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News Archives Our Blog is Here   ProgressiveDailyNews.com Updated Headlines http://www.ProNews.biz http://www.ProgressiveDailyNews.com Tuesday, May 27, 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 The Mists of Falsehoods  © Charley Reese I love this administration's ability to remain cloaked in a mist of falsehoods. If you listen to them, everything is going swimmingly. Today's Top Stories Behind the DLC Takeover © The Progressive, Madison, WI By John Nichols Founded in the mid-1980s with essentially the same purpose as the Christian Coalition--to pull a broad political party dramatically to the right--the DLC has been far more successful than its headline-grabbing Republican counterpart. After Walter Mondale's 1984 defeat at the hands of Ronald Reagan, a group of mostly Southern, conservative Democrats hatched the theory that their party was in trouble because it had grown too sympathetic to the agendas of organized labor, feminists, African Americans, Latinos, gays and lesbians, peace activists, and egalitarians. © Washington Post U.S. Eyes Shift With Iran Suspects al Qaeda Link Pentagon officials press for actions that could lead to popular uprising to topple government.– Glenn Kessler Agencies Review Roles in Hunt For Tex. Lawmakers in Walkout Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta has ordered a review of whether Federal Aviation Administration officials acted appropriately last week when they helped House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) search for the plane of a state Democratic lawmaker who was part of a walkout from the Texas legislature. DeLay acknowledged this week that his office called the FAA to help track down the plane of state Rep. James E. "Pete" Laney. Laney, a former state House speaker, was among more than 50 Democrats who fled to Oklahoma for four days last week, depriving the Republican-controlled state House of the necessary quorum to consider a bill that would redraw Texas's 32 congressional districts in the GOP's favor. © Bizjournals.com Army enlists 'experimental approach' for $25M Venture Capital fund © Associated Press 1995 Memo Warned of Terror Vulnerability   WASHINGTON - Nearly six years before the Sept. 11 attacks, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman was told by his senior staff that the FBI and other government agencies had missed warning signs about the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and were ill-prepared to prevent future domestic terrorist attacks, memos show. Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, whose committee oversees federal law enforcement, approved holding investigative hearings about the information, but they never took place, the memos show. © London Times, UK US looks away as new ally tortures Islamists The US is funding those it once condemned. Last year Washington gave Uzbekistan $500m (£300m) in aid. The police and intelligence services - which the state department's website says use "torture as a routine investigation technique" received $79m of this sum.   Media Monopolies Have Muzzled Dissent Faux News Channel Media Ownership Database 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 MAKING CONTACT a weekly international radio program           The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist) 101 Tools for Tolerance   © Eat The State It's About (Mexico's) Oil by Troy Skeels A majority of Mexicans believe the United States invaded Iraq simply to acquire its valuable oil reserves. They are also beginning to suspect that the powers that run America have designs on Mexico's oil as well. As the daily newspaper La Jornada recently asked rhetorically, "If they cited non-existent threats just to get ahold of Iraq's petroleum, what won't they do to appropriate ours?" It isn't lost on Mexicans that, while Iraq's oil is halfway around the world from the thirsty colossus, Mexico's oil is conveniently right next door.   10 Ways to Fight Hate The Buying of the Presidency 2004           "If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves." – Mark Twain   © LatinTech Weekly Working to improve Hispanic representation in Corporate America When The US Census Bureau announced in late January that Hispanics had become the nation's largest minority group, with 13% if the country's population (compared with 12.7% for African Americans), the numbers made headlines.     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   Alternet.org Nation's Ethnic Media Wary Of FCC Changes By Marcelo Ballve, © Pacific News Service In barrios, inner-city communities and immigrant enclaves nationwide, ethnic media reporters cover stories often ignored by mainstream newsrooms. Now, with a media deregulation plan being formulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), critics fear that ethnic media's civic role may be undermined. "The FCC has failed even to consider what abandoning its media rules will do to African American, Latino, Asian, and many, many other communities," says Michael J. Copps, one of two Democrats on the FCC, a five-person regulatory body appointed by the president.   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   © ABC News Alaska Passes Anti-Patriot Act Resolution; Second State to Oppose Feds Alaska has joined a growing national rebellion against the USA Patriot Act, voting to oppose the massive federal anti-terrorism law passed by Congress soon after Sept. 11, 2001. The state Legislature used some of the strongest language yet in passing a resolution condemning USA Patriot, following the lead of Hawaii and 112 cities, towns and counties around the country that have passed similar resolutions against the law. But Alaska's measure goes further than most, advising police and other state agencies not to "initiate, participate in, or assist or cooperate with an inquiry, investigation, surveillance or detention" if there is not "reasonable suspicion of criminal activity under Alaska State law."     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   © GreenLeft.org.au SAUDI ARABIA: CIA front targeted in terrorist attacks BY ROHAN PEARCE The May 12 terrorist attacks on the al Hamra, Jadawal and Vinnell compounds in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, which killed more than 90 people, were not merely assaults on “symbols” of the imperialist West. The bombers were also intent on weakening the rule of Saudi royal family.  All three Saudi Arabian targets were associated with Saudi Arabia's role as a US client state: residential compounds housing mainly expatriates working in the country, the offices of the Vinnell Corporation and the residences of its employees. In Dan Briody's The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group (published by John Wiley & Sons in April), he quotes a former member of Vinnell's board who commented that the corporation had “been a cover for the CIA for decades”.             Place a Free Ad  Here ProBoss Business Services   © MAKING CONTACT a weekly international radio program (audio) Oil Slick: Bechtel, Halliburton & the White House The Bechtel Corporation landed a $680 million dollar contract to rebuild Iraq after the U.S. invasion. Halliburton is operating there under a multi-billion dollar contract that appears to give Vice President Dick Cheney's former company substantial control over Iraqi oil. Back in the 1980s current Bush administration officials were maneuvering to profit from Iraq's oil wealth, but there were some setbacks. Is this now their chance? On this edition of Making Contact, we look at a controversial pipeline deal that now-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally negotiated with Saddam Hussein on behalf of the Bechtel Corporation during the Reagan administration. We also examine Halliburton's $7 billion dollar oil contract in Iraq.   "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   Editorials of the Day © Times Herald Record of the  HudsonValley & Catskills, NY A sad obituary for a dearly departed friend: Freedom By Beth Quinn Today we mourn the passing of a cherished friend. His name was Freedom. Freedom has been dying a slow death since Oct. 26, 2001, when Congress passed the USA PATRIOT Act without debate or discussion, thereby administering a lethal dose of poison to Freedom.    Weakened and in pain, Freedom lost the will to live. His health further deteriorated as he came to understand that Americans were indifferent to the threat to his life. © Capital Times, Madison, WI Let's honor our veterans Every Memorial Day, politicians elbow their way into services at graveyards and veterans' memorials to pledge their undying gratitude to the American men and women who died while fighting this country's wars, and to declare their commitment to the soldiers and sailors who made it home alive. Then, after the television cameras turn away, they get down to the business of breaking those promises.   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 030527.html     Click Here to Personalize Your Progressive News Sources and Stories by Keywords www.ProgressiveDailyNews.com Copyright © 2003 All rights reserved. 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