americanprogressaction.org Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) consistently fearmongers that “Democrats…want to raise your taxes…I want to lower your taxes” and threatens that under Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) tax plan, “Americans of every background would see their taxes rise.” Not only is McCain’s claim that Obama will raise every American’s taxes false, but in reality, it is [...]
Archive for June, 2008
30 Jun
Cheney’s Fingerprints
By Dan Froomkin Special to washingtonpost.com Monday, June 30, 2008; 12:43 PM Seymour Hersh’s latest New Yorker article describes an expansion of covert operations inside Iran and provides more evidence of Vice President Cheney’s zeal to address the Iranian nuclear threat — possibly by force — before he and President Bush leave office. Hersh writes: [...]
30 Jun
Compassionate Conservatism 2.0
By Dan Eggen Monday, June 30, 2008; Page A09 “Compassionate conservatism” is back. President Bush focused attention on that signature phrase last week at a national conference for federal faith-based programs — among his first, and still most controversial, policy initiatives. As he noted in his speech on Thursday, Bush began talking as long ago [...]
28 Jun
Economy bodes ill wind for McCain
By Augustine Faucher June 28, 2008 HISTORICALLY, ECONOMIC conditions have played an enormous role in presidential elections, even as other factors come into play. Economic downturns are bad news for the incumbent, while expansions tend to lead to reelection. Franklin D. Roosevelt unseated Herbert Hoover in the depth of the Great Depression in 1932. Boom [...]
27 Jun
BARCLAYS WARNS OF A FINANCIAL STORM AS FEDERAL RESERVE’S CREDIBILITY CRUMBLES
Last Updated: 3:02pm BST 27/06/2008 Telegraph.co.uk US central bank accused of unleashing an inflation shock that will rock financial markets, reports Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Barclays Capital has advised clients to batten down the hatches for a worldwide financial storm, warning that the US Federal Reserve has allowed the inflation genie out of the bottle and let its [...]
26 Jun
How to close Guantánamo
Here are the five steps the US must now take to safely and quickly remove the stain on America’s reputation Ken Gude guardian.co.uk, Wednesday June 25, 2008 Article history After After more than six years of constant controversy, it really does look as if Guantánamo’s days as a prison camp are numbered. The Supreme Court’s recent [...]
25 Jun
Have Americans Lost Thier Collective Minds? Torture Is OK???
June 25th, 2008 · No Comments The issue I’m speaking of is torture, a matter that we as a nation have frowned-upon since the beginning of this great democracy. We are co-signatures against torture when we signed the resolution for the Geneva convention, and as a society, to know that “44% of Americans favor torture [...]
25 Jun
Giveaway of Fourth Amendment Rights: House Approves Unconstitutional Surveillance Legislation
Global Research Articles by American Civil Liberties Union by American Civil Liberties Union Global Research, June 22, 2008 Fourth Amendment: guards against searches, arrests, and seizures of property without a specific warrant or a “probable cause” to believe a crime has been committed. Some rights to privacy have been inferred from this amendment and others [...]
25 Jun
Congress, Step Up and Start Defending the Constitution
By Art Brodsky, Huffington Post. Posted June 25, 2008. The Democrats’ capitulation on FISA is a triumph of Congressional self-importance over the guardianship of our Constitutional rights. Imagine yourself as the parent of a willful, destructive child who lives to break things. Every rattle — split. Every cup — cracked. Every toy — destroyed. Every [...]
25 Jun
Israel ‘Will Attack Iran’ Before New US President Sworn In, John Bolton Predicts
Published on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 by The Telegraph/UK John Bolton, the former American ambassador to the United Nations, has predicted that Israel could attack Iran after the November presidential election but before George W Bush’s successor is sworn in. by Toby Harnden in Washington The Arab world would be “pleased” by Israeli strikes against [...]
25 Jun
No Blood for… Er… Um…
by Tom Engelhardt Tom-Dispatch [Note for TomDispatch readers: It's worth mentioning that the missing Iraqi oil story – see below – wasn't missing online, and certainly not at TomDispatch. This site's newest book, The World According to TomDispatch: America in the New Age of Empire, has a section labeled "The Petro-Industrial Complex and its [...]
25 Jun
The Pentagon’s Stealth Corporations
by Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt Tom-Dispatch At $34 billion, you’re already counting pretty high. After all, that’s Harvard’s endowment; it’s the amount of damage the triple hurricanes ? Charley, Ivan, and Jeanne ? inflicted in 2004; it’s what car crashes involving 15-to-17-year-old teenage drivers mean yearly in “medical expenses, lost work, property damage, [...]
