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Elections & Voting
Stop obliterating yourself!
By Reza Fiyouzat
If it was unclear to most American observers of the
U.S. presidential elections, it was clear to most Middle Easterners, of whom I
am one. I am talking about the recently solved mystery about what one
Democratic candidate, Hilary Clinton, would ultimately be willing to do to us
Middle Easterners of the Iranian variety, if elected.
May 6, 2008, 00:18
Elections & Voting
Man overboard! Obama Wrights-off a drowning friend
By Mike Whitney
Obama is "outraged."
May 2, 2008, 00:20
Elections & Voting
Affirmative action for capitalism
By Frank Scott
In November of 2008, an endless and disgracefully
expensive campaign will end with the selection of a new president of the United
States. We can safely assume that person will continue representing and working
to sustain the menace the above quoted presidents criticize and urge ending:
capitalism.
May 2, 2008, 00:14
Elections & Voting
John McCain won’t be looking for the union label
By Walter Brasch
Don’t expect any labor union to endorse John McCain
for president in the general election. The wounds from the Bush–Cheney
administration are just too deep. Their reasons aren’t because of social
justice issues that once pervaded the labor movement, but on bread-and-butter
issues that have dominated unions the past five decades.
May 2, 2008, 00:12
Elections & Voting
Did the US Supreme Court just elect John McCain?
By Bob Fitrakis
& Harvey Wasserman
The US Supreme Court has just dealt a serious blow to
voters' rights that could help put John McCain in the White House by
eliminating tens of thousands of voters who generally vote Democratic.
May 1, 2008, 00:18
Elections & Voting
Fastened to a dying animal: A jeremiad regarding that affront to the nation's dignity known as the US election process
By Phil Rockstroh
Here in this crumbling empire once known as the
American republic, here in a nation that, at present, for all practical
purposes, only produces Cheetos and killer drones, whose architecture is being
winnowed down to thriving rural meth houses and foreclosed upon suburban
McHouses, whose corrupt corporate culture has bequeathed upon our suffering
planet dying oceans and the hyper-caffeinated tsunami of Red Bull Capitalism --
the essential question confronts us -- how does one retain (not retail) one's
humanity amid the catastrophic machinery and inane accouterment of our age?
Apr 30, 2008, 00:20
Elections & Voting
Wright delivers the knockout punch
By Mike Whitney
Reverend Jeremiah Wright appeared on PBS Bill Moyers
Journal last Friday night and delivered a knockout punch to the bully-boys in
the corporate media.
Apr 30, 2008, 00:12
Elections & Voting
Riding the warhorse: Introducing President McCain
By Missy Comley Beattie
First, allow your brain to conceive of John
Sidney McCain as president of the United States. Then, form in your mouth the
proper noun, President John McCain, and let it roll off your tongue into the
room and ears of those nearby. Practice it because it is what you will be
saying when George Bush leaves office although you will know that George and
John are one and the same. President John McCain.
Apr 28, 2008, 00:14
Elections & Voting
Coming to your town -- but only until Tuesday -- a Clinton
By Walter Brasch
The Clintons are patrolling Pennsylvania as if they’re
border collies herding all the stray sheep into the flock.
Apr 21, 2008, 00:14
Elections & Voting
The political leanings of white-skinned mutants
By Kerry Tomasi
One of the more interesting books I've read recently
is "Survival of the Sickest" by Dr. Sharon Moalem. The book explores
various maladies and adaptations that exist within modern humans, and proposes
various hypotheses, based on scientific studies, to explain what evolutionary
pressures may have led to things like diabetes, hemochromatosis, and high blood
pressure. The mechanism by which evolutionary pressure becomes adaptation is
through the hypermutation of genes known as transposons, or "jumping
genes," which scientists studying the human genome have determined make up
a significant percentage of our DNA.
Apr 18, 2008, 00:14
Elections & Voting
Is the Hillary Clinton campaign being deliberately sunk?
By F. William Engdahl
American presidential politics are at best a cynical
business. The outcome is typically determined, at least since the ill-fated
campaign of George McGovern in 1972, by major corporate lobbyists and
behind-the-scenes money interests who have little interest in national issues
other than their own. Now, with the sudden departure of Hillary Clinton’s main
campaign strategist, Mark Penn, it is clear that the powerful interests
originally backing Clinton have decided to end the game with her.
Apr 16, 2008, 00:18
Elections & Voting
Political log rolling in Clinton country
By Walter Brasch
It was just an old-fashioned case of political log
rolling. In this case, the Clinton campaign approached a Democratic county
commissioner and held up a political carrot -- if the commissioner, the only
Democrat of the three commissioners, would endorse Sen. Hillary Clinton for the
Democratic presidential nomination, they would do their best to provide
President Bill Clinton as a speaker in the commissioner’s county.
Apr 16, 2008, 00:10
Elections & Voting
Decline of the party power system and the catalysts for change
By
Dan Lieberman
The present presidential primaries have an overlooked
feature; people power is taking precedence over party power.
Apr 15, 2008, 00:14
Elections & Voting
McCan't
By Missy Comley Beattie
I
required an antiemetic to watch John McCain speak from the balcony of the
Memphis motel where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. McCain's
pandering performance reminded me of George Bush's theatrics on the USS Abraham
Lincoln under a "Mission Accomplished" banner less than two months
after the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. It's called staging.
Apr 8, 2008, 00:13
Elections & Voting
Bowling in hell
By Reza Fiyouzat
Since just about everything being promised on the
presidential campaign trail will not be lived up to, why not have the
Democratic candidates at least do something positive? Like, bowl! Stop boring
us to death!
Apr 3, 2008, 00:36
Elections & Voting
Progressives for Pinochet
By Mickey Z.
All American progressives should unite for Augusto
Pinochet. Sure, I know so many of you Progressives for Obama are
incredibly busy with the urgent task of pretending that a certain multi-racial
motivational speaker is Frederick Douglass reincarnated . . . but, trust me,
Augusto Pinochet (a.k.a. “A-Pin”) is the real deal.
Apr 3, 2008, 00:34
Elections & Voting
One of 'Keating Five' wants to be president?
By Mike Mathiesen
The American people must have the shortest memories on
the planet. It seems like yesterday to me that I read about the Keating Five
and John McCain's involvement in the scandal.
Apr 1, 2008, 00:32
Elections & Voting
Hope, change, and pissing in the wind: Of Obama, Democrats, and the power elite
By Patrice Greanville and
Jason Miller
Charismatic, articulate, smooth, and intelligent,
Barrack Obama is the living embodiment of his vague, ethereal, and tantalizing
messages of “hope” and “change.” To the millions upon millions of US Americans
desperate to purge the naked imperialism and blatant criminality of the Bush
administration from the White House, Obama IS hope and change. Yet like many
establishment liberals before him, Obama is no cure for the malignant creep
toward fascism plaguing our nation. If elected, at best he will merely serve to
postpone the inevitable a bit.
Mar 24, 2008, 00:46
Elections & Voting
Ex-US attorney cites GOP voter abuse
By Jason Leopold
The Justice Department issued a directive to every
U.S. attorney in the country to find and prosecute cases of voter fraud in
their states during the height of hotly contested elections in 2002, 2004, and
2006, even though evidence of such abuses was extremely thin or nonexistent, a
former federal prosecutor says in a new book.
Mar 19, 2008, 00:26
Elections & Voting
Did Republicans give Hillary her victory in Ohio?
By Bob Fitrakis
& Harvey Wasserman
Hilary Clinton's larger-than-expected victory in Ohio
may have been won with votes from Republicans, and from independents who
usually vote Republican.
Mar 11, 2008, 00:44
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