By Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK Women for Peace: Action Blog. Posted June 11, 2008. Note: The following is an account by Medea Benjamin of Codepink‘s first of many busts of McCain’s campaign. Tuesday, June 9 was a good day for our “Busting McCain” campaign. When we heard that he was going to be speaking at Washington’s [...]
Archive for June 11th, 2008
11 Jun
Obama Shows His Punch
By Robert L. Borosage, Huffington Post. Posted June 11, 2008. Obama takes a clean, connecting swing at Bush and McCain’s disastrous economic policies. Yesterday in Raleigh, North Carolina, Barack Obama opened the general election fight, taking the gloves off against the “tired and misguided [economic] philosophy that has dominated Washington for too long,” and offering [...]
11 Jun
Blame Rising Oil Prices on Bush, Not Consumers
By Robert Scheer, Truthdig. Posted June 11, 2008. Americans do need to cut down on their resource consumption. But the key variable in the high cost of oil is Bush’s failed foreign policy. Wow, a lot of people must have bought Hummers last week. How else to explain the spike in oil prices? No, I’m [...]
11 Jun
New Day, New Way
Center for American Progress U.S. Foreign Assistance for the 21st Century By Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, co-chaired by Gayle Smith and Steve Radelet Read the full report (pdf) “New Day, New Way” Report Launched on Capitol Hill, Center for Global Development “Coalition Seeks Cabinet-Level Foreign Aid,” Politico Meeting the global challenges facing the United States—climate change, [...]
11 Jun
A List Biden Belongs On
By E. J. Dionne Jr. Tuesday, June 10, 2008; Page A23 The scene has stayed with me for six years: Democrat Jill Long Thompson, in the midst of a fiercely competitive race in Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District, was being pressed by supporters to criticize what they saw as President Bush‘s rush to war in Iraq. [...]
