Ten National Security Myths
The Editors Here's what's really at stake in this election, for America and the world.
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David Bacon on immigration, Paul Farmer on Haiti, Patricia J. Williams on Sarah Palin
Articles
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Railroading Immigrants
David Bacon : Massive workplace raids are part of a pressure campaign for guest-worker programs.
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McCain and the POW Cover-up
Sydney H. Schanberg : The war hero has long sought to bury information about POWs left behind in Vietnam.
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Progressive Fusion
James Gustave Speth : Environmentalists must learn to join forces with other agents of change.
Letters
Editorials & Comment
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Crashing the Election
: Puncturing John McCain's Teddy Roosevelt persona will require brutal honesty from Barack Obama--about the causes of the crash and the regulatory solutions.
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Palin's Petropolitics
Michael T. Klare : Palin's opposition to government-supported renewable energy makes her stupendously ill equipped for national office.
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Noted.
: Tricky Dick Cheney, Canada Greens, the truth about the Rosenberg trial
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Haiti's Unnatural Disaster
Paul Farmer : Haiti has been beaten down by storms and abandoned by its neighbors, and its suffering will only increase unless the world community responds.
Reviews
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book
Inconvenient Truths
Steven Epstein : Elizabeth Pisani and Jonny Steinberg explore antipodal aspects of the fight against AIDS.
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book
Mandarins, Guns and Money
Mark Mazower : Four authors examine the evolution of the social sciences and how academic theorizing impacted global affairs before and after Vietnam.
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film
Burned Out
Stuart Klawans : The Coen brothers' dark comedy and Godfrey Cheshire's story of plantation life.
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Back Talk: Chris Smith
Christine Smallwood : The filmmaker discusses the American Dream, crummy jobs and his new work, The Pool.
Columns
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DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR
Lipstick Jungle
Patricia J. Williams : Andy Warhol would have loved Sarah Palin. She really is the ultimate soup can.
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THE LIBERAL MEDIA
Something Stupid
Eric Alterman : John McCain is determined to lie his way into the White House, and pundits and reporters are doing everything they can to enable that strategy.
Crossword
Web
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Stephen Colbert 'Suspends' His Show
The Colbert Report : Parodying McCain's campaign "suspension," Colbert briefly brings his show to a halt until the financial crisis is averted.
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Letterman Slams McCain's 'Suspension'
CBS : The Late Night Show host asks, 'What are you going to do if you're elected and things get tough? Suspend being president?'
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Show Us the Money
William Greider : Something needs to be done--something fair for the American taxpayer--to salvage Wall Street. We want the same deal Warren Buffet got.
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The Palin Action Doll
Revision3 : Puppet lobbyists, banned books and the Bridge to Nowhere Play Set sold separately.
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View From Asia
Walden Bello : Flush with cash, most Asian governments and financial players are wary of being drawn into the Wall Street maelstrom.
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Free Sarah Palin!
YouTube : CNN's Campbell Brown slams the McCain campaign for barring their own VP pick from speaking with reporters, a move Brown calls unequivocally 'sexist'.
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Howl
Desperate Measures
Nicholas von Hoffman : Remember the National Lampoon cover showing a puppy with a gun to its head? That's the Paulson plan.
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TruthDig
Financial Fascism
Robert Scheer : Henry Paulson isn't proposing the nationalization of private corporations--he wants a corporate takeover of government.
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The Short of It
Darkness Becomes Him
Scott McLemee : A French pundit's short journey from Maoism to the cult of moi.
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The Fundamental Deregulator
Huffington Post : John McCain may have recently discovered his inner populist, but he has been pushing for deregulation all year.
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John McCain's Age Card
Barely Political : Confused? Forgetting what you stand for? Sleeping on the job? You need the Age Card.
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Trust But Verify
James K. Galbraith & William K. Black : Bernanke is asking for trust he has not earned. Here's a shortlist of conditions to make this a credible deal.
