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“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.” - Will Rogers
Back in the late 50s, I was an aide-de-camp to the Hon. Michael J. “Iron Mike” McHale, 6th District City Councilman in Baltimore City. Around that time, there was a hotly contested citywide municipal election going on. McHale, now deceased, went to a meeting with the then leader of his South Baltimore organization, Julian “Fats” Carrick. They met in a downtown office, with Philip H. (…)

The Bush-Obama-McCain Administration
The period we’re living in now is the Bush-Obama-McCain Administration.
Bush obligingly initiated Obama’s bombing campaign on Pakistan. The three of them colluded on the recent wealth transfer (about $840 billion) from the American people to Wall St.
The 24 hr/7 days/wk media Wurlitzer distracts us from looking at these white elephants too closely. The circus is so loud and visually entraining that it hides the deeper structure of society. The U.S. (…)

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
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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

By Sultan M Hali
Source: "Pakistan Observer"
Israel’s Army chief, Major General Avi Mizrahi secretly visited Kashmir last week (September 2008).
Indian authorities remained tight-lipped about the visit, neither confirming nor denying, however, the lid was blown by Iranian News Agency, IRNA.
Earlier, Major General Avi Mizrahi, had arrived in New Delhi on September 9, on a three-day visit, where he met his counterpart Indian Army chief General Deepak Kapoor and also minister of state (…)

Interview with Baburam Bhattarai in "Janadesh", 21 October.
By KIRAN PANDAY
Source: "Nepali Times"
Janadesh:
During your visit to the US, you mentioned that the party was thinking of changing its name to simply CPN. This has stirred a controversy.
Baburam Bhattarai:
I don’t understand why they are trying to make a storm in a teacup. The media exaggerated it as they were short of news during festival time. In fact, this issue had been a topic of discussion within the party for a (…)

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 (…)