OIL
&
DEMOCRACY DON'T MIX
F
r i d a B a r r i g a n
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DISPATCH:
IRAQ
"your country made
this
mess, your
country needs to
clean
it up"
Michele
Naar-Obed
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Arundhati
Roy,
Hans Von Sponeck
Respond
to Bush's State of the Union
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HOW
TO DEFEAT THE UNITED STATES ARMY - IN YOUR UNDERPANTS!
David
Wiggins
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GHOST
WRITER
Studs
Terkel
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I
have a scoop. I know who wrote Dubya's State of the Union address. It
was
William Claude Dukenfield, a.k.a. W.C. Fields. Rarely has the master of
outrageous humor been in such top form.
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Masterful
Machiavellianism
The political doctrine of Machiavelli,
which denies
therelevance of morality in political affairs and holds that craft and
deceit are justified in pursuing and maintaining political power.
Rebbecca
Knight
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What
the military
won't tell
soldiers
"Poverty and the
restricted
economic situation force many Puerto Ricans to stay in the armed forces
under tricks and deception. When a person doesn1t have any true
options,
in truth, [military service] isn1t free or
voluntary."
ROBERTO BARRETO
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The Manners
of Their Deaths
Capital
Punishment in
a
Smoke-Free
Environment
JUSTIN
E.H. SMITH |
WHAT
BUSH SEES
Arthur
Schlesinger, Jr.,
distinguished historian,
adviser to President John F. Kennedy.
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Real Change*
Is Not An
Option
* Don't kid yourself. The
primary process
is rigged to give us nothing but insincere defenders of the
status
quo.
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The
New American Century
Arundhati
Roy
derailing
trade agreements
was crucial for us..
The World Social Forum
demands justice and survival
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NEW POLL
SHOWS
MOST WANT
BUSH
OUT
"The
power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful."
-- Abraham Lincoln
Bill
Gallagher
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OUR
'NATION AT WAR'
In his State of the Union
address,
President Bush declared the nation still at war, but that's not
quite
true. ...Without a draft, affluent Americans have felt free to
turn
their attention to other matters ...
Cynthia
Tucker
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‘. . . bring 'em on’
is the
Bush doctrine!
"Unlike Clinton, Bush
understands
What 'is' Means
In every age...the
ultimate
sources of war are the beliefs of those in power: their idea about what
is of most fundamental importance and may therefore ultimately be worth
a war."
Craig
B Hulet
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We received a fax on
1/20:
"ON ORANGE
ALERT HERE. ECONIMIC [sic] TERRORIST ATTACK EXPECTED AT 8
PM EST. KV "
Worried, we called Kurt Vonnegut.
STATE OF THE ASYLUM
by Kurt
Vonnegut & Kilgore Trout
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LAST REFUGE
by Geoff
Olson
"The American activist's
appearance
in Vancouver is part of a cross-country effort to petition Canada for
safe
refuge for U.S. military deserters across the border. The "Freedom
Underground"
he's pitching would be an underground railroad, similar to the
extensive
formal and informal network that helpeddraft dodgers and deserters in
B.C.
in the '60s." |
FOR WHOM THE DEATH
TOLLS
Deliberate
Undercounting of
"Coalition"
Fatalities
"The Bush regime is doing
its best to
hide the human cost of its recent wars. Publicity of the soldiers'
deaths
is bad during an election year, and would be bad for the continued
justification
for the American occupation of Iraq. If they are intent on hiding the
casualty
figures, then it behooves us to uncover and amplify
them." PAUL
de ROOIJ |
Rape
in the military
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here click here click here click
here click here
"37
women who have served in Iraq and Kuwait in recent months have reported
to a civilian group that they were sexually assaulted by fellow troops
or superiors... " |
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BUSH'S FUZZY
THINKING
When Americans choose a president, their
most profound
consideration is whether a candidate can make the wisest possible
decisions
when it comes to war. In the case of George W. Bush...
be
afraid. Be very afraid...
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War Budget Puts
Veterans in
Pinch
Thousands
of
Iraq veterans are using VA hospitals and clinics, but none of the $100
million "V.A. War Spending Bill" will go toward their health care. The
VA plans to spend it on processing benefit claims instead.
V
E T S C R E W E D
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justification
rationalization
denial substuitution guilt distrust
Ability to make WMDs
'reason enough for war'
Dana
Milbank
of others dereliction
degradation
loss of control justification |
WATCHING
BIG BROTHER
Antiwar Forum in Iowa Brings
Federal
Subpoenas
update
Federal
Prosecutors Back Off
in
Peace Probe
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| Critical Analysis
Bush's Missing Year
Eric
Boehlert
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U.
S. - V.
I. S. I. T.
The Program to Digitally Photograph
and Fingerscan U.S. Visitors:
Its Discriminatory Effect,
and Its Potential For
Abuse
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Fog Of War
Vietnam And
Iraq
American leaders don't
easily learn
lessons from the past.... Bush leadership might profitably have
consulted
Robert McNamara 1995 memoir,
In Retrospect: The
Tragedy and Lessons
of Vietnam
Saul Landau
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THE KHAN ARTIST
I think President Bush
has
cleared up everything now.
"The grave and gathering
threat" turned
out to be not
Saddam's mushroom
cloud
but the president's
mushrooming
deficits.
MAUREEN
DOWD |
Lost in
Credibility Gulch
It might be time for a bipartisan truth
squad to
follow [Bush] around, sorting out the
facts
from his musings, speculations, fantasies and
mis-rememberings.
BOB HERBERT |
Vietnam,
Our Teflon
War
Democrats are still struggling to
emerge
from conflict's shadow
Between 1940 & 1968, the American people
trusted the
Democratic Party in times of war. Vietnam shattered that
trust...
DAVID
BROOKS
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The Three "I"s -
Integrity,
Intentions
and Intelligence
I almost fell off my couch
when Republican
leak-artist Robert Novak said he just didn't understand all this hatred
of the president... You have to admire the acting ability of a pundit
who
can say something like that with a straight face. It was like the last
twelve years had never happened.
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Bush Wins Triple
Trifecta
as Worst
President
Ever!
Bush
is not merely the worst president
in recent memory. He's the worst in all US history. And he's won the
distinction
not on a weakness or two, but in at least nine separate categories,
giving
him a triple trifecta.
It's
a record unmatched by any previous president.
Let's count the
ways: Harvey Wasserman
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