Online Tax Calculator Shows Benefits of Obama Plan
Taxes have emerged as an issue in the 2008 presidential race, with John McCain charging Barack Obama with planning to raise taxes, despite the Obama campaign's pledge to reduce taxes for 95 percent of working families.
Make Every Effort to Achieve Peace in Afghanistan
Seven years have elapsed since the United States started its war of retaliation against Afghanistan. With turmoil growing in the Afghan situation, there is a widespread view in the United Nations and countries that keep ground troops there that military means cannot resolve the conflict.
40 Years Ago Today: Why the Smith and Carlos Legacy Lingers
It lasted for only as long as it took to play the National Anthem, and yet it's lasted for four decades. The image of Tommie Smith and John Carlos, their black-gloved fists raised to the heavens on October 16th, 1968 at the Mexico City Olympics, has somehow grown in power over the last 40 years.
The Capitalist Crisis and Credit (2008)
We can expect that the recent oft reported suggestions that there are going to be schemes to regulate remuneration for future bank executives is probably in grave danger, even while such schemes are only glints in the eye of the government.
McCain and 'Alternate Fuels': Fact Checking the Debate
For the second straight presidential debate, John McCain delivered a confused and misleading picture of his position on renewable energy sources. In the Oct. 15th debate, McCain said, 'So the point is, with nuclear power, with wind, tide, solar, natural gas, with the development of flex fuel, hybrid, clean coal technology...
Presidential Debate Fact Check: McCain's Big Bank Bailout
Exactly one month after the Wall Street meltdown, after weeks of pretending the 'fundamentals of the economy are strong,' John McCain finally offered a plan on resolving the crisis.
Russia Wary of NATO’s Eastward Expansion
Ever since America gained Georgia via the Rose Revolution in 2003, and then cemented her influence in parts of Ukraine through the Orange Revolution in 2004, Russia’s antagonism towards American influence in the post-Soviet space has grown immensely.
Revising the Social Contract
A few points from the the continuing economic crisis. The Bush administration, tailing the major European governments injection of hundreds of billions of euros into their banking systems, has a plan to inject $250 billion into the system.
Taxpayers and the True Price of Oil
The US government spends as much as $215 billion each year on military action globally to defend Big Oil's access to petroleum reserves around the globe in order to feed our addiction to oil, according to a new analysis published this week by the National Priorities Project.
Using Polls to Mislead the Public
In the fifth chapter of his book, The Opinion Makers, David W. Moore explains why so many polls contradict each other and generally misrepresent what people actually think about major policy issues.
