BY JOHN ROSS

www.medialens.org
The Strain Behind The Smile

A Los Angeles Times editorial observed last month that China had persuaded world leaders to attend the Olympic Games “despite their misgivings about Beijing's horrific human rights record both domestically and abroad”. The horror, the editors noted, could not be entirely suppressed:

by Ramzy Baroud

The series of unfortunate and costly decisions made during the two terms of the Bush administration, combined with economic decline at home, might devastate the US's world standing much sooner than most analysts predict. What was difficult to foresee was that the weakening of US global dominance, spurred by erratic and unwise foreign policy under Bush, would re-ignite the Cold War, to a degree, over a largely distant and seemingly ethnically-based conflict -- that of Georgia and Russia. Who could have predicted a possible association between Baghdad, Kabul and Tbilisi?

Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life
September 5, 2008
by William Blum
www.killinghope.org

Obama-Biden -- Osama bin Laden: A coincidence? I think not.