mindswell.org
presents
news and opinion
:
where have all the
architects of war gone?
"where have you gone richard pearle,
paul wolfowitz, doug feith, et al? a nation
turns it's anxious eyes to you..."
huffington post
`
karl rove
caught in lie
thinkprogress.com
`
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"plight of the bumblebee"
independent uk
`
deserts around the world expanding,
"creeping toward heavily populated areas"
ap/yahoo
`
scientists working on
'invisibility cloak'
ap/yahoo
`
the
video revolution is here
beet.tv
`
new trend: homeless iraq war vetrans
reuters
`
new antibiotic
made from soil compound
eliminates 'superbugs'
scientific american
`
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mountain states imprisoning more women
breitbart.com
`
black jack, missouri to evict
unmarried couples and their children for
not fitting into the city's definition of 'family'
cbs news
`
couple arrested
for asking for directions
wbal
`
senior bush campaign official
sentenced to 10 months in prison for role
in suppressing votes in key senate race
reuters
`
brain imaging study
reveals placebo's effect
scientific american
`
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kingdom coming:
the rise of christian
nationalism
"it
is dominion we are after. not just influence. it is dominion we are after.
not just equal time. it is dominion we are after. world conquest. that's what
christ has commissioned us to accomplish. we must win the world with the power
of the gospel. and we must never settle for anything less..."
salon.com
`
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"by lunch we had packed up our essential belongings
and left to find refuge at a relative's house
there was no argument from my wife.
she knew as i did what the sight of
the destroyed dome meant."
telegraph uk
`
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why i'm joining the g.o.p.
leaving the left for fun and profit
sfgate/opinion
`
a
new kind of war, a new kind of slavery:
muslims for sale!
washington post
`
what does tony blair and
george w. bush have in common
besides, of course, a love of war?:
election fraud, british style
bbc
`
whistleblower
daniel ellsberg
on the bush administration, civil
disobedience and the eternal fires of hell:
revelations from an insider
commondreams.org
`
this is what
happens when politicians
are beholden to corporations
and
don't care about people:
why your broadband sucks
you'll be pleased to know
that communism was defeated
in pennsylvania last year. governor ed rendell signed into law
a bill prohibiting the reds in local government from offering
free wi-fi throughout their municipalities
wired.com
`
does justice
kennedy actually have a conscience?
will justice scalia's head explode at the prospect?
the death knell for anthony kennedy?
salon.com
`
what happens when
extremists
become drunk with and deluded
by vast, undeserved power?
we're all gonna live!
right-wing blogger loses mind
credits george bush with
increased u.s.average
life expectancy
blogsforbush.com
`
a christian
questions america's
self-serving biblical calling...
the gospel according to america
"properly understood, the gospel of jesus is a rogue element
within history, a demythologizing virus that will undermine
the false gods of any culture that would
presume to contain it..."
kermit the blog
`
has the battle been
lost?
can the democratic party uncurl from
the fetal position before it really is too late?
for all you fans of
representative government
"now at risk in the 109th congress... nothing more
nor less than the principle of democratic government"
american street
`
having secured the executive
and congressional branches of government
the corporations set their sights on buying the judiciary,
the final refuge of a supposedly free society...
judges: bought and paid for
salon.com
`
republican
consultant writes the book on newspeak...
14
words never to use
watchingthewatchers.org
`
how much money has
been made
for the shareholders of tamiflu?
avian flu
world's #1 threat,
cdc head says
reuters
`
mindswell
marks the sad passing
of one of the great ones...
hunter s. thompson
for those of you saddened as i
by the news,
here's something
that helps a bit... his final column:
shotgun golf with bill murray
espn
`
was hunter s. thompson
about to expose bush's
cocaine days?
salon.com
`
the last person
still alive who was with hitler at the end uses
some strange rationalizations to get him through the night:
"i ask you, if hitler really did all the terrible things
people now say he did, how could he have been
our führer? how is it possible?"
hitler's bodyguard
an acclaimed new film
dares to present the fuhrer as more
than a cardboard monster. the last man in the bunker,
rochus misch, talks about the hitler he knew
salon.com
`
the bushplan on social security: let's spend a trillion dollars now
to keep from having to spend 200 billion dollars in 25 years...
