|
|
Current issue headlines: October – November, 2008
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Illustration by Victor Velez.)
|
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows!,” Bob Dylan famously sang in 1965. And no one now debates that there is indeed an economic crisis upon us. Note that after at least 20 years of gridlock in Congress, an unprecedented “bipartisan consensus” has arisen to give Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson a “blank check.” |
|
|
The hardening of French immigration policy, following Nicolas Sarkozy's appointment as Interior Minister in 2002 and his subsequent election as President in 2007, is not the exception in the European Union but the rule. |
|
|
|
(Illustration by John Game.)
|
There is an entire genre of theory explaining why the Western capitalist democracies did not undergo socialist revolution in the 20th Century, as Classical Marxism had predicted. Not surprisingly, most of this material comes from the Left itself. |
|
|
|
|
|
ATLANTA - On September 8, 2008, Judge Michael Johnson heard the case filed in 2006 by Voters Organized for Trusted Election Results in Georgia (VoterGA) challenging the State of Georgia on the use of electronic voting machines in Superior Court of Fulton County. |
|
It's hard to describe McCain's role in the savings-and-loan scandal as "peripheral"; as one of the Keating Five, he was a key player in the highest-profile political scandal connected to the financial disaster. |
|
|
During the presidential debate this week, John McCain appeared to debate his own record on the question of lobbyists. At one point, McCain said, “There is too much special interests and too many lobbyists working there." But no presidential campaign has had more ties to Washington's lobbyist culture than John McCain's. |
|
What will be impact of the Wall Street bankruptcies, bailouts and blunders on working people in this country and worldwide? What's the solution to the crisis? |
|
|
The free trade agreement between Central American and the US has failed to accomplish all the supposed fairness and pledges advocated by its promoters, participants at the Social Forum of the Americas stated here this week. |
|
With the spreading financial crisis likely to take center stage at the upcoming annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF in Washington on 11-13 October, the global trade union movement is urging the international financial institutions (IFIs) not to overlook the millions of low-income workers whose buying power has declined drastically because of food and fuel price hikes. |
|
|
|
