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THE ECONOMY STUPID!
February 29, 2004 By Ted Lang Posted Although the Bush administration has made itself unbelievably
vulnerable via the exposed falsehoods and/or bumbling intelligence and
foreign policy disasters, the faltering economy will be the death knell of
this president and his forked-tongued advisors.
Not since the economic upheaval typified by the Hoover presidency has
an economic downturn been so significant during an election year.
And this “it’s-the-economy-stupid!” environment far surpasses
the “gray science” ramifications attributable to Bush I. thepeoplesvoice.org US and France target Haiti’s elected
president for removal February 28, 2004 By
Keith Jones The United States and France are demanding the political head of
Haiti’s elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. At a special three-hour
session of the United Nations Security Council Thursday evening, US, French and
Canadian diplomats brushed aside a plea from Jamaica’s foreign minister, on
behalf of the 15-member association of Caribbean states (CARICOM), for the
deployment of a multinational security force to prevent the overthrow of
Aristide’s government by fascist gunmen. wsws.org
Slamming Entitlement
February 26, 2004 By:
Norma Sherry
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt must be turning in his grave. Entitlement programs,
hogwash. Medicare, phooey. Medicaid, who the hell cares? After-school
programs, let them take care of themselves. Social Security, let ‘em eat cake.
The New Deal is a dead deal, who cares about the little weasels? Hidden defense costs add up to double
trouble February 26, 2004 By David R.
Francis To measure actual spending by the United States on defense, take the
federal budget number for the Pentagon and double it. That's the "rule of
thumb" advocated by economic historian Robert Higgs. Early this month,
President Bush requested $401.7 billion for the Department of Defense (DoD) for
fiscal 2005. So doubling that would make total defense/security spending close
to $800 billion out of a total federal budget of $2.4 trillion. In his budget
message, Mr. Bush repeatedly notes the "war on terror" in referring to
defense, though most of those outlays have little to do with that. csmonitor.com Bush education secretary calls teachers union a “terrorist organization” February 25, 2004 By Patrick Martin The top education official in the Bush administration said he regarded the largest US teachers union as a “terrorist organization,” in remarks to a delegation of state governors visiting the White House Monday. Secretary of Education Roderick Paige made the comment in the course of a discussion on the implementation of the No Child Left Behind law, which the Bush administration is using to undermine public education and promote private schools. wsws.org Amnesty barred from Guantanamo trials February 25, 2004 Ewen MacAskill Amnesty International and two other leading human rights organisations are protesting to the Pentagon about its decision not to let them attend the planned trials of al-Qaida suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. guardian.co.uk Crops 'widely contaminated' by genetically modified DNA February 25, 2004 NewScientist.com US scientists are warning of a potentially "serious risk to human health" after the discovery that traditional varieties of major American food crops are widely contaminated by DNA sequences from GM crops. Crops engineered to produce industrial chemicals and drugs - so-called "pharm" crops - could already be poisoning ostensibly GM-free crops grown for food, warns the study by the Washington-based Union for Concerned Scientists, released on Monday. newscientist.com Cartoon steps into the real world February 25, 2004 By Giles Wilson BBC Can a mere cartoon strip change the world? Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau is putting his money where his characters' mouths are and may well find out. He is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who will verify Mr Bush's account of his military service in Alabama in the early 70s. bbc.co.uk Halliburton, VP Cheney’s Former Company Faces Second Criminal Probe In Four Years February 25, 2004 By Jason Leopold Halliburton and its former chief executive, Vice President Dick Cheney, could become President Bush’s Achilles heel come the November presidential election. scoop.co.nz Washington utilizes rightist terror to effect “regime change” in Haiti February 25, 2004 By a reporter The Bush administration is utilizing an armed rebellion by fascistic thugs in the north and center of Haiti to effect a longstanding goal of regime change in the impoverished Caribbean nation. wsws.org EU suspends US poultry imports after Texas bird flu outbreak February 25, 2004 The European Commission on Tuesday suspended EU imports of poultry and eggs from the United States after an outbreak of highly-contagious bird flu in Texas. eubusiness.com Women workers face super-exploitation by global corporations February 25, 2004 By Barry Mason An Oxfam report, Trading Away Our Rights: Women working in global supply chains, highlights the plight of women working in garment and food production supplying goods to major Western retail companies. wsws.org Afghan kids 'killed' for organs February 25, 2004 KABUL The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) is currently investigating some 85 kidnapping cases in which the children have allegedly been killed for their body parts. paktribune.com It’s the Stupid Bush Economy! WHO’S WATCHING THE STORE? February 24, 2004 By Ted Lang The Bush administration wrongfully manipulated US into a war with Iraq, the primary beneficiary being the only nation in the Middle East that has weapons of