May 11, 2008
The Makh-Dooms of Pakistan
By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring According to a little heard news, the current Prime Minister of Pakistan, Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani has reportedly decided to drop the family prefix of Makhdoom from his name saying he wants to serve people...
May 10, 2008
The Crisis Deepens in Myanmar
The crisis in Myanmar continues to deepen in the wake of cyclone Nagris which struck the Irawaddy Delta on May 3, 2008. The original reports have climbed from 350 dead to well over 100,000. Now concerns are that a second...
May 3, 2008
The Bomb Squads: How to Survive a Gaza Refugee Camp
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com The following are excerpts from Baroud's upcoming book, "101 Ways to Survive a Refugee Camp." We...
April 27, 2008
War on Hunga
By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring Note : Hunga is Texanese for Hunger. What is hunger? When the glucose level of the liver falls below a threshold, a feeling is experienced that is called hunger, usually followed by a desire to...
April 16, 2008
The Most Powerful People in America
BY Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy and Friends of the Article V Convention They are not the rich and superrich, nor the politically powerful running the two-party plutocracy, nor the greedy heads of banking and finance companies, and...
April 7, 2008
Recipe for Catastrophe: Climate, Fuel, and Food
Food riots turn deadly in Haiti. Food riots fear after rice price hits a high. And so it starts. Globally there has been roughly a 25% increase in food prices. In some areas - such as Haiti - food...
April 6, 2008
No Checkpoints in Heaven
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com I still vividly remember my father's face - wrinkled, apprehensive, warm - as he last wished...
April 1, 2008
Crisis and the Crossroads of History: The Need for a Radicalized Citizenry
By Dr. Steven Best. Originally published at Thomas Paine's Corner. "The global Animal Liberation Movement is an abolitionist movement that demands the end to all forms of animal exploitation, not merely reducing suffering; like its 19th century predecessor, it demands...
March 21, 2008
Hate Speech is Not Free Speech
I encourage you to listen to what Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern (Republican) said at a gathering in her district. Hate speech is not free speech, and representative Kern needs to stand accountable for promulgating her homophobic agenda. Please sign...
March 16, 2008
Stopping the Suicide Bomber
By Anwaar Hussain of TruthSpring We have to condemn with loud voices, open speech and fearless thinking as much the terrorists as the system that spawns them Young men, full of youth's vigor, pumped up and brainwashed by patriotism or...
March 9, 2008
'Unwavering Commitment' to Inequality
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com Death hovered over Gaza long before locally-made Palestinian rockets struck near the Israeli southern town of...
March 5, 2008
Darfurism, Uganda and the U.S. War in Africa: The Spectre of Continental Genocide
by Keith Harmon Snow First published: October 29, 2007 at The Centre for Global Research Revised & republished: November 1, 2007 Revised & republished with Global Research: 12 November 2007 Revised & expanded: 13 November 2007 Crosspublished at The Greanville...
February 20, 2008
Outsourcing Will Ultimately Lead to Fascism in America
By: Richard Backus of Uncensored Opinions The current outsourcing and downsizing of manufacturing in the U.S. will eventually lead to fascism if past history is a dependable predictor of the future. A decrease in the contribution of a country's manufacture...
February 18, 2008
Congress's Betrayal of the American Worker
By: Richard Backus of Uncensored Opinions While claiming to be attempting to increase the number of well-paying jobs in the U.S. (having created laws in the past explicitly designed to do this), the Congress has really been following a completely...
February 13, 2008
The Dilemma of American Corporations and Workers
By: Richard Backus of Uncensored Opinions American corporations have been moving their export-oriented jobs overseas and will not be hiring American workers until differential wage rates decrease substantially. U. S. wage rates, as well as EU wage rates, are considerably...
January 31, 2008
People’s Power in Gaza
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com In a radio interview prior to the US invasion of Iraq, David Barsamian asked Noam Chomsky...
January 18, 2008
Guantanamo as a Symbol
By Ramzy Baroud (ramzybaroud.net) - author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, 2006), and editor of PalestineChronicle.com 11 January marked the sixth year anniversary of the establishment of the Guantanamo detention camp. Mere...
