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Undernews for August 20, 2008
Thursday, 21 August 2008, 5:00 pm | Undernews
Bob Herbert, NY Times - Around the same time that the McCain campaign was pocketing its oil industry windfall, the historian Douglas Brinkley was poring over letters in which Roosevelt, running for his first full term as president in 1904, was indignantly ... More >>
Undernews For August 17, 2008
Tuesday, 19 August 2008, 12:50 am | Undernews
Corrupted by wealth and power, your government is like a restaurant with only one dish. They've got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side. But no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, ... More >>
Undernews For August 13, 2008
Thursday, 14 August 2008, 1:53 pm | Undernews
Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times - Utility shut-offs for customers behind on their energy bills are increasing around the country. . . as the effects of rising prices and a sagging economy are beginning to drag down more vulnerable consumers. . . More >>
Undernews For August 11, 2008
Tuesday, 12 August 2008, 5:55 pm | Undernews
Driving jobholders out of office is like the old discredited policy of driving prostitutes out of town. Their places are immediately taken by others who are precisely like them. - Albert Jay Nock More >>
Undernews For August 6, 2008
Thursday, 7 August 2008, 6:03 pm | Undernews
As I've often told Ginsberg, you can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they ... More >>
Undernews For August 3, 2008
Monday, 4 August 2008, 1:52 pm | Undernews
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair More >>
Undernews For July 28, 2008
Tuesday, 29 July 2008, 5:48 pm | Undernews
In his speech Senator Obama declared that "America can’t [win in Afghanistan] alone... The Afghan people need our troops and your troops; our support and your support to defeat the Taliban and al Qaeda, to develop their economy, and to help them rebuild ... More >>
Undernews For 26 July, 2008
Sunday, 27 July 2008, 7:49 pm | Undernews
In a remarkable essay in Counterpunch, an anonymous political consultant gets to the heart of what's happening in this election campaign: we're not choosing a politician but a product, one that makes us feel good about ourselves - and Obama is the iPod ... More >>
Undernews For July 22, 2008
Thursday, 24 July 2008, 12:47 am | Undernews
ROGER SIMON: The optics are all very good on this trip. I mean, the beginning of this trip is so good, Senator Obama might just want to call off the end and just keep running the videotape. He goes into a gym, everybody, all the service people ... More >>
Undernews For July 20, 2008
Monday, 21 July 2008, 1:33 pm | Undernews
Several months ago, Suzan Mazur wrote of an important upcoming conference of scientists who did not reject the theory Darwin's beliefs about evolution but who thought things that had been learned in the succeeding century and a half might expand or alter ... More >>
Undernews For July 17, 2008
Saturday, 19 July 2008, 4:51 pm | Undernews
Michael Niebauer of the DC Examiner called the other day with a question that had been wandering aimlessly around in my head for some time: what did Barack Obama and DC Mayor Adrian Fenty have in common? More >>
Undernews For July 15, 2008
Thursday, 17 July 2008, 1:48 pm | Undernews
It is against the journalist's code of ethics to say so, but the presidential campaign has become incredibly dull. Over the past few weeks, the candidates have become becalmed, drifting in the electoral ocean, sails flapping lazily, awaiting for nature and history ... More >>
Undernews For July 14, 2008
Wednesday, 16 July 2008, 12:23 am | Undernews
Hi, this is Senator Tom Bromwell. I can't come to the phone right now because I'm in jail. If you care to leave a message, I'll call you back in six years. By the way, I'm doing okay. -- Recent phone message from former Maryland state senator (D-Baltimore ... More >>
Undernews For June 16, 2008
Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 7:46 pm | Undernews
From the beginning, I have been one of those rare Americans who thought that if Barack Obama had gone to a Muslim school, it was probably a good thing. Unlike much of the country and almost all of the conventional media, I don't think being a Muslim is ... More >>
Undernews For June 14, 2008
Sunday, 15 June 2008, 2:25 pm | Undernews
MOTHER JONES has done a great service by breaking down this season's presidential campaign contributions by occupation. Here are some of the findings: More >>
Undernews For June June 11, 2008
Thursday, 12 June 2008, 1:09 pm | Undernews
The optimist says, "This is the best of all possible worlds." The pessimist says, "You're right." - Somebody More >>
Undernews For June 11, 2008
Wednesday, 11 June 2008, 12:18 am | Undernews
Having been an anthropology major, I am easily distracted from the business at hand by cultural idiosyncrasies. Take, for example, Barack and Michelle Obama doing the fist bump. More >>
Undernews For June 9, 2008
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 1:06 pm | Undernews
The RBCB (Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush) era is apparently finished, although with this crowd you can never be sure. It was a time when America lost power, respect, direction, jobs, integrity, its Constitution and an understanding of what democracy was all ... More >>
Undernews For June 5, 2008
Monday, 9 June 2008, 1:50 pm | Undernews
The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them it forfeits its character and becomes ridiculous. - H.L. Mencken More >>
Undernews For June 4, 2008
Thursday, 5 June 2008, 12:59 am | Undernews
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. - Ben Hecht More >>