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Article by John on June 30th, 2008 at 8:52 am Image via Wikipedia Over at OpEd News in an article titled What’s the Matter in Madison?, the author makes the comparison of the Christian Right being to the Republicans what Progressives are to the Democrats: …essential to an election victory, easily rallied and a dependable source of funds, but not to be considered seriously in any policy decisions. As Evangelicals are mocked by Wall Street, so [...]
Article by missy on October 29th, 2007 at 11:42 am Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaking on CNN on Iran’s nuclear program, yesterday: … [W]e are not talking about Iran having today a nuclear weapon. We are trying to make sure that the future intention of Iran is peaceful, and that’s really what we are talking about. Risk assessment of possible future intention by Iran, if they have the technology to develop [...]
Article by John on September 3rd, 2007 at 8:53 am Politicians these days can’t get enough of fear mongering about Iran. We can’t let them develop nuclear weapons. They are interfering in Iraq. The soldiers in their military are terrorists. They want to annihilate Israel. Democrats and Republicans alike seem to think the right approach is to demonize and threaten the Iranians. Chris Hedges over at Truthdig imagines what will happen [...]
Article by John on June 12th, 2007 at 1:21 pm Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Below the fold is info on the Seattle premier of the movie On June 14 with SPECIAL GUEST MICHAEL MOORE TO ATTEND. And here is a sample song called these days from the punk group Sicko (not connected with the movie). [Audio clip: view full post to listen] var wordpress_toolbar_urls = ["http:\/\/www.sicko.com\/"];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “oinw”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL3d3dy5kZW1vY3JhY3lmb3J2YW5jb3V2ZXIub3JnL2hlYWx0aGNhcmUvc2lja28vPHdwdGI%2BU2lja288d3B0Yj5odHRwOi8vd3d3LmRlbW9jcmFjeWZvcnZhbmNvdXZlci5vcmc8d3B0Yj5EZW1vY3JhY3kgZm9yIFZhbmNvdXZlcg%3D%3D”; swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube.com/v/8BJyyyRYbSk&color1=0×5D1719&color2=0xCD311B&border=1&rel=1&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-650-youtube-1″, “370″, “299″, “9″, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, [...]
Article by John on May 8th, 2007 at 11:21 am Just received this email from Bill Richardson. His de-authorization is not the same as Hillary’s de-authorization as MyDD points out here. Congress has the power to end this war. They authorized the invasion of Iraq under the War Powers Act and they can now de-authorize it and bring the troops home. De-authorization can’t be vetoed. The President won’t listen to the American people, and he won’t [...]
Article by John on April 27th, 2007 at 11:52 am Hope you all missed most of the debate like I did (way too scripted and boring). It wasn’t worth watching except for one person. And that person is Mike Gravel. Timothy V. Gatto over at OpEd News wrote: The surprise and the best I’ve saved for last. Out of the blue comes Former Alaskan senator Mike Gravel, who besides adding a little comic [...]
Article by John on April 7th, 2007 at 10:31 pm Putting the Iran Crisis in Context by Noam Chomsky Unsurprisingly, George W. Bush’s announcement of a “surge” in Iraq came despite the firm opposition to any such move of Americans and the even stronger opposition of the (thoroughly irrelevant) Iraqis. It was accompanied by ominous official leaks and statements — from Washington and Baghdad — about how Iranian intervention in Iraq was aimed at disrupting our mission [...]
Article by Rich on January 23rd, 2007 at 7:47 pm Andrew from The Northwest Progressive Institute’s blog has an excellent blow-by-blow commentary of the State of the Union speech: The 2007 SOTU has just kicked off…..here we go. Observations and updates will be posted regularly below throughout the speech. I: Bush kicked off this year’s address by congratulating Nancy Pelosi on her ascension to the position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives….and then proceeding to [...] | |
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