US election

The Real News posted an interview with Howard Zinn, arguably one the most important American iconoclast and historian. He reaffirmed my belief, which was initially shaped by Jesse Jackson's statements regarding this election, that a slight change in power structure could have a huge impact during this US election. But if you vote for Obama instead of Ralph Nader, don't expect any fundamental change unless an organized citizenary movement 'envelopes' the government.  read more »

ACORN, a grassroots activist group, is receiving the blunt end of the GOP's attempt at stealing this upcoming US election. Check out the vid.  read more »

With Noam Chomsky on TheRealNews.com, editor Paul Jay brings up the now infamous assertion George Will made: "surely in a democracy it's time for us to quit being sentimental and say the question we settle in an election is not whether an elite shall rule but which elite shall rule." Chomsky, as he has many times before, discusses James Madison's (the fourth US president) view on US democracy: 'that power should be in the hands of the wealthy, those who respect the rights of property.

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The House voted down the taxpayer bailout of America's richest thugs. And the TSX dropped a record 840 points. Jack Layton just called all federal candidates to meet and discuss the impact the US financial crisis is having on our economy, but Harper just declined. Protest against the financial bailout of the companies who put the US into this crisis is growing rapidly (check this video as well). As a realnews correspondent has mentioned more than once, "this is weapons of mass destruction all over again." Essentially, the political elite are using the economic crisis as an opportunity to coerce the Senate and Congress to bailout the rich bastards that are responsible for this mess. Michael Moore's article at Alternet describes the bailout as the biggest robbery in US history. Fortunately, many US citizens are now wise to this totally unnecessary move to appease investors and the corporate elite. 

Does this spell the end for free-market Capitalism? Check out this fab ANP video on various economists' interpretation of the disaster. Also, be sure to check out Garland McLaurin's piece on the effect the sub-prime lending, behind this crisis, has had on middle-class US citizens.  read more »