mass destruction; namely, Israel. And now we have an illegal alien amnesty plan in the works for Mexico’s benefit. And of course the latter amnesty plan will also benefit large corporate agricultural combines that can heavily line the Bush crime family’s pockets with “campaign” cash. Is anyone in Washington working on a plan to benefit Americans whose taxes are supporting all these schemes? thepeoplesvoice.org The Coming Implosion of the American Empire January 24, 2004 by Gary North President Bush used to talk tough. Rumsfeld talked about a war lasting for decades. But the Bush Administration will not last for decades. It may not last another twelve months. This is why all the tough talk has ended. The war that matters here is politics, and Iraq has become a political liability. We see and hear little from Rumsfeld these days. Rove appears to have put a gag on him. The neo-cons are finished. They said the Iraq war would be a cakewalk. It wasn't. They said we had to establish a presence in the Middle East. We couldn't. The Republican Party, once Bush leaves office, will not listen to them again. They will publish their subsidized magazines and pretend that the public is listening, but the public has had enough. The neo-cons are visibly losers. lewrockwell.com WHO ‘suppressed’ scientific study into depleted uranium cancer fears in Iraq January 24, 2004 By Rob Edwards An expert report warning that the long-term health of Iraq’s civilian population would be endangered by British and US depleted uranium (DU) weapons has been kept secret. The study by three leading radiation scientists cautioned that children and adults could contract cancer after breathing in dust containing DU, which is radioactive and chemically toxic. sundayherald.com HAITI: How Washington set the stage for uprising January 24, 2004 Lee Sustar The media have a standard story line to explain the uprising in Haiti — one-time populist leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide has become a corrupt authoritarian who is relying on armed gangs to crush a popular uprising. In reality, the anti-Aristide opposition that is behind the uprising shaking Haiti today is a Washington-connected collection of Haitian businessmen and a scattering of former leftists. greenleft.org America is complicit in illegal wall... January 24, 2004 By Jeff Halper WHEN THE International Court of Justice at The Hague meets on Monday about Israel's "security fence" in the West Bank, it should find that the wall constitutes a violation of both fundamental human rights and international law. boston.com Stop the Apartheid Wall at The Hague! criticised by the International Committee of the Red Cross - is widely seen as further land grabbing by the Israeli government indymedia.org To Greet G.O.P., Protests of Varying Volume January 24, 2004 By MICHAEL SLACKMAN When the Republican National Convention comes to town, the Rev. Peter Laarman hopes to greet it with a quiet, reserved defiance. What he does not want to do is take to the streets with huge protests. But Mr. Laarman may find his tempered voice drowned out in what may well be a tense and angry time on the streets of Manhattan. Though the Police Department and many protest organizers have been reluctant to predict how many people will ultimately turn out for protests, estimates have ranged from 500,000 people to a million. nytimes.com A Republican's Case Against George W. Bush January 24, 2004 By Paul Findley The speech was given at the public hearing on Capitol Hill, January 27, organized by the Council for the National Interest. During my long life, America has surmounted many severe challenges. As a teenager, I experienced the great depression. In World War II, I saw war close-up as a Navy Seabee. As a country newspaper editor, I watched the Korean War from afar. As a Member of Congress, I agonized through the Vietnam War from start to finish. During these challenges I never for a moment worried about America’s ultimate survival with its great principles and ideals still intact. Today, for the first time, I worry deeply about America’s future. We are in a deep hole. I believe President George W. Bush’s decision to initiate war in Iraq will be the greatest and most costly blunder in American history. He has set America on the wrong course. aljazeerah Disenchanted Bush Voters Consider Crossing Over January 24, 2004 By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL BEACHWOOD, Ohio — In the 2000 presidential election, Bill Flanagan a semiretired newspaper worker, happily voted for George W. Bush. But now, shaking his head, he vows, "Never again." "The combination of lies and boys coming home in body bags is just too awful," Mr. Flanagan said, drinking coffee and reading newspapers at the local mall. "I could vote for Kerry. I could vote for any Democrat...nytimes.com Some Democrats don't just dislike Bush; they're angry February 23, 2004 By NANCY BENAC (AP) In Arizona, Judy Donovan says she feels desperate for a new president. In Tennessee, Robert Wilson says he finds the president revolting. In Washington state, Maria Yurasek says she'd vote for a dog if it could beat President Bush. "I've never seen anything like it," says Ted Jelen, a political science professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. "There are people who just really, really hate this person." billingsgazette.com "Bush couldn't debate a Cuban ninth-grader" February 23, 2004 Fidel Castro Shortly after US president George W. Bush praised a plan to realize a "transition to democracy" in Cuba, Fidel Castro wondered whether those plans involve a plot to kill him. Since he took power in Cuba in 1959, the CIA has plotted to assassinate him 600 times. Then, Making fun of George W. Bush mistakes, Castro said Bush