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 | American racism is a fact of life
by CapitolHillBlue.com
Democratic Presidential frontrunner Barack Obama's attempt today to bridge the growing racial divide in both his own party and the nation may be his greatest test as an orator or it may just be too little too late.Many political observers felt racism would rise up and bite Obama as his campaign gained momentum but few expected it to be racism within the African-American community. Hate-filled rhetoric from the longtime pastor that Obama calls a strong influence on his life and beliefs bring to the surface feelings that racism is a two-way street. | There WILL be a public inquiry into Iraq, says Brown
by Andrew Grice and Nigel Morris
Gordon Brown has promised that the Government will hold a full-scale inquiry into the mistakes made in Iraq before and since the invasion five years ago.His concession marks a significant break from his predecessor, Tony Blair, who steadfastly refused to hold a wide-ranging inquiry into the war. | Barack Obama's "Pastor Problem"
by Dr. Gerry Lower
In this day and age, one must be fairly selective in terms of what one considers to be news and what one considers to be newsworthy. It is best to look for things that relate to each other and to then look for causal connections. Today was a good day for making news out of the news and it is amazing what one can learn in an hour or two. | Assault on Bunker Mentality Planned
by Bob Patterson
An intrepid group of bloggers are planning, for Wednesday March 19, a coordinated assault on the conservatives bunker mentality regarding the search for WMD's in Iraq. (Google for March 19 Iraq War Blogswarm to get a link).The group plans to uleash a massive amount of simultanious blog postings to call attention to the fact that the folks who espouse fiscal responsibility are endorsing an effort to spend $3billion a week (giver or take a few boondoggles) to achieve a myth of sysiphus victory in Iraq. | Did the FED's $200 BILLION "Accommodation" Forestall a $2 TRILLION Implosion?
by Fred Cederholm
I’ve been thinking about implosions. Actually I’ve been thinking about warehousing, leverage, multipliers, magnified expansion/ contraction, fractional reserve banking, and the FED. When I learned last week that the FED had created yet another “accommodation” to swap newly minted US Treasury securities for $200 BILLION in par value Cleverly Rigged Accounting Ploy (CRAP) financial derivatives that were actually worth less, or even worthless, I was livid. I saw this as yet another lame attempt to bail out the banking industry for their wayward past actions. I asked myself: “Why, why, why?” Then it hit me I was looking at all this from the WRONG direction! Please read on. | Things I'd Like To See, Part 1: Krugman As Federal Reserve Chairman
by Michael Kwiatkowski
Leave it to Paul Krugman to tell the hard truth about what needs to be done in this financial crisis. [T]he important thing is to bail out the system, not the people who got us into this mess. That means cleaning out the shareholders in failed institutions, making bondholders take a haircut, and canceling the stock options of executives who got rich playing heads I win, tails you lose. | Censorship and the Anemic State of Political Discourse in America
by Dave Lindorff
When I lived in China in the early 1990s, there were things that you could not discuss. One was Tibet. Another was Taiwan, "referred to in my daughter's public elementary school in Shanghai as "China's largest island." Another was the 1989 massacre of students and workers in Beijing. I used to be grateful at the time that I was an American and that back home, we could talk about anything. | Clinton’s Iraq Vote - Five Years Later
by Jon Wiener
The fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war provides an appropriate moment to revisit Hillary Clinton’s argument in favor of authorizing Bush’s use of force, and to contrast it with the case made at the time by Bush’s opponents.In the last few years, Clinton has defended her vote by arguing that “if I knew then what I know now, I would never have given President Bush the authority” to attack Iraq. But a majority of Democrats in the House knew enough “then” to vote against the resolution - as did 21 out of 50 Democratic senators. | Dade must either fix or replace Metrorail cars
by Larry Lebowitz
Miami-Dade Transit has postponed a federally mandated overhaul of its 136 Metrorail cars that was due in 1999 -- a delay that has left the county with a $300 million repair bill.But after nine years of backroom discussion and, some say, deception, the agency will ask commissioners Tuesday to scrap the rehab and buy new cars. | Property-tax proposal could give South Florida big savings
by Mary Klas
One of the biggest tax cuts in state history is headed for the November ballot, after a powerful state commission voted Monday to put an amendment before voters that would scrap most of the portion of local property taxes that goes to schools.If approved, the amendment would force the Legislature to make up the lost money by hiking the sales tax by up to a penny, cutting the state budget and eliminating some sales-tax exemptions. | Full Obama speech on race
by Raw Story
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama "A More Perfect Union" Constitution Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union."Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787. | Dinner With Ahmed
by Scott Ritter
As we approach the fifth anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, I find myself thinking back on how we got ourselves into this predicament. Like many who played a direct role in the issues surrounding Iraq in the years leading up to the decision to invade, I have wrestled with the demons of history, wondering about the specific impact my actions (or inaction) may have had on the course of human affairs. I’ve also wondered whether or not I have been witness to any events that, if more fully reported, might enable others to have a better understanding of the events that shape our world today, for better or for worse. As I examine where we are today and contemplate our future and those who are positioning themselves to play a role in Iraq, it seems to me that there is at least one such incident, a dinner party I attended at the home of Ahmed Chalabi in June 1998 that is worthy of a more public illumination. |
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