what caught my eye this Sunday...

Written by: Gerry L on Nov 23, 2008 9:09 AM EST

Sunday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ November 23rd,  2008

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N.Y.Times Editorial

The Price of Our Good Name

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/opinion/23sun1-1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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Just the name Geithner made stocks soar. Why?

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/politics/story/56324.html

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Obama Plans to Create 2.5 Million New Jobs by 2011

by: Agency France-Presse

http://www.truthout.org/112208A

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Change Is Landing in Old Hands

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/weekinreview/23harwood.html?hp

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Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone

by David Sirota

If you're having trouble remembering what the recent election was all about, rest easy: you're probably not going senile - you're likely experiencing the momentary effects of brainwashing. For weeks, your television, newspaper and radio have been telling you America is a "center-right nation" that elected Barack Obama to crush his fellow "socialist" hippies, discard the agenda he campaigned on, and meet the policy demands of electorally humiliated Republicans.

This is the usual post-election nonsense from the Braindead Megaphone, as author George Saunders famously calls our political and media noise machine. When George W. Bush wins by 3 million votes, the megaphone blares announcements about a conservative mandate that Democrats must respect. When Obama wins by twice as much, the same megaphone roars about Democrats having no mandate to do anything other than appease conservatives.

It's confusing, isn't it?

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/11/21-0

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Commentary: Kentucky gov. offers responsible approach to coal

http://www.kentucky.com/591/story/600309.html

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Housing is bad enough, but wait — it'll get worse

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/200/story/56241.html

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Beaten, Tortured and Sentenced 25-to-Life for Minor Drug Offense

By Randy Credico, Huffington Post
"Woe to those who make unjust laws,

to those who issue oppressive decrees,

to deprive the poor of their rights,

and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people"

- Isaiah 10:1

http://www.alternet.org/story/108021/

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Theater of War: Portrait of a Homeland Security State [Photo Slideshow Included]

By Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet
 Nina Berman is an award-winning documentary photographer with a keen interest in America's social and political landscape. Her first book, Purple Hearts: Back From Iraq, is a collection of portraits and interviews of wounded soldiers who have returned home. Her photograph of a severely disfigured Iraq veteran and his bride on their wedding day won the World Press Photo competition for portraiture in 2006.

Berman's new book, Homeland, depicts the evolution of the "American security state" from 2001 to 2007. Berman traveled around the country, photographing gun shows, SWAT team training, a public military academy for juvenile delinquents and endless drills and simulations designed to prepare Americans of all ages to respond to someone's idea of a terrorist attack. Berman began the project after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

http://www.alternet.org/story/107800/

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Police Spy on Climate Activist While Global Warming Goes Unarrested

Police spied on activist Mike Tidwell for months as a 'suspected terrorist'.

by Mike Tidwell

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/11/22

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Gates and the Urge to Surge
Maneuvering to keep his job, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is applying the politically popular word "surge" to Barack Obama's position on Afghanistan, notes ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/112308a.html

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SOA Watch: Protest Could Be Celebration

by Tim Chitwood

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/11/22

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from and about ‘over there’

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Professor Cole RANTS today….

Bush and Rant on Red Sea Piracy

Piracy by Somali pirates in the Red Sea region threatens to reduce world trade through the Suez Canal by about a third, and could raise petroleum prices again if the supertankers all have to go around the Cape of Good Hope to Europe.

Wouldn't it be in part the duty of President Bush and the US Navy to make sure there is security on the high seas?
I haven't seen that Bush ever did anything about the problem.
But he didn't hesitate to send two aircraft carriers at once into the Persian Gulf, just to tweak the Iranians.
Bush was like some yahoo on Dukes of Hazzard--

http://www.juancole.com/

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Ringed by Foes, Pakistanis Fear the U.S., Too

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/world/asia/23pstan.html?hp

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Afghans to Obama: End the Occupation

by Sonali Kolhatkar

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/11/22-5

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Kurds in N. Iraq Receive Arms From Bulgaria

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/22/AR2008112202297.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR

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Frankenstein in Mesopotamia

by Tom Hayden

The pact being negotiated between the US and Baghdad governments includes a direct rebuff to president-elect Barack Obama's promised policy of withdrawing American combat troops in 16-18 months. The pact instead would leave those troops in place until the end of 2011, a doubling of the timeline to which Obama pledged himself. But that's not all.

The most important things, some say, are the things left unsaid. If so, the unmentionable thing would be the police state America is leaving behind in Baghdad.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/11/22-0

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Iraqi Oil Ministry and Shell Oil Secret Agreement Leaked

http://www.al-ghad.org/2008/11/22/shell-iraq-oil-agreement/

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US to activate anti-missile radar in Israel next month

http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2008/11/22/us_to_activate_antimissile_radar_in_israel_next_month/afp/

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Venezuela set for 'critical' vote

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7744400.stm

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Peace and Solidarity

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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Attributed to George Orwell

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