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With a Powerful Speech, Obama Offers a Challenge
by Bob Herbert
Barack Obama was on the phone, speaking about the one issue he had not wanted to focus on in his campaign: race.He had just given his speech on race in Philadelphia and was expanding a little on the need to get past the endless back and forth on this toxic and frustrating issue. He said he had hoped in his speech to accurately describe the “chasm of misunderstanding” that continues to foster racial division, and to offer a way to “get out of that situation.” | Floridians might vote on church-state issue
by Marc Caputo
About 140 years after anti-Catholic bigotry helped lead Florida to ban government aid to religious institutions, a powerful state tax commission will decide Wednesday whether to ask voters to strike that provision from the state Constitution.The so-called ''no-aid'' provision led an appeals court in 2004 to cancel a centerpiece of then-Gov. Jeb Bush's voucher program that allowed private religious schools to get state money. | From ‘War Criminal’ to ‘Statesman’
by Robert Fisk
An Italian restaurant in the Irish village of Dalkey caused quite a kerfuffle when it opened a few months ago. It is called Benito’s and - yes - it is indeed named after Il Duce. And there are Italian fascist newspaper front pages on the wall to remind you just how bravely his men fought in the Second World War. A 1941 cover of La Domenica del Corriere carries a dramatic painting of six RAF Hurricanes crashing into the rooftops of Malta after vainly taking on the Italian air force. On another front page of the same year, four frightened British Tommies - a few of the 19,000 captured in the siege of Tobruk - surrender to black-feathered Bersaglieri troops at Sollum on the Egyptian-Libyan border. | Progressives for Obama
by Tom Hayden
All American progressives should unite for Barack Obama. We descend from the proud tradition of independent social movements that have made America a more just and democratic country. We believe that the movement today supporting Barack Obama continues this great tradition of grassroots participation, drawing millions of people out of apathy and into participation in the decisions that affect all our lives. We believe that Barack Obama's very biography reflects the positive potential of the globalization process that also contains such grave threats to our democracy when shaped only by the narrow interests of private corporations in an unregulated global marketplace. We should instead be globalizing the values of equality, a living wage and environmental sustainability in the new world order, not hoping our deepest concerns will be protected by trickle-down economics or charitable billionaires. By its very existence, the Obama campaign will stimulate a vision of globalization from below. | Britain is world's 7th most stable and prosperous nation
by Michael Evans
The United Kingdom has been ranked as one of the most stable and prosperous countries in the world, beating the United States, France and even Switzerland in a global assessment of every nation’s achievements and standards.A one-year investigation and analysis of 235 countries and dependent territories has put the UK joint seventh in the premier league of nations. The top ten comprise also the Vatican, Sweden, Luxembourg, Monaco, Gibraltar, San Marino, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands and the Irish Republic. | Saudis Prepare for Nuclear Fallout from Iran
by Margaret Kimberley
I think we can stop asking if Bush will attack Iran. This little gem was reported by the German news service DPA."The Saudi-based King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology has prepared a proposal that encapsulates the probabilities of leaking nuclear and radiation hazards in case of any unexpected nuclear attacks in Iran, the Okaz Saudi newspaper said." | No solutions to the economic crisis in the presidential election.
by Michael Kwiatkowski
In a recent EENR entry I posted about Paul Krugman's blog entry regarding the real reason regulators have failed to reign in the excesses of Wall Street. Essentially, the failure was deliberate -- an effort to systematically remove any and all regulation. I guess causing one Great Depression wasn't enough to wake up the laissez-faire jerks into realizing that the days of unrestricted greed should have remained dead and buried; they've been working like hell to create another while making their money, and they appear to have succeeded. | DISCLOSURES: The "Horizontally Challenged" Lady is Poised to Sing about the Results of 2007. What will the MEDIA Cover?
by Fred Cederholm
I’ve been thinking about disclosures. Actually I’ve been thinking about calendar 2007, financial statements, the auditors’ opinion letter, notes to the financial statements, contingencies, and NEWS. Calendar 2007 is now (almost) history. It was a year that was a far cry from the best of times and I fear that 2008 is shaping up to be… well, a year of challenges of even far greater dimensions. Things are moving ever so quickly and it seems that we increasingly only learn about events, not as they unfold, but when the “deeds” are done and the crises are “thus behind us.” It is often said: “that it ain’t over until the (horizontally challenged) lady sings.” We are about to be treated to a concert! Please read on. | What It's All About...
by Sheila Samples
Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number. Shake your chains to earth, like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you-- Ye are many, they are few. ~Percy Bysshe ShelleyMy friend Bernie says he can't believe the American people haven't figured out what it's all about. "The whole damn political scene is nothing but a corporate media freak show," he said. "There's no breathing room between elections -- no time nor interest in investigating, or even addressing, issues that are critical to our survival as a nation. The minute every last dollar is sucked out of the competition, the candidate who bought the most attack ads -- the most face time -- wins, and the election is over. Then," Bernie said with disgust, "it's time to start raising money for the next election, because the media is already out there campaigning." | Thunder on the Left: Across the Great Divide
by Jaime O'Neill
What follows is an exchange that began with a response to a recent column in which I lamented the sexism I thought to be a factor in Hillary Clinton's probable defeat in the Democratic primary campaign. The respondent is an ex-pat émigré to New Zealand. |
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