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Is It Time for the Peace Movement to Start Protesting Senator Obama?

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:04:45 -0400

By Kevin B. Zeese
In the last two weeks Senator Obama has been sounding rather hawkish. Perhaps he believes he has the Democratic nomination wrapped up and now can start running to the center-right. The peace movement needs to let him know his positions are not acceptable.

Some peace advocates had already given up on Sen. Obama because of his record since he came to the U.S. Senate. His voting record on Iraq and foreign policy is very similar to Sen. Clinton. Obama did make a great speech before the war began, saying much the same thing that peace advocates were saying, but that seems to have been the peak of his peace advocacy. Indeed, Black Agenda Report described how Obama took his anti-war speech off his website once he began running for the senate. And since coming to the senate he has voted for Iraq funding, giving Bush hundreds of billions of dollars. Further, he is calling for nearly 100,000 more U.S. troops as well as keeping the military option on the table for Iran.

Prof. Warren Researches The Income Gap

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:48:00 -0400

This lecture should be a must for anyone who is public office.

Democrats Succeed Defeating Conservative Democrats

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:09:48 -0500

Sometimes too much of a good is not such good thing.
That is what occurs when democrats succeed at local level, specially when they eliminate any possibility of any one running in any other alternative ticket- read republican- to get elected (by any means). Like in the case of Westchester republicans who want to make a career in politics are giving up registering as republicans and registering in the democratic party as their ticket to get into elected office.
In some cases they are just switching party lines in the middle of their tenure.
The knowledge we are gathering is in the direction of tide has turned against republicans. Specially those who were in the Bush line for the past two elections and in Westchester are a bunch of that kind.

The Big Mortgage Give Away

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:56:33 -0500

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Taxes/CutYourTaxes/DebtReliefForRichAmericans.aspx?page=all

As you read the above article you might conclude that:
Bush and his friends are again giving away tax payers money to those who need it the least. This class warfare continues in favor of the super rich attacking most americans.
The weatlth transfer continues from the middle class to the rich, from those who cannot deduct $2 million in taxes to those who can.
Bush is not alone in this attack, this time he has chicken little democrats and radical republicans applauding this legislation, in unison helping him to give away $1.2 Billion to those who have mortgages up to $2 million.

America Getting Poorer

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:45:45 -0500

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Extra/ReportSaysAmericansGettingPoorer.aspx?page=all

In a new analysis of after-tax income, the United States ranks 15th among the world's richest countries. But wage comparisons for 'average workers' are tricky.

By Christian Science Monitor
"Comparisons are odious," that is, hateful, according to a popular phrase about seven centuries old. Comparison, however, is one of the tasks assigned to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international body of 30 of the richest countries. It tries to compare its members' economic and social data, a difficult, perhaps even odious, job.

Is Senator Hillary Clinton Ready to Privatize Social Security

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:33:15 -0400

When Wall Street money starts to flows in one direction, it is usually because there is a purpose. The indicator –money- usually follows the coffers of the candidate that uses a series of nuances that are not fully promises but strong enough signals to be a worth while investment.
In the present election cycle Wall Street money is following one direction, and it is the di-rection of Senator Clinton and Senator Schumer Senatorial Campaign.

Since Senator’s Clinton announcement of her bid for the presidency, I said that she will do what President Bush could not with Social Security, that is a parallel privatization of Social Security and create a mandated medical coverage even if the individual chooses no to have one.

Blackwater, Mercenaries and Democrats

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:12:27 -0400

One has to wonder and be in awe when a democratic proposal gets 389 votes and the support of the company that is targeted to regulate.

What is wrong with the picture, specially, when the law by Democratic congressman David Price is from the home estate of Blackwater.

The passed legislation is :

The MEJA Expansion and Enforcement Act (H.R. 2740)

When you read the fine print, and intrepet the consequences of the law, it boils down to: the mercenaries will be officially cuddle before prosecution, thus officially making mercenaries a tool for the pentagon.

