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Hijacking Catastrophe

Hijacking Catastrophe

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Look for the new film Hijacking Catastrophe. Look for local screenings, or go ahead and buy the dvd or vhs (I did). Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party used the trauma of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a pre-existing agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling back civil liberties and social programs at home. The documentary places the Bush administration’s false justifications for war…

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Take them out, dude

Take them out, dude

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Take them out, dude: pilots toast hit on Iraqi ‘civilians’ Watch this 30-second clip that shows the pilot targeting a group of people in a street in the city of Fallujah and asking his mission controllers whether he should "take them out". He is told to do so and, shortly afterwards, the footage shows a huge explosion where the people were. At no point during the exchange between the pilot and controllers does anyone ask whether the Iraqis are armed…

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Oppose the Outsourcing of Torture

Oppose the Outsourcing of Torture

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URGENT – Oppose the Outsourcing of Torture, Call your Representative Please call the Capitol switchboard (202-224-3121) as soon as possible to speak with your Member of the House of Representatives. The “9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act” H.R. 10, will be voted on today in the House of Representatives. It includes several problematic provisions that undermine fundamental human rights, civil liberties, due process rights for immigrants and asylum seekers and protection against torture, and are contrary to recommendations by the 9/11 Commission….

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Cheney Whoppers

Cheney Whoppers

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Life Patrol by Kevin Drum at The Washington Monthly Drum presents some of the "flat-out fibs" presented by Cheney in front of a national audience during the VP debate: "The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight." Cheney has met Edwards at least three times: at a prayer breakfast in 2001, at Elizabeth Dole’s swearing-in ceremony in 2003, and backstage at Meet the Press. "Your hometown newspaper has taken to calling you Senator…

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Not the Education Reforms we Needed

Not the Education Reforms we Needed

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Our children were better off before the No Child Left Behind Act, which Bush mandated then pulled back the funds to fully enact it. The idea, in my opinion, is to fully bankrupt all public services so that everything can be taken over by private corporations. Student Test Scores Faltering, Falling in Major States, New Government Data Reveal Children’s reading scores have stalled or declined in the nation’s largest states since Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act in…

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Cheney Blunder Lauded Anti-Bush Web Site

Cheney Blunder Lauded Anti-Bush Web Site

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Cheney Blunder Lauded Anti-Bush Web Site Here’s the story on the factcheck.com site, the site Cheney took for factcheck.org. The .com site was redirected to an an anti-Bush site by anti-Bush billionaire investor George Soros. Soros didn’t do it – the owners of factcheck.com redirected the site so they wouldn’t get millions of hits. The factcheck.com link doesn’t redirect anymore, but you can visit George Soros at GeorgeSoros.com.