By Robert J. Samuelson Monday, November 17, 2008 The Washington Post So it’s come to this: General Motors, once the world’s mightiest industrial enterprise, is now flirting with bankruptcy. Ford and Chrysler may not be far behind. Car and truck sales have collapsed. With cash reserves rapidly falling, GM may soon be unable to pay [...]
Archive for November 17th, 2008
17 Nov
Obama: Close Gitmo, Ban Torture to ‘Regain America’s Moral Stature’
Posted by Staff, Huffington Post at 11:31 PM on November 16, 2008. Obama 60 Minutes interview: talks national security, financial crisis, first dog. 60 Minutes aired its interview tonight with Barack and Michelle Obama, they’re first interview since Obama won the presidential election. In the interview, Obama repeated his commitment to close Guantanamo Bay and [...]
17 Nov
Do You Want to See What War Looks Like?
By Jennifer Fenton, The Wip. Posted November 17, 2008. Dead bodies and blown-out humvees in Casey Porter’s films reveal the brutality of the surge in Iraq. “We have an entire generation of people in their twenties and thirties who have never gone through a warthe media and government have gotten so good at the creation [...]
17 Nov
$2 Trillion Handed out by Paulson and Bernanke, But Who Got It, Nobody Knows
By Nicholas von Hoffman, The Nation. Posted November 17, 2008. We have no idea who got this money or the conditions or collateral put up in return for the loans. With his latest policy switch to buying stock in banks and other companies, Henry Paulson has more zigs and zags to his credit than a [...]
17 Nov
How Did We Ever Let This Guy Get Away with Being a War President?
By Gary Brecher, eXiled Online. Posted November 17, 2008. Only a fool like Bush could pick an anti-American Arab country, add an invading army, and expect a nice fluffy democracy soufflé. What George W. Bush loved best about his job was being a war president. Playing war, that is, as opposed to making war like [...]
