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Free-marketeers have their history wrong

Sat, 25 Jul 2008 14:58:36 EDT

As he refines his economic message on the campaign trail this summer, Republican John McCain has made it clear that, previous positions notwithstanding, he has now embraced the Republican economic orthodoxy: eliminate regulation, cut taxes on corporations and the wealthy and the free and unfettered market will take care of everything.

LETTERS: JULY 26

Sat, 25 Jul 2008 14:51:13 EDT

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EDITORIAL: A �Change America� platform

Sat, 25 Jul 2008 14:45:51 EDT

Under the title �Listening to America,� the Obama campaign issued an open invitation to voters to organize meetings in their homes, union halls, churches and schools this month to discuss what planks should be added to a 2008 �Platform for Change.� In the past, the Democratic Party platform was written by �paid professionals,� the call said. �This year, that�s going to change.�

EDITORIAL: The good war?

Sat, 25 Jul 2008 14:42:36 EDT

The good news is Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama continues to project withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq by mid-2010. The bad news is, he is proposing to transfer a significant number of those troops to Afghanistan.

Fearing voter wrath, GOPers buck Bush on Medicare

Sat, 25 Jul 2008 14:37:44 EDT

Sen. Edward Kennedy�s appearance in the Senate recently, in the midst of his personal battle against brain cancer, to break a Republican filibuster against a bill to save Medicare will go down in history. Days later, on July 15, as the result of a 383-41 congressional vote to override a Bush veto the progressive measure became law.

Oil, independence, and gunboat diplomacy

Sat, 25 Jul 2008 14:24:45 EDT

In Buenos Aires earlier this month, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Thomas Shannon rejected theories that the U.S. Fourth Fleet, assigned to watch over South America, had been reactivated for offensive purposes. So that means defense, Brazilian Senator Pedro Sim�n observed, �but defending against whom?�

WORLD NOTES: July 26

Sat, 25 Jul 2008 13:55:14 EDT

Ecuador: Reckoning for past crimes
Senegal: Africans, choose your union!
Iran: U.S. tries diplomacy
Ukraine: NATO is not welcome
China: Wal-Mart store unionized
Cuba: Major land use reforms

Obama trip spotlights new direction for U.S. foreign policy

Thu, 23 Jul 2008 12:43:30 EDT

Barack Obama appeared to have scored a major success in projecting �commander-in-chief� ability and foreign policy savvy in his visits to Afghanistan and Iraq last week, and continued that path as he traveled to Jordan, Israel, the West Bank and then on to Western Europe.

Economic meltdown: We need a new, green New Deal!

Thu, 23 Jul 2008 06:36:15 EDT

�Recession� just doesn�t seem to adequately describe the hits workers are taking today. In the old days �recession� meant an economic downturn, unemployment and scrimping and cutting back until better days returned. The current super-recession is putting us through much more hell than most of the �recessions� anyone can remember.

Wage theft, Bush-style

Thu, 23 Jul 2008 06:24:53 EDT

In an unlikely team-up, impartial investigators from the Government Accountability Office joined a low-income workers� advocate at congressional hearings July 15 to tell lawmakers that President Bush�s Labor Department has failed to enforce minimum wage and overtime laws and that low-wage workers are routinely being robbed of their earnings.