January 14, 2008
Equal Job Opportunity for American Workers in a Globalized World
By: Richard Backus of Uncensored Opinions After reviewing Jeffrey Sachs' public lecture on Globalization and Employment, I have a concern that a few major issues were not successfully dealt with. It is true that workers of the world will benefit...
January 9, 2008
What American Workers Deserve is Fair Trade, not Free Trade
By: Richard Backus of Uncensored Opinions "Fair Trade" must be adopted as the trade policy of the U.S. for the sake of the survival of the U.S. working classes. If implemented correctly, it will result as well in an improvement...
December 4, 2007
Who Is the Smartest?
The AP released a story regarding memory tests pitting chimpanzees against humans. The chimpanzees won hands down. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTgeLEWr614 Read the New Scientist report....
November 18, 2007
Pakistan Struggles Instructive and Frightening
Pakistan remains in a state of emergency. The emergency declared by Musharraf on November 3, 2007 in response to terrorism - purportedly. However it seems more like a full out effort to retain power....
November 17, 2007
Bush Crusades and Islam
One of our regular contributors Anwaar Hussain has an excellent speech by Ali Baghdadi article at his site TruthSpring titled "Reform of Islam is Not Bush's or the Pope's business." The reprinted speech argues against the characterization of Islam that...
November 16, 2007
Pause to Remember and Support
Today is the three year anniversary of the killings at the Hacienda Luisita sugar mill in the Philippines. Workers were peacefully protesting (by picketing the mill) the stealing of the land by Cojuangco clan who owns the sugar mill when...
October 9, 2007
Back to Burma - and the Opium Trade
I know that some may have thought that my bringing the opium trade into the discussion of the conflict in Burma was a bit "out there." Apparently, I am not out there alone. Larry Chin has an article International narcotics...
October 4, 2007
Burma: The Back Story
The current protests in Burma are attributed to a 500% increase in fuel prices which crippled an already struggling population's ability to survive (BBC). The people of Burma have been descending into deeper and deeper poverty over the last decade....
October 3, 2007
Cry for Burma, But Take Action
The news leaks out of Burma of brutal repression by the Junta in power for 40 years. Brave people on the ground send out news and pictures to an international network of Burmese bloggers. Peaceful protests is met with force...
September 16, 2007
Very Bloody Oil
Many people have been saying that the invasion (and occupation) of Iraq is about oil. I believe that there is more than oil involved, but certainly oil was a driving motivator. Now we can add Alan Greenspan to the list...
August 16, 2007
Home Grown Terrorists?
The New York Police Department released a report today "Radicalization in the West: the homegrown threat" (UTJ link). The report focuses on "Islamic" terrorism with an extended series of case studies. I am not at all surprised that it has...
June 29, 2007
Race(ing) Backwards With Boost From SCOTUS
Well, SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) has dealt yet another "conservative" blow to the nation. This time by essentially overturning Brown vs the Board of Education. Schools are still expected to achieve racial "diversity." However, accomplishing racial integration...
June 15, 2007
In Pursuit of Immigrants. Whose security? Whose Interest?
They stand in icy water; in crowded conditions; wet to the skin for 18 hour shifts. They work for one of the largest food processors in the world. They are paid below legal wage, and not paid overtime. Now, 167...
May 31, 2007
The Growing Economic Divide
I was struck by the juxtaposition of two articles: U.S. Economic Growth Weakest in Over 4 Years S.& P. Index Climbs Past the Record It Set 7 Years Ago When I read or listen to the economic news I feel...
May 26, 2007
Human Lives - Collateral Damage to A Political Calculus
The Democrats caved in and supported the supplemental occupation funding demanded by the Bush Cabal. The arguments apparently being that they a) didn't have the votes to overcome a veto; b) they didn't want to be blamed for the...
May 25, 2007
Women, please be patient - still
[A female prisoner walks with her child through the hallway of the women's prison in Kabul, Afghanistan Saturday, Oct. 19, 2002. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) picasaweb.google.com/eldiazg/] A couple of week's ago, a young woman in nothern Iraq (Kurdish region) was...
