War Is A Racket, by Major General Smedley Butler, 1935
David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster

Published: Friday October 3, 2008

On Thursday's edition of The Colbert Report, bestselling author Naomi Klein argued that the Bush Administration creates crises in order to "enrich themselves and their friends," drawing parallels between the torture of ( Read more... )

Added: October 01, 2008

Voters are rightly furious at the proposal to spend $700,000,000,000 that the government doesn't have to bail out Wall Street bankers who created the current economic crisis in the first place. But why then aren't we concerned about the trillions of dollars the Federal Reserve is pumping into the system? Or the trillions ( Read more... )

Video: Gaza's underground lifelines

Al Jazeera, Oct 5, 2008



The closure of Gaza's border crossings has created a multi-million-dollar economy - underneath the Palestinian territory's frontier with Egypt. Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin reports from the Gaza-Egypt border on the intricate network of tunnels that was once used for smuggling ( Read more... )

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Pigs At The Trough: Behind The Citigroup, Wachovia, Wells Fargo Circus

Added: October 05, 2008

See the full-length video at http://KeatingEconomics.com starting @ noon Eastern on 10/6. KEATING ECONOMICS: The story of John McCain and the making of a financial crisis.

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October 5, 2008

Will a new US President mean a new foreign policy?

Gareth Porter: McCain subscribes to extreme neocon ideas, but Obama is not a break with the past Pt.5

In George W. Bush's final speech to the UN as head of state, he provided a series of reasons to view his administration's policies as having succeeded in conducting a global war on ( Read more... )

Added: October 03, 2008

http://cspanjunkie.org/ October 03, 2008 C-SPAN

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Note, the video is under heavy laod. You may have to try later.Thursday, October 2, 2008
LaRouche: No Bailout ! They Will Kill You !

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Added: October 02, 2008
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Added: October 02, 2008

Please help spread this message before the House vote!

How much bribe money does it take to transfer $700 Billion taxpayer dollars to Wall Street's elite?

How much money did your Represenative get from Big Bankers to look the other way and pass a bill that the American people clearly do not want?

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A California congressman opposed to the Bush administration’s bailout package said “the sky did not fall” after the House rejected the bill, despite consternations from “Wall Street fear mongers.”

Rep. Brad Sherman (D) didn’t call Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson a Chicken Little outright, but he did say the dire consequences Paulson and others ( Read more... )