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Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, an African-American Democrat, in 1982 unexpectedly lost his candidacy for governor of California. His defeat followed voters telling pollsters they prefer a black candidate and then voting the other way. In California's primary last Tuesday, Obama lost by a landslide 10 percentage points after a late survey showed him ahead by 13 points and other polls gave him a smaller lead.
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Follow The Money - Bain Capital Owns Most Conservative And Some Liberal Radio Stations ... - 0 views
The Industrial Revolution: A New History - 0 views
14 Ways a 90 Percent Top Tax Rate Fixes Our Economy and Our Country | OurFuture.org - 0 views
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A return to Eisenhower-era 90% top tax rates helps fix our economy in several ways:
The Importance of the 1970s « The Baseline Scenario - 0 views
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One of the singular victories of the rich has been convincing the rest of us that their disproportionate success has been due to abstract economic forces beyond anyone's control (technology, globalization, etc.), not old-fashioned power politics. Hopefully the financial crisis and the recession that has ended only on paper (if that) will provide the opportunity to teach people that there is no such thing as abstract economic forces; instead, there are different groups using the political system to fight for larger shares of society's wealth. And one group has been winning for over thirty years.
The Democratic fear-based strategy - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 0 views
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Rather than tout their own accomplishments, Democrats look to fear of Sarah Palin to motivate their base
It Was the Banks | CommonDreams.org - 0 views
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Bruce Bartlett says it was a failure to focus. Paul Krugman says it was a failure of nerve. Nancy Pelosi says it was the economy's failure. Barack Obama says it was his own failure - to explain that he was, in fact, focused on the economy.
Eric Cantor's Pledge of Allegiance - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 0 views
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The soon-to-be House Majority Leader vows to protect Israel from his own Government
US security firm Blackwater changes its name to Xe | World news | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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Just as many Iraqis expected, the Blackwater banning was a publicity stunt by the Iraqi government prior to the elections, in reality: Names change, but the faces stay the same
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US security firm mired in Iraq controversy changes its name Blackwater Worldwide renamed Xe as company tries to salvage its tarnished brand
McCain Bill Making Medicare Untouchable Via Reconciliation Contradicts His Record - Yah... - 0 views
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In a direct challenge to Democratic leadership, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) introduced an amendment on Thursday night that would prohibit Congress from using reconciliation to make changes to Medicare. Framed as an effort to protect the sanctity of entitlement programs, McCain's measure would deprive Democrats of a stream of revenue for their health care bill. The party has targeted hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts and savings to the Medicare program that it would turn around and use to pay for other reforms. But for McCain to be the Republican face behind this effort is to distract, a bit, from its seriousness. The Senator has a fairly lengthy history of voting for reconciliation bills that do exactly what his current amendment prohibits: change Medicare. As pointed out by a Democratic source on the Hill, the Arizona Republican has voted for nine out of 13 reconciliation bills that have been offered during his time in the Senate. Of those nine, four included cuts to Medicare.
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Republican politicians in general, John McCain in particular - hypocrites of the highest degree. Yes, most politicians sooner or later, one time or another display hypocritical tendencies. However, Republicans and John have taken it to new heights.
Op-Ed Contributor - To Beat Al Qaeda, Look to the East - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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This might actually work
Bloggers are Africa's new rebels - Chicago Tribune - 0 views
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Dagem, as he chose to be called, was a new type of African revolutionary: a blogger.
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The U.S. should take note. As it prepares to engage with Africa more intensely than at any time since the Cold War, in part by the Pentagon’s establishment of a new Africa Command headquarters to coordinate military and security interests, the U.S. will be competing on an increasingly flat information playing field.
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Gone are the days when Washington could control its messages in client states. The scruffy cyber cafes of Chad and the man in Congo who rents his cell phone by the minute – sometimes climbing atop a tree to improve reception – ensure that Washington’s voice will have to vie with those of the resource-hungry Chinese, or with the designs of Al Qaeda recruiters.
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"The U.S. should take note. As it prepares to engage with Africa more intensely than at any time since the Cold War, in part by the Pentagon's establishment of a new Africa Command headquarters to coordinate military and security interests, the U.S. will be competing on an increasingly flat information playing field."
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This older article highlights the immorality of much that is called U.S. foreign policy and journalism. The lesson learned here is not what it should be, that people on the grassroots are fighting against authoritarian violent governments funded by the U.S. Rather it is a bland, neoimperialist comment about what the U.S. propaganda machine has to deal with in future interventions.
What Egypt Can Teach America - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The truth is that the United States has been behind the curve not only in Tunisia and Egypt for the last few weeks, but in the entire Middle East for decades. We supported corrupt autocrats as long as they kept oil flowing and weren't too aggressive toward Israel. Even in the last month, we sometimes seemed as out of touch with the region's youth as a Ben Ali or a Mubarak. Recognizing that crafting foreign policy is 1,000 times harder than it looks, let me suggest four lessons to draw from our mistakes:
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