A recent Investors.com online editorial, "Finding Friends On the Far, Far Left," of August 20, 2008, provides a welcome opportunity for PoliticalAffairs.net to remind our readers of where we stand on the hot-button issues in this election.

Just three days after a pulling a billboard ad produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) from the Minneapolis airport for being "scary" and "anti-McCain," the media company, Clear Channel Communications, removed a second anti-nuclear weapons billboard from the Denver International Airport.

A newly released TV ad from the Obama campaign links John McCain's personal wealth and privilege to his fundamental misunderstanding about the economic realities working families face.

The Bolivian government condemned roadblocks put up by the opposition in Pando, Beni and Santa Cruz to protest President Evo Morales's plans to redistribute natural gas revenues.

Two major labor organizations, the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) teamed up with Brave New Films this week to promote a new video titled "McCain's Mansions: The Real Elitist," which links John McCain's personal wealth to his basic misunderstandings of the economic crisis facing working families.

Charging multinational retail giant Wal-Mart with illegally pressuring employees to vote for Republicans and John McCain in the the November 4th elections, the labor movement and community organizations filed a formal complaint this week with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC).

On taxes, major media outlets again took McCain to task for misleading the public about Obama's plan to cut taxes for working families. In his TV spots, McCain claimed that Obama wants to "raise your taxes" and falsely stated the tax burden would fall on middle-income families.

The truth about John McCain is not very pretty. You can start with the Iraq War, when he made the flippant comment that “as far as I’m concerned, we could be in there for 100 years.” The peace movement has been fighting for a timeline.

Most Americans understand that the 2000 presidential election was decided by five Republican Supreme Court Justices rather than voters. Many are suspicious that something fishy happened in Ohio in 2004 under the auspices of former Republican Secretary of State Ken Blackwell.

On Sunday, August 10, Bolivia held a national referendum to measure the people’s confidence in President Evo Morales as well as the political viability of eight of the county’s nine prefects (departmental governors).

The Venezuelan government congratulated Bolivian President Evo Morales for a successful national referendum Sunday in which Morales’s presidency was ratified by a record 63.1 percent of the vote.

More than 90 percent of the voters in the seven Mexican states that participated on Sunday in the second stage of the referendum on oil in Mexico, rejected privatization of PEMEX, the country's publicly-owned oil company.

The American nation has an excellent opportunity to change the nature of politics in our country this year. We have a real chance to build lasting alliances that will re-define the political landscape at every level of government and permit us to take back our government by the average citizen.

A 7/31/08 report by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) shows even the most token coverage of the impeachment hearings as receiving no respect: “CNN's Election Center program devoted a July 25 report to mocking a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee investigating White House abuses of power....

Daily blogs at the AFL-CIO's site that expose McCain's plan to continue George W. Bush's policies on outsourcing jobs, an unending occupation of Iraq, privatizing Social Security, taxing health care benefits, and more oil drilling combine with the McCain Revealed campaign and the Meet Barack Obama to help educate union members and their families on the issues.

Since the first detainees were transferred there from Afghanistan on January 11, 2002, Guantanamo Bay has become the most notorious prison on earth.

Union activists affiliated with the WakeUpWalMart.com campaign circulated a petition this week via e-mail demanding the Federal Election Commission investigate whether Wal-Mart has violated federal election laws.

Critics of US politics often cite low voter participation as a sign of political backwardness, massive alienation from the process, and the lack of an appeal by the major party platforms to ordinary working Americans. Barack Obama wants to change all that.

Corporate media have been absurdly receptive to the McCain campaign's charge that Barack Obama "played the race card" by predicting that his opponents in the presidential race would try to use his race against him.

Yesterday morning, following a massive protest in Washington, D.C., George Bush resigned from his post as President of the United States of America. Though several major media outlets have claimed the resignation was a response to the public’s call for his resignation...