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What is
the real morale of US troops in Iraq? Are our troops a bunch of
whiners or do they have legitimate complaints?
The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the
world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to
see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the
world, himself a light.
Felix Adler InterAct has been working with Senator Allard's office to introduce a bill Suspending the Sale and Use of Depleted Uranium in Munitions. Learn more about this bill and Depleted Uranium.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you
only knock long
enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Longfellow InterAct’s 5 Minutes to Make a Difference
"I watched as soldiers killed many of my relatives in the village and raped my two sisters and my mother... I was scared and thought that if I joined the army I would be protected... Once in the army... I was frequently beaten and raped by the other soldiers... When I was just 14 I had a baby: I don’t even know who his father is. I ran away... But today I have nowhere to go and no food to give to the baby... "
Amnesty International urgently calls upon the
United Nations to take all necessary measures to protect civilian life, with
particular attention to vulnerable groups including women and children.
Help Protect Civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo
[W]hile Cheney noted that when
asked what kind of government they would like, Iraqis chose "the US … hands
down," in fact, the results of the poll are actually quite different.
Twenty-three per cent of Iraqis say that they would like to model their new government after the US; 17.5 per cent would like their model to be Saudi Arabia; 12 per cent say Syria, 7 per cent say Egypt and 37 per cent say "none of the above." That's hardly "winning hands down." Dr. James J. Zogby, an excerpt from "US bends statistical data on Iraqi surveys" Editorials: Notable and Newsworthy
A Mother's Rage by
Marianne Brown Losing the Troops from Mother Jones
A Missing Statistic: U.S. Jobs That Went Overseas by Louis Uchitelle
The
Philippine Model by Stephen Shalom
Fourteen years after Exxon Valdez slimed over one
thousand miles of Alaskan beaches, the oily company has yet to pay most of
the damages awarded by the jury. The $4 billion Exxon owes for "punitive"
damages is getting off easy: by Exxon's own calculation it merely equals
the cost of
the damage they inflicted.
I know. I worked for the native villages whose coastline was oiled - IS oiled... the gunk is still there, still deadly, no matter the mendacious Exxon mouthpieces tell you. Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (p. 263) World Bank in final talks on BTC Caspian pipeline dispels the Bush Administration propaganda that there are no intentions to build a pipeline through Afghanistan to connect the oil rich middle east to the oil desperate southern asia. Osama bin-Laden my ass. To learn about the timeline of this project and the involvement of Bush, read Deception of America.
Guantanamo translations 'queried' Investigators are reported to be
checking translations of interrogations of prisoners to see if they were
sabotaged. Heaven or Hell: A Cautionary Tale of the Little Guy Who Would Be Emperor Ari & I: Ari Fleischer's final White House briefing
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The greatest glory is not in never falling but in
rising up every
time we fall.
Confucius (551-479 BC) Iraq -At Iraqi Depot, Missiles Galore and No Guards : Six in Ten Iraqis Unemployed, but US Subcontractors Hire Cheap Migrant Laborers : UN estimate for rebuilding Iraq half that of Bush’s—where’s the money going? : Governing Council of Iraq to allow foreign companies to establish 100 percent ownership of businesses in Iraq A staggering US$4 billion in oil revenues and other Iraqi funds earmarked for the reconstruction of the country has disappeared into opaque bank accounts administered by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), the US-controlled body that rules Iraq. By the end of the year, if nothing changes in the way this cash is accounted for, that figure will double. Christian Aid, "Iraq: the missing billions"
Africa -
Hope Glimmering as War Retreats From Congo :
UN peacekeepers say at least 55
villagers have been killed in a village north of Bunia, mainly pregnant women
and children :
Bush’s AIDS appointee spells out corporate agenda
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear
defeat without losing heart. Guantanamo - Lawyer Says Guantanamo Detainees Tortured Civil Liberties - Nat Hentoff Bush's Vanished Prisoner War On Terror - 40 Key Taliban Prisoners Tunnel Out from Afghan Jail :Taleban retaking land says UN Enron/WorldCom : Updates in blue
Violence is a powerful instrument of control, as
history demonstrates. But the dilemmas of dominance are not slight.
Noam Chomsky, an excerpt from "Dominance and Dilemmas" Members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate rallied to their constituents' demands that the FCC ruling be overturned . . . Now that initiative is dead in the water, and with it is our "free" democracy. Two years ago, President Bush said, "Veterans are a priority for this administration... and that priority is reflected in my budget." But, a year ago, when he had a chance to approve an emergency funding bill that included $275 million for medical care of veterans, he said, "We'll spend none of it." (source)
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, The Measure of a Man, 1958
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