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Analysis: Denver seems like the Clinton Convention
 

MyWay.com - Jennifer Loven
Rarely in the history of American political conventions has the losing side received so much time and attention as this week in Denver.

Barack Obama has been forced, by the clout Hillary Rodham Clinton showed in their primary battle and his need for her voters in his race against Republican John McCain, to allow the gathering of Democrats to look a lot like the Clinton Convention.

The first day, Monday, was dominated by daylong dealmaking between the Clinton and Obama camps over ground rules for the nominating roll call.

The second day's highlight was Clinton's address. Former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, designated the official convention keynote speaker, was just a footnote in television and newspaper reports. By contrast, among the most replayed shots of the night was of a still-fuming Bill Clinton, tightlipped and teary, watching his wife from a Pepsi Center skybox. [ More ]

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Avoiding a Lieberman Disaster
 

Creators.com - Robert D. Novak

Reports of strong support within John McCain's presidential campaign for Independent Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman as the Republican candidate for vice president are not a fairy tale. Influential McCain backers, plus McCain himself, would pick the pro-choice liberal from Connecticut if they thought they could get away with it.
 

But they can't get away with it -- and this has been made clear to McCain by none other than Joe Lieberman himself.

Lieberman surely doesn't know that much about Republican politics, but he has close Republican friends. One of them prevailed on Lieberman to tell McCain that a McCain-Lieberman ticket would be a disaster for all concerned, and especially for the GOP. [ More ]

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Let's talk about World War III
 

Asia Times - Nikolai Sokov

Echoing World War 1, the most important elements for World War III are already in place. Russian troops can overwhelm the Georgian military, but will stand no chance against the United States unless Moscow resorts to limited use of nuclear weapons against a few US bases in Europe and aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean. It will be mainly conventional war, spiced with some nuclear mushrooms here and there. The world will not be annihilated - and there is just a chance that it can avoid this scenario altogether. [ More ]

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Michelle Obama's speech shows softer side, stresses 'Brady' family values
 

Toronto Star - Tim Harper

Michelle Obama offered America a glimpse of a black First Family last night, delivering a reassuring tale of a family which she says shares both American values and the American dream.

But at her coming out speech at the Democratic National Convention, she was also introduced as a woman who memorized dialogue from The Brady Bunch and she emphasized her role as a mother, saying like all mothers, her children are the center of her world. [ More ]

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Five things the Biden pick says about Obama
 

Politico.com - Jim Vandehei & Mike Allen

It is easy to overstate the meaning of vice presidential picks. After all, rarely does the selection of a running mate significantly tilt the outcome of an election. But it does provide a unique window into the presidential nominee's decision-making instincts and his strategy for winning in the fall.

Here are five things the selection of Joe Biden tells us about Barack Obama:

1. He's fixing for a fight. Obama has been knocked for being too soft and too enthralled with rhetorical fancy. But the past few weeks provided a glimpse of his tough-guy Chicago side. He went negative the moment his campaign felt wobbly. Biden is a brawler — and the Obama camp is eager to unleash him. [ More ]

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The Guantánamo Suicide Report
 

Counterpunch - Andy Worthington

Two years and two months after three prisoners at Guantánamo died, apparently as the result of a coordinated suicide pact, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), which has been investigating the deaths ever since the three long-term hunger strikers were found dead in their cells on June 10, 2006, issued a 934-word statement on Friday that purported to draw a line under the whole sordid affair. [ More ]

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Does Bush want war with Russia?
 

LewRockwell.com - Patrick J. Buchanan

A year after taking power, in June 1934, Adolf Hitler made his first visit abroad – to his idol Benito Mussolini in Venice.

Babbling on incessantly about Mein Kampf and the Negroid strain in Mediterranean peoples, the Führer made a dismal impression.

