Friday, May 23, 2003

www.ProgressiveDailyNews.com & Ticker - Updated Headlines - Friday, May 23, 2003                   Would you like to have updated news from Progressive Organizations and Alternative Newspapers, Magazines, Radio/TV Programs and Websites scroll across your computer screen in a small banner like this whenever you want to look at it, even when you're not on-line? Click here for more information on how to order now! Progressive News, Chat, Opinions, Products, Business Services & Resources for the Progressive Community Progressive Daily News® Copyright © 2003 All rights reserved Index Progressive NewsTicker Questions? Ask Now! About PDN Contact Link Us Daily News Home News Alerts Newsletters News Sources Submit News Guest Book Search Engine Chat Live! Forums Volunteers Public Speakers Think Tanks & Retreats Fundraisers Opinions/Editorials Live Cams @ Bookstores Progressive Books/Videos/More Columnists Writers/Authors Publishers Issues / Activists and Calendar Resource Directory Political Movies Advertiser List Advertise & Sell Your Free e-Mail Yellow Pages Free Classifieds Business Services Website Management Research Reports Online Customer Service/Support Marketing & Promotion Sales Processing Software Installation Transcription, Editing, Proofreading ProgressiveDailyNews Copyright © 2003 All rights reserved Revised: May 12, 2003 Progressive News, Chat, Opinions, Products, Business Services & Resources for the Progressive Community Index Follow If there's a website out there that you can't find our site linked from, please post us there and let us know you did that. Thank you. News Archives Our Blog is Here   ProgressiveDailyNews.com Updated Headlines http://www.ProNews.biz http://www.ProgressiveDailyNews.com Due to Memorial Day Holiday, Next Issue is May 28th  Friday, May 23, 2003 Copyright © 2003 All rights reserved   Vote Howard Dean President 2004 Register to Vote Now  These are a sampling of the stories found on Progressive Media sites. We try not to take more than one story from each source per day, so that we're not copying the entire news from each site we prefer. Please click headlines to visit for story details. Once linked to the details of the headlines we post here, you will find additional good stories. Visit other Progressive Media, Social or Political sites, by clicking our resource links either side of this page. What Bush has Done Scorecard of Evil Bush's Movements and Actions on 9/11 Bush Blocked Bin Laden Probes (audio) BBC The Great Deception Michael Ruppert Vote to Impeach Prosecute George W. Bush for War Crimes George Bush's Military Suspension Document Official Definition of War Crime Who does own the voting machine companies? Black Box Voting Diebold Voting Machine Fraud Graphic: Why Do They Hate US? Green Party- Revelation of Halliburton's Oil Distribution Deal Tops the Extensive List of Bush's Wartime Lies... Conspiracy Digest   Quote of the Day It is amazing that persons who think of themselves as defenders of liberty can, in promoting their own financial interests, steal from, lie to and cajole other Progressives. These persons can break the law by commiting acts of terrorism and abuse the trust of others when it benefits their own monetary interests to do so. - Editor Today's Top Stories © BBC News Rich Must Pay to Save Nature World 'losing battle against extinctions'. The world will avert the threat of mass extinctions only when it finds a fairer way to share resources, a US scientist says Two Billionaires Do the Right Thing © Washington Post Dividend Voodoo, by Warren Buffet The annual Forbes 400 lists prove -- with occasional blips -- the rich do indeed get richer. Nonetheless, the Senate voted last week to supply major aid to the rich in their pursuit of even greater wealth. © Soros Moves to Monitor Iraq Oil Sales Billionaire financier George Soros said he opposes the U.S. bid at the United Nations to win control of Iraq's oil and plans to form a group to monitor the Bush administration's use of oil-sales revenue.  © Daily Telegraph, UK CHIRAC TO CHALLENGE BUSH AT G8 CONFERENCE TELEGRAPH, UK - President Chirac is preparing to embarrass President Bush at the forthcoming G8 summit in France by laying out an agenda heavy on environmental, development and economic issues and light on the fight against terrorism. © Alternet.org High civilian death toll Researchers estimate anywhere between 5,000 to 10,000 Iraqi civilians died in the war. While various groups are still tallying the numbers, the death toll is clearly higher than previous wars. The invasion of Panama resulted in 13 civilian deaths, while the official estimate for the first Gulf War is 3,500. Haidar Taie, head of the tracing department for the Iraqi Red Crescent in Baghdad, says, "Thousands are dead, thousands are missing, thousands are captured. It is a big disaster." © London Times, UK Indonesia plans to intern up to 200,000 Acehnese civilians in tented camps guarded by soldiers The Government has said that up to 200,000 people are to be taken from their homes and put into tented camps guarded by soldiers to "prevent ordinary Acehnese from being caught in the crossfire".   