The rules of this law are so complex to form a formal prosecution that it is a de facto formal authorization to use mercenaries in secret in security and paramilitary off the law operations.

Who voted for me?

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:42:35 -0400

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/39986/

In this video you can see legislators voting a few times for others. Can we do the same?

Congress: The most dangerous neighborhood in America

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:22:12 -0400

BY Ken Silverstein
PUBLISHED September 25, 2007
http://harpers.org/archive/2007/09/hbc-90001300
Roll up your windows and lock your doors.
A new FBI report shows a sharp rise in crime in the United States, with robberies up more than 7 percent and homicides up 2 percent. According to a story about the report in today’s Washington Post, violent crime overall rose 1.9 percent between 2005 and 2006.

Reading that, I remembered a link someone sent me with amusing statistics on corruption in Congress, and I wondered how the crime rate in Congress would compare to the crime rate in such famously troubled neighborhoods as Anacostia in Washington, D.C., and the South Bronx in New York City.

When Democrats Beat on Progressives

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:21:15 -0400

You will not find many places which republicans have lost control of local elections by such large marging that they do not even consider challengers as in Greenburgh.
But in Greenburgh is Democrats beating on Progressives and this is how it looks:

Dear Fellow Progressive Democrats:
This Tuesday's Greenburgh Democratic primary is important to those of us in the villages because it may have a significant impact on our town taxes if Suzanne Berger and her slate is elected.
On the tax issue, see the letter below signed by elected officials in all six villages. On other issues in the campaign, there are letters by Kevin Morgan, Sonja Brown and Polly Rothstein.

American Democracy Ceases to Move Forward

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:18:54 -0400

by Lewis H. Lapham

www.harpers.org/LewisLapham.html

Knowing the source of this piece makes it all the more disturbing. It is not every day that the editor of a respected national magazine publishes an essay claiming that America is not on the road to becoming, but ALREADY IS, a fascist state.... or words to that affect.

To help prepare you for what follows, here are the final sentence from this piece.... [I think we can look forward with confidence to character-building bankruptcies, picturesque bread riots, thrilling cavalcades of splendidly costumed motorcycle police.]

On message By Lewis H. Lapham Harper's Magazine, October 2005, pps. 7-9 "But I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, then Fascism and Communism, aided, unconsciously perhaps, by old-line Tory Republicanism, will grow in strength in our land." -Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 4, 1938

Congressional Testimony On Iraqi Mercenaries

Tue, 15 May 2007 21:47:04 -0400

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdk4dIXqs7s

Perjury and the Big, Bad Wolfowitz

Thu, 10 May 2007 02:28:49 -0400

Naked neo-cons: Perjury and the Big, Bad Wolfowitz
by Greg Palast
Wednesday, May 9, 2007

George Bush is trying to save Paul Wolfowitz' job as President of the World Bank even after the vulpine neo-con was caught slipping a load of World Bank loot to his love interest, Shaha Ali Riza.

Big deal. Yes, Wolfowitz shouldn't have been greasing his cookie sheet with government funds, but there are bigger reasons to toss The Wolf out the door.

Like, say, perjury and homicide? I haven't forgotten, Mr. Wolfowitz, that on March 27, 2003 you testified before the US Congress that the occupation of Iraq wouldn't cost the American taxpayer a penny.

Jeremy Scahill and Naomi Klein on Iraqi Mercenary War

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:01:08 -0400

http://www.nysec.org/uploads/mp3/Scahill-Klein-PrivatizationOfWar.mp3

10 Easy Steps

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:00:20 -0400

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2064157,00.html

Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all

Tuesday April 24, 2007
The Guardian

Last autumn, there was a military coup in Thailand. The leaders of the coup took a number of steps, rather systematically, as if they had a shopping list. In a sense, they did. Within a matter of days, democracy had been closed down: the coup leaders declared martial law, sent armed soldiers into residential areas, took over radio and TV stations, issued restrictions on the press, tightened some limits on travel, and took certain activists into custody.