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This Month's Featured Articles
HIPAA:
The Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
East Timor:
Genocide in East Timor.
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HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
HIPAA - Health Care Protection or Government Spy Tool? by Lila Schow
Never forget that everything Hitler did
in Germany was legal. Read about IAO's May 19th meeting with Andrew Merritt at Senator Allard's office
Afghans' uranium levels
spark alert
InterAct’s 5 Minutes to Make a Difference
TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION!
Stop the Florida-tion of the 2004 election Computers threaten accountability of voting system
Global headquarters shut down
day before annual meeting Demand ExxonMobil Take Responsibility For Human Rights
You can help by sending a personal letter to the board of ExxonMobil.
Patron these non-Middle East importing gasoline companies to avoid financing Bush’s war: Citgo, Sunoco, Conoco, Sinclair, BP/Phillips, and Hess.
Success, recognition, and conformity are
the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the
anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
What’s your reaction to InterAct, our stories or our letters? Contact us and we’ll print your comments, like those of Shelley N. who inspired this month's Feature Article on HIPAA.
Editorials: Notable and Newsworthy
Patriot Raid
by Jason Halperin
Did Our Leaders Lie
to Us? Do We Even Care? Pensions For Execs, Shaft For Workers by Arianna Huffington Colonial Residue by Paul Harris
FCC: Public Be
Damned By Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols
Saudi Arabia said today that they've
foiled a major Al Quaeda operation -- so Jay Leno
Statement by Senator Dianne Feinstein concerning the Administration's emphasis on developing 'low-yield' nuclear weapons.
New Mexico Stands Against the Patriot Act A joint memorial affirming civil rights and Liberties; Declaring opposition to federal measures that infringe on civil liberties.
Man's greatest actions
are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation,
abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure
heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) As long as there is a forum in which questions can be asked by men and women who do not stand in awe of a chief executive and one can speak as long as one's feet will allow one to stand, the liberties of the American people will be secure.
What's going on? The U.S. has captured enough
scientists like Dr. Germ and Ms. Anthrax, or whomever, to get a picture of
what Saddam Hussein had or didn't have. The Bush administration needs to
begin explaining the situation. "Talking Points" understands time is
needed, but the right wing spin that Saddam was a deadly weapon himself
isn't going to cut it here. With Saddam gone, sanctions are no longer needed in Iraq . . . UN sanctions were imposed because of WMD, none have been found in Iraq proving both war and sanctions were illegal. THEY FINALLY FOUND THE WMD . . . Oh wait, no they didn't.
House Debates Orwellian Logging Bill, By J.A. Savage Log federal forests in order to save them? That's what the House voted to do Tuesday. Invoking the ghost of George Orwell, the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 encourages federal land managers to "conduct hazardous fuel reduction projects." In a 256 to 170 tally, the House would allow what environmentalists say will lead to logging 190 million acres the Bush administration claims are "at risk" of forest fire. It also limits citizen participation and authorizes another $125 million in industry subsidies. The Senate plans to take it up in summer.
This is too simple to really even be considered a conspiracy - most of us have already caught on to this one: President Bush cheated his way into the white house on the back of big business. The verdict remains out on whether or not he actually encouraged the "Eleventh" by distracting the FBI from uncovering the pertinent evidence already in their possession. Either way, the Eleventh offered a window of opportunity to show the world our true colors, the Plan for a New American Century. The US military and industrial complex has done well in instigating seemingly legitimate wars around the world in the guise of protecting the US from another ATTACK. Yet, our targets have fallen on poorly armed, strategic oil countries. While these countries surely cannot contend with our $$$$$$$ missiles, they can offer our big multinationals some liquid gold to ease their suffering at having to save these countries from US implemented governments. Afghanistan and Iraq are merely trial runs for our next oil-induced raid. Many thought Syria, but I think Bush has a larger target in mind first. Why are we setting up such a strong military occupation of Iraq? Because it makes Iran such easy pickings! Bush owes all those multinationals and paybacks a bitch. |
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Let's
Pay Attention This Time: by Jodie Hemerda
Perhaps the greatest
death toll relative to the population since the Holocaust. Yet
Indonesia's actions are supported, diplomatically and economically, by the
United States, Canada, Australia and most other western countries.
Genocide in East Timor by Jodie Hemerda
Enron/WorldCom check out our updates in blue-don't worry, the government has yet to jail someoneAnti-US protest reveals depth of Afghanistan’s social and political crisis
PNAC: Project for a New American Century Overview on Project for a New American Century Democratic Republic of Congo: Can We Trust the Media?: Aceh Indonesia: Oil and Mining Projects Threaten Communities in Aceh and Papua
What your politicians do when you’re not looking:
$16 Million
Dollar 'Terror Drill'
The War’s Stimulating Effect on the Economy:
Jobless Rate
Rose to 6% in April Community colleges in US facing massive cutbacks Michigan highlights assault on education Record number of US children in extreme poverty At an income level of extreme poverty a family would be required to consume nearly every penny of its resources in food alone, leaving nothing for rent, lights, heat or clothing.
History repeats itself. First as
tragedy,
US puts Hussein's leaders back in charge of Iraq Australian Companies Rush To Profit From Iraqi Devastation Indonesia launches “shock and awe” military offensive in Aceh
US war
crimes case 'going ahead'
Looting
of nuclear sites poses deadly threat in Iraq
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