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The Taint of the Union 2006 |
by Coalition on Human Needs
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31 Jan 2006
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The Favored Few Gain
at the Expense of the Forgotten Fourth
The President's State of the Union address - the House vote on cuts to health care and other services for low-income people - a Senate vote on cutting taxes, yet again, for the wealthy few. It's going to be a busy week. To help, the Coalition on Human Needs has prepared a guide: |
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Are All Unemployed Persons Idlers? |
by Attac Germany
mbatko (nospam) lycos.com (verified) |
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30 Jan 2006
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According to the neoliberal myth, higher profits lead to increased investments and more jobs. In reality, corporations repress the worsening domestic economy through foreign takeovers. Are the unemployed, seniors, students and the disabled invisible? |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Gender and Sexuality : International Relations : Iran : Regime : Right Wing |
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'Bigotry Conquers All,' Gay Rights Groups Say of U.S. Vote at UN |
by Abid Aslam
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30 Jan 2006
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''It is astonishing that the Bush administration would align itself with Sudan, China, Iran, and Zimbabwe in a coalition of the homophobic..."
Added Matt Foreman, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's executive director: ''It is deeply disturbing that the self-proclaimed leader of the free world will ally with bigots at the drop of a hat to advance the right wing's anti-gay agenda.'' |
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Domestic Lying: The Question That Journalists Don't Ask Bush |
by Norman Solomon
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29 Jan 2006
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Bush lied about basic civil liberties in the United States. Instead of relying on euphemisms, the news media should directly confront him with the question: "Why would you lie?" |
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News :: International Relations |
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Dean at Indiana University poses direct challenge to Bush anti-terror policy. |
by Vincent McKeon
vmckn (nospam) hotmail.com (verified) |
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29 Jan 2006
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Professor Robert W. White, Dean, School of Liberal Arts, University of Indiana, by giving material support to a New York support-group for the Continuity Irish Republican Army is posing a direct challenge to the Bush anti-terror policy |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Labor : Regime |
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US Army Forces 50, 000 Soldiers Into Extended Duty |
by via Reuters
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29 Jan 2006
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Hey, I didn't sign up for this!
``When you sign up for the military, you're saying, 'I'll give you, say, six years and then after six years I get my life back.' And they're saying, 'No, really, we can extend you indefinitely.'''
Feel a draft? |
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Announcement :: Miscellaneous |
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a scrap in her feelingscape |
by sg
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29 Jan 2006
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 Tattered and Torn
Bruised and Broken
With her marrow bleeding out...
she looks at the burnt offerings of her feelingscape
...and finds
a shard
a sliver
Scrapes her Being into the scrap
and chooses...
to Live
to Hope...
... to love.
This is pretty much the state of lesbians in India.
I need to raise 25,000 USD pretty fast. Am hoping to raise this money by selling prints of the painting and the poem for 50 USD a copy.
Please write to me at my mail ID and we can exchange addresses for the same.
Email:
phoenixashes28 (at) yahoo.com |
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News :: Economy |
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The revolution is begun ! |
by Ignazio Alborè
ignazioalbore (nospam) libero.it (unverified) |
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29 Jan 2006
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“ The new and definitive road of the economic and social competition “
Is born the first great ideology of the millenium!
Is born the anticompetitivist ideology of the "full effective and obligatory employment (of all the families) for law", of the successive and innovative historical phase regarding the Socialism |
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