"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
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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
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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."
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Nov 21, 2006 |
Dissent or Terrorism?:
"An
antiterrorist database used by the Defense Department ... included intelligence tips about antiwar planning meetings held at churches"
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May 27, 2005 |
Democracy Agenda?: Most
U.S. arms sales go to dictatorships,
still, agenda hasn't changed |
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May 22, 2004 |
Corporate Tyranny:
Court rules against small farmers rights to farm near giant
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April 15, 2004 |
TAX DAY: If you make over $25 million a year,
then its just like any another day
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Feb 10, 2004 |
Bush Report says, "Sending jobs overseas helps U.S."
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Feb 9, 2004 |
When corporations rule food patents:
pay a CEO royalties to grow food?
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Jan 12, 2004 |
Republican Ideology: small government, fiscal conservativism?
Why do Republicans worship
Eastern Blue-Blood Robber-Barons like the Bush dynasty?
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Apr 10, 2003 |
U.S. Regime Change in Iraq, again! Last time,
we put Saddam Hussein
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Apr 2, 2003 |
Reagan deja-vu: Bush creates wars, then a
war on the veteran's benefits
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Nov 6, 2002 |
Global Empire? "Anti-terror" laws
eroding rights world wide.
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Nov 5, 2002 |
Voting Booths and Slot Machines:
Who put the mafia in charge of U.S. elections?
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Oct 26, 2002 |
NPR, Nationalist Pentagon Radio? Hundreds of thousands protest on Oct 26,
but NPR misrepresents facts?
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Oct 11, 2002 |
"All the News thats Fit to Print"?
War in Iraq, and wagging the people
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July 16, 2002 |
John Walker Lindh,
what is he guilty of?
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Jan 15, 2002 |
The Martin Luther King legacy
our schools erased from history
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Dec 25, 2001 |
Christmas without Jesus? The new religion:
Materialism; and war
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Sept 4, 2001 |
World ready for war: weapons all over the planet,
Made in the USA
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June 12, 2001 |
Bush tries to tour Europe, but
can't escape anti-America protests
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May 3, 2001 |
Growing resentment towards U.S. failed human rights record;
loses seat on U.N. panel
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April 9, 2001 |
Tim McVeigh and "Collateral Damage":
Product of America
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Nov 7, 2000 |
Election Day:
What happened to politics in America?
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Aug 18, 2000 |
Consitutional Rights, or Police State:
Protestors mistreated, organizers
treated like terrorists, FBI lists...
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Dec 15, 1999 |
A Republic, Not an Empire:
Pat Buchanan on
Clinton Administration's foreign policy
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Profits at what cost?
Repression of Democracy, Scortched Earth Capitalism....
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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
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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
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