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  • WHY POLIO? WHY NOT AUTISM?
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Anne McElroy Dachel
    It is becoming more and more obvious that we have a growing crisis on our hands in the U.S., yet we’re at a loss on how we should deal with it. Increasingly, we’re hearing about autism. There are walks and ribbons to create awareness for autism. Parents support groups have formed all over the country. Schools have had to focus on the needs of the growing number of students with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. This debilitating, neurological disorder seems (…)

  • "We Are Human, Like You"
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    A delegation of women from Iraq told stories last night in Washington, D.C., unlike anything we’ve ever heard about this war from the media in the United States. And the media was not there, so I’m going to tell you what they said.
    The event was held at Busboys and Poets, the restaurant that serves as the gathering place for all social justice groups in Washington. The restaurant’s owner is Andy Shallal, an Iraqi American and an active opponent of the war. Shallal spoke (…)

  • National Impeachment Movement Ignored by Corporate Media
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Peter Phillips If a national movement calling for the impeachment of the President is rapidly emerging and the corporate media are not covering it, is there really a national movement for the impeachment of the President?
    Impeachment advocates are widely mobilizing in the U.S. Over 1,000 letters to the editors of major newspapers have been printed in the past six months asking for impeachment. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette letter writer George Matus says, "I am still enraged over unasked (…)

  • Protests in Puerto Rico mount against FBI over tactics
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The FBI is under attack in Puerto Rico for operations that critics say unfairly target pro-independence activists.
    BY FRANCES ROBLES
    SAN JUAN - Students masqueraded as rifle-toting federal agents, while others donned T-shirts with the face of a man they called Puerto Rico’s liberator.’’
    Near the angry shouts and political placards stood Elma Beatriz Rosado with a calm explanation for it all:I want the FBI out of Puerto Rico. The time has come for them to leave, now.’’
    Rosado’s husband (…)

  • Francis Fukuyama and the neoconservatives
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by LOUIS MENAND
    On February 10, 2004, the columnist Charles Krauthammer gave the annual Irving Kristol address at the American Enterprise Institute, in Washington. The lecture was called “Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World.” It defended the Bush Administration’s policies of unilateralism and preëmption, and proposed that their application be defined by means of a doctrine: “We will support democracy everywhere, but we will commit blood and treasure only in (…)

  • Transit workers are fighting for us all
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Union struggle is about the top issues for most Americans: health insurance and a secure future
    BY GENE CARROLL
    Gene Carroll is the director of the Union Leadership Program at Cornell University, New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations, in New York City.
    Back in December, when those 34,000 pesky bus and subway workers who belong to Transport Workers Union Local 100 in New York City walked off the job, the news media and local government traffic managers from Riverhead (…)

  • A Time for Heresy
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Bill Moyers
    Bill Moyers is President of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy. This is the prepared text of his remarks delivered on March 14 upon the establishment by Marilyn and James Dunn, of the Wake Forest Divinity School, of a scholarship in religious freedom in the name of Judith and Bill Moyers.
    When Dean Bill Leonard asked James Dunn to join him here at Wake Forest’s new Divinity School, my soul shouted “Yes!” These two men personify the honesty and courage we need to (…)

  • The rancid relationship
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Britain’s close alliance with the United States has become nothing but one-way traffic
    by Richard Norton-Taylor
    A senior British military commander in the invasion of Iraq said the other day that Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, should be tried for war crimes. He was speaking in private and, I assume, did not mean to be taken literally. But there was no mistaking the anger in his voice.
    It reflected a deep fury at the decision to disband the Iraqi army after the invasion, a (…)

  • Bush’s Woes Won’t Guarantee Dem Wins
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
    President Bush has virtually handed Democrats the GOP’s head on a silver platter.
    Polls on the third anniversary of the Iraq war showed Bush in the tank with much of the American public — and many Republicans are in there with him. More Americans now say that the Democrats can do a much better job than Republicans in handling the war and the economy. Their disgust with Bush, and by extension Republicans, is so great, that almost as many Americans say that the (…)

  • America’s Blinders
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Howard Zinn
    Now that most Americans no longer believe in the war, now that they no longer trust Bush and his Administration, now that the evidence of deception has become overwhelming (so overwhelming that even the major media, always late, have begun to register indignation), we might ask: How come so many people were so easily fooled?
    The question is important because it might help us understand why Americans-members of the media as well as the ordinary citizen-rushed to declare (…)