May 3, 2007
A Long Awaited Win for Oregon Gay Rights
After roughly thirty years of ups and downs, two pieces of legislation are on their way to the Governor. Senate Bill 2 bans discrimination based on sexual orientation, and House Bill 2007 recognizes same sex domestic partnerships and extends a...
April 19, 2007
Women's Right to Abortion Significantly Undermined
Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that so-called "partial birth abortion" is illegal in a 5-4 decision. The newest Justice, Samuel Alito provided the swing vote in the decision. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Paul Stevens, David Souter and Stephen Breyer...
April 14, 2007
Time to Boycott and Contact Circuit CIty
Circuit City has decided to lay off 3400 Associates who make above the "market range." That range is in the vicinity of $7.75 an hour. The rationale from the Circuit City press release reads: "The company has completed a wage...
March 26, 2007
Iraqi sexual cleansing continues
Perhaps it should be no surprise that 2 years after Ayatollah Al-Sistani issued his fatwa calling for the death of gays and lesbians, that nothing has changed. The United States does not seem to have moved on this issue at...
March 22, 2007
Undocumented workers and the war effort
Remember the March 2007 raid of Michael Bianco Inc. in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Over 300 Immigration and Customs agents raided the factory and detained 361 undocumented workers. (According to Ali Noorani in a March 9, 2007 article in Boston.com -...
February 13, 2007
An Interrogator Speaks Out
There is a must read article from the Feb. 9th Washington Post. It is written by Eric Fair who is speaking out about his experience as a civilian contract interrogator attached to the 82nd Airborne Division at the detention facility...
December 26, 2006
Two Years Ago Today - Tsunami
Two years ago today a tsunami hit the nations surrounding the Indian Ocean. Ultimately, almost a quartern of a million people were dead or missing. There was an out pouring of donations form around the world, and those in the...
December 22, 2006
Of Wealth and Death
The headlines read: Richest 2 Percent Own Half the World's Wealth; Richest 2% Hold Half the World's Assets; India's 40 million shopkeepers brace for Wal-Mart effect; Nike's dilemma: Is doing the right thing wrong? - child labor in Pakistan; The...
December 20, 2006
Class War Weapon of Choice - For the Holidays and All Days
By: Joel S. Hirschhorn author of Delusional Democracy The motto of the United States of Consumption is "In More We Trust." The contribution of American culture to humanity is consumption obsession. Our epidemic of obesity, our land gluttonous suburban sprawl,...
November 29, 2006
There Must Be Limits On What Is Considered Terrorism
The government is stretching the legal definition of terrorism way too far. First it was extended with the U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act. Then a number of states jumped on board with ecoterrorism legislation. Now the we have the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act...
November 18, 2006
Shall The Cradle Fall?
Africa, the home of the human race. Science indicates she birthed us. She nurtured our infancy. Some went out from her to spread across the Earth. Others stayed and continued an unbroken relationship with our birthplace. Africa was, and is,...
September 24, 2006
Geneva Conventions and the Military Commissions Act of 2006
Some wonder how the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (S. 3930) violates the Geneva Conventions....
September 23, 2006
Win-Win-Lose The Constitution
It is being called a "compromise," but that seems to be in name only. The "rebellion" by key Senate Republicans against Bush's wishes for constitutional right to torture, hold prisoners without charges or access to courts, approve military tribunals and...
September 22, 2006
The Global Warming Snowball
Reading the news, it seems clear that global warming has become a snow ball rolling down hill gathering both size and speed. It seems that there is no good news to be had, and each new study and report is...
September 19, 2006
Darfur Hypocrisy
Around the world millions have rallied or expressed their demand that the humanitarian disaster continuing in Darfur stop (Council on Foreign Relations, 9/19/06). President Bush is supposedly concerned about the situation in Darfur, and urged the UN to take action....
August 15, 2006
Prisoners As Guinea Pigs
The use of prisoners in medical research is part of a sordid past in the United States. Until the 1970s, about 90% of drugs were tested on prisoners. Now a panel from the Institute of Medicine has recommended expanding the...
