Licensed Kleptocracy for Years to Come
The ABCs of Paulson's Bailout
By Michael Hudson
Wall Street is in control, but its policies are so shortsighted
that they are eroding the underlying economy - which is passing from democracy
to oligarchy, and indeed it seems to a bipartisan financial kleptocracy.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21066.htm
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What Went Wrong in the Capitalist Casino?
By Tony Benn
What we are watching is nothing less than the steady transfer
of real political power from the polling station to the market and from the
ballot to the wallet - reversing the democratic gains we have made over the
last century when we were able, increasingly, to use our votes to shape our
economic future.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21062.htm
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Why Wont The Bail Out Work?
This is a MUST SEE 7 Minute Video
Voters are rightly furious at the proposal to spend
$700,000,000,000 that the government doesn't have to bail out Wall Street
bankers who created the current economic crisis in the first place. But why
then aren't we concerned about the trillions of dollars the Federal Reserve is
pumping into the system? Or the trillions missing from the Pentagon? Or the
quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21071.htm
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Chomsky: The Bewildered Herd
8 Minute Video
Noam Chomsky: People should vote against McCain and for Obama -
but without illusions
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21067.htm
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How Should You Vote?
Defining a new framework for electoral strategy in America.
By Jeremy R. Hammond
The "we have to ensure the greater evil doesn't gain power"
mindset wins out over "we have to ensure the best candidate wins". But, of
course, strict adherence to this electoral strategy can only result in the
self-perpetuation of the same political process they they are so disillusioned
with in the first place.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21070.htm
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Cynthia McKinney - Vote Your Values - Not Your Fears
One Minute Video
Vote Your Values and you can get the leadership that reflects
those values.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21063.htm
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The Grand Illusion of American Power
By H.D.S. Greeway
"We have a choice," said Donald Rumsfeld in September, 2001.
Either we change the way we live, "which is unacceptable," or we "change the
way they live, and we chose the latter. "
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21069.htm
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Tractatus Logico Palestinicus
By Gilad Atzmon
1.1 Humanism and ethics are ends worth fighting for. 1.2
Western politics and political discourse (on the other hand) are concerned with
power and hegemony. 1.3 Hence, humanism and ethics are foreign to the Western
political discourse and vice versa. 2 The Palestinian liberation struggle is
grounded on humanist and ethical arguments since it is based on moral rights,
namely 'the right of return' and 'liberation'.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21068.htm
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The world's next oil superpower? Brazil: -
Four miles under the ocean's surface off Brazil's lush coast
lie billions of barrels of recently discovered light crude -- a treasure that
could transform the country into an oil superpower.
http://tinyurl.com/6lb9yt
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UK: Big Brother database threatens to 'break the back of
freedom':
Government plans to build a giant database holding information
about every phone call, email and internet visit were last night dealt a major
blow after the man in charge of prosecuting terrorism in England and Wales
warned of the dangers posed by a "Big Brother" security state.
http://tinyurl.com/5z2vo5
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The torture time bomb:
The Bush administration's approval of the abuse of detainees is
a toxic legacy for the next US president
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/18/renditon-usa-georgebush
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BOB HERBERT: The Real Scandal:
Can a rancid Congressional committee be far behind? Leave it to
a right-wing Republican to long for those sunny, bygone days of political
witch-hunting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/opinion/21herbert.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
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Bill Moyers: Will Your Vote Be Counted?
Video - Bill Moyers sits down with Mark Crispin Miller,
professor of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU, who has been following
voter fraud allegations in his blog News from the Underground. An expert on
propaganda and media, Miller's book LOSER TAKES ALL is an anthology of writings
covering election fraud.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10172008/watch3.html
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Naomi Wolf, The End of America:
"My sense of alarm comes from the clear lessons from history
that, once certain checks and balances are destroyed, and once certain
institutions have been intimidated, the pressures that can turn an open society
into a closed one turn into direct assaults; at that point events tend to occur
very rapidly, and a point comes at which there is no easy turning back to the
way it used to be."
http://www.myamericaproject.org/
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Islamic banking escapes fallout:
ISLAMIC banking has largely escaped the fallout from the
global financial crisis, thanks to rules that forbid the sort of risky business
that is felling mainstream institutions.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Money/Story/STIStory_292658.html
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Layoffs spreading across corporate America:
Shock waves from the global financial crisis are now being felt
in almost every corner of working America as companies press the eject button
on increasing numbers of employees.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE49G5N420081017
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Homeless numbers 'alarming':
More families with children are becoming homeless as they face
mounting economic pressures, including mortgage foreclosures, according to a
USA TODAY survey of a dozen of the largest cities in the nation.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-10-21-homeless_N.htm
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