Hiroshima Story |
by Tom Engelhardt (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 06 Aug 2004
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Today, while the Bush administration promotes a new generation of nuclear "bunker-busters" as the best means to fight future anti-proliferation wars, such once uniquely world-threatening weapons have had to join a jostling queue of world-ending possibilities in the dreams of our planet's young. Still, for people of a certain age like me, Hiroshima is where it all began. So on this August 6th, I would like to try, once again, to lay out the pieces of a nuclear story that none of us, it seems, can yet quite tell. |
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News :: Children : Civil & Human Rights : Elections & Legislation : Health |
NEW REPORT SHOWS SAFETY NET PROGRAMS HAVE POWERFUL IMPACT ON U.S. BABIES' HEALTH |
by Children's Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 06 Aug 2004
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Study highlights urgent need for funding and improvements of public assistance programs |
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Where's the Promised Accountability for U.S. Abuse of Prisoners in Iraq? |
by Reed Brody (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 06 Aug 2004
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If there is no real accountability for the widespread abuses against detainees, all the protestations of disgust and condemnation by President Bush and others will be meaningless. For the next decade, the perpetrators of atrocities around the world will point to Abu Ghraib as a justification or an excuse. |
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BTL:Venezuela's Poor Marjority Faces Enormous Social Justice Stakes with... |
by Between the Lines' Scott Harris betweenthelines (nospam) snet.net (verified) |
Current rating: 0 06 Aug 2004
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...Presidential Recall Referendum of Hugo Chavez Country's vast oil wealth could be directed away from support for education, housing, health care ~ Interview with Roy Brown, Puerto Rican new song artist and political activist, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris |
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BTL:Antiwar, Peace Messages Censored at Democratic National Convention... |
by Between the Lines' Scott Harris betweenthelines (nospam) snet.net (verified) |
Current rating: 0 06 Aug 2004
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...CodePink's Medea Benjamin Ejected for Banner ~ Interview with Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Global Exchange and Code Pink Women for Peace, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris |
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News :: International Relations |
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 8/6/04 LISTEN GLOBALLY! |
by Dan Roberts outfarpress (nospam) saber.net (verified) |
Current rating: 0 05 Aug 2004
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A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Spain, China, Russia, and Cuba. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Crime & Police : Gender and Sexuality : Health : Right Wing |
Lawsuit Says Women Were Misled to Delay Abortions |
by Shaila K. Dewan (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 05 Aug 2004
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Anti-abortion scam artist on trial for false advertising, fraud and trademark infringement; tactic designed to deny women a choice |
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