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Mistakes and Apologies
Mistakes that aren't mistakes in reality, but part of a strategy of US global domination and apologies for imperialism that are insincere or ludicrous....
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 4:34pm PDT
National Official Crime Watch -- May 28-31
A review of alleged misbehavior by our public servants during the period of May 28 through May 31. All persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law by a jury of their peers....
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 3:35pm PDT
No Easy Victory
A plea from a Christian husband and father who, day by day, resists his homosexual desires. The author lives in the western United States....
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 6:22am PDT
Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital
"The central idea", Putnam writes, "is that social networks are valuable. Social networks increase individual and collective productivity like a screw-driver and a good education.. Without noticing, we moved away from one another.."...
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 6:16am PDT
LIBERATE GEORGIA, U.S.A. !!! HELP THE G8 PROTESTERS!!
12 days away from the Sea Island 2004 G8 summit, the repression in Georgia (USA) escalates. State of emergency declared by Georgia Governor in six coastal counties.
Police given the go-ahead to stop all demonstrations....
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 12:34am PDT
Western Shoshone: War is not just in Iraq
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights found that with regard to the Western Shoshone, the U.S. is currently in violation of rights to property, due process and equality under the law. In the fall of 2003, a federal lawsuit was filed on behalf of Western Shoshone in the U.S. District Court in Washington. (Western Shoshone, et al. v. U.S. Case No. 03-CV-2009). Western Shoshone land encompasses the world’s third largest production of gold, cited in 1999 as the number one investmen...
Posted: Sun, May 30, 2004 8:33pm PDT
Police Tell Me to Get OUt
They are determined to get rid of me and deny me any due process. The reasons are not stated. This is a continuation of a long article I just posted. It is also on my web site....
Posted: Sun, May 30, 2004 3:24pm PDT
I’d Rather Firebomb An SUV Than Own One!
I understand why people are driven to firebomb new SUV’s on sales lots, I
am not clear why people are driven to buy and drive them though......
Posted: Sun, May 30, 2004 12:38pm PDT
La mala educación: Mini Review
A mini review of Pedro Almodóvar's film La mala educación (Bad Education)....
Posted: Sun, May 30, 2004 12:37pm PDT
United for Peace and Justice condemns "State of Emergency" in Georgia, US
United for Peace and Justice condemns
"State of Emergency" declared by Georgia Governor;
demands right to protest at upcoming G-8 summit.
Join UFPJ in Marching Against the War in Iraq and War at Home
At the G8 Summit!...
Posted: Sun, May 30, 2004 11:27am PDT
BIA and Justice System Work Hand In Hand in Land Fraud
On May 27th, 2004, I was almost forcibly removed from the house I built located on the Pine Ridge Reservation, by the police who claim they were just following orders of a crooked judge. I live in constant fear that these bullies may return at any moment and seize my property. I have no rights or right to protection, I am told. I am appealing, in an open letter, to a higher authority to intervene on my behalf....
Posted: Sun, May 30, 2004 10:07am PDT
The Empire's Fiasco
"The loud-mouthed goals of the imperial presidency are already buried in the desert sand of Iraq.. The military cannot be made the lasting foundation of politics.. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are already guilty.."...
Posted: Sat, May 29, 2004 9:31am PDT
Justice Riding on Four Wheels & Brown Fits
Poem for May Molina, a Disabled Latina of Ill. who died in police custody on May 26, 2004...
Posted: Sat, May 29, 2004 12:51am PDT
‘Mr. Bush, you’d have liked my brother’
My brother, Sherwood Baker, died in Iraq last week. I tried to call you and I tried to write to you, but you never responded. I’m writing to you again because I believe, had you known him, you would have liked him ... And maybe if you knew him, if you knew the other soldiers, you’d have thought differently about sending them....
Posted: Fri, May 28, 2004 10:44pm PDT
BOLSHEVIK OVERTHROW #2004; OR PATRIOTISM? YOU DECIDE....
RE: WWW.NYTIMES.COM (REPLY TO MAUREEN DOWD COLUMN).......
Posted: Fri, May 28, 2004 5:13pm PDT
Up Against Wal-Mart
Anti-Wal-Mart activists in Fayetteville, Arkansas, are organizing a June 4-6 gathering to protest the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting. Composed of students, labor unions and local progressive groups, the Against the Wal Coalition hopes to increase awareness of the retail giant’s unsavory business practices....
Posted: Fri, May 28, 2004 1:01pm PDT
Pending Draft
There is pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills: S 89 and HR 163) which will time the program's initiation so the draft can begin at early as Spring 2005 -- just after the 2004 presidential election. The administration is quietly trying to get these bills passed now, while the public's attention is on the elections, so our action on this is needed immediately....
Posted: Fri, May 28, 2004 1:00pm PDT
"On Terrorism and the State"
25 years after its publication, Gianfranco Sanguinetti's "On terrorism and the state" is finally available on-line...
Posted: Fri, May 28, 2004 10:39am PDT
Torture and Genocide, An American Tradition
America was founded on genocide, fraud, and theft. Native Americans have silently bore the brunt of this onslaught. The abuse and annihilation continues. It's just as hidden as it always has been....
Posted: Fri, May 28, 2004 10:13am PDT
Money, Power and the State: Capital Needs Control
"Practical necessity and lack of alternatives in social development contradict basic democratic development.. When one doesn't have a choice any more because the same policy is made irrespec-tive of one's choice, that is the end of democracy.."...
Posted: Fri, May 28, 2004 9:33am PDT