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They're at it again. An administration that can't be bothered to look two days ahead to plan for the landfall of a hurricane in New Orleans, that can't be bothered to look three months ahead to plan for the eventuality of conquering and having to run a country, that isn't worried about the inevitable crisis that will be caused for the dollar by running up huge fiscal deficits, that refuses to take steps to curb US fuel consumption despite the clear knowledge that the price of imported oil ...

The Bush administration, echoed by much of the mass media, seized upon reports released May 1 on the fiscal health of the Social Security and Medicare system to renew its demand for drastic cuts to these two major entitlement programs, thereby gutting retirement benefits and health care for older Americans....

The staggering increase in gasoline prices is taking an enormous toll on working families in the US, whose paychecks are already being eaten up by a host of other rising costs, from health care, to education, to housing and food. In the last two weeks alone, prices at the gas pump have risen nearly 25 cents—to an average of $2.91 per gallon—with prices exceeding $3.10 in California, New York and other states....

The other day during a brief press opportunity, President Bush expressed his concern about rising gasoline prices, assuring Americans that his administration feels the public's pain, while laying out three reasons for rocketing prices of the past two months....

Common Ground Collective co-founder Scott Crow has recently come under investigation by the FBI as well as the ATF. At around 8:00 am on Wednesday, April 5th, two FBI agents, one of whom identified himself as Evan Ray, came knocking on his door in Austin, TX, asking many questions....

Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster that covered New Orleans with water and forcefully uncovered that city's social conditions. Glaring examples of the horrible treatment meted out to the poor, mostly African American survivors have been staring us in the face for the past seven months. Daily, we read or hear about another event in the aftermath of the hurricane that tears to shreds the concept that we live in a "free and equal society." That the American Dream is a nightmare f...

"War on the Poor" from Fault Lines, issue 15...

*Assist with the development of a new San Francisco 49ers football stadium and commercial project consistent with Propositions D and F that San Francisco voters approved on June 3, 1997.” This section was added to the Baview Redevelopment Plan as of March 27, 2006. The 49er Stadium Swindle will get all the public money this private profit gambling racket wants, courtesy the local election-frauding Democratic-Republican Parties....

Historic St. Augustine Parish in New Orleans was reopened and its church re-consecrated Saturday after weeks of protests and a rectory sit -in that lasted 19 days. St. Augustine, founded in 1841 by slaves and free people of color, is one of the nation's oldest black parishes....

There's Much More to be Done on Debt Relief...