Archive - Sep 17, 2008

As the financial crisis deepens with the 85 billion dollar government bail out, to control 80 percent of American International Group, Election Unspun has been exploring what the Presidential candidates would do. Today we talk to Libertarian Presidential candidate Bob Barr, an outspoken opponent of the feds latest move.

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Both Barack Obama and John McCain talk about streamlining and restructuring the regulatory process in some capacity.  Who are these regulators? We turn to Max Fraad Wolff, Professor at New School University in New York City.

• Mixed Reaction as Fed Bails out AIG
• Frederick A.O. Schwarz Calls for "War on Terror" Oversight Committee
• Critics Oppose New Free Trade Proposal Known as Atlantica
• Which Safeguards Protect Humans and the Environment in Hurricane-Prone Gulf Coast?
• Street Beat: Coastal Residents Have Their Say on Offshore Oil Drilling

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• Tainted Milk Linked to Illnesses in 6200 Chinese Babies
• Attack on US Embassy in Yemen
• MEND Claims Attack on Major Nigerian Pipeline
• Nigerian Authorities Shut Down Television Station
• West Virgina Coal Field Residents Rally Against Mountain Top Removal
• Downward Trend in Human Rights Votes at the UN
• LAPD Releases May Day Melee Findings

The US government saved another financial institution from going under: and the cost to tax payers is 85 billion dollars. The feds say that the dire economic consequences of letting insurance giant AIG sink justifies the cost. As FSRN's Leigh Ann Caldwell reports, the news is causing lots of mixed reaction.

The Chief Counsel to the Church Committee, which investigated and exposed numerous domestic and foreign intelligence abuses some 30 years ago, is calling on Congress to once again create a committee to examine executive abuses in the so-called "War on Terror". Frederick A.O. Schwarz testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, outlining the way in which a new Congress and President can return to the rule of law, which he says has been violated since 9-11. Fritz Schwarz spoke with Host Aura Bogado about explains some of the Church Commission's findings and what happened as a result, and talks about some of the executive abuses that have occurred under the current administration.

Dozens of dignitaries, elected officials and industry representatives gathered in Maine this week at the 32nd Annual Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers. In recent years, activists have become concerned that the annual conferences are serving as a private forum for industry representatives and policy makers to plan the implementation of "Atlantica", a new regional free trade zone comparable to NAFTA. From Bar Harbor, Amy Browne reports.