Category: 2008

September 25, 2008

Congress Reaches Provisional Bailout Deal, States and Cities Expect to Absorb Financial Slack Wamu’s Potential Collapse Affecting Washington State’s Economy Saint Paul Citizens Question RNC Arrests The Challenge to San Francisco’s Sanctuary Laws North...

September 24, 2008

Alternative Financial Crisis Proposals McCain May Bail Out of Debates Due to Financial Crisis Regulating Wall Street House Allows Offshore Oil Drilling Moratorium to Expire Ecuador’s Constitutional Referendum Galveston Island Resident Return to Deal...

September 23, 2008

United Nations General Assembly Begins Cuban Representatives Attend UN General Assembly Fed Chair, Treasury Secretary Push for Record Bail-Out Afghanistan Violence Increases, Threatens Security Proposed Dam May Alter Patagonia’s Ecosystem Download Audio HEADLINES 11...

September 22, 2008

Marriott is Target of Bombers in Pakistan Bush, Lawmakers Haggle Over Wall Street Bailout Filipino War Vets Seek Benefits Efforts Continue to Save Troy Anthony Davis’s Life Possible Voter Suppression in Wisconsin Car Wash...

September 19, 2008

  Government Announces Massive Financial Crisis Intervention What Took the Fed So Long to Step in? Activists Take on Wells Fargo’s Connection to Controversial Sheriff DC Homeless Population Wary of DC Mayor’s Office Proposal...

September 18, 2008

New study links Bisphenol A to more diseases Weary – and Worrying – on Wall Street Protestors Arrested at the DNC Prepare for Court Factions in Zimbabwe Reach Political Agreement Riots Over Mexican Jail...

September 17, 2008

Mixed Reaction as Fed Bails out AIG Frederick A.O. Schwarz Calls for “War on Terror” Oversight Committee Critics Oppose New Free Trade Proposal Known as Atlantica Which Safeguards Protect Humans and the Environment in...

September 16, 2008

Constitutional Referendum Divides Bolivia South American Leaders Back Evo Morales Burmese Children Seek Education over the Border Financial Crisis Takes its Toll Washington Strikes Out on a New Energy Bill Download Audio HEADLINES Bush...

September 15, 2008

Lehman Bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch Buy Out Spell Out Financial Disaster Did De-Regulation Contribute to Wall Street Shakeup? The Houston’s Homeless Affected by Hurricane Ike Burmese Activists Petition for Seat at the United Nations You...

September 12, 2008

Hurricane Ike Looms Near Texas Voices Before Hurricane Ike FBI’s New Rules on Spying Election Supervisors Unclear on Voting Rights Laws for Felons Pakistan Update “Items off the Table”  Commentary By Mumia Abu-Jamal Download...