The Voices

ft.com — The wreckage of the financial system holds up a mirror to the changing geopolitical balance. It offers advice, and a warning, as to what the west should make of the emerging global order.

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inthesetimes.com — Russia’s concern is that NATO is creating new dividing lines designed to isolate Russia from the European community. Russians are afraid they’ll wake up one morning and find themselves alone.

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nationaljournal.com — Either Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., or Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will have the best chance since Dwight Eisenhower's administration to cut the bloated national defense budget, now up to about $700 billion a year. There are dramatic differences between the two candidates on defense spending, but also significant similarities.

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inthesetimes.com — There is a war being waged now, in the waning days of the Bush administration and the campaign, against the triumph of aggressive ignorance. Aggressive ignorance defiantly shoves its utter lack of knowledge in your face and brays: "Facts? We don’t need no stinkin' facts!"

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inthesetimes.com — One of the finest traditions of the American left has been its historic commitment to solidarity with the oppressed and poverty-stricken peoples of the world. In the last few years, however, the progressive movement has become far too insular. We have too often neglected our internationalist responsibilities–especially when it comes to confronting the ravages of world poverty.

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truthdig.com — The economic crisis that has now overtaken the United States can be interpreted as the logical result of a financial system that reached the point where there was no limit to what you could take out of it even when you were incapable of understanding the transactions taking place. Less apparent to most people, but just as real, are the signs of an impending crash of an American military system in which, since the end of the Cold War, Pentagon dysfunction has metastasized uncontrollably.

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prospect.org — The focus is on our unstable credit markets — but we shouldn't forget that Bush's foreign policy has exacted its own costs on our economy.

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fpif.org — Whether in maintaining U.S. soldiers or private-sector contractors, the costs of occupation are enormous. With no end in sight, unending foreign wars do have one clear consequence: the eventual bankruptcy of the United States.

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