the truth hurts
bush used windy rhetoric and outright deception
to sell his privatization plan. what else is new?
joe conason/salon.com
`
four interesting perspectives
on the iraqi elections
which shed quite a different light than
the media's rosy reporting
:
will vote for food?
iraqi citizens were threatened with
withholding
of food rations if they didn't vote
antiwar.com
`
officials back away
from
early estimates of
iraqi voter turnout
editor and publisher
`
on the sunni side
salon.com
`
flashback 1967:
"u.s. encouraged by vietnam vote:
officials cite 83% turnout despite vietcong terror"
critical montages
`
can you believe the bush
administration
still pretends that
the ecosystem isn't in
a serious state of upheaval?!? even though
the faster we
convert our economies into sustainable,
eco-friendly
energy,
the more we can contain the damage
to our fragile planet...
global warming
timetable predicted
independent.co.uk
`
world's glaciers slowly disappearing
salon.com
`
while i agree that the guy in
the following article went too far in calling
9.11 victims "little eichmans", this is still a free country, and while
we all have the right to disagree with him, he has the right
to say it, and as a tenured professor,
his job should
NEVER be on the line for something he
writes in
an academic paper!!! the lynchmob gathered
around this guy sends a chilling message
to
the prospect of freedom in america...
professor tells truth, pays dearly
rocky mountain news
`
where democracy doesn't matter:
u.s. mostly mum on musharraf power
grab
foxnews
`
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fox hypocrisy
salon.com
`
right hook
salon.com
`
such altruism:
colin powell tells disaster victims
u.s. hopes tsunami aid will help anti-terror drive
new zealand herald
`
the mother of all vote frauds
whatreallyhappened.com
`
triumph of the censored 'bush monkeys'
progressive.org
`
iraqi insurgents now outnumber coalition forces
timesonline
`
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'in this congress,
big plans will stir men's blood'
ny times
'
this won't be your
grandfather's social security'
the bush administration's logic for gutting social security
leans heavily on the myth that the program is near the
brink of bankruptcy to the tune of $10 trillion.
it will shock few of our readers that
this is a complete falsehood.
salon.com
doubts about election
results in ohio persist
salon.com
'economic armageddon' predicted
"it is undeniable that america is living in
a 'debt bubble' of record proportions"
boston herald
borrow, speculate and hope
"once you realize that privatization really means government borrowing
to speculate on stocks, it doesn't sound too responsible, does it?
but the details make it considerably worse"
paul krugman/nytimes op-ed
'economic armageddon'
already underway?
"india, china and other countries start dumping us dollar and buy euro"
india daliy
bill moyers signs off
"i'm going out telling the story that i think
is the biggest story
of our time: how the right-wing media has become a partisan
propaganda arm of the republican national committee"
cbs news
doctor discovers
the "orgasmatron"
physician working with pain relief device
stumbles upon delightful side effect
abc news
our not so free press
maybe colin powell can work out a deal: the chinese government
will stop imprisoning journalists if the u.s. government will do the same
nytimes
a lobotomy for democracy
jamaica observer
hello, uranus?
"mourn, commiserate, lick wounds, lick each other, drink heavily,
spit out your stale gum of disappointment and pop in a fresh clove of laughter
and
spiritual heat and then regroup and sober up and take an even deeper breath
and watch in hot wet spiritually emboldened amusement as
the cosmic circus unfolds. it's far from over..."
mark moford/sfgate
software "error" gives bush
thousands of extra votes in ohio
ap
scientists create "living computer"
cnn
kyoto treaty passes final hurdle
cbc.ca
bush unbound
brought along with bush is a gallery
of grotesques in the senate - more
than
one of the new senators advocating capital punishment for abortion,
another urging that all gay teachers be fired, yet another
revealed as suffering from alzheimer's
sydney blumenthal/salon.com
possible evidence
of voter fraud in ohio
americablog
the red zone
only dick cheney can make
"to serve and to guard"
sound like "to rape and to pillage"
maureen dowd/ny times op-ed
the blind leading the blind
a majority of bush supporters believe things
about the world that are objectively untrue
salon.com
indymedia's internet servers confiscated
"the seizing of computers and the high profile nature of this incident suggests
that someone wanted to stifle these independent voices in journalism."
