• Iraq Pact Challenges Antiwar Movement

  Iraq

  Tom Hayden: The US-Iraq Security Pact signals the war is ending--though not soon enough--and challenges peace activists to broaden their agenda against new quagmires.

• Imagining a New New Deal

  U.S. Economy

  Radio Nation : Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself weigh in on the troubled economy.

• State Banks Could Solve Financial Crisis

  Banks & Banking

  Nicholas von Hoffman: Forget big bailouts. The fed should finance non-profit state banks like the Bank of North Dakota--no profit means no reason for bankers to misbehave--to get real money to real people in the real economy.

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• Voting the Fate of the Nation

  Presidential Election 2008

  Chalmers Johnson: This can be a transformative election. Will economic meltdown, race or regional loyalty be the trump card?

• We Have the Bailout Money--We're Spending It on War

  U.S. Economy

  Chalmers Johnson: If we don't reduce military spending now, the bankruptcy of the United States is inevitable. We don't have much time left.

• Chalmers Johnson: America's Going Bankrupt

  US Politics & Government

  Chalmers Johnson: From Tom Dispatch: The current economic crisis is caused by policies that tax the richest Americans at strikingly low levels and spend huge sums on defense projects that have no bearing on national security.