Not Joe the Plumber but the “Other”: the deeper narrative of the McCain campaign

Watching the McCain campaign change its message frequently since September has caused me to wonder what the message really is. It is definitely not the economy, stupid.
 
But what is it? McCain and the Republicans have changed the labels of Obama as follows: from the “Inexperienced” to the “Rock Star” to the “Muslim” (Barack Hussein [...]

Cuba: a change in sight?

By Patricia Gogg
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=44356
 
HAVANA, Oct 20 (IPS) – If elected, Democratic candidate Barack Obama could become the first United States president to engage in talks with Cuba after almost five decades of severed relations, but it will all depend on his refraining from trying to “control” a process that involves two sides, say academics from this [...]

Michael Pollan: to the next President (aka, Farmer-in-Chief)

From the New York Times
By MICHAEL POLLAN
 

Dear Mr. President-Elect,
It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much of your time in the coming years is one you barely mentioned during the campaign: food. Food policy is not something American presidents have had to give much thought to, at least since [...]

The Bail-Out of Wall Street: Signal of the End of the “Pax Americana”

Huge numbers are flying around these days. Billions and billions of dollars for this firm, for that firm, for the bail-out of Wall Street and the financial services industry. Then there is the “War on Terror” and its two fronts and the billions needed for it. The underlying connection is this: we do not have [...]

The Corporations over the People? ACLUSA endorses Obama

The financial crisis that has fallen onto the heads of the American people in recent weeks is one that highlights one of the fundamental problems with the prevailing ideology of our nation since the beginning of the post-World War II period.
Soon after the war, conservatives began to work on an ideological reprogramming of the dominant [...]