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• • 10 Nov 08
  • 8:06 am

  David Moberg writes that union members are voting their economic interest by supporting the Obama-Biden ticket. One important factor hurting workers has been the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and similar free-trade agreements. It encourages outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries. Moberg knows that both Obama and Biden support free trade. Joe Biden has been in Washington for three decades. What has he ever done to help workers? Read the excellent article by Michael Yates "Obama and the working class: what exactly does he have to say to them?" at http://www.counterpunch.org/yates08262008.html Obama's first appointment was Rahm Emmanuel, who led Bill …

  Posted to Obama and the Union Vote

• • 17 Nov 08
  • 11:34 pm

  Obama is a great speaker. But has anybody at ITT actually looked as his positoins on the issues? Obama doesn't deviate from standard Democratic Party positions. David Moberg mentioned the appointment of Rahm Emmanuel as the ultimate political insider. That's true as far as it goes. Rahm Emmanuel is also a big hawk, and fought antiwar Democrats. And he's very close to the Israel Lobby. Quite likely Obama will appoint more former Clinton people. And nobody seriously called Bill Clinton a "visionary". Neither Moberg nor any of the other ITT editors mentioned that Obama was able to raise a ton of …

  Posted to A Stunning Victory. Now What?

• • 27 Aug 08
  • 9:05 am

  Moberg's excellent article poses the question of how to "pressure" Obama. But the groups that Moberg is talking about are not pressuring Obama. They're supporting Obama. The only real way to pressure Obama is to threaten to withhold support, and nobody that Moberg interviewed is planning to do that. What will likely happen is that Obama will win, and then do whatever he wants to do, no matter what people on the Left think or want. If you look at who is advising Obama, it's hard to be optimistic.

  Posted to Moving Obama Left

• • 16 Aug 08
  • 9:25 pm

  An excellent article about the continual gradual ethnic cleansing that Israel is inflicting on the Palestinians. Most articles in the US mainstream media bend over backwards to avoid offending the Israel Lobby, and too often limit themselves to official statements from official sources. The mainstream media neglect what is really happening on the ground. Melinda Tuhus's article shines as an antidote to the mainstream media. And this is not the worst of it. Bad as the Palestinian predictament is on the West Bank, it's far far worse in Gaza. Congratulations to ITT for publishing the article.

  Posted to Bulldozed in Bethlehem

• • 03 Aug 08
  • 11:34 am

  Congratulations to ITT for running the Chomsky interview. Too many articles, in both the alternative and mainstream press, are based on a merely tactical critique of the war ("is it working?") instead of a fundamental critique: we have no right to invade and occupy Iraq.

  Posted to Gunning for the Prize