Of the people, By the People, For the People

After the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin was asked what type of government we have. He replied, "A republic, if you can keep it ... keeping government honest and hence our freedoms intact requires eternal vigilance."

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." - Thomas Jefferson Reliable Media Sources: Democracy Now CommonDreams Washington Report CounterPunch . . . more . . . Democracy Sounds Like: Right to Protest Conscience Shopping Eat Right, live well Boycott Don't excess, live minimally Recommended reading: Roots of Mid-East Terror Attack on Yugoslavia Killing Hope Who Really Pays Taxes Manufacturing Consent Feudalism (read online) Slaughterhouse Deterring Democracy Diet for a Small Planet Colombia (read online) When Corporations Rule Civil Disobedience (online) . . . more . . . Documentaries: Life and Debt (IMF loans) Plain Sight (SOA) Downwind (DU) Fog of War Witness (Animal Treatment) The Panama Deception Bowling for Columbine Coverup - Iran-Contra pickAxe (logging) Recommended Hollywood: Three Kings Bulworth Wag the Dog In the Name of the Father Dr. Strangelove Salvador . . . more . . .

Forks Over Knives 5 must see Documentaries 2007 Financial Inside Job Best Documentary Oscar Plastic Planet Food, Inc. Gas Land May 2, 2007 Solution or Scam? Big Business wants to end fossil fuels?: "Ethanol is one thing that both Republican and Democratic candidates agree on this campaign season...." Even though, "a switch to ethanol won't do anything to address climate change and ethanol fumes may actually be worse for public health than the fumes from gas-powered vehicles." Nov 21, 2006 Dissent or Terrorism?: "An antiterrorist database used by the Defense Department ... included intelligence tips about antiwar planning meetings held at churches" May 27, 2005 Democracy Agenda?: Most U.S. arms sales go to dictatorships, still, agenda hasn't changed May 22, 2004 Corporate Tyranny: Court rules against small farmers rights to farm near giant April 15, 2004 TAX DAY: If you make over $25 million a year, then its just like any another day Feb 10, 2004 Bush Report says, "Sending jobs overseas helps U.S." Feb 9, 2004 When corporations rule food patents: pay a CEO royalties to grow food? Jan 12, 2004 Republican Ideology: small government, fiscal conservativism? Why do Republicans worship Eastern Blue-Blood Robber-Barons like the Bush dynasty? Apr 10, 2003 U.S. Regime Change in Iraq, again! Last time, we put Saddam Hussein Apr 2, 2003 Reagan deja-vu: Bush creates wars, then a war on the veteran's benefits Nov 6, 2002 Global Empire? "Anti-terror" laws eroding rights world wide. Nov 5, 2002 Voting Booths and Slot Machines: Who put the mafia in charge of U.S. elections? Oct 26, 2002 NPR, Nationalist Pentagon Radio? Hundreds of thousands protest on Oct 26, but NPR misrepresents facts? Oct 11, 2002 "All the News thats Fit to Print"? War in Iraq, and wagging the people July 16, 2002 John Walker Lindh, what is he guilty of? Jan 15, 2002 The Martin Luther King legacy our schools erased from history Dec 25, 2001 Christmas without Jesus? The new religion: Materialism; and war Sept 4, 2001 World ready for war: weapons all over the planet, Made in the USA June 12, 2001 Bush tries to tour Europe, but can't escape anti-America protests May 3, 2001 Growing resentment towards U.S. failed human rights record; loses seat on U.N. panel April 9, 2001 Tim McVeigh and "Collateral Damage": Product of America Nov 7, 2000 Election Day: What happened to politics in America? Aug 18, 2000 Consitutional Rights, or Police State: Protestors mistreated, organizers treated like terrorists, FBI lists... Dec 15, 1999 A Republic, Not an Empire: Pat Buchanan on Clinton Administration's foreign policy Profits at what cost? Repression of Democracy, Scortched Earth Capitalism.... DOMESTIC COST Middle Class incomes are always dropping Slavery, Prison Industrial Complex Social inequality, increasing income gap Taxes favoring the rich, Enormous income gap Policy and Congress controlled by the elite 200,000 Veteran payments cut by Reagan in 1982 Civil rights vanishing, Nazi style "Homeland Security" Increase crime and drugs, while the rich get richer 11 million children in poverty, 4 million seniors in the U.S. Decreasing quality of life for most Americans 1 out of 5 Americans without health insurance CORPORATE POWER Global Report: Corporations bigger than Nations Theft of the people: Corporate welfare More theft: The National Debt Corporate agenda journalism Corporate wasted Military spending BP Drilling in Alaska, to send oil to Europe Increase dependence of fossile fuel Reagan kills Carter's Renewable Energy Policy Powerful influence over government WTO and "free trade", World Bank and IMF, and NAFTA: Organizations run in secret by the elite for their profit New World Order: the new world gives the orders? Syria (1949), Korea (1951), Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954), Congo (1961), Vietnam (1960s), Iraq (1963), Brazil (1964), Dominican Republic (1965), Indonesian killings (1965-6), Greece (1967), Cambodia (1969), Chile (1973), East Timor (1975), Argentina (1976), El Salvador, Lebanon, Iran-Contra (1980s), Grenada (1983), Libya (1986), Panama (1989), Iraq (1991), Somolia (1992), Yugoslavia (1998), Venezuela (2002), Colombia Complete record of U.S. action ENVIRONMENTAL COST 90% of all U.S. forests gone 25% of the world's coral reefs Amazon forests almost vanished African people and land destroyed by oil companies and the World Bank Subsidies to grotesque corporate farms Unhealthy Profit-driven Corporate farming Barbaric Animal treatment Product Animal testing