antiwar.com
homeland
security
under bush rates code red
"bush has abdicated his responsibility to protect america
from the risk of
terrorist attacks
because he is fundamentally
hostile to regulation of private industry...and is loath to cross
his big money campaign contributors"
salon.com
jon stewart rips crossfire
"i'm here to confront you, because we need help
from the media and they're
hurting us..."
cnn(transcript)
bullies at the voting booth
the progressive
bush's nuclear boogeyman
sfgate
cheney's big flip-flop on iraq
salon.com
pentagon moves to restrict
bad news about iraq
cs monitor
war
gaming the mullahs
the
cia and dia have war-gamed the likely consequences of a u.s. pre-emptive
strike on iran's nuclear facilities. no one liked the outcome. as an air
force source
tells it, "the war games were unsuccessful at preventing the conflict from
escalating."
newsweek/msnbc
the "war is lost"
military experts say
they see no exit from the iraq debacle
and that the war is helping al-qaida
sidney blumenthal/salon.com
doctors prepared to do face transplant
courier-journal
turkey snaps over us bombing of its brethren
the US is stirring a very deep well of discontent
asia times
vote for kerry, lose your job
salon.com
on the voting machine maker's tab
ny times
what john kerry said in 1971
excerpt from his explosive senate testimony
antiwar.com
cbo report shocker:
bush tax cuts tilted to rich
yahoo/reuters
claim vs. fact: treatment of
troops at a time of war
center for american progress
the truth isn't out there
salon.com
who's side is shrum on?
drudgereport
.
caught jeb
handed
"florida is grappling with some of the same problems that threw
the 2000 presidential election into chaos, as well as new ones
that critics say could cause even more confusion this november"
billmon.org
stay calm everyone, there's
prozac in the drinking water
guardian uk
mysterious signals from light years away
new scientist.com
peddling a "clinton
recession"
the economy
began to contract in march of 2001
two months
after bush was inaugurated; the recession marked
the end of the
longest period of economic expansion in u.s. history
salon.com
a 'corporate kleptocracy'
"ethical corruption was a defining
characteristic"
ny times
hungry world 'must eat less meat'
world water supplies will not be enough for our descendants
to enjoy the sort of diet the west eats now, experts say.
bbc
getting drunk without drinking
1010wins.com
bush defends
seven minute delay
"i was collecting my thoughts"
washington times
death, duty in
forgotten corner of war
msnbc
rove's lament:
study finds
terrorism fears
no longer helping bush
chicago sun times
tear down barrier, u.n. says
general assembly tells israel to obey world court ruling
toronto star
the race against death in darfur
the current conflict in western sudan puts the lives
of more than a million human beings in jeopardy
toronto star
the hysterical skies
she survived a flight with 14 harmless
syrian musicians
then spread 3,000 bigoted and paranoid words across the internet
salon.com
why tyrants rule arabs
for 60 years, the west has propped up arab despots,
creating poverty and illiteracy where education once thrived
toronto star
linda ronstadt
kicked out of casino
for praising michael moore
afp/yahoo
shameless in iraq
the nation
i married a bin laden
salon.com
ronald mcdonald imposter stuns diners
"it was supposedly some sort of art. if that is art, i'm a truck”
salon.com
war with
iran?
antiwar.com
health versus wealth
"considering it's scope, mr. kerry's
health plan
has received remarkably little attention"
paul krugman/ny times opinion
documents detail more
voting machine flaws
miami.com
fahrenheit 9/11
michael moore's documentary fahrenheit 9/11 has broken
box
office records, but some bush supporters say it's flawed.
what's the basis behind their allegations?
the onion
(satire)
july surprise?
"if we don't
find these guys by the election, they are
going to stick this whole nuclear mess up our asshole"
new republic
bush's national guard records
were "inadvertently" destroyed
ny times
oh, the stories he could tell
"come on, ken, spill the beans. you'll feel better afterward"
salon.com
defending truth
rebuttal to hitchin's hatchet
piece on michael moore
hollywoodbitchslap.com
us millitary commander
ordered british to attack iran
telegraph uk
the wrong war
the war in iraq has fueled al qaeda
and ignited its dream of global jihad
mother jones
buckley steps down
admits hindsight on iraq: "if i knew
then what i know now about
what kind of situation we would be
in, i would have opposed the war"
nytimes
u.s. readies for draft
newsmax.com
u.s. market sees major decline in job quality
low-paying
positions elbowing aside higher-paying ones, report says
theglobeandmail.com
how the democrats lost the heartland
thomas frank talks about why middle america, once a bastion of
left-wing populism, has become red-state republican.
