firedoglake.com - 10/15/2008
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Is Obama the New FDR?
At this point it's clear that, barring some sort of catastrophic revelation, Obama is going to win the election. The most important task facing him will be fixing the economy. Given his economic proposals to date, what strategy can we expect him to employ? What sort ...
afp.google.com - 10/15/2008
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7 hours ago NEW YORK (AFP) A rare
bird in the political world, the US Communist Party
is feeling rather smug in these days of capitalist turmoil. At the party's New York headquarters on 23rd Street in Manhattan, regional party chairman Libero Della ...
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US communists say their time has come
mcclatchydc.com - 10/15/2008
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WASHINGTON — A growing al Qaida-backed insurgency, combined
with the Pakistani army's reluctance to launch an all-out
crackdown, political infighting and energy and food shortages are plunging America's key ally in the war on terror deeper into ...
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New intelligence report says Pakistan is 'on the edge'
weeklystandard.com - 10/14/2008
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A look back at the original language used
by Palin at the rally in question makes it
nearly impossible for the exclamation to be misunderstood as an attack on Obama unless you happen to be a MSM member just dying to think the worst of the Right. ...
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No One Ever Said 'Kill Him' About Obama
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Corrente —
... Ian Welsh says there’s no reason to believe that Obama will follow through on traditional liberal economics. I don’t know if we know that. The political context is now very different than it was just a month ago and I don’t know that the normal assumptions apply anymore. ...
Democrats Plan New Deal 2.0?
Tennessee Guerilla Women —
... Congress and the power to remake economic policy for the next generation, Democrats are dusting off their New Deal history books and openly discussing the idea of re-engineering Depression-era agencies for the 21st century. Several lawmakers want to bring back the Home Ownership Loan Corp., and others have discussed resurrecting the defunct Reconstruction Finance Corp., a federal program that made direct loans to businesses. Obamanomics — Is Obama the New FDR? Poll Says Attacks Backfire on ...
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longwarjournal.org 11/21/2008 —
Map of the tribal areas and the Northwest Frontier Province. The government signed peace agreements in the red agencies/ districts (the military said Shangla was under Taliban control in October); purple districts are under de facto ...
US targets Taliban "facility" in South Waziristan
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A sketch map of North and South Waziristan. Map from The Khyber Gateway . Click to view.
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