Monday articles

Written by: Gerry L on Dec 1, 2008 8:12 AM EST

Monday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ December 1st,  2008

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So Much for Letting the Free Market Rule

by Joseph L. Galloway

Hear that humming sound? That's the printing presses at the United States Treasury running 24 hours a day, seven days a week, churning out an ocean of green paper to bail out the billionaire bankers, brokers and assorted brigands who are responsible for the economic disaster that's befallen us.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/11/30-1

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Deficits and the Future

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/opinion/01krugman.html?_r=1&hp

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Thanks to Maddi in Dayton for this.

What to Do

by: Paul Krugman, New York Review of Books

http://www.truthout.org/113008Y

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With economy souring, illegal immigrants going home

http://www.miamiherald.com/457/story/792869.html

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Debunking The Myth of the $70-per-hour Autoworker
By Jonathan Cohn

" New Republic " ---- If you've been following the auto industry's crisis, then you've probably read or heard a lot about overpaid American autoworkers--in particular, the fact that the average hourly employee of the Big Three makes $70 per hour.

That's an awful lot of money. Seventy dollars an hour in wages works out to almost $150,000 a year in gross income, if you assume a forty-hour work week. Is it any wonder the Big Three are in trouble? And with auto workers making so much, why should taxpayers--many of whom make far less--finance a plan to bail them out?

Well, here's one reason: The figure is wildly misleading. 

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21353.htm

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Obama’s First Problem is US War Crimes
The president-elect has to take a stand on Bush’s dark legacy
By Andrew Sullivan

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21356.htm

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Another Take

Neal Gabler in the LAT ...

The GOP's McCarthy gene

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-gabler30-2008nov30,0,1009632.story

courtesy of Talking Points Memo:

But there is another rendition of the story of modern conservatism, one that doesn't begin with Goldwater and doesn't celebrate his libertarian orientation. It is a less heroic story, and one that may go a much longer way toward really explaining the Republican Party's past electoral fortunes and its future. In this tale, the real father of modern Republicanism is Sen. Joe McCarthy, and the line doesn't run from Goldwater to Reagan to George W. Bush; it runs from McCarthy to Nixon to Bush and possibly now to Sarah Palin. It centralizes what one might call the McCarthy gene, something deep in the DNA of the Republican Party that determines how Republicans run for office, and because it is genetic, it isn't likely to be expunged any time soon.

--Josh Marshall

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

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With Gates, Obama Opts for Empire

Matthew Rothschild-The Progressive

Barack Obama’s got a big problem.

He’s suckered himself into believing that we need a bipartisan foreign and military policy.

http://www.progressive.org/mag/wx112608.html

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Is he dead???  Just politically…

Remembering David Iglesias

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/37992

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‘laying mine fields to sabotage the new administration’

Transition or Coup D'état?

http://www.truthout.org/113008B

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Military Troops to Bolster Domestic Security

Pentagon plans to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the U.S. by 2011 to help state and local officials respond to a domestic catastrophe.

Spencer S. Hsu and Ann Scott Tyson

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113002217.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR

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Try Tough Love, Hillary

By Roger Cohen

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/opinion/01cohen.html?hp

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from and about ‘over there’

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Kafka has a rival. Today, the Foreign Office lectures us on human rights

John Pilger

Such an open day beggars belief. At this PR gala you will find no stall for the victims of rapacious British power

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/01/foreign-office-human-rights

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FAREED ZAKARIA GPS

Interview With Ratan Tata

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0811/30/fzgps.01.html

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N.Y.Times Editorial

The Horror in Mumbay

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/opinion/01mon1.html?hp

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very interesting….

Juan Cole:  Informed Comment

Pakistani Reaganism Must End: The New Government must take on the Lashkar

Leaks to the Indian press by security officials in charge of interrogating the captured terrorist, Ajmal Amir Kamal (or Qasab?) are fleshing out the background of the attack on Mumbai and clarifying the evidence that it was an operation of the Lashkar-e Tayiba [the "Army of the Good"].

The Indian counterpart of the CIA, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), intercepted a cell phone call on November 18 to a number in Lahore, Pakistan, known to be that of a Lashkar-i Tayiba handler, saying that the caller was heading to Mumbai. They later found the phone itself on a hijacked Indian fishing boat, which the attackers had taken over to camouflage their approach to the port.

http://www.juancole.com/

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Signs Of An Attempted Coup In New Delhi

http://www.daily.pk/politics/politicalnews/8391-signs-of-an-attempted-coup-in-new-delhi.html

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Israel alarmed by EU bid to reopen Orient House as part peace plan

Barak Ravid

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1042316.html

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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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