salon.com
last gasp
one breath for revolution
adbusters.org
nader's "illegal" gop backers
right-wing groups -- and bush-cheney
'04 -- may have violated
federal campaign law to help get ralph nader on the ballot in oregon
joe conason/salon.com
scrooge & marley, inc.
the true conservative agenda
"the middle class is not a
normal thing: exploited workers are the norm"
commondreams.org
diebold's political machine
ohio could become as decisive this year as florida was four years ago
which is why the state's plan to use paperless touch-screen
voting machines
has so many up in arms.
mother jones
the hunt is on
the anti-clinton slime machine is
back
and this time its mud pies are aimed at john kerry
joe conason/salon.com
saudi arabia created
the monster now devouring it
the us and britain are straining to
shore up a hated autocracy
guardian uk
bush is playing into bin laden's hands
"the west is losing the war
against al-qaida"
guardian uk
cheney blames media
"there has been enormous
confusion"
msnbc
oil chief: my fears for planet
shell boss's 'confession' shocks
industry
guardian uk
"a temporary coup"
the white house's corruption of
intelligence
has caused the greatest foreign policy catastrophe
in
modern u.s. history
salon.com
canadian city vies
to become "vansterdamn"
foxnews
* * *
in response to
the mass media's gipper gushfest
here are some alternate perspectives of reagan's legacy
:
the gipper's dark side
salon.com
reagan without sentimentality
he told us government was the problem
- and his
corruption-plagued administration made sure of it
joe conason/salon.com
killer, coward, conman
good riddance, ronnie reagan
greg palast/axis of logic
ronald reagan: a legacy of crack and cheese
"when i think of the reagan legacy, i think of urban decay, crack, homelessness,
racism, rampant corporatism and the destruction of the american dream
bob fitrakis/commondreams.org
reagan didn't end the cold war
william blum/axis of logic
how reagan
armed saddam
with
chemical weapons
counterpunch.org
* * *
now back to the news...
how
copyright law
changed hip hop
alter.net
she comes first
"why the
well-trained tongue is mightier than the 'sword'"
salon.com
enron traders caught on tape
"they're fucking taking all the money back from you guys?
all the money you guys stole from those poor grandmothers in california?"
cbs news
gallery owner becomes target
after showcasing painting
of iraqi prisoner abuse
sfgate.com
chalabi was an iranian spy!
sidney blumenthal/salon.com
"like nixon, this president decided
the constitution could be bent on his watch"
carl bernstein/usatoday opinion
"i killed innocent people for our government
i was like every other troop. my president told me they got weapons
of mass destruction, that saddam threatened the free world,
that he had all this might and could reach us anywhere.
i just bought into the whole thing"
sacramento bee
bush campaign outsourced
fundraising & voter operations
misleader.org
the gray zone
how a secret pentagon program came to abu ghraib
seymour hersh/the new yorker
cold turkey
"president george w. bush, no less, and by his own admission,
was
smashed or tiddley-poo or four sheets to the wind a good deal of the time
from when he was 16 until he was 41. when he was 41, he says, jesus appeared to
him
and made him knock off the sauce... other drunks have
seen pink elephants"
kurt vonnegut/in these times
one minute from abnormal
a texas reporter
explores karen hughes'
cultlike devotion to george w. bush.
james moore/salon.com
study: oral sex education
decreases teen pregnancy by 20 percent
observer.uk
a
dangerous surplus of sons?
chronicle.com
limbaugh:
"abu ghraib was just a big frat party"
salon.com
"they are practicing something i call a pseudo-journalism,
and they view their audience as something to be manipulated"
oregon daily emerald
fox taunts cnn
ap/yahoo
oil enters $40 era
netscape.com
casualty of war
colin powell wants out
gq
i accuse
"it isn't a partisan issue.
it's a truth issue."
salon.com
fox talking
head called kerry
a "communist apologist"
and then lied about it
mediamatters.org
who hacked the voting system?
