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Noam Chomsky discusses Bush and Strategies to Control the 'Beast' Imperial Presidency: Strategies to Control the Great Beast
By Noam Chomsky
It goes without saying that what happens in the U.S. has an enormous impact on
the rest of the world-and conversely: what happens in the rest of the world
cannot fail to have an impact on the U.S., in several ways. First, it sets
constraints on what even the most powerful state can do. Second, it influences
the domestic U.S. component of "the second superpower," as the New York Times
ruefully describ...
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 6:03pm PST
US budget slashes social spending to pay for war and repression The budget released by the Bush administration Monday provides for $2.57 trillion in spending, but two thirds of this falls under programs already mandated by Congress, including Social Security, Medicare, unemployment compensation and the payment of interest on the burgeoning national debt. The main focus of the budget document is so-called discretionary spending, which requires annual appropriations by Congress....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 11:55pm PST
Bush’s budget: government by fraud and lies The most important feature of the new budget released by the Bush administration on Monday is that it is not, in any serious sense of the word, a budget at all. It is a monumental fraud, aimed at concealing fiscal reality and usurping decisions on spending that, under longstanding US constitutional procedures, are reserved to Congress rather than the executive branch....
Posted: Tue, Feb 8, 2005 11:54pm PST
Film of Vote Suppression in Ohio Nov. 2 Please realize that even with all of the voter suppression documented
in this film, Kerry was still ahead in the exit polls in the evening of
Nov. 2 - and in the early morning hours the voting machines needed
to be tweaked to give Bush the lead. That means Kerry actually
won by a large margin....
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2005 5:23pm PST
Nepal - Nursing the Pinion While the U.S., India and Great Britain have sharply
condemned the Feb.1 coup by King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah of
Nepal, the policies of those three governments vis-à- vis the
ongoing civil war in the Himalayan nation must share
considerable blame for the present crisis....
Posted: Sun, Feb 6, 2005 6:02pm PST
As Senate Votes On Gonzales Nomination, Faith Leaders Seek Forgiveness As the United States Senate votes to confirm Judge Alberto Gonzales as the next US Attorney General, religious leaders are seeking forgiveness....
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 3:28pm PST
A.N.S.W.E.R.'S RESPONSE TO BUSH'S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS Empire - the true aim of the U.S. government - is barely concealed
under the lofty rhetoric of Bush's State of the Union address. In its
pursuit, the U.S. government is committed to the destruction of every
government and people that stands in its way, in the Middle East and
throughout the world....
Posted: Wed, Feb 2, 2005 9:20pm PST
Statement in response to the Nepalese King's dismissal of government Statement of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) issued on 1 February 2005 in response to the King's dismissal of government...
Posted: Wed, Feb 2, 2005 8:33pm PST
Ward Churchill Comes Under Fire as He Prepares to Speak at College in New York Prof. Churchill is scheduled to speak at Hamilton College in New York this Thursday, and family members of people who died in the 911 incidents have been protesting his right to speak....
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 11:27am PST
Ward Churchill's statement regarding Roosting Chickens January 31, 2005
The following is a statement from Ward Churchill:
In the last few days there has been widespread and grossly inaccurate media coverage concerning my analysis of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, coverage that has resulted in defamation of my character and threats against my life. What I actually said has been lost, indeed turned into the opposite of itself, and I hope the following facts will be reported at least to the same exte...
Posted: Mon, Jan 31, 2005 8:18pm PST
New: Prominent Statisticians Refute 'Explanation' of 2004 U.S. Exit Poll Discrepancies President Bush won November's election by 2.5% yet exit polls showed Kerry leading by 3%. Which was correct?...
Posted: Mon, Jan 31, 2005 6:13pm PST
Bush Inauguration, Jan. 20, DC 
Photos i took at the Inauguration of Bush in Washington DC. These are photos of the Anarchist Resistance march....
Posted: Mon, Jan 31, 2005 5:56pm PST
BTL:White House Campaign to Privatize Social Security Based on... ...Phony Crisis ~ Interview with economist John Miller, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 5:04am PST
Call Wed. to Stop Gonzales for Attorney General! It appears that the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on the nomination of
Alberto Gonzales for U.S. Attorney General on Wednesday, January 26, with the full
Senate voting early next week. There is an urgent need to flood the Senate with
phone calls urging that Gonzales be rejected....
Posted: Tue, Jan 25, 2005 11:11pm PST
Bush's Mythical Mandate & Social Security Piratization Bush's claimed mandate is being used to deflect Iraq War criticism and to justify Corporate looting of Social Security fund by his Wall Street backers. They are falsely claiming sinificant Democratic support when the Democrats and labor unions are really the strongest opponents of Bush's "piratization."...
Posted: Tue, Jan 25, 2005 6:27pm PST
Gore Vidal on Bush's Inaugural Address: "The Most Un-American Speech I've Ever Heard" We take a look at President Bush's inaugural address with Gore, Vidal, one of America's most respected writers and thinkers and the author of more than 20 novels and 5 plays. Vidal says, "If the United States does go abroad to slay dragons in the name of freedom, liberty and so on, she could become dictatress of the world, but in the process she would lose her soul."...
Posted: Tue, Jan 25, 2005 9:16am PST
The Legacy of GW Bush (video) (video/x-ms-wmv 5.1MB) a slideshow depicting the legacy of gw bush- titled such so one may tell (pro-bush) friends, hey check out this movie about Bush's Legacy......
Posted: Mon, Jan 24, 2005 11:51pm PST
J20 DC Photos :: All Security Checkpoints Closed 
Jan. 20, 2005; Washington, DC: At around 3 pm, the security checkpoints that were allowing protesters near Pennsylvania Ave were shut down....
Posted: Mon, Jan 24, 2005 10:57am PST
Activists Disrupt Bush Inauguration Ceremony A few seconds before Bush was sworn in by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, a group of 3 activists from Eugene, Oregon disrupted the ceremony. One of the activists, Carol Melia, filmed their action. We spoke with her after they were escorted out of the ceremony....
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 8:22am PST
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