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National, State and Local Levels: Cost of Iraq War Rises for Taxpayers |
by National Priorities Project
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22 Feb 2006
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So far, the war has cost Urbana $30.9 million and Champaign $67.6 million. Interesting how the entire cost of the proposal to issue bonds to rebuild Champaigns School's infrastructure is almost exactly what the war has cost that community already. |
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America and Iran: At the Brink of the Abyss |
by Jorge Hirsch
mbatko (nospam) lycos.com (verified) |
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22 Feb 2006
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Attacking Iran with nuclear weapons, no matter how small, is evil.. Once the American public becomes fully aware that military action will include nuclear weapons, public support will quickly disappear. A great catastrophe will have been averted. |
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The Iranian Oil Bourse |
by F. William Engdahl
mbatko (nospam) lycos.com (verified) |
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22 Feb 2006
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The denomination of oil sales is a pure transaction affair..In the present situation, the oil bourse represents a symbolic manifestation of Iran's desire to be less dependent on a US-dominated dollar-world. |
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An Open Letter to my Danish Friends |
by Stephen Zunes
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22 Feb 2006
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The United States provides six times more military aid to the Middle East than it does economic aid, and arms sales are America's number one commercial export to the region, strengthening militarization and weakening financial support for human needs. Furthermore, while threatening war at the mere possibility of Iran developing nuclear weapons, the United States maintains close strategic ties to Israel, Pakistan, and India despite their already-existing nuclear arsenals. In addition, the United States has categorically rejected calls by Iran and virtually every Arab state for the establishment of a nuclear weapons-free zone in the region and the U.S. Navy has brought its own tactical nuclear weapons into Middle Eastern waters since the late 1950s. In a part of the world which has been repeatedly conquered by outside powers over the centuries, the growing U.S. military presence has created an increasing amount of resentment. It is no accident that a region so heavily militarized would give rise to militant religious extremism. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights |
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Washingtons bigges’t enemy is “the truth” |
by Jim Zender
info (nospam) classicollectibles.com (unverified) |
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21 Feb 2006
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Hidden inside american english is another
language also called english. Now it is also
called plain english but known as hard truth
and it is tricky for some to understand. |
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Slow Food |
by Peter Bové
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21 Feb 2006
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As Americans we champion freedom. Especially freedom of choice on everything from favorite snack to favorite presidential nominee—often times confused. Doesn’t indirect manipulation through policy count when it denies this freedom? Does this sound like free choice? Or is it a slight of hand? Take the current state of affairs touted by the WTO, “agribusiness”. Agribusiness uses genetic modification, hormones, fertilizers and pesticides to force ever-increasing yields from the land in vast monoculture farms. Such farms possibly cause health and environmental problems, and certainly result in the excess of a bland crop. This excess is then dumped onto the foreign markets where it undercuts the price of local produce, not to mention bankrupting the local farmer, proving that genetic modification is not the answer to the problem of world hunger. In fact, one would be hard pressed to believe that the problems of hunger and underdevelopment can be solved by technological means; economic, social and political conditions must be taken into account |
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News :: Government Secrecy : International Relations : Nukes : Regime |
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U.S. Reclassifies Many Documents in Secret Review |
by Scott Shane
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20 Feb 2006
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On a visist to the National Archives in the summer of 2005, I was told by a military archivist that records were being pulled by the Air Force. This was apparently part of this same program. No wonder he was so tight-lipped about it, but I also detected a certain air of disgust about what was occuring. I'm certainly disgusted, as well as astonished at the waste of money involved.
- anonymous historian |
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