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Bailout For Who?
By Adrianne Appel
www.countercurrents.org/appel270908.htm
U.S. lawmakers and the George W. Bush administration are continuing their closed-door meetings through the weekend to try and fashion a softer 700-billion-dollar deal for Wall Street that will appeal to citizens angry at the prospect of the mega-corporate bailout
A Better Bailout
By Joseph E. Stiglitz
www.countercurrents.org/stiglitz270908.htm
The administration is once again holding a gun at our head, saying, “My way or the highway.” We have been bamboozled before by this tactic. We should not let it happen to us again.There are alternatives
$700 Billion Bailout: Let’s Do Some Simple Arithmetic
By Michael Dickel
www.countercurrents.org/dickel270908.htm
The Bush-Cheney-Haliburton administration proposes to hand over to Wall Street over twenty-five hundred dollars for each person over the age of 14 in the U.S. That’s over $10,000 for a family of four where the children are teen-agers. Do you know many families of four, with two teens, who can cough up $10,000 to help bail out Wall Street?
The Happening
By Bill Noxid
www.countercurrents.org/noxid270908.htm
Unless Obama is willing to accept the fact that this entire fiasco is the result of a deliberate campaign that has been blatantly evident for over five years, then he will not make a just decision on this corporate bailout – which is actually a creation of false wealth scheme on a scale never conceived of before. It’s not news to anyone with access to any information and the desire to know that the sub-prime mortgage scam targeted minorities approximately 73%, to 17% whites
Justice For Our Sister Marcella Sali Grace!
An Appeal
www.countercurrents.org/appeal270908.htm
Our hearts are full of sadness and rage because our sister Sali was brutally raped and murdered 20 minutes from San Jose del Pacifico and up to this moment the Oaxacan Attorney General’s Office, as is its custom, is not doing anything regarding the fact that there exist witnesses who have information to identify those responsible
Foreign Policy Debate All About War
By David Swanson
www.countercurrents.org/swanson270908a.htm
There was only one foreign policy asked about in Friday night’s foreign policy debate: war and potential wars
A Vote For Obama Is A Vote For McCain
By Jerry D. Rose
www.countercurrents.org/rose270908.htm
I think all progressives should proceed to find an alternative to McCain/Palin ticket which isn’t that of the ill-fated Obama/Biden one. With eyes wide open to the vulnerabilities of our own alternative choices, we must seek out those candidates who are a “viable” alternative to the much-feared McCain presidency. And yes, we need to go into the heart of Obamania land and tell our Kool-aid affected friends that “a vote for Obama is a vote for McCain.”
Time To Try Something New
By David Truskoff
www.countercurrents.org/truskoff270908.htm
I would like to see a total boycott of this election. I know that will not happen, but a major effort must be made to involve the college students and get them out to protest the worst Presidential election in our history. Perhaps this is the turning point and the time to try something new and perhaps they can make it known that the party is over and the candidates must now respond to the wishes of the people
Calming The Fearful Mind
By David Swanson
www.countercurrents.org/swanson270908.htm
Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who in 1964 was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King, Jr., has published a new book of advice to Americans and to U.S. Congress members called “Calming the Fearful Mind: A Zen Response to Terrorism.”
Attack On Christians Is Attack On Indian Secularism And Democracy
By Madhu Chandra
www.countercurrents.org/chandra270908.htm
The ongoing and uncontrolled attack on Christians in Orissa, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and now spreading to other parts of India is the clear signpost of Saffron fascist forces involved in religious ethnic cleansing. Most of the churches, Christian homes and Christian villages in Kandhamal and 14 other district of Orissa are vandalized. A single Hindu temple is not attacked in whole of the state. What signpost does it give to the eyes of every Indian civil society?
An Unholy Crusade
By Sanjana
www.countercurrents.org/sanjana270908.htm
The real conversion happening in Karnataka is that of the RSS-BJP, who are using aggression to consolidate their hold in a once secular state
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