Some recommended reading - do your homework.
Saving the World By Stopping the Pentagon’s Programs
By Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet
All that work against nuclear proliferation - gone, gone, gone. Another way we make the world a more dangerous place.
Then there is “Complex 2030,” a proposal to consolidate and update the entire nuclear complex, including the opening of a [...]
Please sign this petition, which supports a call (from prominent experts, including scholars, scientists and former high-level military personnel) for release of basic 9/11 information.
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND OF THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT,
On Behalf of the People of the United States of [...]
That’s the number of laws that Bush has claimed authority to disobey.
Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, ”whistle-blower” protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research.
Legal scholars say the scope and [...]
“What we are living with now is the consequences of successive policy failures. Some of the missteps include: the distortion of intelligence in the buildup to the war, McNamara-like micromanagement that kept our forces from having enough resources to do the job, the failure to retain and reconstitute the Iraqi military in time to help [...]
The Washington Post has reported on another W deceit. Like the Wilson situation, it centers on intelligence the administration didn’t want to hear as it was preparing for war. Like the Wilson situation, it bears the mark of Cheney more than it does of Bush.
“A secret fact-finding mission to Iraq — not made public until [...]
“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.”
– Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King is dead.
A woman of grace and strength and courage and dignity is gone.
Equality. Human Rights. Non-violence. Peace.
She worked hard to keep these ideas out front and center [...]
BBC News Aug 18
Rolling in more troops for prison security, taking in more prisoners, building yet another prison camp.
As the insurgency continues, there are now nearly 11,000 prisoners in major US-run detention centres - twice as many as last September. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said last month he would like to give Iraq’s government [...]
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