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Not all humans are human in the international context.
Some countries are seen as important, but we have coldly created a tier of
orphan nations.
How has Rwanda
coped in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide that went ignored by the
international community?
Discrepancies between
Voter Turnout and Citizen Participation Crossing Lines By Kathy Kelly
See, free nations are peaceful
nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop
weapons of mass destruction."
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. A Radioactive Nightmare in Concord, Massachusetts. This shady burg of 15,000 residents quietly struggles with its legacy as the maker of depleted uranium slugs for the U.S. military's latest wars. The soil more than a mile from the nuclear dump is radioactive. A 1993 epidemiological study found the town's residents suffered higher rates of cancer than the state average.
On March 6, 2004, a symposium examining the politics, the policy, and the science of depleted uranium was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At this occasion, Dr Kilpatrick released new figures on the DU use in Iraq.
Read Dan Fahey's new paper: Unresolved Issues Regarding Depleted Uranium And the Health of U.S. Veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom
Chernobyl First Hand-A Motorcycle Tour
What lies behind us and
what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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It wasn't until I listened to Madeleine
Albright--testifying with that insight-challenged, hardline attitude of
hers--before the 911 Commission, until I heard her tout her own toughness
and willingness to use military force, that I was reminded once again that
the Clinton conservatives were only a few degrees closer to the center than
is Bush's Republican Guard. To listen to all the mealy-mouthed testimony and
the deferential treatment accorded the witnesses was to be brought back to
the realization that any nostalgia for the "good old days" was misplaced.
This is the woman who told 60 Minutes that a million children dying under
sanctions in Iraq was acceptable. So, now I am beginning to wonder if my own
hopes for this investigation as a truth-seeking enterprise were naïve. The
Transcript is on line in both the Washington Post and
The New
York Times.
Danny Schechter's dissections of the day's news
While the Pentagon contends that 2722 soldiers have been wounded in action and 417 in non hostile fire as of March 1, the U.S. Air Force confides that it has flown approximately 12,000 wounded soldiers into Andrews Air Force Base over the past 9 months. The Forgotten Soldiers of Operation "Iraqi Freedom" by Natasha Saulnier
Bush claims that "we're creating jobs - good, high-paying jobs for the American citizen."... His comments come despite the country having lost more than 2 million manufacturing jobs since he was elected. In Ohio, which lost 270,000 manufacturing jobs alone, the economic crisis has raised questions about why the president last month strongly endorsed the outsourcing of U.S. jobs to cheap overseas labor markets.
Bush promised the country that his drug-industry backed
Medicare bill would cost $395 billion ...just weeks after he signed the bill into law, his own budget
office admitted
that the bill would actually cost well over $500 billion.
A new report shows that the President knew that the bill cost more than he
had claimed, yet he deliberately hid the information from the public until
the legislation was already signed into law.
Bush pledged that homosexuals "ought to have the same
rights" as all other people . . .
his Administration ruled that homosexuals can now be
fired from the federal workforce because of their sexual orientation,
ruling that federal employees will now "have no recourse if they are fired or
demoted simply for being gay."
Bush banned goods from Burma for sale in the U.S. because of their awful human rights, narcotics and sex trafficking record... Now President Bush's official campaign is selling clothing made in Burma
In a televised presidential debate on Oct. 17, 2000,
candidate Bush said, "We're one of the first states that said you can sue an HMO for
denying you proper coverage."...But on Tuesday, the
Bush administration argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that the same Texas
law touted by candidate Bush is invalid because it is pre-empted by a
federal law. This is the opposite of what
then-Gov. Bush's Texas Department of Insurance argued in a lower court in
1997. link
You
cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and
paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
Demosthenes
Americans in seven states - up from three states less
than a month ago - can now be assured that their votes will not be lost by
unreliable computer voting machines. Ashcroft Weighs Granting of Asylum to Abused Women The Department of Homeland Security quietly proposed sweeping changes in the handling of political asylum cases. If approved, the rules would for the first time recognize severe cases of domestic violence as equivalent in certain instances to more familiar asylum cases involving political and religious persecution. The shift in policy would bring the United States in line with countries like Britain and Australia, which have been granting asylum in such cases for several years.
