Gimme Some Truth
Flying Rodent cuts through the crap of the US election with a blunt buzz-saw and broken bottle, and slashes through the myths:
"One minute it's a shoe-in for silver-tongued bullshitter Barack Obama, and the next thing you know the McCain campaign has dug up some fruity wingnut Supernanny with a talent for sucking off […]

Truthdig - Reports - Why We Were Falsely Arrested
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, talking about her arrest and the conventions: "Behind all the patriotic hyperbole that accompanies the conventions, and the thousands of journalists and media workers who arrive to cover the staged events, there are serious violations of the basic right of freedom of […]

Georgia and the Balance of Power - The New York Review of Books
George Friedman argues that the conflict in Georgia has been brewing for months, while Russian action can be traced back to 1992. Motivated by what it saw as the encirclement of Russia with the declared independence of Kosovo and the eastern creep of […]

Sarah Palin and the War on the Media | The New York Observer
McCain attacking the media for attacking Palin. Can anything be done in this world with using war metaphors

EurActiv.com - Interview: Europe and US ‘misguided’ on Russia | EU - European Information on Enlargement & Neighbours
'While Georgia and Russia are the first to blame for the conflict', sez Thomas Gomart of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) 'the United States and Europe must also bear some responsibility'.
"Here we are touching the […]

Meet the Parents at the GOP Convention?
It's the most highly publicised unplanned pregnancy in US history (source?), she's the most inexperienced Veep candidate ever offered to the US public in a US election, and he's just a frightened teenager, who as result of getting hot heavy for the time it takes to make a cup […]

China Left Review
China Left Review is a bilingual web-journal brought to you by the China Study Group. Our purpose is to stimulate discussion and collaboration between left-leaning scholars and activists in Chinese and English-speaking worlds. We seek to do this by compiling, translating, and commenting on a variety of works related to controversial and pressing […]

The Nordic health system vrs the Anglo-Saxon model
In this Irish Times article, Dr Gerry Burke and Mr. Pierce Grace argue using international studies that for-profit hospitals squander public money and provide less effective health care.
"The Nordic social model is successful because, rather than squandering their money, citizens invest collectively and prudently in their […]

The Real News Network - Reactions to Obama’s Acceptance Speech
Tom Morris, Pepe Escobar and Phyllis Bennis give their verdicts

Obama is Still An Unknown Quantity
Obama is an unknown quantity to swing voters, according to academic pollster Dr. Barry Kay. While he says that this is a ‘democrats year’ there is still no clear distance between Obama and McCain. If Obama is to create that distance and lead in the polls, he will have to […]