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Bush plans renewed assault on Medicaid
At the center of the sweeping domestic spending cuts unveiled by the Bush administration Monday is the proposal for a major assault on Medicaid, the main government program that pays for health care for the poor and disabled in the US....
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 9:55pm PST
Sleeping Mother Bear & Cubs shot & Killed at Lake Tahoe, Ca.
On February 4th, 2005 a family of bears, a mother bear and her two baby cubs were shot and killed while they lay sleeping for the winter. This took place in Lake Tahoe, Ca....
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 8:23pm PST
story on dog vivisection dealer in St. Louis
The Thursday, February 3, St Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) has a front page story headed, "Animal dealer pays record fine." It imparts loads of information about Class B dealers and the canine vivisection industry....
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 7:12pm PST
This is how the Catholic Church protects children
Shanley Convicted of Child Rape in Mass....
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 4:30pm PST
Outsourcing torture
There is a detailed accounting of the "rendition" program of the US government in the New Yorker for the Feb 14 issue....
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 3:28pm PST
Avian race anything but birdbrains, scientists find
This item kind of families nicely with the recent PETA KFC protests....
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 12:07pm PST
DHS Refuses Suspected Israeli Terrorist's Entry Into U.S.
Department of Homeland Security Operations Morning Brief details a suspected Israeli terrorist's recent attempt to enter U.S. Corporate media ignores security threat....
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 11:49am PST
Who Will Defend the Republic? Libertarians and the F Word
increasing concern about an environment conducive to the emergence of fascism in America by libertarian conservatives...
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 11:20am PST
CRIMES COMMITTED BY FBI AGENTS
Crimes committed by taxpayer funded FBI agents Book of the Month Club selections...
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 11:16am PST
28,000 Pledges in 28 Days: Wolf Advocates Take Alaska Boycott Drive to the Internet
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Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 10:51am PST
Ossie Davis 1917-2005: A Tribute to the Actor and Civil Rights Activist
Actor and civil rights activist Ossie Davis died Friday in Miami Beach. He was 87 years old. For half a century, Davis led a distinguished career as an actor, playwright and director. Along with his wife, Ruby Dee, he was a renowned civil rights activist and an unforgettable figure in the African American struggle for equality. We spend the hour remembering Ossie Davis: From his eulogies to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King to his opposition to the war in Iraq. We hear from actor Danny Glover ...
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 9:24am PST
World Conscience as a Superpower
A revolution in thinking against mechanical models of action and knowledge has occurred in the past 30 years..The new thinking about knowledge and society understands non-linear, non-instrumental and non-rational dimensions....
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 8:25am PST
Ossie Davis - A Life of Commitment and Dedication
"If I had to fear any of the 'isms' that plague us
today, it would have to be classism. How much
suffering will make it necessary to liberate us
all?"
Ossie Davis,
Cornell University,
November 1, 1996...
Posted: Sun, Feb 6, 2005 6:11pm PST
Readers On Ossie Davis: Marilyn Albert, Ed Kent, Ken Nash and Ed Pearl
We will always remember Ossie Davis....
Posted: Sun, Feb 6, 2005 6:04pm PST
Can King Midas Be Healed of his Sickness?
Healing from the sicknesses that injure us is rare because our longing for wholeness is so weak, easily diverted and quickly satisfied with many little gods.. We expect wholeness and healing from king Midas.. Unrestricted growth is the king Midas principle.....
Posted: Sun, Feb 6, 2005 4:54pm PST
Help meet a Chomsky challenge to support independent news and The NewStandard
Help meet a Chomsky challenge to support independent news and The NewStandard...
Posted: Sun, Feb 6, 2005 8:48am PST
RCP Cries "Wolf" over Fascism
A comment on RCP's current
"Battle for the Future" campaign:
Hysteria about "fascism" serves to hide
the essential role of the Democratic Party in
the political and economic system of imperialism...
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 9:09pm PST
21 Senate Democrats For More War Spending
21 Senate Democrats sent a letter to Pres Bush on Jan 13, 2005 calling for a LARGER military, proving that the capitalist Democrats are just as evil as their twin party, the capitalist Republican Party, both parties of war, the death penalty, prisons, police and increasingly on the part of the Democrats, anti-abortion, to match the anti-abortion, anti-science Republicans. THEY ARE EQUALLY EVIL....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 5:32pm PST
Free speech issue bigger than Churchill
She then pointed to two moments where CU presidents have faced similar challenges. In the first case, a legislature dominated by the Ku Klux Klan went after the CU faculty. The second came during the Red scare when faculty were fired....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 4:09pm PST