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Crazy President, Crazy Nation Margaret Kimberley January 20 2005 “...instructions given performers include a warning not to look directly at Bush while passing the presidential reviewing stand, not to look to either side and not to make any sudden movements.” - Scripps Howard News Service report on Bush inaugural activities.
It is clear that George W. Bush is suffering from a terrible pathology, a sick paranoia. It has been pointed out by people who have known him and should have been (…)

George W. Bush was sworn in today for his second term as the President of the United States. While the rich supporters gorge themselves on food and drink, while the controlled media fawn over the inaugural spectacle like awe struck schoolgirls, while the cronies of the administration regale themselves in ill-gotten power, soldiers die in the streets of Baghdad, brothers and sisters mourn, mothers weep, good, honest American citizens cringe in fear and disbelief.
George W. Bush and his ilk (…)

As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee concluded confirmation hearings for the office of Secretary of State, the presumptive appointee, Dr. Condolezza Rice, put on a display of the abrasive, uninformed style and lack of substance we can expect from her if she is confirmed.
Rice sailed through most of the questions without providing substantive answers for the main part - much like her colleague, Alberto Gonzalez, in his confirmation hearing for Attorney General - and at one point, in a (…)

By Manuel Valenzuela
At the apex of the highest mountain stand the facilitators of human corruption, in proud self-adulation, glorification and ego-driven debasement readying themselves with a forty million dollar celebration of pomp and circumstance, enjoying the comforts of luxury and unfettered power spun by the web of exploitation, for victorious do they see each other, this power-addicted and profit-hungry cabal of corporatist and elitist vermin, extolling both the virtues of (…)

I am not watching the annoint....er....inauguration. Instead, I have C-SPAN2 on. It’s carrying the protestors. As much as I laud and support the protestors efforts, I also find the protest lacks something essential, especially coming as it does a few days after Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
What was it MLK brought to the civil rights movement? What’s the difference between MLK’s "I have a dream" speech and what the protestors are shouting today?
It’s a rather difficult quality to put one’s (…)

Censored For Being Too Subtle An Army Surgeon Loses His Weblog. The Reason: He Did Too Good A Job Illustrating The Casual Heroism Of Combat Kevin Horrigan 01/09/2005 The Pentagon reported last Tuesday that the number of U.S. troops wounded in the Iraq war had passed 10,000. Of the 10,252 wounded since the war began in March 2003, about half - 5,396 - were hurt so badly they couldn’t return to duty. The rest were patched up and sent back to work Also on Tuesday, in a not completely (…)

Can You Imagine?: Hussein Was Right & Bush Was Wrong Harry Browne January 15, 2005 You may remember that in 2002, the year before the Iraq War began, the United Nations Security Council ordered Iraq to produce a report detailing all of its biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons - past and present. Iraqi officials complied and produced an 11,800-page report on Iraq’s weapons programs. The report described all the chemical and biological weapons the country once had - where they came (…)

The Japanese Government is reluctant or, more frankly, has refused to give them the status of refugee.
Mr. Kazankiran and his son, Ramazan were two such refugees. They sought help from the Japanese Government and support from the UN; they got none. January 17 2005, they were arrested to be deportated. Mr. Ohashi, a lawyer, has taken a quick step applying for suspension of deportation.
But it was too late. They have the UN mandate!!
Among advanced countries concluding the Refugee (…)

Because the war in Iraq represents the U.S government’s unchecked drive towards global domination, and wreaks havoc on poor and working people at home and around the world, with ramifications so drastic we can barely imagine;
Because this is a war, at home and abroad, against people of color and it must be ended in all its manifestations;
Because the majority of people in our country and throughout the world oppose the war;
Because hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been and continue (…)

By Marjorie Cohn
Alberto Gonzales should not be the Attorney General of the United States. He should be considered a war criminal and indicted by the Attorney General. This is a suggested indictment of Alberto Gonzales for war crimes under Title 18 U.S.C. section 1441, the War Crimes Act.
COUNT I: Application of Geneva Conventions; Definition of Torture
On or about January 25, 2002 through January 16, 2005, Defendant ALBERTO GONZALES, Counsel to George W. Bush, the President of the (…)