What John McCain Doesn't Get: Change is on the American Mind
People are ready for a big change away from Bush-McCain politics, according to a new article from Yes! Magazine, titled 'Our Own Agenda: 10 Policies for a Better America,' which compiles the results of a number of polls and surveys on a host of issues.
Satirical News and the Build Up to the Third World War
Perhaps a couple of decades from now we will all be praising the mainstream media for the wonderful work they have done reporting on our collective insanity.
US Working Families under Republicans: Working Harder, Sinking Faster
According to the latest Census Bureau data released just this week, since the last economic recession in 2001, 4.4 million more people have been added to the poverty rolls. More than one and a half million of them have been children.
Hillary Clinton: 'the reasons I support Barack Obama'
His speech didn't make prime time TV from the Democratic National Convention, but his story and the promise of how his story could be changed did. Robin Golden is a UAW member who is losing his job as an inspector at Lear Corp., an auto supplier based in Michigan.
McCain Campaign Fabricates 'Citizens for McCain'
The latest McCain campaign screw-up is more interesting because of how it reveals who's behind the campaign to split Democrats between Clinton supporters and the rest of the party – a campaign that, although it is pure invention and tiny, the corporate media has been all too willing to help promote.
McCain Distorts Tax and Health Care Issues
A recent TV ad by the McCain campaign titled 'Debra' appears to be suggesting that not only is John McCain a 'maverick,' but that he is also more like Hillary Clinton than George W. Bush.
Cracks in the Neoliberal “Consensus”: The Meaning of the Nepali Revolution
For some time I have been following developments in Nepal just as I have followed developments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and other countries experiencing dramatic political shifts in Latin America.
UN Appeals for Peace as Fighting Escalates in Southern Philippines
UN agencies have appealed for peace in the southern Philippines, where fighting between government forces and Muslim separatist rebels has escalated over the past two weeks and the number displaced is now over 270,000.
Forcing the Pace: Partido Komunista NG Pilipinas from Foundation to Armed Struggle
The Philippines Communist Party is best known for leading a heroic and successful armed struggle against Japanese occupation between 1941 and 1945 and an equally heroic but ultimately unsuccessful armed resistance to the new US-backed government from 1946.
New Web Site Reveals McCain to be 'Worse than Bush'
Recent polls show that a growing number of voters see a potential McCain administration as pushing the same policies as George W. Bush. But a new Web site, WorseThanBush.org, created by people at the Change to Win labor federation highlights key items on McCain's agenda that would make him a worse president than Bush.
