Thursday choices

Written by: Gerry L on Dec 4, 2008 5:52 AM EST

Thursday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ December 4th,  2008

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Saving the Big 3 for You and Me...

A Message From Michael Moore

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/03

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U.A.W. Makes Concessions in Bid to Help Automakers

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/business/04auto.html?hp

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Critical Issues Not Addressed in Bailout: GAO

http://www.truthout.org/120308T

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Treasury Weighs Action on Mortgage Rates

Intervention Would Aim to Buoy the Housing Market by Forcing Down the Cost of Loans

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/03/AR2008120302889.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR

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Our Stampede Mentality

by John Young

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/03-5

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Untold Story of Election 2008: The Death of the NRA

By Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/109841/

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He's Baaaaack! Holbrooke, that is.

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/387629/he_s_baaaaack_holbrooke_that_is?rel=hp_currently

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How Many Americans Died Because of Bush’s Torture Program?

By Scott Horton

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21372.htm

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Attorney Scott Horton on "Justice After Bush: Prosecuting an Outlaw Administration"

We speak with Scott Horton, an attorney specializing in international law and human rights. He is also a legal affairs contributor to Harper’s magazine, where he has the cover story in the latest issue, called “Justice After Bush: Prosecuting an Outlaw Administration.” We also speak with Horton about Eric Holder, President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for attorney general. [includes rush transcript]

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/3/attorney_scott_horton_on_justice_after

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The Defense Budget as Hamburger Stand

What's Wrong with the U.S. Military

By ANDREW COCKBURN

Coinciding with the arrival of Obama and his deputies in Washington, the Center for Defense Information is releasing “America’s Defense Meltdown -- Pentagon Reform for President Obama and the New Congress,” a primer on what is wrong with our defense system written by men with long and honorable experience in the bowels of the military services and Pentagon bureaucracy. The book’s editor, Winslow Wheeler is familiar to readers of this site for his acrid and knowledgeable  commentaries on the defense establishment. CounterPuncher Andrew Cockburn interviews him about the book and its message.

http://www.counterpunch.org/

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A Court for a New America

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/opinion/04Cohen.html?ref=opinion

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More War; More Terror

The Mythology of the War on Terrorism

By WILLIAM BLUM

http://www.counterpunch.org/blum12022008.html

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Rachel Maddow speaks with Joe Cirincione…

(President of  the Ploughshares Fund…)

Discuss Nuclear Proliferation and Obama’s potential  “ Czar to stop a Nuclear or Biological Attach”..

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#28042433

and

check out the Ploushares Fund website…

http://www.ploughshares.org/

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from and about ‘over there’

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A toxic legacy

One of the first problems Barack Obama will have to address when he takes office is Guantánamo. What fate awaits its inmates - and how disastrous are the long-term effects of its very existence, asks Julian Borger

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/04/guantanamo-obama-white-house

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Afghanistan Signs Cluster Bomb Treaty

By WALTER GIBBS and KIRK SEMPLE 1:10 AM ET

In a surprising reversal, the government of Afghanistan signed a treaty that the U.S. has rejected.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/world/04cluster.html?ref=world

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Juan Cole:  Informed Comment

• Al-Maliki Refuses to Disband Councils;
  Talabani Invokes Constitutional Court;
  Basra Province Protests Iraqi Army

http://www.juancole.com/

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Mumbai Attacks: Piecing Together the Story

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21378.htm

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Mumbai: Where Are the 14 Other Pakistani-Trained Terrorists?

Captured gunman says only 10 of 24 were sent to Mumbai; Concern for New Delhi.

http://www.truthout.org/120308S

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Somalia: Another CIA-Backed Coup Blows Up
By Mike Whitney

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21375.htm

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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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