This New York Times article ( “U.S. Weighs Takeover of Two Mortgage Giants” - 7/10/08) is typical of how the corporate media omit underlying causes in reporting on current economic difficulties.

I thought I would take a look at the local cost of the War in Iraq. The National Priorities Project has a page where you can get the costs as it pertains to your locality. Taxpayers in California’s Congressional District 36 (Harman) will pay $1.3 billion for total Iraq war spending approved to date.

Among the eloquent Rocky Mountain News photographs included here is a shocking image — by Todd Heisler, now of The New York Times — of commercial airline passengers looking out plane windows at Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Nevada, trying to see what is happening beneath them.

Pearl Jam -No More…

This is a live version of “No More” from the new documentary Body of War. Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam perform. The movie opens nationwide this month.
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