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Paid Work and Basic Income
The goal of basic income advocates is to neutralize capitalism in one of its central premises: the generalization of paid labor as the only or at least dominant path of securing existence. The future would be brighter if this were on the agenda....
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 9:21am PST
President Authorized Abu Ghraib Torture, FBI Email Says
Repeated references in an internal FBI email suggest that the president issued a special order to permit some of the more objectionable torture techniques used at Abu Ghraib and other US-run prison facilities around Iraq....
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 2:34am PST
Remembering Gary Webb - by Alan Goodman
When a friend called to tell me the news that Gary Webb died, I flashed back to the day in 1997 when I interviewed him in a park near his house outside Sacramento. After finding out that I had played a little organized hockey as a kid, Gary wouldn’t stop trying to sign me up for his over-40 hockey league.
I was struck by what seemed to be an odd mismatch. Here was the guy who had become a hero in the ghettos for exposing the CIA-crack connection. But here he was living deep in conservative...
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 11:21pm PST
Anti-Refugee Provisions Struck from Intelligence Bill - More Battles Expected in 2005
Earlier this month, the House and Senate overwhelmingly approved
the "Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004,"
which enacts most of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission....
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 5:48pm PST
AGAINST THE HOUSE: It's a Rigged Game - BLOCK BUSH INSURRECTION RALLY - DC Capitol, Jan 6
Until a majority of progressive activists and intellectual opinion-makers drop the delusions and cop to the fact that we are playing in a game intentionally and adroitly rigged against us, we will not win, we will not govern, we will not be prepared to govern, because we will not deserve to govern....
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 3:37pm PST
1st RNC Jury Trial ends with dismissal
First Jury Trial Arising from the RNC Protests Ends in
Dismissal as D.A. Drops All Charges Against Gulf War I
Veteran and Anti-Depleted Uranium Activist Dennis Kyne
Mid-Trial...
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 2:29pm PST
Press Conference Announcement
The United Workers Association will be participating in the release
of the Day Laborer Report "Their Stolen Sweat"... the first ever in
depth report on the day labor industry in Baltimore, produced by our
allies Homeless Persons Representation Project and Casa De Maryland.
This report uncovers the day labor industry's systematic abuses:
poverty wages, off-the-charts safety issues, and ill treatment
including gender discrimination....
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 2:27pm PST
Investigating Ohio: An Interview with John Conyers
Rep. John Conyers isn't ready to declare the election stolen, but he'll continue to dig into the droves of complaints - and fight to fix the broken U.S. election system....
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 12:40pm PST
Alex Jones' Rebuttal To Allegations Made By Michael Ruppert Concerning Gary Webb's Death
Ruppert's article is so vicious in its scope that it makes us out to be literal demons for simply questioning the circumstances surrounding Gary Webb's death.
We will continue to push for a full homicide investigation and keep our eyes and ears open for any new evidence concerning the tragic death of Gary Webb....
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 10:27am PST
First Gentleness, Then Severity
In Kaspar Hauser, Jacob Wasserman tells a story that suggests the life-giving power of Christian faith and Christian hope.. St. Francis, Luther and Kier-kegaard are antidotes to comfortable Christianity without scandal, passion, paaradox and decision....
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 8:14am PST
ReDefeatBush Announces CounterInaugural Events
The Committee to ReDefeat the President, a Federal PAC popularly known by the name of its Web site ReDefeatBush.com, will operate several of the stages at the CounterInaugural on Jan. 20 and have by far the largest indoor gathering of Bush opponents at a CounterInaugural Ball that night at Dream, a nightclub in D.C....
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 12:16am PST
Call Your Senators - Object to the Certification of the Electoral College
More than a month has passed since voters cast votes
for the President and Vice-President of the United
States -- but every day, more and more stories surface
that call into question the election's integrity....
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 12:08am PST
Anarchist Call to Resist the Inauguration in DC
Anarchist Call to Resist the Inauguration in DC...
Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2004 10:18pm PST
Folks Don't Get It: On African-American voter disenfranchisement in the 2004 election
Since the election all the discussions which have raised the issue of Black disenfranchisement -- whether in the context of Ohio this year, Florida in 2000, or generally -- as a form of electoral fraud have ended up devolving into ignorance....
Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2004 3:43pm PST
Dispelling the Rumors: Gary Webb's Death Confirmed As Suicide
Gary Webb memorial attended by hundreds. New information confirms suicide - "open and shut." Shabby, self-serving Internet reports by pseudo journalists and activists cause Webb family grief - It's time for real journalists and activists to shun demagogues, hysterics and profiteers....
Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2004 1:14pm PST
The FBI and IT Consultants Need To Examine The Black Box Voting In Ohio and Florida
A short article about vote hacking in Ohio, and
Florida....
Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2004 12:02pm PST
"Rummage Sale" Rummy to Personally Sign, Kiss & Deliver Condolence Letters for ALL GI's
Rummy Supports the Troops?!?!...
Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2004 10:31am PST
What is Democracy?
We live in times of a nearly universal political contempt. Regardless of party, politicians always work for others, for those with enough money to pay for their services, hardly those who voted for them.. Betrayal is the common denominator....
Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2004 9:57am PST
Letter from fernando Suarez del Solar to Pablo Paredes
On December 6th, 3rd class Petty Officer Pablo Paredes stood resolutely on the pier of the 32nd street naval base in San Diego, as his ship the USS Bonhomme Richard, left for Iraq without him....
Posted: Sun, Dec 19, 2004 10:20pm PST
Canada
What is interesting is that there have only been 65 teenage cases since 1983 in Canada...
Posted: Sun, Dec 19, 2004 8:02pm PST