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What Bush
has Done

Scorecard of Evil

Bush's Movements and Actions on 9/11

Was the attack on America TO OPEN the door for a more aggressive US foreign policy?

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

Green Party- Revelation of Halliburton's Oil Distribution Deal Tops the Extensive List of Bush's Wartime Lies...

And to think, it only took the U.S. two months to drive those "mobile chemical weapons trucks" into Iraq from Turkey! 

 

The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

 Is it only Irony that makes today's Tyrant name is George? Or does history repeat itself?

 Read and See that the 1776 U.S. Declaration of Independence refers to 2003's 
U.S.
King by his Acts, nearly Word for Word

"It would be easier if I were dictator", George W. Bush

George Bush Exposed
It is becoming very clear that the reason Bush is not pursuing justice against Saudi Arabia for allowing and supporting its internal fanatic religious institutions attack on America with 9/11 is because of not only the multinational oil company interests but because of the interests of his family's personal investments. 
- Editor


This Week in History

Venezuela One Year after the 
Popular Uprising Reversed the Coup
On Saturday, May 31st, there will be a report-back on Venezuela, one year after a popular uprising reversed a US-backed coup against President Chavez. At a time of US invasions and wars for oil, come hear inspiring news of ways Venezuelans - 80% of them poor, mostly people of color - have changed their world, and won victories with implications for us all. Saturday, May 31, 2-6 pm, Immanuel Presbyterian Church
3300 Wilshire Blvd (near Berendo), LA. 
For info call 323-292-7405


Quotes of the Day

It's Not So Funny Any More: DubyaCo.
by DAVID VEST
You will perhaps have noticed that no one is telling us that electricity, water and the rule of law will be restored throughout Iraq within three weeks. These things are not feasible. But oil will flow.


Molly Ivins, © Creators Syndicate
TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2003
AUSTIN, Texas -- It was horrible and sickening, but I could not stop watching the final days of the Texas Legislature. Fellow Texans, the ripple effects of this disaster will come to haunt us all. Just for starters, this budget is going to cost about 144,000 jobs. Perhaps its most serious effect is on public hospitals. A health-care system so fragile that it is almost overwhelmed now -- turning away ambulances for hours at a time, unable to admit a single patient -- will be swamped after this. The counties will be desperate, the cities not much better. Every area of social service has been cut, not because we have a $9 billion deficit but because House Republicans do not believe government SHOULD help people.


The thing I don't understand about the Democratic candidates that are now senators saying what they are going to accomplish if they're elected president - Why, if they can do so in the future, haven't they already caused it to happen when they were in the all their years in the senate in the past? - Editor 

Today's Top Stories

© The Secret Saudi Flight on 9-13 Could be the Key to the Bush-Saudi-Al Qaeda Connection 
Saudi Defense Minister Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz is being sued by families of the 9-11 victims for personally approving millions of dollars of Saudi government funding for terrorist front groups. Amazingly, bin Abdul Aziz arranged for his son to be flown from Florida to Kentucky on 9-13 - a flight the Bush administration denies ever happened, on the second day when ALL civilian flights in the US were prohibited. To make matters worse, bin Abdul Aziz and his Saudi co-defendants hired James Baker's law firm to defend him against the TRILLION dollar 9-11 lawsuit - even as Baker personally represents the Bush administration on crucial intelligence matters. Could this trial expose the deep Saudi connections to Al Qaeda, and the Bush connections to both? Is a Special Prosecutor needed? Is it even possible to investigate the Bush-Saudi-Al Qaeda ties?

IndyPress.org
© Keep the heat on!
The President's Commission on the Postal Service is preparing a report that may radically change independent periodicals' access to affordable delivery services. Here's what you can do.

America's Own Palestine?
Allies to Retain Larger Iraq Force as Strife Persists
© New York Times, By MICHAEL R. GORDON
BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 28 — Faced with armed resistance that has killed four American soldiers this week, allied military commanders now plan to keep a larger force in Iraq than had been anticipated and to send war-hardened units to trouble spots outside Baghdad, senior American officials said today.