July 29, 2006
Use of Depleted Uranium In Lebanon
As Israeli bombs and missile rain down on Lebanon, and reports of cluster bombs and white phosphorus use seem certain, I wondered whether that other US munition favorite - depleted uranium - was also being used. After searching for a...
July 26, 2006
Israel Using Prohibited Weapons
It is being reported that Israel is using prohibited weapons in Lebanon including white phosphorus and cluster bombs. White phosphorus (WP) is prohibited in use against "personnel" - including civilians....
July 16, 2006
Israeli Offensive and "Foreigners"
Israel has warned civilians to leave southern Lebanon in advance of a threatened offensive by Israel. Foreigners flee Lebanon as violence continues. In scanning the breaking news, I saw lots of nations were pulling their citizens out of Lebanon: 30,000...
July 7, 2006
Hate Groups and the Military
There seems to be an increasing number folks from white supremacist groups joining the military. The article is based on an investigation by the Southern Poverty Law Center titled "A Few Bad Men." The current increase seems to be driven...
June 29, 2006
Israel And Palestine: Where Is The International Community?
Israel is kidnapping members of the Palestinian government, and holding them (purportedly) to be exchanged for an Israeli soldier who was captured/kidnapped in Gaza....
June 12, 2006
Suicide At Guantanamo
Guantanamo suicides 'acts of war': "The camp commander said the two Saudis and a Yemeni were "committed" and had killed themselves in "an act of asymmetric warfare waged against us"."...
June 10, 2006
Slow Growth, Inflation? Raise Interest Rates
According to the NY Times, the Fed Makes It Clear That Rates Will Rise Again: "SIGNS of slower economic growth, paradoxically, would normally have been welcome news this week, bolstering the idea that the Federal Reserve would stop tightening the...
June 7, 2006
Of Water, Human Beings and Other "Worthless" Commodities
BY: Jason Miller How Capitalism Unleashes the Beast of Soulless Avarice Jinshan Mining Ltd, a leading mineral extraction corporation based in China, has officially announced its ground-breaking technology for extracting gold from the water supply in the United States, including...
June 6, 2006
Take Action and Get Involved For Women's Rights
I want to share two different issues with you and I hope you take action on both of them. First, On June 30th at Hoffmann Hall at Portland State University there will be a conference on Battered Women and Justice....
May 22, 2006
Global Warming: Who Lives Who Dies?
It seems easy sitting in the most consuming, capitalist nation in the world to think that global warming is not a big deal. There is a belief that no matter what nature throws this way that "technology" can handle it....
May 20, 2006
Immigration: More of the same and none of it good
I must say that I hold no hope of good policy regarding immigration at the southern border of the United States. The plans and rhetoric are so predictable they are laughable. The rhetoric is historically consistent. "Illegal" immigrants are sucking...
May 16, 2006
Names of Guantanamo Detainees
The Pentagon has released the names of detainees from Guantanamo. Here is that list (Independent) HICKS, DAVID, Australia, 34. RUHANI, GHOLAM, Afghanistan, 31. WASIQ, ABDUL HAQ, Afghanistan, 35. AL MATRAFI, ABDALLAH AIZA, Saudi Arabia, 41. NOORI, MULLAH NORULLAH, Afghanistan, 39....
April 26, 2006
Left Behind Then Left Out
First they were left behind - the poor, the old, the ill, the black and brown. Flood waters rose killing no one knows how many, trapping thousands for days in deteriorating conditions. Then they were dispersed, those who survived, across...
April 1, 2006
Immigration Is More Than A Debate
We are seeing the crescendo of a furor as immigration is out forward to take the focus off other unsavory issues - the War in Iraq, illegal activities by those in the Bush White House and the GOP, illegal wiretapping...
February 28, 2006
Excellent articles
I came across two excellent articles and want to recommend them to you. The first is a piece by Paul Krugman which was published in the 2/27/06 NY Times, and then in the Oregonian - "Graduates Versus Oligarchs. In it...
February 17, 2006
Global Warming Is Accelerating
There are a flurry of articles coming out about the acceleration of global warming. This is because of the reports coming out of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Conference which is currently in session (2.16-2.20) in...
