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Hustling the Troops: Capitalism Is What They Are Dying -- and Paying -- For; Going Off to War, and Vulnerable to the Pitches of Salesmen |
by Diana B. Henriques
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19 Jul 2004
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Fraudulent and illegal insurance sales practices are endemic in military communuties. The Pentagon looks the other way, despite decades of evidence that its nearly unregulated system allows military retirees to exploit young troops under the guise of authority. |
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Halfway to Nowhere |
by Sam Smith
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19 Jul 2004
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Whatever your own views, in such circumstances one should hardly be surprised if a noticeable minority feels both the ruling parties have failed and deceived us and seeks refuge in a clear alternative. To excoriate the dissenters for their mere existence is further evidence of the political psychosis that has gripped us. |
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Condemning a racist law |
by haaretz via gehrig
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19 Jul 2004
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Haaretz masthead editoral condemns extension of "emergency" laws forbidding non-Jews into marrying into Israeli citizenship via the process of family unification. They correctly identify the law as racist. |
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Vice President of Guatemala Eduardo Stein meets with U.S. officials this week to discuss Military Funding |
by Amy Martin
amymartin (nospam) wisc.edu (unverified) |
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19 Jul 2004
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Vice President Stein to discuss lifting ban on U.S. military aid to Guatemala even though the Guatemalan government has not fulfilled the 1996 Peace Accords. U.S. corporate interests closely tied to deal. |
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The Ghost of Vice President Wallace Warns: "It Can Happen Here" |
by Thom Hartmann
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19 Jul 2004
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" The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination..." |
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Hey, Illinois, It’s 2004: Do You Know Where Your 21 Electoral Votes Are and How They Got There? |
by Mark Drolette
drolette (nospam) comcast.net (unverified) |
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18 Jul 2004
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If America can put men on the moon, surely it can devise a presidential election system easier to understand than the theory of relativity or even Dubya’s “answers” at his last press conference. It’s time to close the old Electoral College and start a new institution: winner by direct majority vote. |
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News :: Children : Civil & Human Rights : Elections & Legislation : Health : International Relations : Regime : Right Wing |
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Bush Extends Jihad Against UNFPA |
by Jim Lobe
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18 Jul 2004
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''This is simply pandering to the right-wing mullahs of this country'', said New York Representative Carolyn Maloney, a veteran champion of UNFPA who earlier this year proposed that Bush earmark all UNFPA funds for its programs to help women with obstetric fistula, a particularly debilitating condition caused by untreated obstructed labor that affects million of women in poor countries.
''The world's neediest women and children are again paying the price for the president's re-election campaign to play to his far-right base,'' Maloney told the tele-conference. |
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