Sunday, October 21, 2012







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NEWS UPDATE
10-15-2012

Why Wall Street Wants Obama to Win

Andrew Levine returns to Clinton-time to show how big business got all it wanted and more, setting the stage for 12 years of unprecedented looting.

Suburban Ghosts

Mike Whitney takes a trip through the banking industry's phantom housing inventory, calculating the odds of a post-election collapse.

What Really Happened to the Manufacturing Sector?

John Walsh explodes cherished myths about the decline of US manufacturing and explains why the China-U.S. relationship need not be win-lose.


Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire argues that it's time to put real peacemakers on the Nobel Prize Committee.

Notes:
 
Join us in San Francisco to Celebrate the Life of Alexander Cockburn:
October 20th, 5:30-7:30pm, at Citizens' Space 425 2nd Street #100 San Francisco: featuring Jeffrey St. Clair, Frank Bardacke, Conn Hallinan, Justin Raimondo, Bruce Anderson and many more.
  
Clearance Sale of Vintage CounterPunch T-Shirts!  We've marked down some of CounterPunch's most popular t-shirts to only $8.00, including the CP shirt featuring Alexander Cockburn's own scrawl.
Coming Soon in the Next Print Issue of CounterPunch - Volume 19 Number 18: Daniel Kovalik on the bloody legacy of Plan Colombia; Rob Urie on the savage economic consequences of Obama's economic polices on the poor; and Greg Ruggiero reflects on his experience with the Zapatistas.

 
Quote of the Day:
"We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them." - Michel Foucault

Song of the Day 
"Crazy Horse" by John Trudell
FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY:
In this edition of the CounterPunch Newsletter
Volume 19 Number 17

Obama and Romney vs. Medicare
The First Cuts Won't be the Deepest
By Dave Lindorff
 
The Arab Spring at the Crossroads
Key Challenges
By Esam Al-Amin
 
The Kafkaesque Case of Matt Duran
A Defense of Contempt 
By Kristian Williams  SUB

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