the teacher
nytimes
democracy takes a
hit
nytimes editorial
why kerry threw his ribbons
salon.com
don't mess with texas:
97-year-old woman cuffed, booked for
unpaid ticket
local6.com
grilled to order
what we'd like to ask
when
bush and cheney
take the hot seat
villiage voice
g.o.p. protesters plan to
infiltrate convention as volunteers
ny times
make peace with pot
nytimes editorial
out foxed
how rupert's red state cable channel
waved the flag and beat cnn
salon.com
in loss of leaders,
hamas
discovers a renewed strength
"each israeli killing only seems to enhance the popularity of hamas on the
street,
particularly in its gaza stronghold, where it draws recruits from
a society that is extremely poor and deeply religious"
nytimes
take photo, get fired
motherjones.com
the gop's not-so-impartial hit man
desperate to denigrate john kerry's war record, republicans have trotted out
a "nonpartisan" navy vietnam vet - who was a protege of nixon dirty trickster
charles colson and whose law firm is closely tied to the bush white house
joe conason/salon.com
california cracks down
on diebold's fraudulent
voting machines!
slashdot.org
"compassionate coercion"
new scientist.com
actionable intelligence
tom tomorrow/salon.com
corrupt senator calls for
reinstituting the military draft
afp/yahoo
corrupt?
here's proof he
cheated election:
"hagel's largest single investment appears to be in the mccarthy
group,
who owns a large chunk of es&s, the firm responsible for counting
hagel's own votes"
"the president misspoke
and we just want to
correct the record"
reuters
the out-of-towner
while bush vacationed, 9.11 warnings
went unheard
slate
john kerry's purple heart
salon.com
reversing vandalism
slate
greenspan shifts
nytimes
conservatives' words
truthout.org
army to restructure,
will grow by 30,000
"a pace unseen since world war II."
defenselink.mil
the new pentagon papers
karen kwiatkowski/salon.com
buffet warns on dollar and greed
"if class warfare is being waged in america, my class is clearly winning."
independent.co.uk
chavez calls bush 'asshole'
as foes fight troops
reuters
life with bin laden
salon.com
the passion of howard stern
the shock jock
says radio colossus clear channel fired him
because he criticized george bush -- and he's sure as hell not going to go
quietly.
salon.com
life in
alphaville
arghfuckkill.blogspot.com
the
junk science
of george w. bush
robert f. kennedy jr./alter.net
branding kerry with the L-word
joe conason/salon.com
bacteria run wild, defying antibiotics
nytimes
who's sauron ~ bin laden or
bush?
before we can preach western values to the muslims,
we have to get the word out to pat robertson and his ilk
salon.com
"this machine kills fascists”
siva vaidhyanathan/open democracy
the class warrior
alter.net
the end of ghawar
is the world's largest oil well running dry?
nytimes
the nature of future wars
uky.edu
pentagon report:
climate change a serious threat
observer.guardian.co.uk
hallucinogen may cure drug addiction
kron4
'the working poor':
can't win for losing
nytimes
bush's
service records: the scorecard
salon.com
"although there may never have been
a point in american history
in which so much power
was held by a party so singularly devoted
to the interests of so few,
republicans continue to argue
that they speak for the little guy"
salon.com
will the election be hacked?
salon.com
mad cow
is the symptom
theprogressive.org
america is going through an orwellian
moment
"on both the foreign
policy and the fiscal fronts,
the bush
administration is trying to rewrite
history"
paul krugman/nytimes editorial
congressman resigns
quits to join pharmaceutical giant
after pushing medicare bill
which will
make his new company billions of dollars
ft.com
another bogus
budget
paul krugman/nytimes editorial
the bush doctrine
harrybrowne.org
"the networks selected kerry
and senator
john edwards before the iowa
voters did"
lakecountydemocrats.org
one strike and you're out of school
"adam was expelled, arrested, chained to the wall of a police station by his
ankles and
thrown in jail after his younger brother's school bus driver found a drawing in
a sketch pad
that depicted adam and his friends attacking the high school with icbm missiles"
salon.com
the bush dynasty's dark magic
"we have a second george bush running the country and advancing his family's
perverse agenda: serving the rich domestically, increasing the dominance of the
energy industry,
enlarging the security state, and pursuing a bumbling foreign policy
that's clearly made the world less safe"
salon.com
neanderthals not human ancestors
cbsnews
dick cheney:
"if we were a true empire, we would currently preside
over a much greater piece of the earth's surface than we do,
that's not the way we operate."
