Speech: New Zealand Government Hon Phil Goff Minister of Trade The Global Food Challenge - leveraging the opportunities in New Zealand Speech to Pacific Economic Cooperation Council Thank you for the invitation to speak...
THOMAS BEAUMONT • tbeaumont@dmreg.com • September 29, 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain, in Iowa today, said Congress must “go back to the drawing board” to retool a Wall Street rescue package that was...
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / Associated Press WASHINGTON -- -- Buffeted by unusually aggressive pressure from the White House, House members debated hotly-contested Wall Street bailout legislation Monday as a key architect...
Please, go ahead and read the whole Office of Inspector General Report on the US Attorney scandal. There's crime and stonewalling by the AG, Asst AGs, Harriet Miers, Karl Rove. . . the list goes on. I'll just discuss the...
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Monday the upheaval on Wall Street was "the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression" and blamed it on policies that he said Republican rival John McCain...
The Gang's All HereBy PAM MARTENSwww.counterpunch.org/September 17, 2008The vetting of Sarah Palin for the McCain campaign by an Iran-Contra alumnus brought an epiphany. And we need the hearings to air live, for however...
You know - Obama is suppose to be for change - but he seems to be just like the good old same old same old political boys in washington. Here he is in a vide basically mocking the christian population when he is suppose to...
Michael Chertoff has called for a halt to the negotiations Bargain hunters hoping to fly to America for the January sales could be forced to apply for visas unless European leaders abandon their objections to strict US...
Reuters - Six world powers handed the U.N. Security Council a toothless draft resolution on Iran's nuclear program on Friday after the United States, facing stiff Russian opposition, failed to secure agreement for new...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush is moving to suspend longtime U.S. trade benefits for Bolivia because of that country's failure to cooperate in drug-fighting efforts in the past year, the top U.S. trade...