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 [...]
Archive for June 25th, 2008
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, [...]
25 Jun
Abuse of the Filibuster: Republicans Play Dirty ‘Block and Blame’ Game
By Christopher Moraff, The Philadelphia Tribune. Posted June 23, 2008. It works like this: Republicans hijack the Senate, block important legislation, then complain nothing is getting done. With one of the most contentious presidential primary battles in history finally behind us, media attention is beginning to focus on a fight of a different kind — [...]
25 Jun
Obama’s Clearest Path to the Presidency: Talk About Wages
By David Sirota, Creators Syndicate. Posted June 24, 2008. If Obama counters the GOP’s race-baiting by promoting working-class interests and a fairer trade agenda, he will win the White House. In our us-versus-them culture, every political campaign is a battle to define who exactly the “us” and “them” are. Republicans typically say it is natives [...]
25 Jun
Low Mexican Gas Prices Draw Americans
By ADAM B. ELLICK Published: June 25, 2008 CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico ? When George Terrazas was mugged at gunpoint in this Mexican border city several months ago, he vowed never to return. Bruce Berman for The New York Times George Terrazas of El Paso made it a point to go to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the [...]
25 Jun
Consumer Confidence Declines to a 16-Year Low
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM Published: June 25, 2008 Consumer confidence dropped to its lowest point in 16 years in June while home values fell in 20 metropolitan areas across the country, according to two economic reports released Tuesday. Enlarge This Image Joe Raedle/Getty Images Jacques Brevery of A&C Signs put a for-sale sign on a [...]
25 Jun
Financing the U.S. Health System
Issues and Options for Change By Meena Seshamani, Jeanne Lambrew, Joseph T. Antos | June 25, 2008 Health reform proposals across the spectrum have included changes in how the U.S. health system is financed. The goals of such changes include using financing incentives to promote system goals, replacing insufficient financing mechanisms with more sustainable ones, [...]
25 Jun
Morning News
From the Washington Post: Sen. Barack Obama rolled out a proposal yesterday to curb speculation in energy markets, which his advisers said would help stabilize soaring gasoline prices. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee laid out a four-step program that would, among other things, close an “Enron loophole” that protects some trading in energy futures from [...]
