A month after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, with half the Senators shut out of their offices due to anthrax-powdered letters1x2, the United States Congress passed the “USA PATRIOT“ Act3, which boosted the government’s surveillance power. If you can’t…
Happy Human Rights Day!
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Soon after the horror of World War II and the Nazi atrocities that came to be known as The Holocaust, 51 countries formed the United Nations to keep peace and security. Soon after that, on December 10th, 1948, the United…
Justice Marched Slowly from Nuremberg to the International Criminal Court
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The Nuremberg trials for massive crimes committed during World War II led to the opening of the permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) over fifty years later1. The first trial aimed to hold to account German Nazi leaders, who started the…
Ohio Ballot Issues Address ’04 Election Ills
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The 2004 Ohio election had many problems1. A citizens group, Reform Ohio Now, got four issues on the ballot for Tuesday’s (November 8, 2005) election to address some of the problems2. The issues are: Issue 2 – Vote by Mail:…
Indictment Supports Fact: Bush’s Inner Circle Blew US Spy’s Cover
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Top Bush White House officials blew the cover of a CIA agent while smearing a critic. That core fact of the Plame Case has been further supported by Friday’s indictment of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the top advisor to Vice…
Fossil Fuel Global Warming More Certain than Ever
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Mainstream science holds that the burning of fossil fuels is causing the earth to warm rapidly. A scientist published that idea in 18981, and through accelerated study it became a consensus by 19962. Only a few scientists still hold that…
Bush II Cooked Intelligence to Get Iraq War Powers
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George W. Bush made false claims citing faulty intelligence, during his campaign in 2002 to gain public and congressional support for an invasion of Iraq [1]. The faulty intelligence came through the “stovepipes” Bush’s administration set up to pump information…
Al Gore Rescues Katrina Victims
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Al Gore was instrumental in rescuing Katrina victims from New Orleans on the fifth day after the hurricane hit and destroyed the city [1]. Two days earlier, Dr. David Kline and his patients were stranded at Charity Hospital, with food…