"Ironically the individualistic rhetoric previously mobilized to depict Social Security as a truly American program has been mobilized against it in the name of personal savings and financial gain.."

"If the citizenry would recognize that Bush's egomania is acting out a national illness, we would all be saner. If the US could integrate the `shadow' which Bush projects upon the `axis of evil', perhaps we could achieve world peace.."

I am a writer. As such, I believe that no good writer is without the ability to make connections. Very rarely will you find a 'coincidence' in one of my stories. It is usually a connection. So you can imagine my angst about a month after 9/11, when I saw the coincidence of John O'Neill's life and death and made a connection no one seemed to get for years to come. If you were almost to the point where you could easily lock in a retirement plan, why quit the public sector as a high ranking Federal agent to work as nothing more than a glorified security guard? It simply makes no sense. Neither does the fact that he died just two weeks later, because the glorified position he chose just happened to be in one of the two towers that went down in history. I think John O'Neill told the FBI something was going to happen to the towers, and I think he went there to try and stop it.
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www.hereinreality.com/johnoneill.html

Inmates urged their peers to renounce revenge, violence and materialism and replace them with what the lifers see as more genuine traits of manhood such as honesty, restraint and responsibility. (Note the rejection of "materialism," which is closely tied to commercialism, or corporate culture).

The AFL-CIO, is in a deep crisis. Following the recent split, it lost over 3 million members, reducing it to a mere 9% of the labor force and 7% of the private sector. James Petras argues that its crisis is the result of politics, including the politics of collaboration with employers and opposition to militant 'grass-root' organizing. Petras looks at the Iraq War resolution passed at the AFL-CIO convention in the context of its political crisis and its support for every major US foreign intervention.

Capitalists burden the working man with needless technology.

Not all mobile-phone users will be able to access emergency operators by next year -- if they get into a horrific car accident, or observe a violent crime in progress -- even though a government deadline requiring enhanced 9-1-1 is looming, experts told UPI's Wireless World.
Verizon Wireless, one of the nation's largest mobile-phone carriers, notified the Federal Communications Commission this week that it could not meet a Dec. 31 deadline to ensure 95 percent of its customers had E9-1-1 capable handsets. Rival Nextel also has requested an extension of the deadline from the FCC. Other carriers are expected to make similar disclosures shortly. By Gene Koprowski

Ahmadinejad's landslide win was a vote against the global neliberal elite with whom "reformists" are allied.

The unilateralism of the United States--economic, commercial and military--is at odds with the multilateral reality of today's world. US politics of military supremacy contradicts its sacred principle of free markets. Will this be a turning point of history, like the one that marked the end of the first phase of capitalist globalisation, which lasted from 1880 to 1914? Historical and political analysis by Philip Golub.