February 14, 2006
South America Flexes Its Muscles
There is an interesting sea change that is occurring in South America. One by one, countries are swinging left and reclaiming resources in the name of the people. They are also attempting to set their own terms with the United...
February 12, 2006
January 18, 2006
How The Military Deals With Rape
BY: ROBIN WILDE Robin Wilde is a pseudonym. This woman is still serving and does not wish to jeopardize her career any further. She shared her story as a comment on the Jennifer Dyer story, and I asked her permission...
January 1, 2006
Damning Documentary Evidence of Torture Unveiled.
The following information is duplicated from Craig Murray's site, and reveals British documents of US torture and human rights issues. If you have a web site, please post a copy of this material. The more places it is posted the...
December 13, 2005
Tookie Williams - More Blood On State Hands
Comments are now blocked on this article as it is being exploited to spam my site 2/14/06 Tookie Williams is dead. He was executed last night. No stay was granted, no appeal was approved. Neither Governor Schwarzenegger or George Bush...
December 8, 2005
New Orleans Katrina Victims Speak Out
There are a number of hearings happening in Washington right now on the response to, and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. C-Span has the streaming videos of a number of the now available. Of the testimony that I have seen, there...
November 20, 2005
The Dirty War: Torture and mutilation used on Iraqi 'insurgents'
By: Kim Sengupta of The Independent (November 20, 2005) In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational...
Consequences Of Global Warming Hits Hardest At Those With The Least
A report released by the World Health Organization says that 150,000 people a year are dying from the effects of global warming, and that number could double in the next 15 years. The report is discussed in a Washington Post...
November 18, 2005
EPA To Allow Pesticide Testing On Orphans And Mentally Handicapped Children
This alert comes from the Organic Consumers Association Send a letter to EPA here! Note: Concerns about Snopes or other questions are answered here Friday, November 18, 2005 Public Comment Period for this rule Closes December 12, 2005 Public comments...
November 7, 2005
Rage In France
France is running over with anger and rage. The violence that started in Paris, spreads to 300 cities. The purported triggering event was the electrocution of two boys hiding from the police. That may have been the triggering event, but...
November 5, 2005
Secret Prisons, Torture, and Lies
The issue of the CIA having secret prisons has resurfaced in the news. As expected, the Bush administration isbrushing off the accusations, while former Soviet Block nations rush to deny they are hosting these sites. Why would they deny the...
November 2, 2005
Global Warming And Poverty - Not A One Way Street
The title reads UN Warns of Poverty as World's Lakes Evaporate. The story goes that the warming climate is drying up lakes around the world, as they dry up the poverty of the populations dependent on them also increases -...
October 23, 2005
The Costs That Don't Count - Energy and Food
There is an interesting article in the October 23rd NY Times - If You Don't Eat or Drive, Inflation's No Problem. Daniel Gross points out that energy costs and food are not in the calculation for the "Core" inflation rate...
October 17, 2005
Toledo Riot
The news proclaimed there was a Neo-Nazi riot in Toledo, Ohio. The reality seems a bit different than the headlines would make you believe. The city of Toledo gave a group of Neo-Nazis permission to march in what is apparently...
September 30, 2005
Racism is a Regional Problem?
In a nodding acknowledgement to the existence of racism in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush portrayed it as a regional issue. Well he might need to identify another "region" as a racist zone on with William Bennett making...
September 14, 2005
The Invisible Victims of Katrina
The devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has brought the issues of race and class into high relief. As is typical of the cultural ideology of racism, the issue is drawn in Black and White. Underneath this cultural dichotomy lies the...
Troubled By Militarism in New Orleans
I am very concerned by the increasing presence of armed force in New Orleans. I realize that there are rescue and recovery efforts going on, but there is also the issues of viewing certain New Orleans citizens - primarily the...
September 12, 2005
The Gulf After Katrina - An Environmental Disaster
Regardless of the brave words that New Orleans will rebuild, there is a reality of an environmental disaster that may make the entire region unlivable for a long time. The U.S. Gulf coast, as well as the area around New...
