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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
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!
Editor & Publisher
Diverse Group Opposes Ownership Reform
Critics Get Louder as FCC Vote Nears
Where's The Liberal Rush Limbaugh- (Salon)
USA Patriot Act Strips US Residents of Rights - Interview with Clark Kissinger
Regime Change Begins at Home
Win Without War
Click to Get a
Free Satellite Dish
10 Ways to
Fight Hate
The Buying of the Presidency 2004
Faux News
Channel
Media Ownership Database
PeaceWatch Requires Your Support Now!
Women’s guide
for safe living
ProBoss
Business Services
UComics.com
UnemployedWorkers.org
On-line forum created especially for the nation’s jobless and underemployed workers
How Polluted Is Your Zip Code?
Environmental Scorecard
You Can Make a Difference
Amnesty International
Bush's Tax Scheme
The Water Barons
Conspiracy Digest
Graphic: Why Do They Hate US? |
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The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription |
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Is it only Irony that makes today's Tyrant name is George? Or does history repeat itself? |
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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
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"It would be easier if I were dictator", George W. Bush |
This Week in History
Robert Kennedy Was Assassinated
Quotes of the Day
"It is virtually conceded now that the goal of the tax cuts is a clear cut effort to destroy the progressive agenda in this country. The Bush Administration is trying to drive the country into a social train wreck in order to drain the resources of the country for the benefit of the rich". - Noam Chomsky
"Just imagine, two presidents in a row impeached! If Clinton can be impeached for lying to Congress about sex, certainly Bush should be impeached for lying about Weapons of Mass Distraction." - Gary Cook, Editor, Progressive Daily News
"People I met said they had witnessed half their village being slaughtered, babies boiled alive, pregnant women slashed open to answer bets placed on the sex of the child. ... I talked to children who had been forced to murder their parents and fathers forced to rape their daughters. Villagers queued to have a limb hacked off by a child beneath the shadow of a rebel soldier." United Nations Wire -- Photographer Caroline Irby, who went to Sierra Leone for UNICEF last year to document reunions between families and children who had been caught up in the country's civil war.
Lies, Lies, Damn Lies
Federation of American Scientists
ANOTHER LOOK AT THOSE IRAQI TRAILERS
President Bush hailed the discovery in Iraq of trailer-mounted biological agent production facilities as concrete evidence of a clandestine Iraqi biological weapons program. But the closer one looks at the Central Intelligence Agency report on the mobile facilities, the more ambiguous the case appears.
In its report last week, the CIA said that the mobile plants could only be used for illicit production of biological weapons. "We have investigated what other industrial processes may require such equipment -- a fermentor, refrigeration, and a gas capture system -- and agree with the experts that BW agent production is the only consistent, logical purpose for these vehicles," the CIA report said.
But this seems to be an overly hasty conclusion. "Mobile pilot plant fermentation facilities are not uncommon," observed chemist George C. Smith. In fact, they have a sufficient number of conventional applications, he noted, that they are commercially marketed. One such mobile fermentor is described on the FAS website. (Among others- Editor).
Alternet.org
Another Day, Another $350 Billion in Debt
Now with Bill Moyers
While the rich reap instant rewards from the Bush tax cut, the poor get stiffed and the ship of state is sinking in red ink.
Citizens for Tax Justice
Final Tax Plan Tilts Even More Toward Rich
House-Senate Agreement Scales Back Middle-Income Relief But Keeps Tax Breaks for Wealthy
21st Century Democrats Question DLC’s
Commitment to Core Democratic Values
(Washington, D.C.) – Statement by 21st Century Democrats Executive Director Kelly Young in response to DLC Founder Al From’s recent comments (see below) about the “Democratic Wing” of the Party:
“We are up for quite a challenge in 2004. Now, more than ever, it is crucial for Democrats to unite around our core values and defeat the Bush administration. Al From’s comments are not only divisive, but they indicate a remarkable lack of understanding about what our Party stands for and the people we represent.
“Like Governor Dean, and most of the other Democratic candidates for president, Wellstone’s ‘Democratic Wing’ represents core Democratic values—things like public education, universal healthcare and good jobs with living wages.
“If Al From believes that secure pensions and universal healthcare are ‘liberal, elitist’ policies, perhaps he should join the Party that puts personal wealth before the good of the nation—the Republican Party.
Via Inlet.org
Citizens Screwed Again by
US Government
FCC Approves Corporate Monopolization of Media Markets, by Jeremy Pelofsky - Reuters
Media Moguls Pay No Rent for Using Our Airwaves
by Ralph Nader
There is little doubt that the Federal Communications Commission, by a split 3 to 2 vote, will open more doors for the giant media moguls to acquire more radio, television and newspaper properties in cities, towns and rural areas of this country. By the same decision, they will close more doors on ideas, speakers, writers, artists and small businesses either because doing so makes them more profits or the moguls disagree with these various viewpoints.