BBC/© Financial Times
Bush 'buried' critical budget report- wants more tax cuts
The Bush administration reportedly buried a report commissioned by the US Treasury which predicted a budget deficit of over $44,000bn and called for tax rises. In a front-page story Britain's Financial Times said the report, which advocated tax rises, was left out of February's budget report as the White House lobbied for $350bn in tax cuts. Those cuts, the opposite of what was reportedly recommended in the Treasury study, were signed into law by President George W Bush on Wednesday.

© BizJournals.com
New threat to environment identified
California officials have uncovered a new threat to the environment: water -- more specifically, the plastic bottles that drinking water comes in. More than 1 billion water bottles are winding up in the trash in California each year, according to a report released Thursday by the California Department of Conservation. That translates into nearly 3 million empty water bottles going to the trash every day and an estimated $26 million in unclaimed California Refund Value deposits annually, the report claims.

  Media Monopolies
Have Muzzled Dissent

Faux News
Channel

Media Ownership Database

Radio Subversion

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Why the FCC's Rules Matter

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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

Where's The Liberal Rush Limbaugh- (Salon)

Vote for
Howard Dean
President 2004
Vote Howard Dean for President 2004

         
The Osama Clock 
How Many Days
Will Osama Run
Free (not to mention the Anthrax
Terrorist)

101 Tools for Tolerance

 

Today's Featured Stories

© Philidelphia Inquirer
U.S. has gained little if Bush lied about reason for war
By Mark Bowden, For The Inquirer
It has been two months since the United States and Britain went to war against Saddam Hussein, and coalition forces have yet to discover convincing evidence of the weapons programs that President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair said were its primary cause.

Some of those who supported the war beforehand did so solely on the basis of ending tyranny. The mass graves found throughout Iraq, and widespread stories of torture and atrocity, come as no surprise to those who had studied or endured the Baathist dictator's regime. Those who opposed the war for any reason ought to be doing some soul-searching about the kind of horrors they were prepared to leave in place.

IndyMedia.org
Through A Glass Darkly An Interpretation of Bush's Character,
© by John Chuckman
Bush never goes anywhere where his stage crew has not first assembled giant flags as background. He always wears a sizeable American-flag pin on his lapel. This kind of totemic, obsessive use of flags was absolutely characteristic of Hitler. While I find those images on the Internet of a blunt little mustache digitally-scribbled onto President Bush's upper lip feeble and unhelpful, still, there are parts of Bush's character and behavior that strikingly resemble at least one major biographer's interpretation of Hitler. Ian Kershaw's two-volume life of Hitler puts great emphasis on his being a driving high-stakes gambler - with innate, animal-cunning about human psychology, few gifts of statesmanship or strategy, and little systematic learning - attributing most of his success and all of his failure to his compulsive quality.

 

10 Ways to
Fight Hate

The Buying of the Presidency 2004

Free Anti-war Posters for Download

         

 

Our government lies so much of the time, they cannot remember when they've told the truth and when to keep covering up a lie. - Editor

CounterPunch
Weapons of Mass Destruction:
Who Said What When

"I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons." — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, at a hearing of the Senate's
appropriations subcommittee on defense, May 14.
"We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." V.P. Dick Cheney on NBC's Meet the Press, March 16.

 

Why the War on Iraq was (and Remains) Wrong

         
 

Dianne Feinstein
War Profiteer, or Just Conflict of Interest?

Liberal Talk Radio

Bear Flag Forum
Digital Democracy

MAKING CONTACT
a weekly international
radio program

  © N.Y. Times
Bush Admin Examines Steps to a Revamped Arsenal

by CARL HULSE and JAMES DAO
Backed by Congressional sentiment favoring a new approach to nuclear weapons, the administration is looking at ways to update the nation's cold-war-era atomic arsenal.

Money Gone, U.S. Suspends Designations of Habitats
by JENNIFER LEE
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service will temporarily stop designating tracts of land as critical habitats because the program has run out of money for this fiscal year.

Environmental Groups Gain as Companies Vote on Issues
© by KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Shareholders have filed global warming resolutions with more than two dozen industrial companies this year.

