news |
| | | | | | |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
In spite of station management, it's...
|
 |
This site is updated almost every day and it just keeps getting bigger, and now, wider!
Please come back often.
|
|
|
|
News Archives
|
 | NM Gov. Bill Richardson endorses Obama
by Matt Apuzzo
Bill Richardson, the nation's only Hispanic governor, backed Barack Obama for president Friday, moved to deliver his much-coveted endorsement by the senator's speech about race.The New Mexico governor joined Obama at spirited rally Friday and said the Illinois senator demonstrated his leadership abilities this week with his speech on race. "You are a once-in-a-lifetime leader," the governor said from the stage. "Above all, you will be a president who brings this nation together." | Why are there Suicide Bombers?
by Mark Biskeborn
Are suicide bombers similar to others who commit suicide? Do they derive their motivations from the same sources?The more than four suicide bombings just last Monday to mark Cheney's visit to Iraq, keep this question alive every day we walk down the street. A woman entered a mosque in Karbala, killing dozens and wounding another hundred. What drove her to this? | Bernanke: Lover of Wall Street, Casual Acquaintance of Students
by Allison Kilkenny
This month on Wall Street, traders hyperventilated into paper bags, and ordinary citizens feigned understanding of terms like “securities trading” and “wealth management.” The long and short of it is clear: bad stuff is happening. The times are turbulent, and we’re all in a lot of trouble. | Putting Out the Fire With Gasoline
by Michael Fox
Two hundred billion - here, two hundred billion - there: before you know it we’re talking about a lot of money! When I introduced you to the Weimar dollar, the government’s proactive devaluation of the currency had just begun. On February 5, Congress and Bush approved a plan to “stimulate the economy” by distributing tax rebates of just $600 to millions of middle-income taxpayers. To each taxpayer, of course, it’s a drop in the bucket that will neither change their lives nor stimulate the larger economy, as the effect of merely printing all that money will be to devalue the currency, thus creating inflation in the most basic imported commodity (oil), and in the end, that money will, therefore, end up in the hands of the oil companies only. Meanwhile, the damage to the currency will have begun. | George W. Hoover, or, History, What a Bitch
by Stephen Pizzo
In 1932, Edward Angly published a short book filled with optimistic forecasts about the economy offered by President Herbert Hoover and his associates. The sarcastic title of his book was, "Oh Yeah?."I've found myself echoing that title almost every day of late as I listen to President Bush and his associates try to reassure us that things are not as bad as they seem. Oh Yeah? | Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Pentagon Goes Hollywood
by Tom Engelhardt
Recently, photographic portraits of nine World War I vets (all 105 or older when taken) were unveiled at a Pentagon ceremony. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates then noted that, when it comes to their war, "There is no big memorial on the National Mall. Hollywood has not turned its gaze in this direction for decades." | Why?
by William Rivers Pitt
Five years in Iraq.That's 1,825 days since "Shock and Awe" lit up the skies above Baghdad, all of which was captured live and in living color by unblinking CNN cameras with unobstructed views of the carnage.3,991 United States soldiers have died in Iraq since then. That's a little more than two United States soldiers killed per day. Every day. For five years. | Five Years of a Disastrous War and the Bills are Coming Due
by Dave Lindorff
It's appropriate that on this week of the fifth anniversary of the criminal US invasion of Iraq, we are also seeing several other things: the death toll of American troops in that doomed adventure is rising past 4000, the economy is sliding into a recession which could be deep and long, and the financial markets are teetering on the edge of a possibly historic collapse. | Grain Farmer Claims Moral Victory in Seed Battle Against Monsanto
by Matt Hartley
Percy Schmeiser’s decade-long legal odyssey has finally come to an end - and he’s got a cheque for $660 to prove it.The 77-year-old Saskatchewan farmer and his wife, Louise, became international folk heroes for their legal struggle with agribusiness giant Monsanto Canada Inc., after the company sued them for violating its patent on genetically engineered canola seeds in 1997.0320 04 | Penn’s War: Media Lap Dogs Backed Iraq Mess
by Susan Donaldson James
Sean Penn, the actor-director-turned-political-activist, narrates a new anti-war documentary that alleges U.S. presidents since Kennedy have manipulated the public to wage wars.0320 01The searing documentary coincides with the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and asserts that the mainstream media have been cheerleaders for a war that has cost the nation — according to Department of Defense figures this week — 3,980 lives. | Climate Change Deepening World Water Crisis