"What a clown this Hitler is," Mussolini told an aide.  [ More ]

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Joe Biden’s New World Order Speech
 

InfoWars -

In his speech, “On the Threshold of the New World Order: A Rebirth for the United Nations,” Biden called for meddling in the former Soviet Union and China, imposing a “free economy” on these countries — i.e., allowing the international bankers to freely loot and pillage — and expanding NATO and allowing it to operate outside of its territory.  [ More ]
 

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The Biggest Threat to Canadian Jewry is Zionism
 

Radical Press -  Arthur Topham

The following article is a response to Ezra Levant’s recent attack upon Brother Nathanael Kapner who operates an anti-Zionist website out of the USA called http://www.realjewnews.com Levant’s article, “What is the biggest threat to Canadian Jewry?” found at http://www.ezralevant.com was posted Aug. 22, 2008. In it he poses the question, “What do you think the biggest threat to Canadian Jewry is in 2008?” and then goes on to slander and demean the owner of RealJewNews. The following is my reply to Levant.  [ More ]
 

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The Greatest Danger from Obama: Assassination!
 

DavidDuke.com - David Duke

The greatest danger to European Americans is not the possible election of Barack Hussein Obama as President of the United States. A far greater catastrophe would be his assassination.

As white activists have pointed out, the election of Obama along with the rapidly changing demographics of America would be a powerful wakeup call to European Americans. His election would make clear that we are losing the nation and principles of our forefathers. I think it would result in a dramatic increase in our ranks.  [ More ]

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Torture As Official Israeli Policy
 

After Downing Street - Stephen Lendman

The UN Convention against Torture defines the practice as:

"any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain and suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity...."

The US and Israel are the only two modern states that legally sanction torture.
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Daily Mail -   Andrew Malone

The bleak concrete walls topped with razor wire and the sentries in towers at the gates are a chilling reminder of a different era.

On the nearby roads, heavily armed guards patrol relentlessly, checking both drivers and pedestrians, constantly alert.

Meanwhile, less than 30 miles away, the world’s attention is focused on the world-famous ‘Bird’s Nest’ Olympic stadium and the other venues where a global audience of two billion is watching the Games and enjoying the spectacle of the ‘new’ China. The Beijing regime has deployed an army of 500,000 smiling volunteers to help foreigners find their way around the teeming capital city.

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The Antiwar Movement and the “Good War”

Dissident Voice -  Eric Ruder

On one day in mid-August, Taliban forces in Afghanistan carried out their most serious attack in six years, mounting an all-night strike on a U.S. military base in the eastern province of Khost and a fierce assault on French forces east of the capital.

The Khost offensive targeted one of the largest foreign military bases in the country and was eventually repulsed, but the attack on French forces by 100 Taliban insurgents killed 10 French soldiers and wounded 21 more. Together, the attacks are the latest expression of the growing confidence and competence of the Taliban and the growing ferocity of the fighting in America’s “other war.” [ More ]

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Alex Jones Interviews Ralph Nader at the DNC

Infowars  - 

Alex sits down with independent president and political activist Ralph Nader. Alex talks with Ralph about the lack of difference between Barack Obama and John McCain, the violations of the Constitution by the current administration, the futility of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the reasons Nader is running for president for a fifth time.   [ More ]

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Toronto Star -   Editorial

The Pentagon calls it "a good strike." Last Friday, United States-led coalition and Afghan troops radioed in U.S. warplanes to bomb the village of Nawabad, where the Taliban leader Mullah Siddiq and 25 fighters were hiding. When the dust settled, Siddiq and his crew were dead. The U.S. forces recovered rocket-propelled grenade launchers, AK-47 assault rifles, bomb-making materials and ammo.

But the Taliban weren't the only people killed in the air raid.  [ More ]

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That Caucasus hypocrisy

Globe and Mail -  Andrew Reding

Whatever happened to the principle of self-determination? Bipartisan demands by the White House, Congress and U.S. allies for Russia to respect the "territorial integrity" of Georgia disregard what was once proclaimed as an essential human right by the United States. The land of Washington, Jefferson and Wilson can do better.

It was Woodrow Wilson who articulated the right to self-determination as a guiding principle of international law.  [ More ]

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Globe and Mail -  Colin Freeze

Toronto's senior spy has told a group of Muslims he is frightened of potential terrorist attacks on Canadians and wants their help to "de-demonize" Canada's national-security agencies.

"I want you to help. . . . Us doing it alone is like one hand clapping," Andy Ellis implored a group of Muslims he had invited to the Meadowvale Community Centre in Mississauga. The regional director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said he is increasingly worried about young extremists. [ More ]

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