Special to Canadian Dimension October 30, 2008

At a time when we need Marx’s analytical abilities, Oliver Stone offers Freud. In his one-dimensional biopic, “W,” we do not gain insight into how a less than brilliant president circumvented carefully constructed procedures to safeguard the military industrial complex. Instead, Stone offers a pastiche of biographical scenes, from Bush’s raucous boozing days at Yale to his ascendancy to the Oval Office and fateful decision to invade Iraq. (Keep reading…)

The Independent 14 September 2008

If fewer US troops and Iraqis are being killed, it is only because the Shia community and Iran now dominate; whatever the reason for Bush’s decision to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein, it was not to place the Shia Islamic parties in power and increase the influence of Iran — yet that is what has happened. (Keep reading…)

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On infrequent news reports from Iraq I occasionally recognize a place I filmed. In late September 2002, I saw Baghdad, Kerbalah, Najaf, Hamidayah and other Iraqi cities through the camera lens. Saddam Hussein had just announced he would allow UN weapons inspectors to return to Iraq. U.S. politicians and pundits ignored the implications of his action. But in Baghdad, visiting foreigners breathed sighs of relief. If Saddam had weapons, they concluded, the best forensic experts in the world with sophisticated technology would find them. Saddam knew this, so it meant he didn’t have WMD. As soon as the inspectors concluded their search and failed to find the alleged stash, Bush would have lost his reason to go to war. (Keep reading…)

Agence France-Presse October 15, 2008

WASHINGTON — U.S. President George W. Bush defended the partial nationalization of nine big American banks yesterday as vital to saving the free world’s markets, an intervention that would have been unthinkable scant weeks ago in this bastion of free enterprise. (Keep reading…)

Canwest News Service Vancouver Sun
October 13, 2008

Henry Paulson is one of the guys who got us into this mess, now he’s in charge of the bailout (Keep reading…)

CounterPunch
October 2, 2008

The current finger pointing by the deregulation crowd in Congress and their ideological soul mates in the media reminds me of the 1939 film classic The Wizard of Oz. It is as though these spin masters want us to pay no attention to the government officials behind the deregulation curtain. (Keep reading…)

International Herald Tribune
October 1, 2008

Forty years ago, the United States began to mount raids into Cambodia and to undermine the government of King Sihanouk in order to cut Vietcong supply lines. (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press October 1, 2008

This is not the Crash of 1929 revisited, and we are not heading into a second Great Depression. No developed country this time around is going to face the 25-per-cent unemployment rate that the United States experienced in the 1930s. (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail October 1, 2008

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the U.S. financial system - indeed, global finance - is in a mess. And now, with the U.S. House of Representatives having rejected the Bush administration’s proposed $700-billion bailout plan, it is also obvious that there is no consensus on how to fix it. (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>