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Temporary workers, in fact, are the fastest-growing
segment of the work force, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Since August, when employers finally began to add more jobs than they
eliminated, temporary workers have led the parade. Temporary help jobs
increased by 112,000 in this period, bringing the total to 2.37 million as
of last month. That is up from virtually zero in the late 1970's.
Often
I was too close, or confined, to comprehend the war's broad sweep. I could
not interview survivors of Iraqi civilians killed by U.S. soldiers or
speak to Iraqi fighters trying to kill Americans. I was not present when
Americans died at the hands of fellow soldiers in what the military calls
'frat,' for fratricide. I had no idea what ordinary Iraqis were
experiencing. I was ignorant of Iraqi government decisions and U.S.
command strategy.
Los Angeles Times reporter David Zucchino, embedded with the 101st Airborne
During the
1979 Iranian revolution, the last time oil production fell off
significantly, world oil prices hit the modern equivalent of $80 a barrel.
And that, keep in mind, was a temporary decline. If world oil production
were to truly peak and begin a permanent decline, the effect would be
staggering: Prices would not come back down. Any part of the global economy
dependent on cheap energy - which is to say, pretty much everything these
days - would be changed forever.
Colorado News Book Says U.S. Aides Lied in Nuclear-Arms Plant Case The Justice Department lied about its reasons for not pursuing the most serious accusations of environmental crimes at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in the 1980's and 1990's, according to a new book written in part by the foreman of the grand jury that investigated the case. Denver demonstrators protest Iraq war Event organizer says 'war in Iraq is terrorism'
Like the breeze of late winter, a single word,
unspoken, has rippled through the recent funerals of several U.S. service
members returned from Iraq. Families and military press officers have
different reasons for tight lips on the topic. But suicide among Iraq war
soldiers, 29 cases by recent count, says volumes about drooping troop
morale and raises further doubts about how accurately the toll on service
members is being measured and how much more they will bear.
Coming to Grief By Hans Johnson First Year Anniversary of the War in Iraq
"Frankly, I find it outrageous that the president is running for re-election on the grounds that he's done such great things about terrorism. He ignored it. He ignored terrorism for months, when maybe we could have done something to stop 9/11. Maybe. We'll never know. I think he's done a terrible job on the war against terrorism."
Richard Clarke, former Director of Counter-Terrorism for the National Security Council and veteran of every administration since Ronald Reagan, in an excerpt from Before These Crowded Streets By William Rivers Pitt
Ex-Advisor Says Bush Eyed Bombing of Iraq on 9/11 Richard Clarke, who headed a cybersecurity board that gleaned intelligence from the Internet, told CBS "60 Minutes" in an interview to be aired on Sunday he was surprised administration officials turned immediately toward Iraq instead of al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. "They were talking about Iraq on 9/11. They were talking about it on 9/12," Clarke says. Clarke said he was briefing President Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld among other top officials in the aftermath of the devastating attacks. "Rumsfeld was saying we needed to bomb Iraq." ..."We all said, 'but no, no. Al Qaeda is in Afghanistan," recounts Clarke, "and Rumsfeld said, 'There aren't any good targets in Afghanistan and there are lots of good targets in Iraq."'
Bush Haiku
This is a short poem made up entirely of
actual quotations from George W. Bush. These have been arranged, only
for aesthetic purposes, by Washington
Post writer, Richard Thompson. A wonderful
Haiku poem like this is too good not to share.
MAKE THE PIE HIGHER
I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It's a world of madmen and uncertainty
And potential mental losses.
Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the Internet
Become more few?
How many hands have I shaked?
They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.
I know that the human being
And the fish can coexist.
Families is where our nation finds hope,
Where our wings take dream.
Put food on your family!
Knock down the tollbooth!
Vulcanize society!
Make the pie higher!
Make the pie higher!
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