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The Best Century in America Will Be the Last
U.S. Headed Toward Bankruptcy, Says Top Budget Committee RepublicanBy Terence P. Jeffrey / August 8, 2008 The ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee said the U.S. government is headed toward bankruptcy if it stays on its current fiscal course. … Continue reading
This Is Coming to the Truth in Your Home Towns
Tom Feeley, owner and editor of InformationClearingHouse.info, has endured public harassment, home invasions, death threats and threats to his family simply for running a website.Anti-war website operator threatened by armed thugsBy Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet / August 7, 2008 … Continue reading
Tape : Order to Forge Iraq-9/11 Letter on White House Stationery
In damning transcript, ex-CIA official says Cheney likely ordered letter linking Hussein to 9/11 attacks By John Byrne / August 8, 2008 A forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was ordered on White House stationery … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Bush Administration, Cheney, CIA, Criminal Justice, George W. Bush, Iraq, Iraq War, Political Corruption
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Tom Hayden : Chicago 1968 / Denver 2008
Veteran activist and former California state Sen. Tom Hayden. Photo by Chris Schneider © The Rocky Mountain News The New Left leader from four decades ago thinks Denver should be skeptical of federal authorities’ warnings about violent protest.By M.E. Sprengelmeyer … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago 1968, Chicago 8, Democratic Convention, Direct Action, New Left, Protest, SDS, Sixties, Social Action, The Movement, Tom Hayden, Vietnam
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Michael Moore : How to Blow it
It’s the most winnable presidential election in American history – but the Democrats are old hands at losing. Michael Moore offers some helpful hints on how they might gift it all to the Republicans.By Michael Moore / August 9, 2008 … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Books, Democratic Party, Filmmakers, McCain, Obama, Political Strategy, Presidential Campaign
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When Medicine Meets Capitalism – Crony Politics
Peter Pitts (left) and Robert GoldbergThe FDA Guerillas of Wonky DrugWonksby Evelyn Pringle / August 8, 2008 Former Bush Administration officials have formed a pharmaceutical industry guerilla group called the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, described on its … Continue reading
Phoenix Reporter Details McCain’s Sordid Political Past
Former John McCain cohort Charles Keating, Jr., right, glances at the cameras as he stops outside Federal court following a hearing in Los Angeles on Feb. 5, 1998. Photo by Susan Sterner / AP.‘He was known then for cavorting in … Continue reading
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Tagged Cindy McCain, History, McCain, Political Corruption, Political Scandal, Presidential Campaign
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Ruling : Texas is Failing Limited-English Schoolchildren
Judge William Wayne Justice issued landmark ruling. Photo by Kelly West / Austin American-Statesman.State in no hurry to fix big problemBy Lisa Falkenberg / August 7, 2008 The 95-page landmark ruling issued recently by Judge William Wayne Justice on how … Continue reading
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Tagged Criminal Justice, Education, Hispanic, Public Schools, Spanish-speaking, Texas, Youth
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This Is How the United States Has Always Run Its Dirty Little Wars
A U.S. Army soldier with the 101st Airborne Division walks past a member of the Iraqi CLC (Concerned Local Citizens) guard during a patrol in Baiji Dec. 27, 2007.‘We Were Basically Hiring Terrorists’By Anna Badkhen / August 6, 2008 The … Continue reading
The Republicans : Stupid is as Stupid Does
Stephen Colbert’s ‘caricature of right-wing blowhards is so eerily accurate.’Intelligent analysis? Real men don’t do that.By Steve Benen / August 8, 2008 The Colbert Report is hilarious because Stephen Colbert’s caricature of right-wing blowhards is so eerily accurate. Colbert doesn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-intellectualism, Republican Party, Right Wing, Stephen Colbert
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Worldwide Protests On Eve of China Olympics
Tibetans protest in India ahead of Olympics.Demonstrations ‘pressure Beijing over its rule of Tibet and heavily Muslim Xinjiang province, the arrests of dissidents, Internet censorship and concerns about Chinese foreign policy’August 8, 2008 PARIS – Police banned demonstrations outside the … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Human Rights, Olympics, Protest, Social Action, Sport, The World, Tibet
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Holding Ourselves Responsible for the Crimes Our Government Perpetrates Around the World
The Prophetic Challenge: ‘Few Are Guilty, but All Are Responsible’By Robert Jensen / August 7, 2008 One of the common refrains I heard from progressive people in Pakistan and India during my month there this summer was, “We love the … Continue reading