couldn't debate a Cuban ninth-grader." english.pravda.ru HISTORIC SUPREME COURT DECISION LOOMING February 23, 2004 By Henry Adams February 23, 2004 On Friday, Feb. 20, the Supreme Court agreed to make a ruling that will lead to the most important pronouncements in more than 50 years on the war powers of the executive in our system of government ufppc.org America as a One-Party State February 23, 2004 Today's hard right seeks total dominion. It's packing the courts and rigging the rules. The target is not the Democrats but democracy itself. prospect.org DuPont's troubled chemical February 23, 2004 Staff reporters C-8 is widespread in the environment. How did it get there, and should we be worried? It is in the flesh of dolphins and cormorants off the Italian coast. It is in 5 percent of the bread, green beans and ground beef sampled in supermarkets in southern states. It is in the blood of up to 96 percent of people in the United States. delawareonline.com US Preparing for Military Draft in Spring 2005 February 23, 2004 by Adam Stutz February 23, 2004 The current agenda of the US federal government is to reinstate the draft in order to staff up for a protracted war on "terrorism." Pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills S 89 and HR 163) would time the program so the draft could begin at early as Spring 2005 -- conveniently just after the 2004 presidential election! vancouver.indymedia.org Timing of bus bomb ‘Very suspect’ February 23, 2004 IDF has picture and video of bomber ready for the press. A suicide bomber blew himself up on a crowded Jerusalem bus Sunday morning, killing seven people and wounding more than 60 in an attack Israeli officials said proved the need for its disputed security barrier. libertyforum.org Asian banks dump dollar February 23, 2004 Faisal Islam Asian central banks financed half of the US current account and fiscal deficits last year. But diversifying reserves away from US dollar assets, which are low yielding and becoming more risky, has become compelling over the past year. Lehmans says its research is 'tentative' but consistent with the strength in the euro, and hints that the US dollar has further to fall. observer.guardian.co.uk Gay Marriage? Blame It On Jefferson... February 22, 2004 by: Thom Hartmann "It's never been tried before." "The Bible doesn't mention it." "Civilized people have never done things this way." "No society in the 6000 years of the history of civilization since Gilgamesh has suggested such a thing." "It'll create social chaos, ultimately destroying the nation." "It's just too radical an idea for people to accept." thepeoplesvoice.org Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us February 22, 2004 Mark Townsend and Paul Harris Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters. A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. guardian.co.uk Toxic tests on humans can be justified February 22, 2004 The Associated Press Study for EPA lists under what conditions Dosing volunteers with toxic pesticides and pollutants for scientific purposes is justified. msnbc.msn.com 'They were kicking us, laughing. It was a great pleasure for them' February 22, 2004 Rory McCarthy It was dawn when the squad of British soldiers raided the Ibn Al Haitham hotel. Baha Mousa's night shift on the reception desk was coming to an end and his father had just arrived to drive him home. The soldiers ordered Baha, 26, to lie on the black tiled floor of the lobby with six other hotel employees, their hands on their heads. Troops searched the building and arrested the staff, driving them off to a British military base in Basra, southern Iraq. It was only a formality and the men would be released shortly, they said. Four days later Baha was dead. guardian.co.uk Report says military distorts war deaths February 22, 2004 By Bryan Bender By refusing to make public its estimates of civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has undercut international support for the US campaigns in those countries and has made the postwar stabilization of the two societies more difficult, according to an independent report to be released today that accuses the Pentagon of appearing indifferent to the civilian cost of war. boston.com Bin Laden 'surrounded' February 22, 2004 A BRITISH Sunday newspaper is claiming Osama bin Laden has been found and is surrounded by US special forces in an area of land bordering north-west Pakistan and Afghanistan. sundaytelegraph.news 'Mr Ferrer can't be with us tonight' February 22, 2004 James Verini reports Artists from all over the world are being refused entry to the US on security grounds. In the spring of 2003, the celebrated Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi was travelling to South America from Hong Kong. His flight path took him through New York's John F Kennedy airport. There, Panahi, a winner of the Golden Bear award at the Venice film festival was detained by officials; because his fingerprints were not on file, he was handcuffed and held in custody for several hours. He was so incensed at his treatment that he vowed never to return to the US. guardian.co.uk Bush Sr. Could Profit From War February 22, 2004 by Geoffrey Gray Larry Klayman likes suing the United States government. Klayman and Judicial Watch are pawing in disbelief through President George W. Bush's past business connections with the Saudi-based Bin Laden family. The firm is demanding that GWB's father, the original President Bush, immediately resign from his post as a paid senior adviser to the Carlyle Group, a private Washington equity firm that according to The New York Times has essentially become the nation's 11th largest defense contractor. villagevoice.com
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