nytimes
girl auctions
virginity
to pay for college
newsoftheworld.co.uk
the
secret world of the pick-up artist
nytimes
saudi
peace proposal calls for arab states
to
absorb all palestinian refugees
haaretz.com
we are the majority
"today, 40 percent of
american workers are working fifty hours a week or more.
that's
the collapse of the middle class, and we have got to turn that around"
bernie sanders/progressive.org
the no jobs president
"total job growth in the
clinton years: 23 million.
total job losses so far in the bush years: over 2 million."
salon.com
coalition faces new battlefront
pop music was always meant to be subversive
but in iraq it is proving to be too subversive
scotsman.com
nasa abandons hubble for bush space plan
"a mysterious energy, called the dark force, is causing all
of the objects in the universe to move apart at an accelerating rate.
this force is still poorly understood"
salon.com
big brother britain, 2004
four million cctv cameras watch the public.
uk has the highest level of surveillance
independant.co.uk
"karl rove jumped in"
cbsnews
reference sources of terror
tomtomorrow/salon.com
why
the right hates public education
theprogressive.org
damning evidence
"the intelligence community began to be unduly influenced
by policymakers' views some time in 2002"
tompaine.com
pace of attacks on u.s. troops
hasn't slowed since saddam's capture
knightridder
a pox on
fox
the
latest lies from fox news
antiwar.com
the year of the liar
salon.com
weak dollar good...
for corporate profits
yahoo
"our political leaders are doing everything they can to fortify
class inequality, while denouncing anyone who complains
--or
even points out what is happening--
as a practitioner
of "class warfare"
paul krugman/thenation.com
how to save the world? treat it like a business
"we need innovative solutions to social problems, and
increasingly societies are realizing that private citizens,
acting in entrepreneurial ways, blending business tools
with relevant social expertise, are the best hope for
finding those solutions,"
nytimes
don't call it conservative
"poseurs are stealing from the future"
tompaine.com
something original and brilliant at ground zero
nypost
third way speaks to
europe's young muslims
"mr. ramadan is a combination of spiritual leader and rock star"
csmonitor
33 years later
draft becomes topic for dean
nytimes
gene-altering revolution
nears the pet store:
glow-in-the-dark fish
nytimes
study finds direct link
between
misinformation
and public misconception
"those who primarily watch fox news are significantly more likely to have
misperceptions,
while those who primarily listen to npr or watch pbs are significantly less
likely.
scoop
"it was a masterful performance,
but none of it was true"
independent.uk
oiling up the draft machine?!?
salon.com
"american
families should not be
guinea pigs for corporate greed!"
yahoo
zell miller turncoats early
the elephant in donkey's clothing can't
even wait
for democrat's primary results before endorsing bush
wsj editorial page
crawford george has morphed into baghdad bob
maureen dowd/nytimes opinion
rush's history of racist comments
theprogressive.org
ah, to be the breath of iraq's liberation
drew hamre/startribune
security compromised for the sake of profit
bush gives in to chemical companies, leaves nation
vulnerable
theprogressive.org
"the
history of social change
is the history of millions of actions,
small and large, coming together at critical points
to create a power
that governments cannot suppress.
we find ourselves today at one of those critical points."
howard zinn/theprogressive.org
ann coulter's lies exposed
"some of the most consistently emotional,
subrational
jargon in national politics."
spinsanity
remains of cities
found in amazon basin
a "complex and sophisticated" civilization
with a population of many thousands
during the period before 1492
salon.com
killing of ayatollah = start of iraqi civil war?
pacificnews.org/commentary
a pattern of aggression
"as in yugoslavia, so in iraq:
illegal aggression
justified by spin and fabrication enables might to prevail
and deals a terrible blow to the framework of international law"
guardian uk
"an interesting day"
president bush's movements on 9.11.1
cooperatveresearch.net
a welcome q&a
washington post editorial
tight neckties increase risk for blindness
post-gazette.com
bumpersticker banner
"if
american progressives hope to counter the right,
we're going to need more than a laundry list of grievances..."
