What John McCain Doesn't Get: Change is on the American Mind
People are ready for a big change away from Bush-McCain politics, according to a new article from Yes! Magazine, titled 'Our Own Agenda: 10 Policies for a Better America,' which compiles the results of a number of polls and surveys on a host of issues.
Book Review: Bracing for Armageddon
Bracing for Armageddon is an insightful well documented history of the myth and business of “civil defense.” Civil defense gave us installment plan bomb shelters, highways to evacuate cities, Reagan’s “Star Wars” continental civil defense in outer space, and the present recycled Reagan policies of the Bush administration.
Book Review: Racing the Enemy
The end of the Second World War with Japan is a story of the clashes of three empires – the struggling Soviets, the decline of the Japanese, and the ascendancy of the American. The common media perception is that the use of the atomic bombs ended the war...
The Erratic Blockade of Cuba
'For almost half a century, the United States has imposed a trade embargo against Cuba. And yet it sometimes seems barely visible,' says an article published Aug. 14, 2008, in the printed edition of the British weekly The Economist.
The Media Just Love, Love, Love John McCain
The corporate media got caught this week carrying water for the McCain campaign. According to ABC News, media pundits, talk shows, and 'news' shows have given free coverage to McCain campaign videos that the campaign falsely billed as TV ads criticizing Barack Obama.
Iraq's Al-Maliki: A Thorn in the Side of the Bush-McCain War Policy
Just after the Bush administration prematurely announced a new occupation agreement with the Iraqi government, that included the movement of US troops out of some Iraqi cities, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki this week insisted again that any new agreement must include a timetable for withdrawal.
US Working Families under Republicans: Working Harder, Sinking Faster
According to the latest Census Bureau data released just this week, since the last economic recession in 2001, 4.4 million more people have been added to the poverty rolls. More than one and a half million of them have been children.
Hillary Clinton: 'the reasons I support Barack Obama'
His speech didn't make prime time TV from the Democratic National Convention, but his story and the promise of how his story could be changed did. Robin Golden is a UAW member who is losing his job as an inspector at Lear Corp., an auto supplier based in Michigan.
McCain Campaign Fabricates 'Citizens for McCain'
The latest McCain campaign screw-up is more interesting because of how it reveals who's behind the campaign to split Democrats between Clinton supporters and the rest of the party – a campaign that, although it is pure invention and tiny, the corporate media has been all too willing to help promote.
McCain Distorts Tax and Health Care Issues
A recent TV ad by the McCain campaign titled 'Debra' appears to be suggesting that not only is John McCain a 'maverick,' but that he is also more like Hillary Clinton than George W. Bush.
