The following speech, transcribed by Democracy Now!, was delivered by Chomsky in Massachussetts at an event sponsored by Bikes Not Bombs.
Not very long ago, as you all recall, it was taken for granted that the Iraq war would be the central issue in the 2008 election, as it was in the midterm election two years ago. However, it’s virtually disappeared off the radar screen, which has solicited some puzzlement among the punditry.
Actually, the reason is not very obscure. It was cogently (...)
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Noam Chomsky : Why Isn’t Iraq in the 2008 Election?
3 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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The $54 Million Hillary/Bill Clinton Duo in Meltdown
28 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
1 comment“The Lady doth protest too much, methinks. “ - William Shakespeare
It pains me to agree with that ranter Richard Cohen of the Washington Post. But, every once in a while, like that insufferable Neocon, Jonah Goldberg, he gets it right. On Feb. 25, 2008, Cohen ripped Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), a veritable new you-know-what. At the moment, she running very badly for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Her negative, attack-dog campaign tactics are also dragging the party down (...) -
The two faces of Barack Obama, by Bill Van Auken (GlobalResearch)
28 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsAppearing before a packed auditorium at the University of Wisconsin Tuesday on the night of his victories in the “Potomac primaries,” held in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., Illinois senator and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama delivered a speech that was notable for its populist demagogy, not only on the war in Iraq but also social conditions in America.
The Wisconsin rally is the latest in a series of campaign events that have drawn large and predominantly (...) -
Election Madness
25 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
By Howard Zinn, The Progressive
There’s a man in Florida who has been writing to me for years (ten pages, handwritten) though I’ve never met him. He tells me the kinds of jobs he has held-security guard, repairman, etc. He has worked all kinds of shifts, night and day, to barely keep his family going. His letters to me have always been angry, railing against our capitalist system for its failure to assure "life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness" for working people.
Just today, a (...) -
Obama’s Health Plan To Shine Light
23 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsBroadcast live on CSPAN, President Barack Obama’s administration’s discussions with insurance companies and drug companies are sure to shine light on some of the corruption and glad handing going on behind closed door between some members of Congress and those industries responsible for bringing high cost for health care services to the American people... The link below maybe able to help you understand why:
– http://www.projo.com/news/content/M...
As A Class I Senator Sen. Hillary R. (...) -
NYTimes’s Dirty Little Secrets
21 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentOur beloved NYTimes sat on the story of Bush’s secret and illegal wiretapping operations which went into effect shortly after he was selected to the White House by the SCOTUS back in January of 2000. You know the dirty little secret they decided to reveal only after the 2004 election cycle.
BTW, have you caught the other dirty little secret that they have been sitting of for the last eight years about Sen. McCain the current GOP front runner for that parties nod for POTUS?
It would (...) -
Popping The Obama Bubble
15 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
7 commentsPopping The Obama Bubble
Now that the Kennedy’s have formally anointed Obama with the legend of Camelot we have to wonder if he deserves it, or, if "it" is really anything at all. Firstly, JKF gained mythic proportions only by being assassinated. Before that, he became President by the tiniest of margins; in fact, on the day of his assassination he was in Dallas, not as a legend, but as a struggling politician shoring up his sagging political fortunes there in anticipation of his next (...) -
Sen. Obama Beat the Political Machine in Maryland
14 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
“Obama’s campaign...may be creating...a powerful constituency for ‘real’ change.” - Dave Lindorff, political pundit
Sen. Barack Obama’s vote-generating juggernaut came very close to burying Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential aspirations in Maryland’s primary, on Feb. 12, 2008. Clinton’s candidacy in the “Free State” was aligned with its powerful Democratic Party Political Machine, while Sen. Obama was forced to reach out to the grassroots. In the Clinton camp, was the senior U.S. (...) -
US Elections : Curb you Enthousiam
11 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsAlternet
By Robert Scheer
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-16482544.html
Curb your enthusiasm. Even if your favored candidate did well on Super Tuesday, ask yourself if he or she will seriously challenge the bloated military budget that President Bush has proposed for 2009. If not, military spending will rise to a level exceeding any other year since the end of World War II, and there will be precious little left over to improve education and medical research, fight (...) -
A McCain-Lieberman Ticket in 2008
8 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
By William Hughes
“You get the government you deserve!” Jay Leno, in reflecting on the lack of political knowledge of the U.S. public.
As the John McCain presidential juggernaut rolls up the victories in GOP primaries across the country, forcing Mitt Romney to quit, a question remains: Who will the Senator from Arizona pick as his running mate in the Vice-President slot? Sen. “Turncoat Joe” Lieberman (IND-CT)? At just about every photo op recently on the campaign trail, Lieberman has (...)