Media Monopolies Have Muzzled Dissent Faux News Channel Radio Subversion Create Your Own Newspaper Why the FCC's Rules Matter Editor & Publisher Diverse Group Opposes Ownership Reform Critics Get Louder as FCC Vote Nears Updated & Fresh News Headlines? download our ticker In the Public Interest - Ralph Nader (5/9/03) What is a Shadow Cabinet? The U.S. Needs Instant Run-off Voting USA Patriot Act Strips US Residents of Rights - Interview with Clark Kissinger UnemployedWorkers.org On-line forum created especially for the nation’s jobless and underemployed workers Where's The Liberal Rush Limbaugh- (Salon) New Online Tool Helps Users Measure, Reduce Daily CO2 Output           The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist)   Alternative Press Review/© InfoShop.org Brazil militants invade Monsanto biotech testfarm Amnesty International © Terry J. Allen UN Security Council cannot ignore human rights Amnesty International warned the UN Security Council that it must ensure that human rights are at the centre of any draft resolution on Iraq.   10 Ways to Fight Hate The Buying of the Presidency 2004           101 Tools for Tolerance "If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves." – Mark Twain   © San Francisco Bay View by Dena Montague War profiteers Shell, Bechtel and Fluor take record of terror from Africa to Iraq As Bush creates a corporate protectorate in Iraq, many companies who stand to benefit from reconstruction and oil exploration there are familiar to Africans. Shell, Bechtel and Fluor are all associated with massacres and crimes against humanity in Africa.   Why the War on Iraq was (and Remains) Wrong Free Anti-war Posters for Download           Dianne Feinstein War Profiteer, or Just Conflict of Interest? Liberal Talk Radio Bear Flag Forum Digital Democracy   © San Francisco Chronicle Leaving the EPA - Don't Cry for Christie by Laura Flanders Whitman's EPA rolled back anti-pollution enforcement. That's no surprise. She did exactly the same thing in New Jersey. Sure, she backed a $1 billion bond issue to preserve a million acres of open space shortly before she left office and she makes much of her love of wilderness for recreation. But when it comes to protecting the public health, especially the health and welfare of those who live near industrial sites, Whitman left New Jersey with a trail of wreckage behind her.   Free Speech TV Sorry I Was Right: Eugene McCarthy Mobile-Eyes Resisting War and Repression Producer: Center for International Education Length: 28:37 minutes           Regime Change Begins at Home Win Without War Click to Get a  Free Satellite Dish   © Enviroment News Service House Passes Controversial Wildfire Bill By J.R. Pegg WASHINGTON, DC, May 21, 2003 (ENS) - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a controversial bill Tuesday to increase forest thinning on 20 million acres of federal lands. Critics say the bill, which passed by a vote of 256 to 170, is a million dollar giveaway to the timber industry and has no chance of passing the U.S. Senate. But supporters believe it is a critical step towards better management of federal lands and say the nation must move quickly to reduce the threat from wildfires.   Favorite Blogs Make your city or town a Civil Liberties Safe Zone. Visit the Tools page to find out how! When Democracy Failed, by Thom Hartmann           PeaceWatch Requires Your Support Now! Women’s guide for safe living   © Enviroment News Service FL Governor Signs Controversial Everglades Bill TALLAHASSEE, Florida, May 21, 2003 (ENS) - Florida Governor Jeb Bush signed into law Tuesday a state bill that many believe will slow the clean up of the Everglades. Critics say the bill undermines water quality standards and threatens federal funding critical to the $8 billion state/federal partnership devised in 2000 to clean up some 2.4 million acres of the massive ecosystem             Place a Free Ad  Here ProBoss Business Services   © Columbia Journalism Review Lies Bought - Unchallenged "Evidence" for War ... (T)he White House propaganda drive began in earnest, with the appearance before television cameras of George Bush and Tony Blair at Camp David. Between them, the two politicians cited a “new” report from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency that allegedly stated that Iraq was “six months away” from building a nuclear weapon. “I don’t know what more evidence we need,” declared the president.   "It would be easier if I were dictator", George W. Bush The Water Barons           The Onion for a Good Political Laugh The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business UComics.com   Editorial of the Day FreeSpeech.org Joel Kovel writes in Tikkun Magazine: "The racist character of the Zionist state is truth so hard to bear by those who believe in Israel’s fundamental legitimacy. But it also disintegrates this belief, because racism at this level, where a whole people is destroyed so that another people might thrive, epitomizes the meaning of a crime against humanity. All claims of being “the only democracy in the Middle East,” or of saving Jews from anti-Semitic oppression, or having fine symphony orchestras and universities, fade in its glare."   How Polluted Is Your Zip Code? Environmental Scorecard You Can Make a Difference Amnesty International   This Page is Archived as http://www.Progressivedailynews.com/resources/news/archive/ daily_news 030523.html     Click Here to Personalize Your Progressive News Sources and Stories by Keywords www.ProgressiveDailyNews.com Copyright © 2003 All rights reserved. Revised: May 23, 2003 Permission to access this website is revocable at anytime.   12:23:21 AM    comment []