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  • Everything Old is New Again...A Declaration of Conscience
    14 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Senator Margaret Chase Smith’s (R-Maine)A Declaration of Conscience
    June 1, 1950, Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine spoke on the Senate floor on behalf of the Declaration of Conscience. The declaration opposed McCarthyism. Smith’s speech is printed here.
    I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition. It is a national feeling of fear and frustration that could result in national suicide and the end of everything that we Americans hold dear. It is a (…)

  • Activists: A Peacemaker is Killed
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SAN QUENTIN (FinalCall.com) - “The State of California just killed an innocent man,” three supporters of Stanley “Tookie” Williams, who witnessed his execution, harmonically yelled with their fists in the air as they left San Quentin State Prison’s death chamber. This most unusual rally cry at the end of a state sponsored execution was echoed outside the prison where nearly 3,000 supporters gathered to protest Mr. Williams’ killing.
    “Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is a cold blooded (…)

  • Choking the Internet: How much longer will your favorite sites be on line?
    12 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Internet censorship. It did not happen overnight but slowly came to America’s shores from testing grounds in China and the Middle East.
    Progressive and investigative journalist web site administrators are beginning to talk to each other about it, e-mail users are beginning to understand why their e-mail is being disrupted by it, major search engines appear to be complying with it, and the low to equal signal-to-noise ratio of legitimate e-mail and spam appears to be perpetuated by it.
    In (…)

  • Bush on the Constitution: ’It’s just a goddamned piece of paper’
    12 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act.
    Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell shocked period immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr to oppose renewal.
    GOP leaders told Bush that (…)

  • ’60s Freedom Riders celebrated at LMU
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By R. W. Dellinger
    "The greatness of our nation was the persistent, steady struggle of people, many unnoticed and invisible, who laid the foundation by which we live today. And the struggle of the ’50s and ’60s was one of the great movements," declared Rev. James Lawson at a Nov. 11 luncheon hosted by Loyola Marymount University to honor civil rights activists.
    The pastor emeritus of Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles, a legendary figure in the civil rights movement, reported (…)

  • Sacred Terror: The Global Death Squad of George W. Bush
    10 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The much-belated, poll-prompted outcry of a few American elected officials against the widespread use of torture by the Bush Administration - following years of silent acquiescence in the face of incontrovertible evidence of deliberate atrocity - is a welcome development, of course. But it has left an even more sinister aspect of Bushist policy untouched, one that likewise has been hidden in plain sight for years.
    On September 17, 2001, George W. Bush signed an executive order authorizing (…)

  • There is a Name for this Government-Corporation we call "The US Administration"
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Sibel Edmonds v. Department of Justice saga continues as the year 2005 draws to a close. The only breaking news to come from the ongoing drama is the implication, published in Vanity Fair, that Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of US Representatives, was the recipient of campaign contributions and assorted bribes from the Turkish-American community. That another US politician is on the take comes as no surprise. But more on that later. Sibel’s story may have quietly died from the (…)

  • Keepers at the Gate
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Article found at www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
    He Who Controls Television Controls the Masses
    In this age of modernity and technology, where the television monitor has become the center of the average American household, from cradle to grave acting as surrogate parent, teacher, role model and as influencer of human thought, it should come as no surprise that entire populations can be controlled with such facility and efficiency, turning once thinking humans into grazing sheeple. (…)

  • The Fight to Save Stanley Tookie Williams
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by DAVE ZIRIN
    "Years ago, I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth.... While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." —Eugene V. Debs
    These words of the fabled social activist also define the life of NFL hall of famer and actor Jim Brown. He has mediated truces between the toughest gangs in Los Angeles and (…)

  • Hollywood leads campaign for death row reprieve
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
    Hollywood actors, musicians, church leaders and death penalty opponents staged protests and vigils across the US on behalf of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips street gang who faces execution in less than two weeks unless the California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, can be persuaded to grant him clemency.
    The outpouring of support for "International Save Tookie Day" yesterday underlined the controversy surrounding Williams’s death sentence (…)