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Our limited perspective, our hopes and fears become our measure of life, and when circumstances don't fit our ideas, they become our difficulties.
Benjamin Franklin
We Can
Bomb the World to Pieces But We Can't Bomb it Into Peace Michael Franti
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Feature Article: Killing for Coltan *** New Format*** Click on pictures and underlined words for links to stories. September 11th 2001 changed our world forever – for you, me and all Americans. But as those towers crashed, the other 95% of the world’s inhabitants experienced mixed reactions - most sympathetically outraged, many impartial and a few jubilant. The attacks caught us by surprise, but war and political violence have penetrated practically every corner of our planet. What made US feel untouchable? Our current political climate indicates that despite a momentary vulnerable Tuesday morning, our government still feels invincible. Since September 11th, the US has intensified the very actions that sparked the terrorists to hate you and I so much: · bombed the remaining fragile civilization of Afghanistan, · declared war on the (developing) world with Bush’s “Terror War”, · incited war frenzy for invading Iraq and bullied the UN security council into joining US, · identified the vile and traitorous “Axis of Evil”, · protected CEO’s such as Bush and Cheney from criminal allegations, All The While … · manipulating world politics into pro-US policies, · participating in illegal arms and drug trading, · stealing traditional herbs and medicines from the poor with patents for the multimillion drug industry, · starving Iraqi children with sanctions · ignoring the unemployment epidemic that grips the United States, · evading alternative, renewable resources which would end US reliance on Mid-East oil What will we do in 2003?
A preemptive war against
Iraq, legally impermissible, morally unpardonable, would be a cause for
shame to future generations. Let the debate begin, not just in Congress, but
throughout the nation. 2003 As an optimist I believe that things will get better. I envision this whole Iraq thing blowing over, maybe at the cost of a few thousand (civilian Iraqi) lives, and $200 billion as we detonate our high tech weapons in a desert wasteland. I am an American, it won’t affect my life too much and the war will surely be swifter than our continuing one in Afghanistan. Time cannot be afforded Iraq as we now need to disarm North Korea. I expect that once we’ve finished off Sadam and replaced him with Cheney, or a Cheney substitute, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Lebanon, and other Arab nationals will join together against US before we replace their leaders with the Cheney clones we are developing from those 12 stem cells. WWWIII will seem inevitable until the US political system implodes under our crumbling economic structure, poverty engulfs the struggling middle class, citizens take to the streets to reclaim their lost civil rights and destroy Big Brother technology, unions reunite strengthened by their break-up under Bush, people rise up against the Bush dictatorship and deep democracy ensues. By November, life will return to normal in time for the holiday shopping frenzy. Easily attainable low interest loans will allow even the poorest of poor to afford the American dream of Christmas; once again encouraging the cycle of economic strife. This will allow a Democrat to easily waltz into the white house and save the day with increased governmental spending. Covert foreign affairs will ensue under the radar. We will fall back into our fat and happy consumer/narcissistic lifestyles and all will be well again. Here’s wishing you a happy new year! Jodie Hemerda
May your holidays be of
good cheer, and your 2003 full of joy and dissent!
The final installment in a three part series. Unfortunately the conflict will continue.
Join us in supporting human rights
December 21st InterAct sent off our bundle of children’s clothing to the Imbabazi Orphanage in Rwanda – thank you to all who made this possible.
What you
can do, or think you can, begin it.
Oppose video surveillance in our nation's capital
Support Adopt-a-Minefield in Opposing Bush’s Plans to Use Mines in Iraq
Ariel Sharon
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. Montaigne
The Bush administration aims to rid the world of nuclear capability…while pre-emptively aiming nuclear weapons at Iraq (left), and escorting scuds to Yemen (below).
"Give me your tired your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Emma Lazarus’s words once represented the US’s open immigration ideology that allowed my great grandparents access to this land of freedom… now the golden door is closing and the US has the right to unlawfully detain you until further notice. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley
The FBI has put Corporate America’s leaders on notice, not for their abuse of power…but to warn them of a possible threat by antiwar activists. Doesn’t she look dangerous?
Why should you care about overseas working conditions…because your job might be headed there.
DR Congo refugee crisis worsens
Antiwar Movement Stands Strong
I speak
as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this
war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours.
US eyes Big Brother plan
Indonesia promises to rebuild Aceh
The Iraq Report the CIA Won’t Inspect
No-Fly Zones: Washington’s Undeclared War on ‘Saddam’s Victims’
FCC Ready to Roll Back Limits on Media Consolidation
Bush Restoring Cash Bonuses for Political Appointees
New Tools for Domestic Spying, and Qualms
What are Bush’s plans for United Airlines? Clearly he plans to break up as many unions as possible during his terror reign – Homeland Security maimed the rights of those in the government. Then he forced the unions on the West coast to settle, and threatened massive fines and jailings recently of New York City transit unions. So, is it coincidence that the new CEO of United is the former CEO of Texaco when Bush is firing up the war engines; that United coerced its employees (except the mechanics) into voluntary pay cuts in an unstable economic environment with unemployment on the rise; that United’s federal loan request was denied, forcing bankruptcy, layoffs and further pay cuts?
The Pure Essence of Stupid
The Nightmare Before
Christmas
Let
Iran “Liberate” Iraq
Farewell Al, We Hardly Knew You
Bush, Anything But Moronic
An Insider’s View Of Iraq’s Non-Nuclear Capabilities
Satire from blackcommentator.com
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