By Ramzy Baroud

One should rightly assume that the weight of the US financial crisis, the full impact of which is just beginning to unravel, and the widening military debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan, would compel new thinking amongst leading US politicians. And then again, maybe not.

by John Ross

MEXICO CITY (Oct. 10th) - Fury at the billionaire bail-out of the criminal class that has driven Wall Street into a disaster of 9/11 dimensions festers down at the bottom of the economic food chain on Main Street USA. It is a familiar syndrome south of the border. Bailing out the super rich on the backs of the rest of us has had Mexicans seething since the great FOBAPROA scam of the mid-1990s.

by Danny Schechter

The other day, as I was out promoting my book “Plunder” with a talk at a New York bookstore - on the day the market dropped precipitously - I led my blog with a quote from a financial analyst who fears we are on the edge of the abyss.

I was introduced by Steve Fraser, a scholar, who wrote a major study on Wall Street and the American dream. As we chatted, I asked if he had expected the intensity of the crisis we are now experiencing.

October 7, 2008

MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media

Former Guardian and Observer Journalist Jonathan Cook Responds

In response to Part 1 of this alert (www.medialens.org/alerts/08/081002_intellectual_cleansing_part1.php), the former Guardian and Observer journalist, Jonathan Cook, emailed us:

by Pablo Ouziel

Maybe one day will come to terms with the importance of the fundamental freedom to learn. Then we will stand together and demand it, because without it a truly free society can never exist. If we realize this, we will bring back outstanding professors like Norman Finkelstein to continue their contribution to the freedom of learning in the universities of our cherished democratic societies.

by Media Channel

Gee whiz, didn't you think.it would be up, up and away for the markets. The bailout was voted in. The Wall Street boys were happy as pigs in you know what. But then, what happened.? They turned out to be ingrates and the market went down on Friday. There followed a weekend of financial panic in Europe. Soon Sunday turned to what the British call Meldown Monday. Look out below.

Here's the headline: The Dow closes below 10,000 for the first time in nearly four years after a roller-coaster day, according to an early tally.

by Pablo Ouziel

October 1, 2008
by William Blum
www.killinghope.org

101 ways to get rich without doing anything socially useful

MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media

October 2, 2008

Martin Tierney is one of a tiny number of mainstream journalists willing to review our book, ‘Guardians of Power’. In June 2006, he published an accurate outline of our argument in the Herald, commenting: “It stands up to scrutiny.”

by Ramzy Baroud

The numbers are grim, whether in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian economy is in one of its most wretched states, and the disaster is mostly, if not entirely manmade, thus reversible.