s website: webofdebt.com
"Admit it, mes amis, the rugged individualism and cutthroat capitalism that made America the land of unlimited opportunity has been shrink-wrapped by half a dozen short sellers in Greenwich, Conn., and FedExed to Washington, D.C., to be spoon-fed back to life by Fed Chairman Ben (…)

By William Hughes
“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.” - Arthur Miller (1)
If you are a Hollywood film buff and a political junkie, too, as I am, you will just love Marc Eliot’s latest book, “Reagan: The Hollywood Years.” The author touches on Ronald Reagan’s early days in Dixon, Illinois, but mainly focuses on his film career in which he was cast in one bad B movie after another. The main expose in this absorbing tome is that during the days of the “Red Scare,” late 40s through (…)

Ahmadinejad’s Letter to US president Barack Obama - Path of righteousness
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Mr. Barack Obama President-elect of the United States of America.
I congratulate you on having gained the majority of the votes of those who took part in the election. As you know, the chances that God gives to his subjects pass swiftly. They can be used for the perfection of humanity and to the benefit of nations or, God forbid, to the detriment of nations. (…)