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Gov at First Sight
The Daily Show : Jon Stewart mocks Sean Hannity's suggestion that we should all just shut up about the economy while he gushes over Sarah Palin.
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Goldman Sachs Socialism
William Greider : Instead of handing Bernanke $700 billion with no strings attached, government should take over the banking and finance sector, clean it up and start funneling money into the real economy.
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Socialism for Bankers, Savage Capitalism for Everyone Else?
James S. Henry : The bailout jeopardizes the entire progressive agenda, undermines democracy, doesn't compensate us for our money and doesn't solve the problem. Otherwise, it's great!
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GOP: Lose Your Home, Lose Your Vote
Peter Dreier : A Michigan news site uncovers a GOP plan to deny people caught up in foreclosure proceedings the right to vote in November. Team Obama files suit to stop the practice.
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Palin: Energy Expert or Billy Madison?
Air America : Palin makes a bizarre statement reminiscent of the Adam Sandler buffoon: 'They don't flag the molecules, where it's going and where it's not'
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Radio Nation with Laura Flanders
Radio Nation : A look at the recent financial panic on Wall Street with Nicholas von Hoffman and Nomi Prins. Plus: Immigration raids, foreign policy and the election.
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Disaster Capitalism Comes to Wall Street
Real Time with Bill Maher : The Nation's Naomi Klein discusses how Christmas came early for Wall Street this year--and we're paying the bill.
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Bridge Loan to Nowhere
Thomas Ferguson & Robert Johnson : The Paulson/Bernanke bailout plan is not the way to go, unless you work on Wall Street. Even if you do, there are compelling reasons to fear it. Here's what Congress should do instead.
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Rescue Wall Street--and the Rest of Us
Bernie Sanders : Any Wall Street bailout must also impose tax increases for the wealthy, market reforms and address the needs of middle class Americans caught in the crunch
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John McCain: Crisis Enabler
Mark Sumner : The deregulation binge that tanked global markets is a bullet deliberately fired into the economy by ideologues, heedless of the ultimate cost to taxpayers. And John McCain cheered them on.
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Howl
The Mother of All Bailouts
Nicholas von Hoffman : Even without knowing the specifics of Paulson's staggering rescue plan, you can kiss the environment, preschool education and health insurance for all goodbye.
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Bankrupt AIG Underwrote McCain's 'Reform Institute'
Mark Ames : John McCain is making a big show of criticizing the government "bailout" of insurance giant AIG. But it turns out that AIG is one of the largest donors to his pet think-tank.
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The McCain-Keating Connection
Progressive Accountability : The current banking crisis and McCain's political history should be creating a serious case of déjà vu.
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Paulson Bailout Plan a Historic Swindle
William Greider : Paulson's rescue plan represents a historic swindle--all sugar for the villains, lasting pain for the rest of us. Don't let Wall Street get away with this without enacting significant reform.
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Wall Street and Washington
Steve Fraser : Washington's mission may, at this late date, be an even greater one than Roosevelt's New Deal faced.
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McCain vs. Spain
CNN : McCain declares he wouldn't grant a meeting with the President of Spain if he's elected, perhaps forgetting that Spain is a US ally.
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The Contempt of Karl Rove
Rep. John Conyers : Fifty years ago, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that all citizens have an "unremitting obligation" to respond to Congressional subpoenas. Karl Rove has breached this obligation.
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Tax the Speculators
Chuck Collins : The corporations that rigged the casino economy and CEOs and investors who profited at our expense should bear the recovery costs.
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Crossword Classic #18
Frank W. Lewis : From the February 14, 1948, issue.
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Turning Pages: High School Journalism in Transition
With high school newspapers disappearing, the future of journalism is at risk.
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New McCain Attack Ad Obliterates the Line
The most painful part of the campaign season for most ordinary Americans is how we are subjected to senseless lies and irresponsible attack ads.
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The Free Gaza Movement
Richard Silverstein : A mission to Gaza motivated by human misery broke the Israeli siege and raised Nobel hopes for a group of dedicated activists.
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