September 6, 2005
Peak Oil and the Working Class
By: Dale Allen Pfeiffer Let us be clear about this from the start. Government, as we know it, is the tool of the privileged class through which they control the masses and provide a favorable environment for their own businesses....
August 30, 2005
Katrina Devastation - Toll Still Not Known
I watch the reports coming in from across the path that Katrina has followed and I find tears in my eyes. The emotions are complex. I have no personal attachment to any of the places battered by Katrina and the...
Katrina and Poverty
The news is still incomplete as I write this, but last night news started rolling in of perhaps thousands of people in New Orleans trapped in their attics. Breaking the general calm of a reporter, Jeanne Meserve at CNN tries...
August 21, 2005
Peak Oil Hits Corporate Media
Your input is requested at the end of this article. Please pitch in with your ideas. Well peak oil is finally hitting the corporate media - though national television hasn't said much of substance yet. In my Sunday local paper...
Environment, Globalization, and Genocide
The environment is the straight line link between globalization and genocide. The policies and practices of globalization institutions (such as the IMF and World Bank), and the practices of transforming nations for "participation" in a globalized free market capitalist economy,...
August 16, 2005
Bush's Justice Department Wants To Remove "Biased" Judge
This one really ticks me off - U.S. Seeks to Replace Judge In Long Case of Indian Trusts. After nine years of legal struggle between the tribes and the federal government, nine years in which the Whitehouse (under Clinton and...
August 14, 2005
My Take On What's Coming
I guess I'm feeling pretty grim these days. In the last week, I have seen numerous "news" reports on the increasing gasoline prices. Even when they discuss supply and demand, they make it sound like a temporary problem. I guess...
August 11, 2005
Starvation in Niger - Capitalism Not Famine
For weeks now we have been hearing almost daily about the starving children (and adults) in Niger. We have heard that emergency food relief is rushing to the region - after months of doing nothing. The focus in the news...
July 31, 2005
Yet Another Secret Memo - This One On Torture
In an upcoming article by Michael Isikoff in the August 8, 2005 Newsweek - Exclusive: Secret Memo - Send to Be Tortured - an FBI field agent who was observing interrogations in Gantanamo sent a memo in November 2002 that...
July 23, 2005
The Army Has Arrested the Wife of an Active-Duty War Resister
BY: Jack Dalton Three weeks ago, on July 1st I posted the story of a woman's aunt and uncle that were carted away by agents of the Bush & Co forces: Who Will Be Next? You, Me, Your Neighbor -...
July 15, 2005
Terror Bombings and the Class War
Dave Stratman, Editor of New Democracy The terror bombings in London differ from the atrocities committed against the people of Iraq only in scale. In Iraq well over 100,000 people have been butchered by the US/UK killing machine. In London...
June 29, 2005
Lying By Omission - CAFTA
If you want to avoid telling an outright lie - then bury the evidence. That is exactly what the Bush administration did with a report they contracted on labor issues in South America to support their push for the Central...
June 24, 2005
Expansion Of Eminent Domain Is Robbery
Back in September of 2004 I wrote an article on the expansion of eminent domain. At the time, I suggested keeping an eye on moves by local government to declare eminent domain on private property and turn that land over...
May 8, 2005
In Whose Interest?
You don't have to look very far to see whose interests are being served by the Bush administration. Two articles are in the May 8, 2005 New York Times. The first is in the main section and is titled Under...
April 25, 2005
When is our mother coming back?
By: Ali Samoudi Originally published by IMEC, and reprodcued here under "fair use." See notice at end of post A 13 year-old girl from Jenin Refugee Camp is writing a letter to Kofi Anan. Sandy Nasser Al Sa'di is appealing...
April 13, 2005
What Would You Fund With $29 Billion A Year?
The Republican majority House voted today to make the Estate Tax freeze permanent. The Republican lexicon has changed the nomenclature to the "death" tax, however, the due to changes in the estate tax 97% of taxpayers were exempt from the...
April 1, 2005
Keep an Eye on Arizona
Well the "real amerikans" are taking border "security" into their own hands in Tombstone, Arizona. A group calling themselves the Minutemen Project has recruited over 1000 armed "volunteers" to roam the Arizona - Mexico border to stop undocumented immigrants from...
