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September 16, 2008
SARAH PALIN: BUSH DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN
John Chuckman
Sarah Palin is not qualified for high office, and she has proved it in two interviews, if you were listening, but it was equally clear eight years ago that George Bush was not qualified for high office, and many Americans were not listening.
The excitement generated around Palin is just as though America were again embracing George Bush – a younger, prettier version of the most incompetent person ever to hold (…)

Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse
Part 1
By Nick Beams 16 April 2008 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/apr2008/nbe1-a16.shtml
The following is the first part of a report delivered by Nick Beams, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Australia and a member of the World Socialist Web Site international editorial board, to public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne on April 9 and 15. Part 2 and Part 3 of the report will be published on (…)

Japan criticizes US crisis management
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:18:37 GMT
Japan’s premiership hopeful, Taro Aso, has criticized Washington’s failure to prevent the collapse of American financial institutions.
“There are doubts as to whether taking no action and leaving the matter unattended is the right approach," said Aso, quoted by Japan’s Jiji Press news agency.
Minister for Economic and Fiscal Policy Kaoru Yosano, who is also running for the premiership, said the crisis will strike (…)

Saakashvili is a war criminal who ordered the indiscriminate murder of our civilian populace, a crime warranting death anywhere, just ask ourselves. It’s called mass murder.
Celebrating Evil with PBS’s Monica Crowley
Our PBS’s Monica Crowley "to somehow suggest that we went into Iraq without the conditions in the second part of the Bush Doctrine, which is: diplomacy, lead time, going to the United Nations, giving a nation like Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, all of the benefit of the (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
For the first time, since the U.S.-hosted Annapolis conference on November 27 last year re-launched the Palestinian – Israeli negotiations, which were interrupted by the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000 after the collapse of the Camp David trilateral summit, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas came out for the first time on record in Cairo on September 6 to “doubt” striking a peace deal with Israel “by the end of the year because very little time is left;" on September 10 he (…)

One could almost envisage John McCain’s cheshire grin as his strategists whispered into his ear: “Voters are basically stupid. It’s not about substance; it’s about style. It’s not about knowing the issues; it’s about appealing to the worst in human nature, while pretending you’re appealing to the best.”
“Think about it John! Voters have elected movie and television stars to governorships, to Congress, and even to the presidency. Oftentimes, if those stars die while in office, voters (…)

“Spies are...a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors...sadists and drunkards.” - John le Carre, author.
In May, 2008, an ex-U.S. military engineer, Ben-Ami Kadish, age 84, was charged in Federal Court with four counts of conspiracy for passing classified, defense-related documents to the Israelis. The foul deeds supposedly happened over 20 years ago. The Feds contend that Kadish’s case has ties to the matter of the convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. (1) In 1986, Pollard got a (…)

2008 Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader responds to a question from the audience about the Russia/Georgia conflict. Excerpted from the Open the Debates super rally in Minneapolis on September 4, 2008.

Video: Five Arrested at the White House
Five activists protesting the injustice of the “Cuban Five” case, on Sept. 12, 2008, were arrested, around noon today, outside the White House. When the police ordered them not to cross a “police line,” set up arbitrarily on the sidewalk, they refused to comply in an act of civil disobedience. Prior to the arrests, a rally was held on the street, (just north of the White House). It was sponsored by the “National Committee to Free the Cuban Five.” (…)

The Federal Reserve’s War Against the Human Race
September 9, 2008
by Joe Schembrie
American foreign policy is corrupted by a powerful influence so arrogantly reckless it endangers the human race. This influence isn’t Big Oil or Zionism, which are merely tools of the real power. The real power that controls US foreign policy is Big Money – the central banking institution known as the Federal Reserve System.
The ultimate in corporate welfare, the Fed is a government-supported banking (…)