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The Conservative Media, bush's propaganda ministers
The conservative media will never recover from its role as Chief Sycophant for the Bush administration. Journalists who demanded that Clinton be held accountable for a minor sex scandal (Monica Lewinsky) and a minor financial scandal (Whitewater) now serve as apologists and propagandists for the Bush administration's major war scandals....
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2005 11:53pm PST
Controversial diplomat given job of overseeing CIA and FBI
President George Bush has named the veteran diplomat, John Negroponte, as the first national intelligence director - a position created to co-ordinate America's various intelligence agencies and prevent the failures that led to the attacks of 11 September 2001....
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2005 11:46pm PST
Bush names Negroponte as national intelligence director
President Bush’s nomination Thursday of John Negroponte as US director of national intelligence serves as another warning that his second term will be marked by an escalation of military aggression abroad and attacks on democratic rights at home....
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2005 11:32pm PST
America's refuseniks
The movement to refuse military service in Iraq is on the rise, reports Sharif Abdel-Kouddous from Washington...
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2005 7:31pm PST
Libel law review over McDonald's ruling
DawnWatch: "Libel law review over McDonald's ruling" Guardian front page and NY Times 2/16/05...
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2005 3:08pm PST
Seeking a Theology for Another Possible World
"The other world we are thinking of is the one we have, not a world beyond," said Rev. Orlando Santos de Oliveira....
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2005 10:26am PST
Ending State Terrorism
Since 1945 the US has intervened 67 times in foreign countries and caused twelve million dead, half through public overt actions (Pentagon) and the other half through secret covert actions (CIA). This is practically unknown to most Americans and is seldom mentioned.....
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2005 7:15am PST
Billion dollar scam exposed
This seemingly genuine study turns out to be a carefully engineered piece of propaganda intended to give the green light to manditory testing. The result would be billions of dollars in sales for these multi million dollar machines.
Behind every 'AIDS' story lies a money making scam....
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2005 3:05am PST
"Community" Radio Favors Peace, Not Justice
"Free Speech Radio" Cancels Black Community Talk Show Host...
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2005 12:01am PST
CAGW Highlights Wasteful Spending in War on Drugs
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today called upon the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) to significantly reduce funding and re-organize its high-intensity drug trafficking program, which has devolved into little more than another method for members of Congress to bring tax dollars home to fund superfluous projects....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 11:36pm PST
Ex-S.F. supervisor named to civil rights panel
Washington -- Former San Francisco Supervisor Michael Yaki was named Tuesday to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, where he will be one of the few liberal and Democratic voices on a panel that under President Bush has come under solid conservative control...
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 11:11pm PST
Proposal would house prisoners in Mexico
PHOENIX (AP) -- Some lawmakers want to explore the possibility of the state contracting to have a private prison built in Mexico to house illegal immigrants now incarcerated in Arizona....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 10:59pm PST
Call for Feb. 20th National Day of Solidarity
ON FEBRUARY 20TH, TO SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES WEAR A BLUE TRIANGLE WITH THE NAME OF A MUSLIM, ARAB OR SOUTH ASIAN IMMIGRANT ROUNDED UP AND JAILED IN SECRET BY THE US GOVERNMENT AFTER SEPTEMBER 11TH....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 9:49pm PST
Bay Area Lawyers Guild Rallies Around Lynne Stewart
Members of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) in the Bay Area are calling on local attorneys, legal workers, law students as well as legal and social justice organizations to sign on to a Pledge Of Resolve in solidarity with a “National Day of Outrage” across the country to protest the conviction of NLG Member Lynne Stewart....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 7:35pm PST
Special Forces GI dies of illness after Iraq visit
Munoz died last week of a staph infection, two weeks after returning from Iraq and two days after his first wedding anniversary. He was 29....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 6:18pm PST
Tenth Pittsburgh Restaurant Ditches Foie Gras
More victories in Pittsburgh......
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 6:08pm PST
SAMHSA Suicide Prevention: no gay, lesbian, bi or transgender
Feds refuse to allow "gay" "lesbian" and "transgender" in federally funded suicide prevention workshop...
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 2:53pm PST
Blast from the Past: Choicepoint and the 2000 election
in 2000, Katharine Harris and Jeb Bush used ChoicePoint to purge the voter rolls of Florida of tens of thousands of African American "felons", and here they are, back in the news again, pay particular scrutiny to the description of their database...
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 12:18pm PST
Importance of French Workers' Struggle to Keep 35 Hour Week Shouldn't be Underestimated
The real reason for U.S. capitalism's attempt to create anti-French sentiment is the French workers' stand for the 35 hour week at a time when U.S. and global capitalism is trying to normalize going backwards....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 9:32am PST
The End of Globalization
The economy ought to serve humanity; humanity should not serve the economy. Beware the neo-liberal idolization of growth and competition! If growth becomes a law, ecological collapse is unavoidable. If competition is made absolute, mass unemployment will occur everywhere....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 7:35am PST