March 27, 2005
Torture Highlights the Ambiguity of "Support the Troops"
The Army has decided to not prosecute seventeen soldiers implicated in the deaths of three prisoners despite recommendations of its own Investigators. Investigators had recommended that all 17 soldiers be charged in the cases, according to the accounting by the...
February 24, 2005
Rape in the Military - A Women's Issue or A Man's Issue?
By: Jack Dalton Like most people in this country, men especially, I viewed rape, sexual assaults and acts against women as primarily a "women's" issue; at least until last August. But then I had as much knowledge about this as...
February 22, 2005
The Solution Will Show Itself In The Form of Peace
By: Monica Benderman "... and a child shall lead them." In Japan, on August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb created in America was dropped over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A small child of 2, Sadako Sasaki, and her family...
Free Mojtaba and Arash
Across the world governments and corporate interests are attacking freedom of expression and access to information. Whether it is filters of search engines (i.e. aol has come under the gun for this) or the US requiring filters on library...
February 19, 2005
See How Bush's Social Security Plan Would Impact You
There is an interesting little calculator set up at the Senate Democrats site. It allows you to enter annual earnings and your age and then shows you how Bush's Social Security "reform" would impact you. Social (In)Security Calculator I took...
February 7, 2005
2006 Budget and Good-bye Domestic Programs
I imagine that the 2006 Budget is going to be a hot topic for a while so here is the link to the Official Budget and related documents. I am going to focus here on proposed cuts, increases, and things...
January 24, 2005
Right to life
By: Kevin Benderman I have come to the conclusion that the creator does not want us to fight wars or to leave our brothers to die in hunger or disease for we have been given the things we need to...
January 19, 2005
The U.S. Army Has Formally Charged Sgt. Kevin Benderman
By: Jack Dalton Sgt. Kevin Benderman, who recently refused deployment a second time to Iraq and had filed Conscientious Objector status paperwork, has been today formally charged with violation of articles 85 and 87 of the Uniform Code of Military...
January 17, 2005
One Man Has Stopped Killing: Hope for More to Do the Same
By Monica Benderman For the past two weeks, my husband Kevin and I have answered questions from reporters, journalists, interested citizens from almost every state in the union, and about 8 foreign countries. After all of these interviews, I have...
January 14, 2005
Saving Money on Health Care by Limiting Malpractice Awards? Don't Believe It.
In yet another addition to the bottom line of insurers, big pharma, and the hospital industry, Bush is pushing to cut malpractice awards. Aren't you sick of hearing about the "evil trial lawyers" who are ruining our health care system...
January 10, 2005
The Debt of a Nation
Oh "debt" is a nasty word when it is a private individual's, but it is even nastier when it is the national debt. The U.S. national debt currently stands at $7.6 trillion and climbing. The Bush agenda calls for more...
January 9, 2005
Tsunami Survivors We Won't Be Seeing
Six tribes (Great Andamanese, Jarawa, Onge, Nicobarese, Sentinelese, and Shompen) live on the Nicobar and Andaman Island chains which are part of India's territories. These tribes have survived the onslaught of Britain's efforts at genocide in the late 1800s and...
January 7, 2005
Senator Edward M. Kennedy Statementat the Confirmation Hearing for Alberto Gonzales
January 6, 2005: Senator Edward M. Kennedy Statementat the Confirmation Hearing for Alberto Gonzales to be the Attorney General Mr. Gonzales, I join in welcoming you to today's hearing and I commend you on your nomination as Attorney General....
January 6, 2005
What about the Children of Iraq?
By: Jack Dalton|POAC Co-Editor This past week has shown how people of various religions, nationalities, ethnic backgrounds are able to come together to help in a crisis--the victims of the Tsunami in this instance. Tens of thousands of children are...
December 26, 2004
Justice, Fair Play--Are They Just Words When Applied to Rape by U.S. Personnel and the Military?
By: Jack Dalton It's been common knowledge in this country for a very, very long time that if you want justice or fair play you had better have real deep pockets. One only need have a cursory look at the...
