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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Crime & Police : Government Secrecy : Health : Prisons : Regime |
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High Cost of Prisons Not Paying Off, Report Finds |
by Jenifer Warren
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08 Jun 2006
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The U.S. spends more than any other nation -- $60 billion a year -- to house inmates, but sees little good as a result, a bipartisan panel says. |
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Citizens 1, Corporations 0 |
by John Nichols
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08 Jun 2006
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"Every person has the right to sign petition recalls and to contribute money to political campaigns. Measure T will not affect these individual rights," explained Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, a resident of Eureka who was one of the leaders of the Yes on T campaign. "But individuals hold these political rights by virtue of their status as humans in a democracy and, simply put, a corporation is not a person." |
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Review :: Media |
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The Art of Propaganda |
by Darth Korth
mbatko (nospam) lycos.com (verified) |
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08 Jun 2006
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The genre of entertainment films about war and the military is described as mili-tainment Presenting war and the military as entertainment means ignoring intellectual analysis to highlight emotional war stories. |
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News :: Elections & Legislation |
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Brasil: Lula is tense with new revelations |
by Jorge SerrĂŁo
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08 Jun 2006
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Brasil: Lula is tense with new revelations against his friend Pablo Okamotto in the IPC of the Bingos, and classifies of "gossip" the notitia-criminis of the OAB (Attorney's Organization Brasil). |
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Announcement :: Iraq |
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A GLOBAL CALL FOR NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE ACTIONS ON AUGUST 6-9 -- NOW MORE THAN EVER! |
by Danny Malec
dm (nospam) globalcalliraq.org (unverified) |
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07 Jun 2006
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This year, as we prepare to commemorate the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6 and 9), it is imperative that the global peace movement show the links between that genocide and the slaughter of innocent civilians carried out by the U.S. military in its "conventional" war in Haditha, Fallujah and throughout Iraq. |
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Flag Burning and Other Dubious Epidemics |
by Molly Ivins
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07 Jun 2006
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Gay marriage, now there’s a crisis. Well, OK, so there isn’t much gay marriage going on here in Texas. None, in fact. First, we made it illegal. Then, we made it unconstitutional. But President Bush is all concerned about it, so I guess we have to alter the U.S. Constitution.
Also of great concern to Republicans is God Almighty, who, rather to my surprise, has been elected chairman of the Texas Republican Party. That’s what they announced at the biannual convention in Fort Worth this week: “He is the chairman of the party.” Sheesh, the Democrats couldn’t even get Superman. |
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News :: Children : Civil & Human Rights : Crime & Police : Government Secrecy : International Relations : Iraq : Regime |
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'U.S. Military Hides Many More Hadithas' |
by Aaron Glantz and Alaa Hassan
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07 Jun 2006
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"There are many, many, many cases like Haditha that are still undercover and need to be highlighted in Iraq," Dr. Salam Ishmael, projects manager with the organisation Doctors for Iraq, and former chief of the junior doctors in Baghdad's Medical City Hospital told IPS.
"In one of these attacks, the U.S. soldiers used live ammunition inside the hospital. They handcuffed all the doctors and destroyed the entire contents of the medical storage. It ended with the killing of one of the patients in his bed." |
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LOCAL News :: Civil & Human Rights : Elections & Legislation : Media : Political-Economy : Regime : Urban Development |
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SAVE PUBLIC ACCESS TV ACTION ALERT |
by via email
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07 Jun 2006
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THIS WEEK TELL YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES TO VOTE "NO TO COPE!"
ON THURSDAY, JUNE 7TH CONGRESS WILL VOTE ON "THE COPE ACT" -- IF PASSED
"COPE" WILL END PUBLIC ACCESS TV AS WE KNOW IT! |
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