G-20 Muscles G-7 Aside
Sep 25, 2009 It looks like the G-20 is set to permanently replace the G-7 as the world's dominant economic forum, an indirect admission that there was something unfair about the world's seven wealthiest countries deciding economic policy for the entire globe.
Obama Outs Iranian Nuclear Site
Sep 25, 2009 Following Thursday's U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at halting nuclear proliferation, President Obama announced Friday that Iran has concealed a partly built second uranium enrichment plant. The Iranians admitted existence of the plant but asserted that it would be used only for peaceful purposes.
Globalization Goes Bankrupt
Sep 21, 2009 The rage of the disposed is fracturing the country, dividing it into camps that are unmoored from the political mainstream. Movements are building on the ends of the political spectrum that have lost faith in the mechanisms of democratic change. You can’t blame them. But unless we on the left move quickly, this rage will be captured by a virulent and racist right wing, one that seeks a disturbing proto-fascism. The rage of the disposed is fracturing the country, dividing it into camps that are unmoored from the political mainstream.
Go to Pittsburgh, Young Man, and Defy Your Empire
Aug 31, 2009 Voices of change, who speak in powerful and yet unfamiliar words, are on their way to Pittsburgh. They will cry out to defy the heads of state, bankers and finance ministers meeting there for the G-20.When the failed elite arrive in Pittsburgh for G-20, they will be met by powerful new ideas.
Faux Attack ‘Victim’ Ordered to Undergo Counseling
Oct 31, 2008 Ashley Todd, the 20-year-old McCain campaign volunteer who admitted that she had made up her story about being mugged by a 6' 4" black man who carved a "B" into her face on Oct. 22, has been released from jail under the condition that she undergo psychiatric treatment.