micah l. sifry/tompaine.com
researchers help define
what makes a political conservative
berkeley.edu
canada set to release
users' manual for medical marijuana
canada.com
big surprise:
"intelligence services were much more worried
that
hussein might give weapons to al qaeda terrorists
if he were facing death or capture...
after a military attack by the united states"
washington post
"tonight
I speak as a subject of the american empire?
i speak
as a slave who presumes to criticize her king"
arundhati
roy/truthout
who
is robert joseph?
antiwar.com
"office of special plans"
salon.com
ain't that america?
salon interview with john mellencamp
salon.com
"when they first came, the american soldiers
gave the children chocolates. now they're killing them."
washington post
vietnam after all?
seattle times
the war off drugs
the
success of a california measure
that offers drug offenders
treatment instead of prison
points a way out of the drug-war stalemate
salon.com
the road to coverup
is the road to ruin
"the face of
osama bin laden morphed into that of saddam hussein.
president bush carefully blurred these images in his state of the union address"
senator robert byrd
the plot to kill social
security
"to many
observers, a relentlessly executed program of tax cuts
seems designed to
accelerate a social security catastrophe, not avoid it"
salon.com
robots playing soccer
will they field a world cup team in 2050?
salon.com
bill introduced in senate
to reverse fcc rule changes
goes even further: forces clear channel
to sell radio stations in some markets!
ksdk.com
disturbing: interviews with
american troops on the ground in iraq
this is london
new
breed of antibiotics
could have disastrous consequences
bbc
deficits and dysfunction
in just two years: $10 trillion lost
nytimes magazine
lucky ducky: all's fair in class and war
ruben bolling/salon.com
john kerry, richest senator
cnn
can bush be beaten?
part 1
salon.com
can bush be beaten?
part 2
salon.com
can bush be beaten?
part 3
salon.com
resistance intensifies:
attacks against us troops in iraq
are getting "smarter"
sydney morning herald
scientist's warning:
50/50 chance of armageddon
terror, error, and environmental
disaster
threaten humankind's future
reuters/yahoo
is
lying
to justify a war
an impeachable offense?
john dean/findlaw
solving the diversity dilemma
give special
recognition to the talent and
hard work of students from poorer families
nytimes op-ed
intelligence analysts
dispute
iraqi trailers being
"mobile weapons labs"
nytimes
the fcc
minister of information
mark fiore/salon.com
(flash player required)
the bush administration
is dismantling head start
salon.com
life in iraq now
sfgate
uprising against u.s. occupation
"this is a violation of our dignity"
sydney morning herald
deadly aftermath: depleted uranium
1,100-2,200 tons were used by u.s.-led coalition forces
during their attack on iraq in march and april
cnn
the truth will emerge
senator robert c. byrd
republicans plan to control america
g.o.p. strives for an era of dominance
ny times
the young hipublicans
well funded conservative activists hunt their prey on college campuses
ny times
al
qaeda’s summer plans
newsweek/msnbc
the republican matrix
this modern world/salon.com
the pentagon lost A TRILLION DOLLARS...
and now the bush administration wants
less accountability!
saa francisco chronicle
did bush know that intelligence
"evidence" against iraq was cooked?!?
joe conason/salon.com
where the money goes: corporate gambling
the shady "derivatives" market is now nearly 127 trillion dollars!
up from 3 trillion in 1990!
telegraph.uk
teachers punished in new mexico
for refusing to take down anti-war posters
progressive.org
baghdad did not fall...
it was handed over?!
did the saudi regime broker a secret deal
between the white house and iraq's ruling party?
salon.com
"an orgy of unsafe corporate intercourse"
arianna huffington/salon.com
nader in 2004?
progressives split on whether to back
a progressive democrat instead
salon.com
iraq: 4000 years of strife
cbs
"your government bombed our hospital"
salon.com
america's war against itself
pravda
a free country?!?
u.s. now incarcerates 2,000,000 prisoners!
largest inmate population on the planet
has doubled since 1990
bbc
bush administration
quietly reshaping environmental policy
to expand logging and other development
foxnews
regime change?
a corrupt expatriate installed in iraq:
ahmed chalabi fled a prison sentence in jordan
after his bank defrauded investors of millions
joe conason/ny observer
300 scientists protest
computer voting machines
paperless machines don't give receipt,
data is easy to manipulate!