Eat the State
People Power
Chew, Swallow, Digest
by Geov Parrish
Summer Reading at the Barricades
While you've been out protesting the Bush Administration's abominable, unprovoked invasion of Iraq, a number of new books have come out that deserve consideration by the literate (or simply new) activist. Here are three of the better ones--and one really bad one. Having done the same for nuclear weapons in 1982's Fate of the Earth, Jonathan Schell sets out to write the definitive narrative of the past and potential of nonviolent people-power in The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People. It's an enormous task--analogous to writing the history of warfare. But while any attempt to take a Howard Zinn People's History of the United States approach to the history of the world is by definition spotty, Schell's greatest contribution is in examining where such approaches could lead us.
Via Inlet.org
Transcripts raise alarm across NATO
Dan Plesch and Richard Norton-Taylor
The Guardian, UK
British intelligence agencies cannot substantiate claims that Saddam Hussein possessed chemical and biological weapons when US and UK forces invaded Iraq, senior Whitehall officials admitted June 1st.
Transcripts of a private conversation between Jack Straw and Colin Powell expressing serious doubts about the reliability of intelligence on Iraq's banned weapons programme are being circulated in western government circles where there is a growing feeling that officials were deceived into supporting the Iraq war. A document known as the "Waldorf transcripts" - after the New York hotel where the US secretary of state was staying before making a crucial speech to the UN security council earlier this year - is described by an official of one Nato country as "extremely useful".
Via Inlet.org
Where is Bush leading us?
By Gary Hart
(T)he war on terrorism is now the excuse for America to assume imperial powers and to employ those powers even when our traditional allies oppose our actions. The war on terrorism is fundamentally altering our global policies. We have discarded our half-century reliance on the Atlantic Alliance for collective security. We have marginalized the United Nations at the precise time it should have been empowered to undertake peacemaking roles. And we have alienated key regional powers, including Russia, China, and India, at a time when we should be encouraging them to assume greater responsibilities for regional stability.
London Times, UK
Curb on big payoffs for failed executives
By Rosemary Bennett, Deputy Political Editor
A WAR on multimillion-pound “golden parachutes” for failed company directors will be declared by Patricia Hewitt today when she announces plans to limit executive contracts to three years and halve notice periods. The Trade and Industry Secretary attacked the “insulting” huge redundancy packages seen recently and blamed the long contracts which force companies to pay millions to get rid of executives who perform badly.
Mugabe's forces fire on student protesters
Police firing teargas and supported by helicopter gunships and armoured vehicles moved to crush the start of 'mass action' yesterday aimed at forcing President Mugabe to resign
UN Wire
What the UN Can and Cannot Do in Iraq
Now that the United States has had to concede some ground to the United Nations in the rebuilding of Iraq, it is essential that everyone involved in the task understand what the United Nations can and cannot do. There is a lot of fresh evidence to look at.
AlterNet.org
A 12-Step Program for Regime Change
By Don Hazen
Each day, millions of frustrated Americans engage in discussions about how our country has gone off course and how ultraconservatives have taken over our government. As we put our hearts and souls into figuring out how to achieve regime change at home in November 2004, these conversations are growing in volume. How we engage this election will speak volumes about the future of our country. Our passion in this political moment feels unprecedented. Yet, because we feel a lot of anxiety about all that's happened to our country since 9/11, we don't yet know our strength. We forget, for example, that the things we believe in – equality, fairness, justice, dignity, and ultimately kindness and love – inspired the greatest moral and political achievements of the 20th century: civil rights, women's equality, the right to organize, and the growth of the environmental movement. These values make our society strong and appealing to the rest of the world. We must protect and promote them in the 21st century as well.
Jim Hightower
THE HORROR OF DOUBLE-TAXATION
You have to admire the compassionate conservatism of the only president we presently have. George W has looked around the country, surveyed the growing economic woes of our people, and reached this compassionate conclusion: The rich are hurting.
Undernews
CIA TO IMPRISON REPORTERS SEEKING TRUTH
MSNBC - The latest opinion polls show the American public takes a dim view of its media outlets in the post 9/11 world - numbers punctuated by a roiling fraud and fabrication scandal that has shaken The New York Times. With big media back on its heels, the CIA fired its own broadside this week, publishing an "unclassified" memorandum that recommends using espionage laws to prosecute media outlets that publish or broadcast leaked information from government officials if that information turns out to be classified.
MORE WAR CRIME TRIALS URGED
RICHARD TYLER, WORLD SOCIALIST - The Athens Bar Association has announced it will file a suit against British Prime Minister Tony Blair for crimes against humanity and war crimes for his role in the Iraq war. Association President Dimitris Paxinos told the press the organization was also considering launching an action against Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, who also backed the invasion of Iraq. Paxinos said the suit would be filed within a fortnight before the recently inaugurated International Criminal Court at The Hague. The association felt an ethical and juristic responsibility to seek action from the ICC, Paxinos added.
