If MoveOn was genuinely anti-war, their current campaign would target all members of Congress who support the war. But it doesn’t, it only targets Republicans.

MoveOn is primarily a PAC that exists to raise money for Democrats. They say this on their About page, “MoveOn.org Political Action, one of the largest Political Action Committees in the country”

American Leftist explains who they are.

My hostility towards MoveON.org has primarily been because of its effort to prevent the emergence of a popular, mass based movement against the war in Iraq and, potentially, even US imperialism. Now, I have concluded that it serves an even more insidious purpose, the mobilization of people to participate in meaningless spectacles, based upon the assumption that radical political change is impossible.

More to the point, MoveOn wants to channel dissent and protest into the Democratic Party where it will be neutralized.

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Mohamed Haneef is being charged with terrorism in Australia because he lent his SIM card to a relative later accused of plotting car bomb attacks. He has not been linked with or charged with that plot, just with lending his SIM card. He is being held in solitary confinement and the Australian government says they will deport him regardless of what happens at the trial.

Socialist Alliance is mobilizing to protest these Orwellian scare tactics. Leftclick has links to download posters and flyers.

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The credit losses associated with subprime have come to light and they are fairly significant,” — Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, today

“Come to light’? They’ve been a million watt floodlight in the eyes for several months now to all but the terminally comatose.

Bernanke said that the most reliable indicators show U.S. home prices have not declined nationally and that the housing slump had so far not led U.S. consumers to cut back on spending.

Really? Then why did Home Depot cut their earnings forecast, blaming it on the housing market?

But I’m guessing Bernanke isn’t actually as dim-witted as he appears. His real job is to protect the ruling class and pretend all is well while the investment banks attempt to dump their toxic mortgage portfolios on someone else.

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