“This Republican Congress must be fired because they are still putting their own egos above the truth – and above human lives,” wrote an Army Reservist in a letter to MoveOn members appealing for volunteers to call voters41x42. On the…
Bunny Greenhouse Faced Halliburton War Profits Express
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“My father always taught me to be strong and have dignity, to not have to bow down or have anyone run over you,” said Bunnatine Greenhouse20. An older brother and sister each earned doctorates and taught at universities, her younger…
How to Vote in Ohio
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“At 4 p.m. the average wait time is about 4.5 hours and continuing to increase,” said a witness of the voting in Columbus, Ohio, during the 2004 election1. “Voters are continuing to leave without voting.” Such long lines in Ohio’s…
Flint Workers Sat Down and U.S. Middle Class Rose Up
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The Speed-Up “I wanted a union not so much for the money,” said line worker Peter Schmitz, “I wanted a union … to have a little say so about the speed of that line. Like I say you couldn’t do…
How the ‘Grand Oil Party’ Got Its Name
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Amidst the pork in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 was $6 billion in subsidies to oil and gas companies1. At the time Congress passed the act, the five biggest oil companies had just posted record profits of $52 billion…
JAG Officer Charles Swift Stops Bush’s Kangaroo Court
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Last month the Supreme Court ruled that President Bush’s military tribunals at Guantanamo were illegal – a violation of the United States’ Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and the Geneva Conventions1. The case, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, was brought by…
Stalin vs. the Dalai Lama
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Guest article by Julius Hungeski Joseph Stalin said: Gratitude … is a sickness suffered by dogs1. To choose one’s victims, to prepare one’s plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed … there is nothing…
A ‘Declaration of Independence’ Complaint against Bush II
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Among the complaints against King George III in the United States’ Declaration of Independence that today could be leveled at President George W. Bush is: “He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public…
Greenpeace Explorers on First-Ever Summertime Trek to North Pole
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Two Greenpeace explorers are now trekking across the Arctic Ocean to the North Pole – the first ever such trip during summertime1. The trip is harder and riskier in the summertime, when the seasonal melting of the ice sheet leaves…
Net Neutrality in Pictures: CNN & GNN
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Here are three pictures of the Internet in the U.S.A., as it could be in the future. The first picture is the Internet with net neutrality, where no one’s data gets priority over another’s1. This is the kind of Internet…