by Thalif Deen
When U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last January, his primary focus was not on the impending global economic recession but on the world’s growing water crisis.0320 08“A shortage of water resources could spell increased conflicts in the future,” he told the annual gathering of business tycoons, academics and leaders from governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations. | Winter Soldier Marches Again
by Amy Goodman
Last weekend, in the lead-up to the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, a remarkable gathering occurred just outside Washington, D.C., called Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan, Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations. Hundreds of veterans of these two wars, along with active-duty soldiers, came together to offer testimony about the horrors of war, including atrocities they witnessed or committed themselves. | Bush: Al Qaeda is in Iraq, stealing our oil
by Eric Brewer
I had a lot of fun at the White House Wednesday afternoon, and not because I made Dana Perino mad. In fact, I felt a little sorry for her today. It's not her fault that Bush's speechwriters put ludicrous statements into his speeches.It all started when I came across the following line in the President's Iraq War Birthday speech: | Can GOP Voters Spoil the Dem Race?
by Hilary Hylton
As if Democrats didn't have enough problems deciding upon their presidential nominee this year, now they must contend with the possibility that Republicans are deliberately crossing party lines to prolong the bitterly contested race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. In recent weeks, conservative talk radio stars Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham have urged loyal listeners to vote for the much-despised Clinton in open Democratic primaries so as to prevent Obama from sealing the nomination, and there are some indications that their calls have already been heeded in states like Texas and Mississippi. | State Department: Someone snooped in Obama's passport file
by CNN
On three occasions since January, Sen. Barack Obama's passport file was looked at by three different contract workers, said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack. The contractors accessed information in the file in an unauthorized way, he said.Two contractors were fired and one was disciplined by the contractor's company, McCormack said. | Richardson calls out Clinton adviser
by CNN
Bill Richardson criticized a Clinton campaign adviser Friday for suggesting his endorsement of Barack Obama is insignificant."I resent the fact that the Clinton people are now saying that my endorsement is too late because I only can help with Texans — with Texas and Hispanics, implying that that's my only value," the New Mexico governor told CNN's John King. | Teenager Dies After Police In Charlotte Use Taser
by WSOCTV.com
A teenager died after police used a Taser on him inside a grocery store in northeast Charlotte.Charlotte-Mecklenburg police homicide detectives said they will investigate why police used the Taser on 17-year-old Darryl Turner Thursday afternoon.His mother, Tammi Fontenot, told Eyewitness News, "I want answers. I want to know why. I just want to know why." | Passport firms' CEOs donated to Lieberman, Clinton and Obama
by David Edwards and Mike Sheehan
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday apologized to Sen. Barack Obama for a security breach in which three State Department contractors inappropriately reviewed the Democratic presidential candidate's passport file.CNN also reports, "Hillary Clinton's passport file was breached in 2007, Secretary of State Rice told Clinton, according to the senator's office." | Obama Campaign Claims Clinton Has 'Character Gap'
by Jake Tapper
The campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., delivered one of its harshest, most negative attacks yet today, asserting that Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., is lacking in character and regularly misleads voters."She is not seen as trustworthy by the American people," said Obama campaign manager David Plouffe in a conference call with reporters this morning, citing a Gallup poll released this week indicating that only 44 percent of the American people consider Clinton "honest and trustworthy," as opposed to 67 percent for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and 63 percent for Obama. | Story behind the story: The Clinton myth
by Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen
One big fact has largely been lost in the recent coverage of the Democratic presidential race: Hillary Rodham Clinton has virtually no chance of winning.Her own campaign acknowledges there is no way that she will finish ahead in pledged delegates. That means the only way she wins is if Democratic superdelegates are ready to risk a backlash of historic proportions from the party’s most reliable constituency. |
|
|
|
|
|
