Thursday, October 16, 2008

Good Articles

Sunday's C-Span Opportunity: 3rd-Party Candidates Debate
by Maria Recio
Third-party presidential candidates finally will have their own debate: at 8 p.m. Sunday at Columbia University in New York.

Shattering a 'national mythology'
By Ofri Ilani
I started looking in research studies about the exile from the land - a constitutive event in Jewish history, almost like the Holocaust. But to my astonishment I discovered that it has no literature. The reason is that no one exiled the people of the country. The Romans did not exile peoples and they could not have done so even if they had wanted to.

Can Obama See the Grand Canyon?
by Mike Davis
Let me confess that, as an aging socialist, I suddenly find myself like the Jehovah's Witness who opens his window to see the stars actually falling out of the sky. Although I've been studying Marxist crisis theory for decades, I never believed I'd actually live to see financial capitalism commit suicide. Or hear the International Monetary Fund warn of imminent "systemic meltdown.

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