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  • Worse Than McCarthy
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ELLEN SCHRECKER
    When Barrows Dunham, chairman of Temple University’s philosophy department, faced the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953, he knew that his job was on the line. He was determined not to cooperate with the committee or name names; so, after giving his name, address, and - reluctantly - his date and place of birth, he invoked the Fifth Amendment’s privilege against self-incrimination. He was more forthcoming with Temple’s investigation, explaining to a special (…)

  • U.S. Initiates Legal Processes Against Christian Group that Marched to Guantánamo
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Seven individuals from Witness Against Torture, a group protesting the denial of rights to prisoners at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, were served papers by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) last week. The group of twenty-four U.S. Christians marched over 60 miles to the Naval Base in an attempt to practice the Christian act of prisoner visitation. The group camped and fasted for four days at the gate of the militarized zone while awaiting access (…)

  • Four Presidents and a Raucous Funeral for a King
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Karen Jacobs and Tabassum Zakaria Speakers seized on the presence of President Bush to attack his policies on Tuesday at the funeral of Coretta Scott King, the first lady of the U.S. civil rights movement.
    Jimmy Carter, one of four presidents to speak, took a jab at Bush’s domestic eavesdropping program during six hours of sermons, speeches and song for the late widow of Nobel peace laureate Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in 1968.
    The 10,000 mourners also heard the Rev. Joseph (…)

  • Merger mania
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lacey to Voice staff: Drop dead
    By Tim Redmond
    tredmond@sfbg.com
    The merger between the nation’s two largest alternative newspaper chains was finally consummated Jan. 31, and the very next day, Mike Lacey, the new owner of the Village Voice, was in New York City giving the staff the facts of life.
    Lacey met with Voice staffers Feb. 1, and, according to sources who were present at the meeting, announced that the Voice news section was too soft because it was full of commentary and (…)

  • Photo shows lobbyist at ’01 gathering with Bush Convicted lobbyist is just a blurry figure in the background
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Philip Shenon, Lowell Bergman, New York Times
    Washington — After weeks in which the White House has declined to release pictures of President Bush with Jack Abramoff, the disgraced lobbyist, the first photograph to be published of the two men shows a small, partly obscured image of Abramoff looking on from the background as Bush greets a Texas Indian chief in May 2001.
    By itself, the picture hardly seems worthy of the White House’s efforts to keep it out of the public eye. Abramoff, a (…)

  • If anyone is guilty of trying to make Venezuela unstable it is the United States
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    The other day, I sat down to watch Molly Ivins on C-Span.org. Ms. Ivins is a columnist after my own heart. In the interview, a caller phoned in and cited that he was once a moderate Republican, but felt the need to leave that party since it no longer represented his values.
    The date of the interview was January 27 and was one day off of my six year anniversary where I too felt as that caller did and left the Republican Party. While he did not say if he joined another (…)

  • The President KNEW...(a photo-op summary)...and MORE.
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (Why is this not front-page news at DKos?)
    The President KNEW...
    Katrina was coming.
    The President KNEW...
    that Brownie had phoned...
    ...on the day that the levees had breached to tell him that New Orleans was sinking...
    The President KNEW...
    ...that day.
    The President KNEW...
    ...that day.
    The President KNEW...
    ...that day.
    The President KNEW...
    ...that day.
    The President KNEW...
    ...the following day, too.
    The President’s wife KNEW...
    ...the following (…)

  • Down With King George! American Liberties are Guaranteed (See Below)
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Declaration of Independence
    When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men (…)

  • Stage Set For Nuclear Annihilation of All Life On Earth
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Watch a 9 minute video with Dr. Helen Caldicott explaining what the world’s fate will be should George Bush and/or Vladimir Putin get their nuclear wires crossed and launch thousands of nuclear warheads.
    With almost a dozen nukes pointed at all 250 cities in the Northern Hemisphere in every country (w/over 50,000 people each), a strike against Iran, a technical mistake, a drunken rage or even an accident could very well be the flash point which sets an irreversible nuclear, worldwide (…)

  • How the USDA Gutted Federal Organic Food Standards
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Federal Food Policy & Organic Inconsistencies
    by Joshua Frank - February 11, 2006
    Healthy living has become the national obsession these past few decades. Awareness about food’s nutritional content is also on the rise — many health conscious Americans are concerned with the quality and content of the food they are scarfing down every day.
    As these interests have grown, so has the organic food movement. Organics, as the general definition puts it, are products that are not grown (…)