Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/I-beg-each-of-you-Listen-by-mikel-paul-080831-977.html August 31, 2008 By mikel paul Stumbled on this Quick Link yesterday. Thank you Amanda Lang. Say what you will about Mr. Moyers. Say what you will about this ex military and family man’s opinions on those ever so touchy subjects we pound each other about. But please, listen to this [...]
Archive for September 1st, 2008
1 Sep
Republicans say Palin passes the Goodling Test
Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Republicans-say-Palin-pass-by-Ed-Martin-080830-542.html September 1, 2008 By Ed Martin The focus of the Republican pundits assessing Sarah Palin?s qualifications to be Vice President is not on whether she has the ability, or experience necessary to fulfill that role or step into the role of President. The focus is strictly on her passing the Goodling [...]
1 Sep
CRACKDOWN BEGINS: Food Not Bombs homes and offices raided.
Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/CRACKDOWN-BEGINS-Food-Not-by-Keith-McHenry-080901-646.html September 1, 2008 By Keith McHenry Crackdown Begins: Food Not Bombs House Among Saturday Raids Ahead of RNC. Food Not Bombs volunteer arrested in Denver and Berkeley office raided on Wednesday. As the all volunteer movement Food Not Bombs prepares to respond to Hurricane Gustav the police and FBI raided [...]
1 Sep
Thugs with Badges: Crackdown in Minneapolis
Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Thugs-with-Badges-Crackdo-by-Mark-Crispin-Mille-080901-795.html September 1, 2008 By Rady Ananda This may be the first video release on the Twin Cities raids-against legitimate protest at the Republican National Convention. Twin Cities author Jeremy Hubbell provides background info on this decade-long practice. Included is a call to action, with an online petition, mayors’ phone numbers, links [...]
1 Sep
Absence of Bush and Cheney cheers Republican delegates
By Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers ST. PAUL, Minn. ? Although they were reluctant to say it out loud, many Republicans were relieved Monday that President Bush didn’t attend the Republican National Convention. They didn’t like to talk about it on the record, in part because they didn’t want to admit an unintended political benefit [...]
1 Sep
There’s No Reason to Be Afraid of Taking on Sarah Palin
By Jane Smiley, Huffington Post. Posted September 1, 2008. The Sarah Palin pick is an attempt to turn the women’s movement upside down, offering someone who reinforces patriarchal power. Already the Democratic pundits are worrying about whether to attack Sarah Palin — will it look like bullying? Will it make voters sympathize with her? Will [...]
1 Sep
RNC Raids Have Been Targeting Video Activists
By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. Posted September 1, 2008. In the run-up to the Republican convention, Minnesota police launched a series of preemptive raids to intimidate protesters and quash dissent. “St. Paul is a free country!” cried a resident of Iglehart Avenue, a neighborhood street in St. Paul, Minn., as she watched her next-door neighbor’s house [...]
1 Sep
A nuclear deal worth keeping
September 1, 2008 NORTH KOREA may be a serial abuser of human rights and a spouter of harsh rhetoric, but when it blamed the Bush administration this week for reneging on America’s obligations under a denuclearization agreement, that regime had truth on its side. North Korea stopped disabling its sole nuclear reactor because the [...]
1 Sep
Down the up escalator
September 1, 2008 THE FADING fruit for American workers is now a familiar Labor Day lament. The US Census Bureau’s annual income report says that poverty rates did not budge in 2007 – and this was before the full impact of the foreclosure crisis. While there were slight increases in some areas, real median household [...]
