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- Reflections on class and race in America
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  It is striking that the American media, beginning on election night and continuing in the aftermath of the vote, has been virtually unanimous in interpreting the victory of Barack Obama entirely in racial terms. This trend is epitomized in the treatment of the Democratic sweep by the New York Times, the most prominent organ of the American liberal establishment, which ran a banner headline on Wednesday declaring, "Obama: Racial Barrier Falls in Decisive Victory."
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- In defense of Bill Ayers
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  Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain and his supporters are continuing to pursue their smear campaign against former Weatherman radical Bill Ayers, now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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- Casting about for the truth of 9/11: Don DeLillo's Falling Man
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  Parts of Falling Man are moving, and one can learn something about the reactions of a particular social layer in New York at the time. The novel, though, does not succeed as a unified work of art. It falls short of the significance of the events themselves.
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- The Obama candidacy and the new consensus on Afghanistan
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  The statements made by Barack Obama during his visit to Afghanistan over the weekend verify that his campaign for president is the mouthpiece for a significant section of the American ruling elite that is insisting on a shift in US policy in the Middle East and Central Asia. Far from proposing any retreat from militarism, Obama is arguing for a faster drawdown of troop numbers in Iraq and a reduction in tensions with Iran, only in order to facilitate a major escalation of US military operations in Afghanistan, potentially extending them into Pakistan.
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- Five years after the invasion of Iraq: A debacle for US imperialism
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  Five years after Washington inaugurated its “shock and awe” campaign, striking Baghdad with cruise missiles and precision-guided bombs, it has become abundantly clear that the war of aggression against Iraq has produced the greatest geo-political disaster in American history.
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- ISSE demonstrates in New York to demand release of jailed Iranian students
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  The International Students for Social Equality held a demonstration Saturday, February 16 to protest the Iranian government’s arrest of more than 40 left-wing students and demand their immediate release.
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- New Hampshire primary foreshadows protracted contest for US presidential nominations
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  The outcome of the Democratic primary suggests that Clinton benefited from a growing concern among working class voters over the state of the US economy. Clinton was the only candidate to raise the growing danger of recession in Saturday’s televised debate, and exit polls showed that the economy was the number one issue of those who turned out to vote, whether they cast a Democratic or a Republican ballot.
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Damianmann comments on:
In defense of Bill Ayers

I agree. I have had some problems with Obama’s stance on this. Also, McCain was bombing innocent Vietnamese from a plane. Where’s the honor in that?

BUT, what could Obama really say without screwing any chance at winning the election? I think a lot of these people who write these things and support it, don’t really get what hoops one has to jump through in the America of today. I’m not saying it’s good. But, I am saying that’s the reality of the situation.

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