With no reply from Obama to their letter asking him to endorse their goals, IVAW marched to the Pepsi Center to demand that their voices be heard.
Biden, Obama, and the Dems are rallying to escalate the war in Afghanistan. But trading one war for another would be catastrophic.
Though Obama’s health plan is far better than McCain’s, it still only tinkers around the edges. What we need is a system overhaul.
Obama’s advisers will be the ones whispering in the president’s ear and pulling the levers of executive power.
A hundred years ago, Dems questioned whether to take a stand against lynching. Today, Obama’s nomination completes a long process of transformation.
Obama’s advisers will be the ones whispering in the president’s ear and pulling the levers of executive power.
Hillary Clinton’s call to support Barack Obama was unequivocal. Now everyone else needs to follow her lead.
By PATRICK COCKBURN | The United States is moving towards ending its military control of Iraq by agreeing to withdraw combat troops from Iraqi cities and towns by June next year and from the rest of Iraq by 2011, according Iraqi and American negotiators.
The withdrawal of US troops to bases outside the cities, towns and [...]
By Robert Scheer | Just great! Nuclear-armed Pakistan is falling apart, Iran’s nuclear program is unchecked and congressional legislation on cooperation with the Russians on controlling nuclear proliferation is now dead in the water. Horrid news except for Sen. John McCain, who thrills to a repeat of the danger lines of the Cold War, and now [...]
By Glenn Greenwald | Writing in a New York Times blog yesterday, Clinton pollster Mark Penn hails the selection of Joe Biden as “a smart and successful choice” and says this:
From Al Gore on, the role of the vice president seems to have fundamentally changed. It used to be where the winner parked the loser or [...]
In a speech to a roaring crowd at the DNC, Hillary Clinton gave full support to Barack Obama, promising to fight for health care and the environment.
Poll-watch (and reality check): Even though Obama says he’ll cut taxes for 95% of Americans, Gallup records 53% thinking he’ll raise them.
Michelle Obama gives an inspiring and intimate introduction to her family’s all-American success story. And: Ted Kennedy passes the torch.
By Stephen Lendman - RINF | For the West, everything changed but stayed the same, hard-wired and in place. Things just lay dormant in the shadows during the Yeltsin years, certain to reemerge once a more resolute Russian leader took over. If not Vladimir Putin, someone else little different.
Russia is back, proud and reassertive, and [...]
By Ruth Conniff | If the all-too-familiar sight of a slightly paunchy Joe Biden jogging to the podium, his white comb-over waving gently in the breeze (think “energy!”) to accept the job as Barack Obama’s Vice Presidential pick wasn’t enough to give you pause, there was the Bidenesque speech that followed. The “change” campaign is [...]
Obama and McCain are both taking whacks at overpaid CEOs, but their solutions fall short.
R.I.P., ‘Change We Can Believe in.’ The fierce urgency of the 21st century demands Change Before It’s Too Late.
Obama and McCain are both taking whacks at overpaid CEOs, but their solutions fall short.
Obama and McCain are both taking whacks at overpaid CEOs, but their solutions fall short.
Barack Obama has chosen Joe Biden as his running mate. It’s an interesting choice, given that Obama is running a change campaign and Biden has been a Washington fixture for decades. Also because the two ran against each other in the primary, during which Biden famously had to apologize for unfortunate comments about his rival.
The [...]
(IPS) | If John McCain is elected the next U.S. president, wounded veterans could be in for a world of hurt.
On the campaign trail, the Republican’s presumptive nominee has talked of a new mission for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and argued that veterans with non-combat medical problems should be given vouchers to receive [...]
Joe Biden has the potential to put Obama over the top in this election, but his record overall is a mixed-bag for progressives.
A populist message and a willingness to take the fight to his opponent is Barack Obama’s ticket to the White House.
It didn’t take a newfangled text message, just an old-fashioned leak, to identify Obama’s running mate.
Corsi’s success represents the apotheosis of a long, strange trip from the furthest shores of the right into the national spotlight.
A debate over McCain’s claims of “victory in Iraq” is one Obama can win if he hits hard.
Just as George Bush needed Dick Cheney in 2000 to elevate his stature and status, Obama badly needs Gore.
Critiques of Barack Obama’s suitability for the office of the presidency have been bookended by astonishingly contradictory stereotypes.
PR Watch | The Center for Union Facts, one of lobbyist Rick Berman’s front groups, is railing against the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation that would “allow employees at a work place to unionize as soon as a majority signs cards expressing support to join a union.” Labor rights advocates say the bill is needed, [...]
Soldiers also support Ron Paul over John McCain, suggesting troops want to get out of Iraq sooner than later.
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