Poll Finds Most Blame Industry for Problems, Believe Failure Won’t Hurt Economy By Jon Cohen and Jennifer Agiesta Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Most Americans continue to oppose a government-backed rescue plan for Detroit’s Big Three automakers as majorities blame the industry for its own problems and are unconvinced failure would hurt [...]
Archive for December 16th, 2008
16 Dec
Obama Picks Chicago’s Schools Chief For Cabinet
Arne Duncan is a friend and basketball partner of the president-elect’s. (Charles Rex Arbogast – AP) By Anne E. Kornblut and Philip Rucker Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, December 16, 2008 President-elect Barack Obama will nominate Chicago schools executive Arne Duncan as his education secretary at an event in the city today, transition aides said, [...]
16 Dec
The window and door factory By James Carroll December 15, 2008 ‘WE’RE HERE and we’re not going anywhere,” said the protest leader last week, “until we get what’s fair and what’s ours.” With that, 200 laid-off workers began the occupation of the Republic Windows & Doors factory on Chicago’s North Side. The company owners, perhaps [...]
16 Dec
Man Throws Both Shoes at Bush, Calls Him a ‘Dog’
Posted by AlterNet Staff, AlterNet at 11:31 AM on December 14, 2008. Bush’s visit to Iraq isn’t received with rose petals. From Edwin Chen at Bloomberg: President George W. Bush ducked two shoes thrown at him by an unidentified man during a press conference in the Iraqi prime minister’s office. Bush wasn’t hit by the [...]
16 Dec
It’s Official: Total Defeat for U.S. in Iraq
By Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch. Posted December 15, 2008. Iraq’s parliament came to a major agreement recently: all 150,000 troops are to withdraw from cities by June. On November 27 the Iraqi parliament voted by a large majority in favor of a security agreement with the US under which the 150,000 American troops in Iraq will [...]
16 Dec
Let the Banks Fail: Why a Few of the Financial Giants Should Crash
By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted December 15, 2008. The finance industry still owns mountains of bad paper and must absorb these losses — or else we’ll face a very long recession. So far, much of Washington’s ad hoc, ham-fisted response to the economic crisis has been based on the dictum that the financial institutions must [...]
16 Dec
Obama Rolls Out Energy and Climate Team
washingtonpost.com CABINET By Anne E. Kornblut President-elect Barack Obama said he plans to tap his choice for secretary of the interior later this week, a move that will round out the climate change and energy team he rolled out on at news conference this afternoon. Obama, promising to address global warming and energy sources, formally named [...]
16 Dec
The Cabinet: Who’s Next?
By Al Kamen Tuesday, December 16, 2008 The Washington Post With five days to go before President-elect Barack Obama jets to Hawaii for his Christmas vacation, just a handful of his Cabinet-level posts remain open. Based on the race so far, here’s how the slate looks as Obama tries to assemble a diverse administration of [...]
