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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
The Crash of 2007-8, How Far Will It Go?
(2 comments) Richard C. Cook explains why the current chain reaction of bursting economic bubbles is the inevitable result of the FED's trickle-down supply-side economic policy. He predicts a deepening recession, and describes who will suffer, who benefits, and what the FED will do to try engineer a temporary recovery before the 2008 election. He also suggests long lasting solutions through fundamental structural and policy reform.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Democratic Doublespeak on Iraq
Ira Chernus raises crucial questions about the underlying foreign policy assumptions and goals of the Democratic candidates and the foreign policy elite. Although they may squabble over tactics, both major parties ultimately share the same goals, namely, the seventy-year-old drive for imperial hegemony. It's those goals that should be addressed. Unfortunately, the leading Democratic candidates aren't about go there.

Sunday, July 22, 2007
Impeach Now! Or face end of Constitutional Democracy
(2 comments) "Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran..." An urgent warning by Paul Craig Roberts, a man who knows about the inner workings of government. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review.

Friday, June 15, 2007
Venezuela: Battle over Media is about Race and Class
(1 comments) The protests in Venezuela are motivated by more than a TV station. The oligarchy fears it is losing its right to run the country. "Ostensibly the argument is about the media" writes Richard Gott, of The Guardian. Yet, "The debate in Venezuela has less to do with the alleged absence of freedom of expression than with a perennially tricky issue locally referred to as "exclusion", a shorthand term for "race" and "racism".

Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Funding and Crying: Why the Dems Capitulated
(1 comments) "Dems lack a coherent vision and ideology from which they could derive strength of purpose that would provide the foundation on which they could easily develop a moral backbone to fight for what they believe in," writes Rabbi Michael Lerner, co-chair of the Network of Spiritual Progressives.