How We Were Manipulated into the Iraq War

How We Were Manipulated into the Iraq War

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I hope that you’ve heard about the study from The Center for Public Integrity in which they collected 935 false statements by eight top administration officials in the period before the March 18, 2003 invasion of Iraq. We have the searchable database now. Provable, documented lies that can’t disappear or be denied. Iraq: The War Card – Orchestrated Deception on the Path to War argues that following 9/11, President Bush and seven top officials of his administration waged a carefully…

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Calling Armchair Activists for Progressive Actions

Calling Armchair Activists for Progressive Actions

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Here are some more actions that you can take online. Pick a couple, or do them all! Sign up for the newsletter at FactCheck.org. Sign up for The Progress Report from the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Watch the video (or read the transcript) of Abu Ghraib whistleblower Samuel Provance speaking out on torture and cover-up, and then write a letter to your local newspaper. Watch the Wage Peace: The Cost of War video at the American Friends Service…

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Once again, it’s time for “JWs in the News”

Once again, it’s time for “JWs in the News”

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Some recent media items on Jehovah’s Witnesses: Surviving a JW Sadist Alloma Gilbert has published an article – an excerpt from her upcoming book Deliver Me From Evil (March 2008) – on how she survived being starved, beaten and tortured by her Jehovah’s Witness foster mother Eunice Spry (see also the post Sadistic Foster Mom a Devout Jehovah’s Witness). Ten years later, in court, I would hold one of the sticks she routinely used to thrust down our throats and…

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A Day for Gustave Flaubert

A Day for Gustave Flaubert

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I’m in a mood for Flaubert. I love the way he searched endlessly for le mot juste (the exact – uniquely correct – word, the most precisely accurate language). Sometimes he found the words that evoked and carried more truth than any fact could possibly do. Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue. For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and language is a cracked…

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An Answer to the Pseudo-Christians

An Answer to the Pseudo-Christians

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I was listening to some old comedy by the late Bill Hicks last night, and one thing he said had me on the floor laughing. He was approached by some big, hulky guys after an engagement. “Hey buddy. We’re Christians, and we didn’t like what you said.” His response? So forgive me. Keep this in mind. I have engraved it inside, and will call it out at every opportunity from now on. It will be a default, standard response to…

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Protecting Our Common Dreams

Protecting Our Common Dreams

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These are just a few of the stories I got in one email from Common Dreams. Here’s the newswire, but email subscription is recommended. “If we do not act we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Can you imagine a trillion? How about the almost 9 trillion of our national debt? How could…

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