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Unaccountable Privatization: Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work
One Fifth of Iraq Funding Goes to Private ContractorsBy Willam Fisher / September 6, 2008. If spending continues at the current rate, the U.S. will have spent 100 billion dollars on military contractors in Iraq by the end of the … Continue reading
New Media Targeted With Harassment, Arrests at RNC
Using horseback officers, police moved to cut off demonstrators during GOP convention in St. Paul. Photo by Nick Vlcek / City Pages.‘Dozens of journalists, photographers, bloggers and videomakers arrested in an orchestrated round up of independents covering the Republican National … Continue reading
Where Iraqi Spending Priorities Lie
Please keep this in perspective: Iraq does not provide potable water for the majourity of its citizens, there are still 4 million Iraqis displaced because of ethnic cleansing (termed “civil war” by the US), cholera has become a majour concern … Continue reading
ART : R. Crumb: Mr. Natural Goes to the Museum
“Mr. Natural” (1974), paint on plywood, from “R. Crumb’s Underground.” Image courtesy of John Lautemann / NYT. R. Crumb’s Underground One of the more than 100 works in this exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Image courtesy … Continue reading
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Sarah Palin : ‘So Sambo Beat the Bitch!’
‘Being openly racist is only the tip of the Palin iceberg’by Charley James / September 5, 2008 “So Sambo beat the bitch!”This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska, Presidential Campaign, Racism, Republican Party, Sarah Palin
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Musician John Gourley of Wasilla, AK : Why We Don’t Need Sarah Palin
John Gourley of Portugal. The Man. Photo by anthonydicap.Palin. Because we don’t need it.September 4, 2008 So, the MOST famous person from Wasilla, Alaska is GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. But, RIGHT behind her are Wasilla natives John Baldwin … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska, Environment, Music, Musicians, Sarah Palin, Wasilla
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Sarah Palin’s Aerial War on Wolves
Source / Red State Rebels The Rag Blog / Posted September 5, 2008
Why Is This No Surprise Whatsoever?
Screen grab of stock footage of soldiersfuneral used in RNC video. (GETTY IMAGES)Fake Soldiers Used In RNC VideoBy Michael Rey / September 4, 2008 Patriotic Montage Shown At RNC Featured Actors Hired For One Day Shoot, Not Military It was … Continue reading
Is This a Reckless New Policy Targeting Pakistan?
US attack inside Pakistan threatens dangerous new warBy Peter Symonds / September 5, 2008 A ground assault by US Special Forces troops on a Pakistani village on Wednesday threatens to expand the escalating Afghanistan war into its neighbour. Pakistan is … Continue reading
Bleak News on Employment Front : Jobless Rate Soars
Theodore Harmon, left, helps Solomon Boyd with a job application as the two look for work at the New York State Department of Labor office in Harlem. Photo by David Goldman / NYT.Economist Jared Bernstein: ‘Working families are in trouble’By … Continue reading
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Tagged Economy, Inflation, PresidentialCampaign, Recession, Unemployment
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Community Organizers Fight Back
After graduating college, Barack Obama worked for three years, first in Harlem and then in Chicago, as a community organizer.‘Community organizers work in neighborhoods that have been hit hardest by the failing economy’September 4, 2008 Community organizers across America, taken … Continue reading
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Tagged Community Organizing, Economic Collapse, Obama, Republican Convention, Sarah Palin
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The CIA: Just Doing Their Appointed Rounds
As one commenter to the piece on Common Dreams remarks, “Finally, the CIA is being efficient and back hauling terrorists for rendition on their regular drug flights and all you commie, pinko, liberal, hate America types are complaining!” Richard Jehn … Continue reading
