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Undernews For October 20, 2008
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 2:22 pm | Undernews
I have been trying hard to recall a presidential campaign in which there has been so much slime, sleaze and slippery deception confronting the voter. I can't. Even Nixon, by the time he was a presidential candidate, had cleaned up his act. McCain ... More >>
Undernews For October 19, 2008
Tuesday, 21 October 2008, 12:57 pm | Undernews
We have launched a new RSS feed - Money & Work - that will include our coverage of the fiscal crash as well as other topics dealing with the economy. Click here for the web page of the site More >>
Undernews For October 14, 2008
Thursday, 16 October 2008, 2:15 pm | Undernews
As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear, or is trampled beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained ... More >>
Undernews For October 12, 2008
Monday, 13 October 2008, 6:24 pm | Undernews
Hey folks! Have you been wondering why Republicans have suddenly stopped talking about 'family values?' Could it be because a divorced John McCain chose as his running mate a stay-at-home mom who hid her last unplanned pregnancy and who has a pregnant, ... More >>
Undernews For October 8, 2008
Friday, 10 October 2008, 12:33 am | Undernews
All our political forms are exhausted and practically nonexistent. Our parliamentary and electoral system and our political parties are just as futile as dictatorships are intolerable. Nothing is left. And this nothing is increasingly aggressive, totalitarian, ... More >>
Undernews For October 6, 2008
Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 4:46 pm | Undernews
Of George Bush's many sins, one has remained unnoted. He and his aides are so absurdly inept at most of what they do that they have diverted attention from the fact that America's collapse began well before Bush came into office and has continued under ... More >>
Undernews For October 4, 2008
Monday, 6 October 2008, 1:27 pm | Undernews
Contrary to her Joe Six Pack, hockey mom hokum, Sarah Palin proved in her debate with Joe Biden that she would fit in extremely well in Washington - albeit at an enormous price to the rest of the country. More >>
Undernews For September 30, 2008
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 5:22 pm | Undernews
Craig Crawford, CQ - How did anyone think the public would get behind something sold as a bailout of Wall Street multi-millionaires? Make it a bailout of homeowners, and you would have something that could pass in Congress. But to do that, the Bush ... More >>
Undernews For September 29, 2008
Monday, 29 September 2008, 8:12 pm | Undernews
In Washington, for officials and media alike, numbers are treated like adjectives - created, inflated or diminished to serve the purpose of the moment. So instead of saying "awesome," one declares "$700 billion," as confirmed by the Treasury official ... More >>
Undernews For September 24, 2008
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 8:20 pm | Undernews
This is what separated us from you; we made demands. You were satisfied to serve the power of your nation and we dreamed of giving ours the truth -- Albert Camus to a German friend after WW2. More >>
Undernews For September 23, 2008
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 3:19 pm | Undernews
Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest - Critics are focusing on vital issues such as cost and oversight, but a lot less attention is being paid to the mechanics of Paulson’s proposal – specifically, the question of who would carry out the federal government’s ... More >>
Undernews For September 21, 2008
Monday, 22 September 2008, 7:59 pm | Undernews
Alexander Cockburn, Counterpunch - By all rights, this last crisis has brought us to the crossroads where neoliberalism should be buried with a stake through its heart. We’ve had thirty years worth of deregulation - the loosening of government supervision. ... More >>
Undernews For September 18, 2008
Friday, 19 September 2008, 3:00 pm | Undernews
The Democrats seem slightly befuddled how to react to the current fiscal crisis. One reason is that they helped to cause it. Starting with the Clinton administration, there was a conscious effort by Democrats to cozy up to Wall Street and to this day ... More >>
Undernews For September 17, 2008
Thursday, 18 September 2008, 4:38 pm | Undernews
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. He takes up the trade of priest for the sake ... More >>
Undernews For September 16, 2008
Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 1:55 pm | Undernews
Stop talking like them. As Harry Truman said, "Give the people a choice between a Republican and a Democrat who talks like a Republican and they'll choose the Republican every time." Ever since closet conservative Bill Clinton conned his party into thinking ... More >>
Undernews For September 11, 2008
Friday, 12 September 2008, 7:13 pm | Undernews
Anchorage Daily News - Back in 1996, when she first became mayor, Sarah Palin asked the city librarian if she would be all right with censoring library books should she be asked to do so. More >>
Undernews For September 3, 2008
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 12:17 am | Undernews
Los Angeles Times - This month, Ecuador will hold the world's first constitutional referendum in which voters will decide, among many other reforms, whether to endow nature with certain unalienable rights. Not only would the new constitution give ... More >>
Undernews For August 30, 2008
Monday, 1 September 2008, 12:42 am | Undernews
The confluence of Barack Obama's stadium acceptance extravaganza and John McCain's pick for vice president offers superfluous but final proof that Americans have been consigned to spend their lives as part of a crowd scene in an HBO special. Both Obama ... More >>
Undernews For August 27, 2008
Thursday, 28 August 2008, 5:50 pm | Undernews
Denver Post - An ABC News producer was arrested outside the Brown Palace Hotel as he attempted to chronicle attendees at a private breakfast held by a Democratic Party campaign committee. ABC said in a statement that Asa Eslocker and a camera crew were ... More >>
Undernews For August 25, 2008
Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 1:38 pm | Undernews
Phoenix News Times 2000 - [Senator McCain's] wife and -- more important -- his father-in-law, James Willis Hensley, are very wealthy people. Like his father and grandfather before him, McCain was a career Navy officer. His earning power and his inheritance were ... More >>
