From the Independent…
The biggest companies in the US car industry, brought to the edge of bankruptcy by the economic turmoil, are considering extraordinary new plans to save themselves, including mergers that could throw tens of thousands of workers out of their jobs.
General Motors, the largest US car manufacturer, has talked in recent weeks with rivals [...]

From the World Tribune…
Congress has approved $1.5 billion in U.S. military and civilian aid to Egypt for fiscal 2009, which begins in October. The figure marked a 12 percent reduction from U.S. aid to Egypt in 2008, when Cairo received $1.71 billion.
Congressional sources said the U.S. military aid would be dependent on improvements in Egyptian [...]

Republican bigotry…

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Click on the cartoon below to check out Latuff’s latest on the Wall Street crash…

And he is blogging it…

Via Stop the War Coalition, by way of Complex System of Pipes…

USAID on torture:
When you receive a subject, the first thing to do is to determine his physical state, his degree of resistance, through a medical examination. A premature death means a failure by the technician.
Another important thing to know is exactly how far you can go given the political situation and the personality of the [...]

From Socialist Worker…
Karl Marx famously wrote that “the executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie”.
But the political leaders of the US looked more like a shambles when they met in the White House on Thursday of last week.
Republican congressmen ignored George Bush’s plea that [...]

Photojournalist Jess Hurd traveled across the Southern states of the US in June to talk to people about Barack Obama, racism, the economy and their everyday struggles to survive…

Click on the poster below to watch the latest animation by Mark Fiore…