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From: Eric Smith> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 02:10:46 +0900 To:
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You’re kidding, right? That’s it?
After holding Brits in our extralegal dungeons for two years, one day we just let ’em go?
We’ve still got more than 600 people imprisoned in our Halliburton-built prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where for more than two years we’ve been interrogating them, denying them lawyers, denying them any kind of judicial review, hinting quite bluntly that they could (…)

Greenland ice cap breaking up at twice the rate it was five years ago, says scientist Bush tried to gag
By Jim Hansen
A satellite study of the Greenland ice cap shows that it is melting far faster than scientists had feared - twice as much ice is going into the sea as it was five years ago. The implications for rising sea levels - and climate change - could be dramatic.
Yet, a few weeks ago, when I - a Nasa climate scientist - tried to talk to the media about these issues following a (…)

By John Edwards and John Wilhelm
IT USED TO BE that poverty was invisible in America. When Michael Harrington published ’’The Other America" in 1960, he wrote about the unseen millions living in inner-city housing projects, in Appalachia, in rural America. The poor were stuck in isolated ghettos, dying towns, and industries that Harrington called the economic underworld of American life. As the rest of the country went to work and prospered, the poor were bypassed.
Our nation launched a (…)

AlterNet speaks with Cristina Page, the author of a controversial new book about the state of sex, morality and abortion rights in America.
By Rachel Fudge
In her new book, How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, and the War on Sex (Basic Books), Cristina Page boldly declares that the pro-choice movement is "doing a better job at what the public understands to be the pro-life agenda than the pro-lifers are": that is, not only dramatically reducing the number of (…)

By Barbara Lee
When I cast the lone vote against the September 14, 2001, Use of Force Resolution, I believed, as I do today, that Congress had no business authorizing an unspecified war against an unspecified enemy for an unspecified period of time, and I was worried that the over-broad authority of the resolution was vulnerable to abuse.
Certainly few, if any, who supported the resolution could have believed that they were casting a vote for warrantless spying on Americans. As (…)

by Mary MacElveen
As all of you know, I love to quote excellent passages coming from various places such as the United States Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, words spoken by past leaders and, yes, movies and television shows. I do that since I find what is written to be of great value ... we all can learn a thing or two ... hopefully by learning a valued lesson ... we the people can change not only this country for the better, but the world as well.
Many of (…)

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Harry Whittington has been profusely apologising to Dick Cheney for all the trouble he put poor Dick through ? Can you imagine Lincoln surviving his wounds and apologising to John Wilkes Booth for the broken leg he incurred as lept from the presidential box at Ford’s Theatre. Perhaps Whittington is honored that the Vice-President chose HIM to be recipient of these wounds ? http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x455444 (…)

Fountainhead Truth exists, falsehood has to be invented.(image : operation iraqi freedom)
Saturday, February 18, 2006 An Interview With the Economic Hit Man
An Interview With the Economic Hit Man
“We Have Created the World’s First Truly Global Empire”. Most of the people in the United States have no idea that we’ve created this empire and, in fact, throughout the world it’s been done very quietly, unlike old empires, where the army marched in.
AMY GOODMAN: We turn to someone on the (…)

John Byrne PublisUpdated to include Friday response from FBI
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has responded to a request from a San Francisco-based blogger for Vice President Dick Cheney’s FBI file-but has been withholding its release since September 2005, RAW STORY has learned.
In a letter to blogger Michael Petrelis, of PetrelisFiles.com, the section chief for the FBI’s records management division acknowledged in August 2005 that the bureau had located some 780 pages on the vice (…)