Pols fail to comprehend breadth of infrastructure crisis

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Road, bridge and other important public-works infrastructure continue to age and deteriorate as Congress dithers elsewhere. Only disasters move our representatives to act — and in an election year, even those actions seem spotty at best and disingenuous at worst. The United States has much more than failing bridges to find, fund and [...]

A celebration that ignores the plight of Palestine

It was interesting to me to hear BBC radio descibe this event as the 60th anniversary of “Israel’s Independence.”
Doesn’t that infer that Israel had been ruled by another country (i.e. India’s Independence from British rule) rather that being a country created by taking over another people’s (Palestinians’ home (i.e. European’s establishing America by taking over [...]

Awkward …Woman in Obama ‘08 Shirt Meets Hillary Unexpectedly

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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., greets Obama supporter Doris Smith during a campaign stop at Tudor’s Biscuit World in Charleston, W. Va. Monday, May 12, 2008. ‘Oh, I didn’t want to do this,’ Smith said, embarrassed, who was wearing the Obama T-shirt as Clinton walked into the restaurant. ‘I didn’t [...]

Taking a Stand Against War

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The Chicago City Council is debating a resolution urging the Illinois congressional delegation to oppose a war with Iran. Scott Ritter, who has been called as an expert witness on the matter, explains why the resolution should be supported—and not just by the citizens of Chicago.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights Turns 60

In December 2008, the world will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Elders (Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Ela Bhatt, Gro Brundtland, Jimmy Carter, Lakhdar Brahimi, Fernando H Cardoso, Kofi Annan, Graca Machel, Mary Robinson, Muhammad Yunus, Aung San Suu Kyi) have launched [...]

I wanted to report on where the silence was

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Texas-born Dahr Jamail was outraged that the US media were swallowing the Bush administration’s line on Iraq and so, with just $2,000 and no previous journalistic experience, he set off to find out what was really happening in the country. He talks to Stephen Moss

DNC Chair Caught in Global Crossing Scandal

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When Enron filed for bankruptcy, the largest in our nation’s history, Clinton crony Terry McAuliffe was among the first to cast his verbal stones. The DNC Chairman criticized greedy Enron executives for hurting the “small people,” calling for a full investigation. He lashed out at the wealthy special interests. He questioned the [...]

CBS: America’s infrastructure is crumbling

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Unless more funding and effort are put into saving the nation’s infrastructure, it will continue to crumble, say experts. An estimated $1.5 trillion over the next five years could be needed to avoid large-scale disaster.

The Last Roundup

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“The technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny,” Church pointed out in 1975. “And there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately [...]

Battle of the War Hawks

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In the increasingly unlikely event of a McCain-Clinton election, folks who care about the peace issue would have serious reason to worry. Both of these candidates are inveterate hawks, and what we would be up against is a choice between the neoconservatives and the neoliberals as to who could be more adventurous in [...]