Salon.com
WHAT THE BUSH TAX CUT COULD HAVE BOUGHT
LAURA MCCLURE AND MARK FOLLMAN, SALON - Amount needed to provide health insurance for all 9.2 million currently uninsured children for one year: $13 billion. Amount needed to provide health insurance for all 41.2 million uninsured Americans, including children, for one year: $98 billion. Amount needed to close state budget gaps across the country: $78 billion. Amount needed to hire an additional 100,000 teachers to reduce class size, provide grants to repair 6,000 schools and assist with new-school construction, and provide additional math and reading help for over 9 million eligible low-income students: $300 billion.
CommonDreams.org
A Threadbare Emperor Tours the World
by Jim Lobe
Bombs in Riyadh; suicide attacks in Morocco; disorder and hit-and-run attacks in Iraq; unraveling in Afghanistan; rising tensions with Iran and North Korea; strong but resentful allies in ''old Europe''; willing but weak allies in ''new Europe''; a rapidly depleting treasury at home -- the hegemon looks hollow.
ProudLiberals.com
(Auschwitz) President Bush, appearing almost uncomfortable, read a statement that said that humanity was "bound by conscience to remember what happened" and that "the record has been kept and preserved." But while President Bush publicly embraced the community of holocaust survivors in Washington last spring, he and his family have been keeping a secret from them for over 50 years about Prescott Bush, the president's grandfather. According to classified documents from Dutch intelligence (and Union Bank records) and US government archives, W's grandfather, Prescott Bush made considerable profits off Auschwitz slave labor. In fact, President Bush himself is an heir to these profits from the holocaust which were placed in a blind trust in 1980 by his father, former president George Herbert Walker Bush. |
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A. Scott Piraino
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Reaganomics
at War
In 1981, when Ronald Reagan was sworn in, the country faced the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. President Reagan proposed a novel solution, lowering tax rates on the wealthiest Americans so they could spend and invest more money.
His administration argued that only this increased economic activity could lift the country out of recession.
Quasi-economic terms like "supply side" and "trickle down" were used to give Reagan's proposal an academic veneer. In fact Reaganomics was nothing more than intellectual camouflage for cutting tax rates on the rich. And if these tax cuts were unfair and would create the largest national debt in history, well so what.
Twenty years later our national debt has climbed to 6.4 trillion dollars. Yearly interest payments on that debt have ballooned to 275 billion dollars. The poorest Americans have seen their living standards decline over the last twenty years, while incomes for our wealthiest citizens have soared.
But these facts did not deter President Bush. His administration used the recession of 2001 to justify a 1.35 trillion dollar tax cut package. Like Reagan, President Bush sold his plan as a tax break for all Americans, knowing these reductions would favor the wealthy.
While reducing income taxes for everyone, his administration quietly increased payroll taxes on working Americans. Social Security and Medicare are flat taxes on all wage income. That means there are no write-offs or deductions, and all payroll income is taxed at the same flat rate.
Of course the wealthiest Americans don't pay payroll taxes, because they don't have jobs. They own capital, invested money that makes more money. Capital gains taxes have been steadily reduced, to twenty percent today. Since this is not payroll income, the owners of capital do not contribute to Social Security and Medicare.
Payroll taxes account for over one third of federal revenue, and nearly all the budget surpluses up to 2001. Yet President Bush did not suggest reducing these taxes, or making them fair. Instead the Bush administration continues the fiction that workers are contributing to a "trust fund", while spending the surpluses from payroll taxes as general revenue.
This would have been just another craven transfer of wealth to the rich if not for the tragic events of September 11th. After the terrorist attacks, the recession of 2001 suddenly looked like an economic crisis. The surpluses of the previous four years disappeared, spent on military operations, emergency relief, and a bailout for the airlines.
The Bush administration announced an emergency budget increase, and a return to deficit spending.
This year's budget deficit has already reached 250 billion dollars, and will climb to near 400 billion by year's end, a new record high. This does not include an estimated 75 billion dollars for the war in Iraq, which the president's budget does not even fund.
With US forces occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, and resurging budget deficits, the Bush administration has the audacity to suggest another round of tax cuts for the wealthy.
This week President Bush signed legislation further reducing taxes by 350 billion dollars. Included in this new package are more tax cuts for corporations, and further reductions on capital gains taxes. All this while refusing to admit that Bush's previous tax cuts have already added over a half trillion dollars to our national debt.
In 1981 the wealthiest Americans received the biggest tax cut in US history. Make no mistake, Reaganomics has done exactly what it was supposed to do. It has made the richest Americans much wealthier, while transferring more of the tax burden to the middle class and working poor.
President Bush shares Reagan's vision. Our wealthiest citizens have received more tax cuts, while the rest of us pay for the war on terror, and pay down the debt created by Reaganomics. It's a disgrace. |
