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WASHINGTON: Generations to come may slice and dice the US-India nuclear cooperation deal, but for now it has been firmly stated by New Delhi and broadly accepted in Washington that India will be bound only by the bilateral 123 Agreement with regards to the terms of the deal, other sentiments of the US Congress notwithstanding.
Nuke deal is signed, sealed, and delivered 11 Oct 2008, 2115 hrs IST, Chidanand Rajghatta,TNN
Having assured itself that US President George Bush asserted his (…)

“In politics, nothing happens ‘by accident.’ If it happened, you can bet it was ‘planned’ that way.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Since the murders of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, MLK, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, little has gone right in this country. It’s like we’re headed for hell in a vehicle which doesn’t have any brakes, driven by a raving maniac. Remember, too, the Vietnam War (1963-75)—that heated up almost immediately after JFK was eliminated. (1) That conflict ripped the nation apart (…)

Lay off Ralph Nader
Chris Hedges Philadelphia Inquirer 03.09.2008 greenchange.org
He is the only candidate who has not lined his pockets with tens of millions of dollars of corporate campaign money, talked out of both sides of his mouth about the war in Iraq, NAFTA and health care, and has dedicated his life to battling the corporations who make war on working men and women.
For all of Barack Obama’s flash and charm, his campaign is as slick and empty as a television commercial. For (…)

Noted Homo-Hater, Sally Kern, Declared Honorary Gay/Lesbian Person
by James Nimmo
(OKLAHOMA CITY) To commemorate National Coming Out Day on Saturday, October 11, 2008, I am exercising my gay genetic heritage and declaring Rep. Sally Kern of Oklahoma an honorary gay/lesbian person in recognition of the fine work she has done to keep our community’s issues in the forefront of media attention, both here in Oklahoma and nationwide.
In a country turned upside down by religious and (…)

CounterPunch
Weekend Edition October 10 / 12, 200
High Times for the Atom Lobby
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR and JOSHUA FRANK
Source: ml.telediaspora.net
It is fast becoming one of the most important issues of the 2008 presidential campaign.
Both major candidates want to search for more domestic oil supplies, promising to drill up and down the spine of the Rocky Mountains and off our fragile coastlines. The perceived threat of global warming is making even the most skeptical of (…)

Sheikh Abdullah’s attempt to reinforce secularism by Kashmir’s example requires exceptional unity of direction in New Delhi
BY AJIT BHATTACHARJEA Journalist and Author
IN HIS article in TEHELKA, Arun Jaitley traces the problems we face in Kashmir to Jawaharlal Nehru. In a sense he is right. Kashmir would not have been part of India if Nehru had not been Prime Minister in October 1947, when the state was faced with the decision of whether to accede to India or Pakistan. It would have gone (…)

Monday, October 13, 2008 by Our correspondent
Source: The News
MIRAMSHAH (FATA): The three people killed in the missile attack by the US drones on a house in Machas Colony area here Saturday night were all local tribesmen.
Tribal sources said the dead included Rustam, Munawar and Sakhi, all residents of the area. Five men including Shaider Khan, Faizullah, Muqaddas, Zabiullah and Gul Qadam were injured in the missile strike on a ‘hujra’ at Machas Colony, which used to serve as a camp (…)

By chycho
While the world watches the 2008 US elections, Canada fights for its survival. On 14 October 2008 Canada will hold its most important elections since its creation - no hype, no exaggeration.
Harper - Sarkozy
Why we Must Stop Stephen Harper and the Conservatives:
In the year 2000, the United States held their most important elections since their creation, and now it’s our turn. In four short years the Bush administration bankrupted the United States and started two major (…)

Bretton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capital did not smother wider social concerns in post-war democracies. It was hated by the US neoliberals - the very people who created the banking crisis writes Noam Chomsky
by Noam Chomsky
THE SIMULTANEOUS unfolding of the US presidential campaign and unraveling of the financial markets presents one of those occasions where the political and economic systems (…)

CounterPunch Weekend Edition October 10 / 12, 2008
Corruption and Dirty Water
A deadly outbreak of cholera in Iraq is being blamed on a scandal involving corrupt officials who failed to sterilize the local drinking water because they were bribed to buy chlorine from Iran that was long past its expiration date.
The centre of the epidemic is in Babil province, south of Baghdad, in the marshy lands east of the Euphrates river, not far from the ruins of ancient Babylon. In Baghdad, where (…)