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  • Land of “Murka”: Part II of II
    12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    – Part I Here
    By Manuel Valenzuela
    "Information Clearing House"
    The Fundamentalist Threat
    To live in Murka is to see firsthand its degeneration into an emerging Christian theocracy, with its collection of televangelists, cult leaders, mullahs and Taliban, nothing more than corruption-filled, hypocrite-behaving, masterminds of pervasive ignorance, false prophets and preachers drunk off the liquor of fundamentalist thought misguiding tens of millions of lost souls through the chalice (…)

  • America’s False Memories
    12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraq war stories play tricks on the mind
    by Anna Salleh
    Research on the way people processed media reports about the Iraq war tells us more about how we create our beliefs and memories.
    Psychologist Professor Stephan Lewandowsky of the University of Western Australia and team report their study of more than 800 people from Australia, the US and Germany, in the March issue of the journal Psychological Science.
    Lewandowsky says the study, which was conducted in 2003 during the closing (…)

  • Halliburton Whistleblowers Highlight Waste of Taxpayer Dollars
    11 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Spoils of War
    By MICHAEL SHNAYERSON
    Halliburton subsidiary KBR got $12 billion worth of exclusive contracts for work in Iraq. But even more shocking is how KBR spent some of the money. Former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official Bunnatine Greenhouse is blowing the whistle on the Dick Cheney-linked company’s profits of war
    This time, she was sure, they were going to get her.
    Bunnatine Greenhouse had been a huge nuisance since the buildup to the war in Iraq-questioning contracts, (…)

  • An interview with the mother and widow of a former contractor in Iraq
    11 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Rick Kelly
    Tim Eysselinck worked for RONCO Consulting Corp. in Iraq between August 2003 and February 2004. He headed a de-mining team that was responsible for the clearance of land mines, cluster bombs and other ordinance.
    Tim developed post-traumatic stress disorder, and his experiences in Iraq left him disillusioned with the war that he had previously supported. On April 21, 2004, he committed suicide at his home in Windhoek, Namibia, two months after he had resigned from RONCO. He (…)

  • Report Documents Republican Abuse of Power: With This Congress, Democracy is Dead
    11 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    Broken Promises: The Death of Deliberative Democracy
    A Congressional Report (pdf) on the Unprecedented Erosion of the Democratic Process in the 108th Congress.
    Compiled by the House Rules Committee Minority Office The Honorable Louise M. Slaughter, Ranking Member
    Cliff notes by Ben Frank
    How Modern Congress works: Lobbyists write the bill and Republicans force it through Congress before anyone has even had a chance to read it. The textbook cases of corruption (…)

  • War Crimes: Bush Indicted on 13 Counts: US Corp. Media Shields Disgrace
    10 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sheila Samples: Butt Prints In The Sand
    Because in life, there comes a time, When one must fight, and one must climb, When we must rise and take a stand, Or leave our butt prints in the sand.
    author unknown
    It’s time.
    Before this obscene, gaping hole gets any deeper, it’s time we convinced the media to stop digging. As someone once said...and said...and said — time is not on our side. Storm clouds are gathering on the dashboard of our democracy. We must act, sooner rather than (…)

  • Teresa Heinz Kerry says US election could have been hacked
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US election could have been hacked, says Kerry wife
    The United States presidential election could have been computer hacked, the wife of Democrat candidate John Kerry has claimed.
    The United States presidential election could have been computer hacked, the wife of Democrat candidate John Kerry has claimed.
    Teresa Heinz Kerry is openly sceptical about George Bush’s victory some four months after the election, questioning the legitimacy of the optical scanners used in some states to (…)

  • Land of ‘Murka’
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An Inside Look at George W. Bush’s “Murka”
    By Manuel Valenzuela
    Decline and Decrepitude
    "Information Clearing House" - - From the highest mountains to the lowest valleys a great energy has gone missing from the land once known as America, its pulsating and vibrant warmth no longer felt as the enveloping mist of the last four years spreads far and wide, from sea to shining sea, penetrating every porous cavity of escape. An energy of positive realms and humanist inclinations has been (…)

  • WHY I SUPPORT A US DEPARTMENT OF PEACE
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    speech by Rep. James McGovern
    Please let me begin by expressing my own appreciation and support for the efforts of everyone in this room to make this world a more peaceful place.
    It means a great deal to me to meet people and organizations that are committed to building a more peaceful world and using peaceful, non-violent means as a tool of action, as a tool to create social change.
    I know that you all have the skill, the experience and the commitment to work towards improving the (…)

  • AMERICA’S MOST POWERFUL WEAPON
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Forget nukes. Forget laser-guided missiles. Forget cluster bombs. The most powerful weapon in the U.S. arsenal is xenophobia. This ugly trait is possessed by the majority of U.S. citizens and is widely practiced.
    You may ask how a thought process could be more devastating than the hardware the U.S. has used in killing foreigners in genocidal proportions. Xenophobia allows the U.S. government to venture into foreign realms for the purpose of annihilating the people without question by the (…)