A history of US intervention in Russia and the recent resurgence of Russia

Transcript of address from Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio
The latest reality game-Wall Street Bailout-has a counter-game called Wall Street Reckoning.
The Capitol switchboard is easy and free: 800-270-0309.
Hundreds of calls will not be ignored.

This essay was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949).

Bailing out speculators is like protecting the sharks from the sardines. Executives should absorb the costs by a 95% pay cut. Taxpayers shouldn't pay the robbers for robbing them. Speculations should be discouraged, not rewarded. The Capitol switchboard is free: 800-270-0309

Its your 700 Billion Dollars!
How can Americans possibly trust this Congress to protect $700 billion in Taxpayer Dollars that is needed to Restore US credit liquidity from being misappropriated?

BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary

In the race to the bottom, the worship of profit and the self-healing market, education, retraining workers, social mobility and intercultural learning fall by the wayside. The US imports engineers and programmers. School districts spend 600 times more for sports.

Barack Obama dropped a bomb on his young enthusiasts at Columbia University on September 11. The heavily Democratic crowd booed McCain when he called for the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) to be brought back to campus (it was driven out in 1969 by protests against the Vietnam war). Liberal students expected a different answer from Columbia alum Obama, but the forum was a symphony of agreement as both candidates campaigned for expanding the military and pledged their enthusiastic support to U.S. imperialism. That should have been the tip-off for anyone who hadn't figured it out by then: Obama is no "peace candidate" but like McCain he is a certified imperialist war candidate.

Poems Against War: A Journal of Poetry and Action, will be debuting its seventh issue on Sunday, Sept. 28, at the Baltimore Book Fair from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. The journal has sold and distributed nearly 1,000 copies of its seven issues since debuting in May 2003. The journal launched to give voice to American poets and international writers who demand peace, and oppose the Iraq war.

McCain classmate and Maryland activists display anti-torture messages to his and McCain's Naval Academy 50th class reunion