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Voter Registration Efforts Gear Up
ADELAIDE KIMBALL Kimball is a senior advisor to Vote Smart. She said today: “Time for voter registration is dwindling in most states, except those few which have same-day registration, so it’s important that voters register and arm themselves with information. Voters may contact our hotline, 1-888-VOTE-SMART (1-888-868-3762), or refer to our website for crucial information.…
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Wall Street and Politics
JAMES K. GALBRAITH Galbraith is Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. chair in government/business relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. His latest book is The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too. Galbraith said today: “Revolutions devour their children. Deregulation…
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Crisis in Latin America
Reuters just reported: “Honduras … told a U.S. envoy not to present his credentials as ambassador on Friday in a diplomatic snub in support of Bolivia. Bolivia and … Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez are in a fight with Washington over what they see as U.S. support for violent protests against Bolivian President Evo Morales. ……
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U.S. Raids in Pakistan: Putting out the Fire with Gasoline?
GARETH PORTER Porter earlier this week wrote the piece “Intel Council Warned Against Raids in Pakistan.” The piece states: “The National Intelligence Council, the U.S. intelligence community’s focal point for estimating future developments, warned the George W. Bush administration last month that a decision to launch commando raids by U.S. troops against al Qaeda-related targets…
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Haiti: A Natural Disaster?
MATT MAREK Available for a limited number of interviews, Marek is head of programs for the American Red Cross in Haiti. He is in rural Haiti, where he is traveling in isolated communities to facilitate aid deliveries. PAUL FARMER Available for a limited number of interviews, Farmer is just back from Haiti. He is author…
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* Outsourcing the G.I. Bill? * Making of “the Greatest Generation”
The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs is holding a hearing Thursday on the G.I. Bill. AARON GLANTZ Author of the forthcoming book The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle Against America’s Veterans, Glantz reported extensively from Iraq as an unembedded journalist from 2003 to 2005. He has been covering U.S. war veterans since his return. He…
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9/11 Family Member Just Back from Iraq
TERRY ROCKEFELLER Rockefeller is just back from Iraq. She lost her sister, Laura, in the attacks on the World Trade Center and is a member of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, which just released the following statement: “On Thursday, September 11, 2008, the first bell will ring at 8:46 am. Bells will ring at…
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Causes of Fannie’s Collapse — and How to Stop the Speculators
JAMES K. GALBRAITH Galbraith’s latest book is The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too. He said today: “The collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is partly the result of their own practices, but it is also part and parcel of the broader collapse of regulation that took…
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Group Calls for Making Presidential Debates Contract Public
GEORGE FARAH Executive director of the group Open Debates, Farah said today: “Sen. Lindsay Graham of the McCain campaign and Rep. Rahm Emanuel of the Obama campaign have negotiated a detailed contract that dictates the terms of the 2008 presidential debates, including who can participate and the structure of the formats. The Commission on Presidential…
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“You Can’t Win an Occupation”
ADAM KOKESH Kokesh held up a sign — “You Can’t Win an Occupation” on one side and “McCain Votes Against Vets” on the other — at the beginning of McCain’s speech at the Republican convention last night. Video is online. A member of the board of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Kokesh said today: “It’s…