washington post
media lies: detecting disinformation
"first rule of disinformation analysis: truth is specific, lie is vague"
atimes.com
this is not america
"...we have become a different nation.
will i have to flee my country as my ancestors did theirs?"
salon.com
war = profit
iraq war, week 1: dow's best week in 20 years
nytimes
don't betray the family
the bush clan doesn’t like to be
crossed, just ask saddam - or tom daschle
eleanor clift/msnbc
"for the first time
the human species is running
a real risk of extinction"
fidel castro/guardian uk
how far is too far?
this modern world/salon.com
fake iraq documents "embarrassing" for u.s.
cnn
cassandra speaks
"as we now go to war, we should appreciate not only
the beauty of the tale, but also the warnings within it"
nytimes
how karl rove rules the world
washingtonpost.com
more hypocrisy from george will
findlaw.com
college basketball player turns
her back to the flag in anti-war protest
indystar.com
police departments strained as military calls up officers
foxnews
u.n. inspectors call u.s. tips "garbage"
cbs news
the trouble with corporate radio:
the day the protest music died
ny times
america's arts in crisis
states threaten to suspend all funding
independent uk
gop has huge
lead in campaign cash
msnbc
minister gets past secret service
hands bush "message from god"
washington post
hunter s. thompson
the salon interview
"who does vote for these dishonest shitheads?"
"i piss down the throats of these nazis..."
"the patriot act was a dagger in the heart, really, of even the concept of a
democratic government..."
"this country depends on war as a primary industry. the white house has pumped
up
the danger factor
because it's to their advantage..."
salon.com
god on
our side?
dissecting bush’s religious talk in a time of tragedy
msnbc
more high-end tax cuts
at the expense of domestic programs
ny times
u.s. finally admits spying on iraq through unscom
washington post
bush's
messiah complex
"seems to believe that he is carrying out god's will by waging war"
theprogressive
cannabis
linked to biblical healing
jesus
christ and his apostles may have used a cannabis-based
anointing oil to help cure people with crippling diseases
bbc
the business of war
guerrilla news network
sure trent lott is racist...
but what about ronald reagan?
jack e. white
ice age coming?
philly.com
disco dick cheney
"if he appears in a travolta white suit and gold chains,
his desire to replicate the gerald ford era would be realized"
maureen dowd/ny times
jimmy carter's nobel speech
salon.com
anonymous sources?
lies were intentionally fed to the associated press
to start a war in 1964...
and now it's happening again!
douglass turner/buffalo news
the google phenomenon
ny times
"one eye scanning the globe"
the pentagon creates a massive database to track all americans...
looking for "suspicious behavior"
fox
scientists creating a new lifeform
washington post
why conservatives get a free pass
for "treason" -- but liberals don't
joe conason/salon.com
score one for the little guy...
rogue coalition of republicans and democrats team up
to defeat pro-business bankruptcy "reform" bill
usatoday/yahoo
bill moyers confronts bush, republicans
"...it is a heady time in washington — a heady time
for
piety, profits, and military power..."
pbs.org
the electronic voting machines can't be trusted!!
salon.com
guess who owns the voting machines?
talion.com
"the US is developing a new generation of weapons
that undermine
and possibly violate international treaties
on biological and chemical warfare"
guardian/uk
"many
journalists now are no more than
channelers and echoers of what orwell called
'the
official truth'"
john pilger interview/theprogressive.org
newsflash: bush
is a liar
eleanor clift/msnbc
thousands march for peace
in cities worldwide
reuters/yahoonews
war is
peace?
theprogressive.org
the
bloodstained path
"unilateral military action by the united states
against
iraq
is unjustified, unwarranted, and illegal"
congressman dennis kucinich/theprogressive.org
palestinian families forced out
of their village by israeli settlers
nytimes
al qaida mainly financed by 12 people
worldtribune
the soufflé doctrine
maureen dowd calls bush "the boy emperor"
calls out
the warmongers
behind his curtains...
mentions richard perle specifically!
maureen dowd/nytimes
limbaugh spouts drivel
ms. dowd's column got rush all in a tizzy
drudgereport
wisdom from woody harrelson
"an american tired of american lies"
guardian uk
who is bin laden?
a comprehensive biography
frontline/pbs.org
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