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Global
Currents 11
On the U.S. Presidential
Elections
October
10, 2008
(Posted by CenPEG)
Pre-election
militarization of the North American homeland U.S.
Combat Troops in Iraq repatriated to "help with civil unrest"
By Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, September 26, 2008
The Army Times reports that the 3rd Infantry’s 1st Brigade
Combat Team is returning from Iraq to defend the Homeland, as "an
on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies
and disasters, including terrorist attacks." The BCT unit has
been attached to US Army North, the Army's component of US Northern
Command (USNORTHCOM). (See Gina Cavallaro, Brigade homeland tours
start Oct. 1, Army Times, September 8, 2008).
Painting
the Electoral College map blue
Twenty-eight days to go and the most recent polls show Sen. Barack
Obama continues to widen his lead against Sen. John McCain.
OBAMA:
"Subsidizing Big Oil makes no sense"
Bankole Thompson interviews BARACK OBAMA
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, Oct 3 (IPS) - Democratic presidential nominee
Sen. Barack Obama sat down with IPS correspondent Bankole Thompson
again on Thursday for a one-on-one interview in Grand Rapids, Michigan,
where over 15,000 enthusiastic Obama supporters turned out to hear
his message of change at downtown's Calder Plaza.
Pakistan
- "greatest single challenge" to next president
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (IPS) - Calling Pakistan the "greatest single
challenge" to the next U.S. administration, a bipartisan group
of South Asia experts recommends cutting aid to the Pakistani army
unless it commits itself to the counter-insurgency struggle against
the Taliban and al Qaeda.
Projecting
an Obama victory
06 October 2008
By Norman Solomon, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Projection is a psychological hazard of politics. What's "obvious"
to some doesn't occur to others. So, these days, it's hardly reassuring
when some progressives roll their eyes at the latest McCain-Palin
maneuver and express confidence that few voters will be swayed by
the latest slimy attacks on Barack Obama.
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ON
THE U.S. FINANCIAL MELTDOWN
The
Political Economy of the Current (2008) Capitalist Financial Crisis
BY EDBERTO M. VILLEGAS*
IBON Foundation The
very philosophy of the acquisition of wealth of capitalism is becoming
a bane to the majority world people who are sinking deeper and deeper
into poverty because of the desperate resuscitation of dying capitalism
by their governments. For indeed the suffering of the vast majority
of the people is the price for the continued existence of this irrational
and moribund system for in-built in its very nature is greed and
corruption.
European,
Asian markets plunge as recession fears spread worldwide
October 08, 2008
As stock indexes plunge across Europe and Asia, Britain unveiled plans
today to inject up to 50 billion pounds—close to $90 billion—into
its biggest retail banks. Recent efforts to bolster world credit markets
have failed to stem fears that the spreading financial crisis could
lead to a global recession.
Pakistan
facing bankruptcy
06 October 2008
By Isambard Wilkinson, The Telegraph UK
Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves are so low that
the country can only afford one month of imports and faces possible
bankruptcy.
Global
financial meltdown
By Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, September 18, 2008
The financial slide proceeded unabated, leading to an 800 point decline
of the Dow Jones in less than a week. The World's stock markets are
interconnected "around the clock" through instant computer
link-up. Volatile trading on Wall Street immediately "spills
over" into the European and Asian stock markets thereby rapidly
permeating the entire financial system.
The
nation's social bargain with the rich
By Derrick Z. Jackson
September 30, 2008
CONGRESS has been rushing to save financial CEOs from themselves
with a $700 billion bailout that amounts to a tax of $2,333 on every
man, woman, and child in America. This is after three decades of
the nation's leaders punishing struggling Americans for their lack
of personal responsibility, from Ronald Reagan's assault on "welfare
queens" to the bipartisan slashing and capping of welfare benefits
by President Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Related
Topics (click here)
A
shattering moment in America's fall from power
John Gray, The Observer, September 28 2008
The global financial crisis will see the US falter in the same way
the Soviet Union did when the Berlin Wall came down. The era of American
dominance is over
Secret
Bush administration plan to suspend U.S. Constitution
"Continuity of Government" (COG) Provisions
activated in 2001
By Tom Burghardt
Global Research, October 6, 2008 Ten
months before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Secretary
of Defense Donald Rumsfeld approved an updated version of the U.S.
Army's secret operational Continuity of Government (COG) plans
Betrayed
by the Bailout: The Death of Democracy
By William Cox
Global Research, October 3, 2008
On this date, October 3, 2008, the American people were betrayed by
those whom they had elected to represent them. The members of Congress
who voted for the Wall Street "bailout" violated their oath
of office to "support and defend the Constitution" ... "that
I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same" ... "and
that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office
on which I am about to enter
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