McKinney Blazes NC Trail With Incendiary Speech
by Matt Saldaña

Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney has moved from blue to green, and similarly, she demonstrated her move to the left side of the political spectrum in a speech she gave in Durham: “It’s time to move from protest to resistance.”

Vicious Ideologue Renews Attack on Social Security
by Dean Baker

Billionaire investment banker Peter Peterson is back on the warpath. He just established a new foundation with a $1 billion endowment, the main purpose of which is to cut back spending on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Going Green

In his Washington Post column last Friday, EJ Dionne writes that Al Gore is playing “his usual role of unpaid party visionary by arguing that we can ease the climate crisis

Nine Reasons to Investigate War Crimes Now
by Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith

Retired General Antonio Taguba, the officer who led the Army’s investigation into Abu Ghraib, recently wrote in the preface to the new report, Broken laws, Broken Lives:

You Say You Want a Revolution?
by Olga Bonfiglio

Detroit, the once-proud capital of industrialization is now the paragon of de-industrialization and urban decay.

General Motors’ July 15 announcement that it will cut white-collar employment costs by 20 percent is just one more nail in the industrial coffin.

Mother’s Milk of Politics Turns Sour
by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

Netroots Nation at the Crossroads: Move Over MoveOn
by Ronnie Cummins

American Inequality Highlighted by 30-Year Gap In Life Expectancy
by Leonard Doyle

First al-Bashir, Next … Bush?
by Mark Levine

For Immediate Release: July 17, 2008