some Sunday articles

Written by: Gerry L on Oct 5, 2008 8:38 AM EDT

Sunday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ October 5th,  2008

=========================================

 

NO EXIT

By Daniel Lazare

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081020/lazare

=========================================

N.Y.TIMES Editorial

Meanwhile, in the Economy

After the Senate approved the $700 billion bank bailout, the majority leader, Harry Reid, tried to persuade his colleagues to address another economic calamity before they left town for the long election recess. He urged them to extend unemployment benefits for 800,000 jobless Americans.

In the face of Republican opposition, the measure failed. Benefits start expiring this week. So much for Main Street.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/opinion/05sun1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

=============

Creatures of Capital

By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

http://www.counterpunch.org/

 

==============

 

Let the Rich Bail Them Out

Bernie Sanders

http://www.truthout.org/100208J

 

=========================================

 

Tomgram: Steve Fraser, Wall Street and the Return of the Repressed

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174984

 

=========================================

 

Palin makes Obama terrorist claim

Palin tells donors that Obama's association with Bill Ayers, founder of leftwing Weather Underground group, is 'palling around with terrorists'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/05/usa.uselections2008

 

=========================================

 

Pitbull Palin Mauls McCain

By Frank Rich

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/opinion/05rich.html?hp

 

==============

 

Gee, I wish we'd end our love affair with this folksy liability

Patricia Williams

~~~~

At least as distracting are the polarities jumbling American political discourse: i.e. not just good versus evil, male versus female, black versus white, but eastern elitism versus western frontier spirit; secular humanism versus speaking-in-tongues theocracy; scientism versus creationism; 'tolerance' versus equal rights; ultra-libertarianism versus civic engagement.

The Republicans' best operatives have been playing these tensions against each other for decades. Against the backdrop of such a frighteningly incoherent cultural landscape, Sarah Palin plays Mom. She speaks to us in a wipe-your-nose and sit-up-straight inflection that is quite Orwellian - if Orwell had anticipated that newspeak might come packaged as old-fashioned-country-horse-sense speak.

And so we love her, Mother Sarah. She's simple, she's pretty, she's as fierce as a tiger protecting her cubs. So what if storms are rattling the windowpanes? We get a glass of warm milk and a big gold

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/05/uselections2008.sarahpalin

 

==============

 

‘SNL’ Spoofs the VP Debate

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20081005_snl_spoofs_the_vp_debate/

 

=========================================

 

Roger Ebert REVIEWS

Free for All

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081002/REVIEWS/810049997/1023

 

=========================================

 

Forwarding with thanks to Marci…

http://www.voteforchange.com/

With the deadline for many states' voter registration fast
approaching, I'm posting this once more.

http://www.voteforchange.com/ will allow you to register to vote and
tell you where your polling place is. This website was set up through
the Obama campaign.

http://www.declareyourself.com/voting_faq/state_by_state_info_2.html

 

========================================

 

HEALTHCARE n o t  warfare ~ (sign the petition!)

http://pdamerica.org/articles/misc/2008-02-29-14-19-42-misc.php

 

=========================================

 

The Communist Manifesto Turns 160

by Barbara Ehrenreich

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/04-3

 

=========================================

 

New, controversial FBI guidelines go into effect

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hP_LBcTEJD1GJG_ScYfk20kl0bPw

~~~~

ACLU Condemns New FBI Guidelines

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/37031prs20081003.html

 

=========================================

 

Prosecutors seek to reverse war court sentence

By Carol Rosenberg | Miami Herald

Pentagon prosecutors are asking a military judge to reverse himself and reassemble the jury that convicted Osama bin Laden's driver at Guantanamo, seeking to overturn a sentence that could make the first war court convict eligible for release by New Year's Eve.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/712326.html

 

=========================================

 

Chomsky: "If the U.S. Carries Out Terrorism, It Did Not Happen"

By Subrata Ghoshroy, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/101530/

 

=========================================

from and about ‘over there’

=========================================

 

Europe calls for global summit on bank crisis

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/04/paris.economy

 

=========================================

 

Charles targets GM crop giants in fiercest attack yet

In a provocative address to an Indian audience, the Prince echoes Gandhi with a stinging attack on 'commerce without morality'. Geoffrey Lean reports

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/charles-targets-gm-crop-giants-in-fiercest-attack-yet-951808.html

 

=========================================

 

Georgia's Saakashvili: freedom fighter or rights abuser?

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/53444.html

 

=========================================

 

Turks, Kurdish rebels in worst clashes in 8 months

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h9VhSca_oZldvbO-XktR7l7Sa_PgD93K2ESO0

 

=========================================

 

On C-Span’s After Words: Tariq Ali, author of

"The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power" interviewed by Robert Dreyfuss

Repeated.. Sunday, Oct. 5 at 6:00 p.m., and at 9:00pm.

http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=9864&SectionName=After%20Words&PlayMedia=No

 

==============

 

Pakistan's frontier turns into war zone

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/03/asia/pakistan.php

 

=========================================

 

We can't win Afghanistan war - Commander

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/we-cant-win-afghanistan-war--commander-952060.html

 

==============

 

Reports Link Karzai’s Brother to Heroin Trade

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/world/asia/05afghan.html?hp

 

~~~~~

Juan Cole on same topic, today….

http://www.juancole.com/

 

=========================================

 

The Problems of Latin America and the Caribbean
VII Social Summit for the Latin American and Caribbean Unity

Noam Chomsky

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20941.htm

 

==============

Peace and Solidarity

=========================================

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

Attributed to George Orwell

Tags:
Location: Ft.Thomas, KY 41075