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  • What A Rich Nation Should Really Be Doing About Social Security
    1 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Gar Alperovitz Listening to the debate between the Administration and even its most adventurous critics one would imagine that only an extremely limited range of Social Security options are even conceivable. One would also imagine that we live in an extremely poor society which is ultimately going to have to find ways to squeeze its seniors financially or somehow we will all perish. The truth is radically different.
    This is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. A serious (…)

  • Bush Administration using Social Security Administration to scare up support for privatization
    1 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New Report Details the Politicization of the Social Security Administration Under President Bush
    WASHINGTON - Today Reps. Henry A. Waxman, Rep. Charles B. Rangel, and Rep. Sander M. Levin, along with Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, and Reps. Obey, Miller, and DeLauro, released a new report that shows how the Social Security Administration has modified its communications strategy to undermine public confidence in Social Security.
    The report, based on a review (…)

  • Mushrooming depleted uranium (DU) scandal blamed for Sec of Veterans Affairs departure
    1 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Project Censored Award Winner
    Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter charged Monday that the reason Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi stepped down earlier this month was the growing scandal surrounding the use of uranium munitions in the Iraq War.
    Writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter No. 169, Arthur N. Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, stated, “The real reason for Mr. Principi’s departure was really never given, however a special (…)

  • Halliburton Wins in Iraq
    28 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Halliburton Could Get $1.5bn More Iraq Work
    Halliburton, under scrutiny for its contracts in Iraq, would receive an extra $1.5 billion as part of the Bush administration’s additional war spending proposal for fiscal 2005, a senior US Army budget official said.
    Halliburton, once led by Vice-President Dick Cheney, is the largest corporate contractor in Iraq and has drawn fire for its no-bid contracts there, with auditors charging its Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) unit overcharged for some (…)

  • Each day about 13,500 people worldwide die from smoking-related diseases.
    28 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Smoking gets own ’Kyoto treaty’
    By Nick Triggle
    By 2020 the mortality rate will have doubled - the equivalent of 10 million a year.
    To tackle the rise, which is expected to be felt hardest in developing countries, the World Health Organization’s tobacco control treaty comes into force on Sunday.
    It is regarded as smoking’s answer to the Kyoto agreement - only with teeth.
    Ratified by 57 countries, including the UK, the document sets out a programme to reduce the number of people (…)

  • COLOMBIAN ARMY UNIT MURDERS PEACE COMMUNITY LEADER
    28 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An Update From the Colombia Support Network
    On February 21, 2005 , the 11th Brigade of the Colombian Army, based in the state of Cordoba, massacred 7 people of the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado, among those one of its founders, LUIS EDUARDO GUERRA. Luis Eduardo, age 35, was killed with his 11-year old son, DEINER GUERRA ; his companion, BELLANIRA AREIZA- GUZMAN, 17 years old; a leader of the Mulatos settlement and its Peace Community, ALFONSO BOLIVAR TUBERQUIA -GRACIANO, age 30 ; (…)

  • $9 Billion lost, Halliburton Looting, and Bush wants $82 Billion more?
    28 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    The United States interim government, the CPA, run by Paul Bremer, and Dick Cheney’s firm Halliburton have been shamed by whistleblowers documenting blatant fraud. The whistleblowers have provided evidence of massive, systematic (ie intentional) fraud at Halliburton. The US Inspector General just reported $9 billion is missing, the CPA lost it - no trace of it whatsoever - yet Bush and his lapdog Congress want our children to pay $82 billion more for this illegal and immoral (…)

  • Pathetic Democratic Leaders are Failing America
    27 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I’m not a real Democrat, I just play one on tv.
    Im really fed up with the pathetic assortment of Democratic Party leaders were subjected to nowadays. Pitiful few can even remember what are party stands for. Goodness gracious, dont mention poverty or homelessness. That makes you a dreaded liberal. Dont say youre against the war in Iraq. That makes you a freedom-hater. Dont whisper that unions might be good for Wal-Mart workers, that means you hate anyone who owns a business. Dont say (…)

  • War Crimes in Fallujah and Iraq and the War on Terrorism
    27 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Bush’s lies put these forces at risk in an illegal war of aggression. He treated our military personnel as if they were expendable cannon fodder.."
    By Ron Forthofer, Ph.D.
    The Bush administration claims that the U.S. attack on and occupation of Iraq is part of the ’war on terrorism’. This claim is highly dubious, to put it mildly.
    Before the U.S. attack, there was no substantive connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. In fact, Saddam and Osama bin Laden could be said to have (…)

  • Americans Speak Out on Election Fraud 2004
    26 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Here are some other things you must also believe if you believe that Duh-bya won the election:
    1- That the exit polls were WRONG.
    2- That Zogby’s 5pm election day calls for Kerry winning OH and FL were WRONG. He was exactly RIGHT in his 2000 final poll.
    3- That Harris’ last minute polling for Kerry was WRONG. He was exactly RIGHT in his 2000 final poll.
    4- That the Incumbent Rule (that undecideds break for the challenger) was WRONG.
    5- That the 50% Rule was WRONG (that an incumbent (…)