Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor in Chicago:
This was the main story in the press for weeks, what Jeremiah Wright said. First of all, almost everything he said is entirely reasonable, even if it’s unacceptable to mainstream ideology. But even the parts that merit criticism—like the U.S. organized AIDS to kill blacks or whatever it is—it’s a marginal part of his message. The white preachers who support McCain have said similar or worse things. So, for example, Falwell and Robertson, I think, blamed 9/11 on the ACLU, gays, and so on. How could you get more outrageous than that?
Chomsky Interview
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned on Tuesday that America’s aging nuclear weapons stockpile faces a bleak future of decline just as rival nations including Russia and China are modernizing their nuclear arsenals.
New Nuclear Article
The $700bn rescue package proposed over-quickly by the US Treasury and Federal Reserve was initially rejected by one tier of US government. After horse-traded amendments, it was finally accepted by both houses. But in an uncertain future, it is already clear that 30 years of US financial policy, and Wall Street as we know it, are over.
financial scam
That’s what this article from the Wall St. Journal has to say. Hmmm, I’m still thinking about the war, the economy, national health insurance, etc.How about you? Issue article
The Americans told him they were sorry when they eventually freed him this year - after the beatings he says he suffered, and the force-feeding, the humiliations and interrogations by British, American and Canadian intelligence officers - and now he hopes one day he’ll be able to walk without his stick.
state-terror-article
Washington: First in War, First in Peace and First in Half-Filled State-of-the-Art Ballparks Funded Entirely From Public Coffers That Are Now Nearly Empty.
Stadium article
Man, after 911, Bush said “we’re going on a crusade”, which means, we’re going to kill dark people until they all decide to bow before us.Now, VP candidate Palin says that the Iraq war is “a task that is from God.”Palin article
AMY GOODMAN: More than 280 people were arrested here in St. Paul on Monday, the opening day of the Republican National Convention. Among them were several journalists covering the protests in the streets, including three of us at Democracy Now! I was detained trying to question police officers about the arrests of Democracy Now! producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. Nicole and Sharif were covering a police crackdown on a street protest against the Republican National Convention.
Democracy Now article
The confrontation erupted Monday night as police in riot gear tried to disperse a crowd of about 300 people that was disrupting traffic near the Denver City and County Building.
Police said they were forced to use pepper spray when members of the crowd, some carrying rocks, rushed a police safety line. But one protester said officers charged the protesters with no warning.
Denver Capitalism Protest article
So disgusting, to not let Al-Jazeera broadcast from the DNC party, because it
might be “disrespectful to veterans”.
Yeah, I could see how hearing an opinion from a dark-skinned person might not be ok,
since it would likely differ slighly, in things like “defending freedom” and other issues of
whether Iraq and other countries like being bombed into oblivion or not.
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