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While one woman raised money in the Bay Area for her multi-million-dollar Vice-Presidential campaign over the first weekend in October, more than 250 anti-capitalist women and men gathered in San Francisco to chart a course for a bigger and bolder feminist movement—independent of the Republican and Democratic parties. (Keep reading…)

Canadian Jewish News, 16 October 2008

MONTREAL — Don’t expect to see Israeli political economist Bernard Avishai invited to address a future gathering of Orthodox rabbis or Shas party supporters. (Keep reading…)

Countercurrents.org
10 October 2008

The elections on both sides of the Canada-US border have revealed that prejudices against Arabs and Muslims are the last bastion of acceptable prejudice in North America. (Keep reading…)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4925056.ece

The Sunday Times (London)
October 12, 2008 (Keep reading…)

RGE Monitor
October 9, 2008

On Thursday, October 9, 2008, Nouriel Roubini, Chairman of RGE Monitor and Professor of Economics at the NYU Stern School of Business, lays out his latest views on the global economic and financial crisis and the urgent necessary actions that need to be undertaken globally. (Keep reading…)

http://thetyee.ca/Views/2008/10/06/CoalitionTime/

TheTyee.ca (The Tyee independent daily online magazine) October 6, 2008 (Keep reading…)

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/6/naomi_klein

AMY GOODMAN: The credit crunch is spreading to financial markets around the world. Nearly 160,000 jobs were lost here in the United States in September. That’s not including losses directly resulting from the financial meltdown. Wall Street might be breathing a little easier since Congress passed the more-than-$700-billion bailout plan Friday, but there are no signs of an easy or quick recovery. (Keep reading…)

The Nation
October 1, 2008

This year marks the 160th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto and capitalism — a k a “free enterprise” — seems willing to observe the occasion by dropping dead. On Monday night, some pundits were warning that the ATMs might run dry and hinting that the only safe investment left is canned beans. Apocalypse or extortion? No one seems to know, though the populist part of the populace has been leaning toward the latter. An e-mail whipping around the web this morning has the subject line “Sign on Wall Street yesterday,” and shows a hand-lettered cardboard sign saying, “JUMP! You Fuckers!” (Keep reading…)

globeandmail.com October 3, 2008

This election is like a snapshot of Canadian political culture. You don’t see it standing this still very often. Snap it fast. (Keep reading…)

Special to Canadian Dimension September 27, 2008

Treasury Secretary Paulson and President Bush backed by the Democratic Congressional leadership have asked Congress for $700 billion dollars to bailout Wall Street financial institutions.  <a href="http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2008/09/27/2109/#more-2109" class="more-link">(Keep reading...)</a>