© BizJournals.com
Nation no safer than before 9-11, by Timothy Roberts
San Jose Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren says that America is no more secure today than it was when terrorists struck New York and Washington nearly two years ago.

"Is America actually safer than it was on Sept. 10, 2001 (the day before the attacks)?" Ms. Lofgren says. "Are we better prepared to deal with a terrorist attack today? I believe the answer for the most part is no."

 

Free Speech TV

 

Sorry I Was Right Eugene McCarthy

"If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves." – Mark Twain

New Online Tool Helps Users Measure, Reduce Daily CO2 Output

         
Regime Change Begins at Home

Win Without War

Click to Get a 
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  Dick Gephardt calls Karl Rove the "Real President" 
at Emily's List Presidential Debates

© London Times, UK
Drug firms accused of corrupting research
The drug industry has entwined doctors in "an embrace of avarice and excess" which is corrupting medicine and damaging healthcare, the British Medical Journal has asserted

© Nader.org
Ralph Nader today sent a letter to Federal Communications
Commission Inspector General H. Walker Feaster III requesting an investigation into travel records that show that industry groups and officials provided FCC Commissioners with more than 2,500 paid junkets – providing both travel, lodging and entertainment here and abroad worth $2.8 million.

 

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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

DemocracyNow!

  UNWire.org
SUDAN: Study On Abductions Finds 10,000 Are Still Missing
UNICEF hailed a new study released yesterday by the Rift Valley Institute that reveals that more than 10,000 Sudanese children and adults abducted by militia groups in the past 20 years remain missing.

Alternative Press Review
Despite Thin Intelligence Reports,
US Plans To Overthrow Iranian Regime

Jason Leopold, Antiwar.com

The Bush administration is again relying on flimsy evidence and thin intelligence information in claiming that the Iran poses an immediate threat to the United States.

 
         

ProBoss
Business Services


UComics.com

UnemployedWorkers.org
On-line forum created especially for the nation’s jobless and underemployed workers

  Washington's anti-Iran propaganda meant to
cover CIA links to Al-Qaeda

Tehran, May 28, IRNA -- Washington's latest round of baseless allegations against the Islamic Republic is nothing but an attempt to divert attention of world public opinion that the CIA once worked closely with the Al-Qaeda and probably still does, highlighted 'Tehran Times' on Wednesday.

Multinational Monitor
Inequality and Corporate Power
The last 30 years has seen a tremendous rise in income and wealth disparity in the United States, and around the world. This issue of Multinational Monitor is devoted to exploring the measures and causes of income and wealth inequality in the United States. In our July/August issue, we will focus on international inequality. As Ed Wolff describes in these pages, the share of national wealth owned by the richest 1 percent has doubled during the past three decades. And as Jared Bernstein explains, income inequality has skyrocketed nearly as fast.

 

The Water Barons

Conspiracy Digest

Graphic: Why Do They Hate US?

         
The Onion for a Good Political Laugh

The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business

Virtual Vietnam Veterans Wall

  Today's Editorials

N.Y. Times

Updating Media Constraints

The F.C.C. is looking to make regulation changes. But the real change has to be in preserving a competitive media marketplace.

Capitol Times, Madison, WI
John Nichols- 'Stop Media Monopoly' cry is growing

Dear Dr. Dollar
Dollars & Sense, The Magazine of Economic Justice
Bush’s budget has the federal government running huge deficits for years to come. Democrats say this will cause high interest rates and low growth. Republicans argue that deficits don’t matter at all. Isn’t this the exact opposite of what the two parties usually claim? Is my memory shot or am I missing something here? —Joan Williamson, Sewanee, Tennessee

Welcome to the topsy-turvy world of deficit politics, where nothing is what it seems! Your memory is fine, just too long for a career in politics. Republicans did oppose federal budget deficits as recently as a year or two ago. And once upon a time, Democrats were staunch advocates of Keynesian stimulus policies—running big deficits during a slump to stabilize the economy and promote employment. But Republicans have changed their minds.

 

How Polluted Is Your Zip Code?
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