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[T]his year's spending on nuclear activities is
equal to what Ronald Reagan spent at the height of the U.S.-Soviet
standoff. It exceeds by over 50 percent the average annual sum ($4.2
billion) that the United States spent . . . throughout the four and a
half decades of the Cold War.
BREAKING NEWS! Torture of Iraqi prisoners by US troops exposed Kerry-ing On Energy
InterAct has been working with Senator Allard and Senator Campbell's offices to introduce a bill Suspending the Sale and Use of Depleted Uranium in Munitions. Learn more about this bill and Depleted Uranium. Accounts of Depleted Uranium reported by various media outlets around the world, such as. . .
My job is to, like, think beyond the
immediate.
George W Bush April 21, 2004 InterAct’s 5 Minutes to Make a Difference Take Action on issues including: Sudan, Green CD's, Rock Against Bush, the EPA, Earth Day... And Many More! Go on a NO More CARB Diet in 2004 - let's work our buts off to get rid of Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, and Bush (CARB)! VOTE! Not a single prominent voice in the media has been raised in protest against the barbaric siege against a city of over 300,000 inhabitants, an act of collective punishment that violates the most basic laws of war.
I am
satisfied that I never saw any intelligence that indicated there was going
to be an attack on America - at a time and a place, an attack. The White House continues to deny that the president immediately began planning an invasion of Iraq in the days after 9/11 ... But former British Ambassador to the United States Christopher Meyer said that President Bush made clear at a dinner with Prime Minister Tony Blair nine days after the Sept. 11 attacks that he wanted to confront Iraq.
Virtue means doing the right thing, in relation to
the right person, at the right time, to the right extent, in the right
manner, and for the right purpose. Thus, to give money away is quite a
simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to
the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right
manner, and at the right time.
Aristotle
Engineers try to build a system to remove the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Two companies based in Tucson, Arizona, in the US are involved in the project, which aims to complete the first phase of a working unit by early 2005. Scientists have discussed so-called "wind-scrubbers" in principle but this is the first attempt to build one. One Banker's Fight for a Half-Million Indians. Computer Ate My Vote Scores Coast to Coast Wins: Eight states have required paper trails for their electronic voting terminals. Here's more good news -- Maine just joined the club April 22, when Governor Baldacci signed LD1759 into law. We're not stopping there, though. In addition to pushing on in Ohio and California, we'll soon be taking on the new federal Election Assistance Commission. That's the new board tasked with writing the standards for electronic voting machines.
Just as George
W. Bush turned worldwide post-9/11 sympathy for America into anger,
American troops have turned whatever goodwill they had engendered [in
Iraq] into outright hostility.
Editorials: Notable and Newsworthy 20 Questions for Condi By William Rivers Pitt The inevitable logic of US repression in Iraq By Richard PhillipsWhen Puppets Pull the Strings By Martin Sieff A vote for Kerry is a vote for war By Bill Van Auken, Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate George and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamtie By William Rivers Pitt The Columbine High School massacre: American Pastoral ... American Berserk By David North April 27, 1999 As in Tiennamen square By Tanya Reinhart Cars Devastate By Yves Engler 'I Want to Know the Ugly Truth' By Monica Gabrielle An Irresponsible Accountability Act By Saul Landau and Farrah Hassen What Are You Doing About Afghanistan By Sonali Kolhatkar The Role of Drug Trafficking in Colombia's Internal Political Conflict By Ron Chepesiuk India becoming a GM-trashbin By Devinder Sharma
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal
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What do I want in a Candidate?
by Jodie Hemerda
Questions for
Candidates  Joe Wezorek, has published a stark mosaic image of President George W Bush composed from photos of US service men and women killed in Iraq. "War President," appears on the website American Leftist.
Indonesia AND East Timor The Tipton Three, recently released from Guantanamo, and telling their story to the British media, disclosed that they had first been captured in Afghanistan by the Taliban, then swept into the prisons of the Northern Alliance. In late
November 2001 the three had been herded into two truck containers,
which were then driven from the crowded jail at Sheberghan to a final
destination in the Dasht-e Leili desert, where the prisoners were dumped,
most of them dead from suffocation; the three survived, barely, because a
little air had come in through bullet holes. Dasht-E Leili By Edward Herman Whatever you think about broadcast obscenity, it is hard to make the case that a disk jockey cursing causes greater social harm than someone who puts another person's life in danger. Indecent By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman War on Terror & Civil Liberties
Quote/Claim:
Fact:
A number of changes
need to be made if we are going to recover the situation in Iraq.
The first and most compelling of those is that the US forces have got to stop acting like warriors and start acting like peacekeepers. Whenever they fly over townships and fire missiles into those townships then they are convincing everybody in them that they are the enemy. British cabinet member, Robin Cook.
[C]an we stop the Orwellian language and
start using the proper names for things? Those are not “contractors” in
Iraq. They are not there to fix a roof or to pour concrete in a driveway.
They are MERCENARIES and SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE. They are there for the money,
and the money is very good if you live long enough to spend it. Michael Moore
During Bush's April 13th press conference he claimed "there was nobody in our government, at least, and I don't think the prior government that could envision flying airplanes into buildings"
Minutes later at the same press conference Bush said
the reason he supposedly requested intelligence
briefings before 9/11 "had to do with the Genoa G-8 conference I was going
to attend" in 2001. Bush was referring to the fact that, prior to that
conference, he was warned that "Islamic terrorists might attempt to kill him
and other leaders by crashing an airliner into the summit" meetings.
A year ago Navy Lt. John Oliveira was appearing
daily before television cameras defending the U.S. invasion. He was the top
public affairs officer aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt. In a Democracy
Now! exclusive he speaks today on a national program for the first time
criticizing the invasion he was once paid to defend.
Navy Public Affairs Officer Who Worked in Iraq Condemns President Bush & The U.S. Invasion
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month, an Amnesty International delegation in Nigeria met with Amina Lawal,
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