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Torture Inquiry Weighed for 6 Bush Officials
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
The Obama honeymoon was over before it ever started. Holding the Bush Administration to account must be a priority from the moment he steps into the Oval office or he risks losing the credibility he needs to be the global leader and visionary we need him so desperately to be. So, what do we do with George W. Bush?
In one generation America has been transformed from a democracy into a strange new form of government, Disaster Capitalism.
Fascist America, In 10 Easy Steps
...the true function is to keep citizens docile and inhibit their activism and dissent.
"Have you been in any peace marches? We ban a lot of people from flying because of that."
TV: The Reason & Discourse Killer
Supreme Court calls Bush war criminal
because...
Open Letters to Barack Obama from his ardent admirer, Belacqua Jones ... My only concern is that you appear too sane for the job...But I knew, in my heart of hearts, that you were a card-carrying member of the Corporatist Party, the one true party that has transcended the petty partisan divisions that serve only to hamper the efficiency that is only possible in a one-party country...Do yourself a favor and surround yourself with psychopathic advisors. They will teach you the madness you need to lead. Embrace men totally devoid of morality who view decency as a character defect.
Iraq Today: Bring 'em on
'We the People' Must Save Our Constitution, by Al Gore, Jan. 16, 2006
The President of the United States has been breaking the law repeatedly and persistently.
Well, I think the record is quite clear. War crimes have been committed., Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld combined to sponsor the memos by John Yoo and Jay Bybee and others to sanction torture. CIA officials have committed war crimes. DOD officials have committed war crimes. If you look at the three decisions of the Supreme Court -- Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Rasul v. Bush -- clearly laws have been broken, serious laws have been broken.
The fake American empire was the Achilles heel of the real one-party state, Jonathan Schell
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Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
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Relief now that Copenhagen flopped? Don’t count on it
Green Mouth, Green Money
Energy Agency: financial crisis an unprecedented opportunity
The International Energy Agency has come out with its World Energy Outlook for 2009, finding that the financial crisis has caused an unusual drop in both energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. It's also caused a big drop in the development of fossil fuel sources, which the IEA considers a rare opportunity to start limiting their use.
Counting the hidden ($120 billion) cost of US energy economy
The National Academies of Science, in response to a request from Congress, has attempted to account for the costs of our energy habits that don't show up on our utility bills. The report says that these externalized costs totaled $120 billion in 2005, and that's almost certainly a low estimate.
Fed Judge Grants Injunction Against Defunding ACORN
15 December, 2009
Big banks, pharmaceutical companies and private government contractors that have skirted the law are rewarded with bailouts, tax credits and billions of dollars in new contracts. Companies with multiple criminal convictions remain in favor, while Congress, without a shred of due process, joined in the scape-goating of an organization that helps average Americans going through hard times to get homes, pay their taxes and vote. And only this week, the former attorney general of Massachusetts released an independent report on ACORN, and complete transcripts showed that the infamous videotapes had been doctored and fully misrepresented the actions of the workers shown.
November 19, 2009
Letter to the Editor
The Green Party of Delaware wants to express its support for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which is one of the few that works effectively to represent low income Americans.
Because of its activities in registering citizens to vote, often comprised of African-American citizens who tend to vote for Democrats, Republicans have targeted ACORN.
President H. W. Bush’s administration convened a grand jury to investigate ACORN. In this decade, George W. Bush’s Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was forced to resign, in part, because he had fired several U.S. attorneys, who had found no basis for criminal investigations and had refused his demands to go after ACORN’s voter-registration efforts.
ACORN has played effective national roles in forcing banks to reform discriminatory lending and in sounding the alarm early over adjustable rate mortgages with low teaser rates and other subprime practices.
ACORN sued Household Finance Corp., winning a $150 million class action lawsuit, including $72 million for a foreclosure-avoidance program. After the IRS stated that five million qualified families failed to claim the Earned Income Tax Credit, ACORN developed an effective campaign to rectify that loss and to target predatory lending.
Voter registration, campaigns to save working class rental housing in Brooklyn, work for universal health care, actions to rebuild homes in New Orleans are other initiatives made by ACORN.
In response to the recent charges of misconduct by a few employees, ACORN swiftly convened an independent board to conduct an internal audit.
The Green Party of Delaware condemns the action of Democratic Senators Carper and Kaufman and of Republican Congressman Castle in voting to cut off funding for housing and community grants to ACORN because of the misconduct of a few employees.
Meanwhile these same representatives have voted to supply billions to large banks to save them from their risky misconduct, in many cases while those banks are engaged in predatory and irresponsible actions that ACORN had warned about and worked against.
John Cannon, Secretary, Newark
David McCorquodale, Treasurer, Wilmington
Coordinating Council, Green Party of Delaware
Wall Street firms and executives have been uniquely generous to both parties, emerging as one of the largest benefactors of the Democrats.
Angry populism lurks just beneath the surface of two-party politics in America. Just listen to Sarah Palin or her counterparts on American talk radio and yell television. Over the long term, the political stakes in reforming Wall Street are as high as the economic.
Recent public opinion polling that shows the Tea Party Movement is more popular than both the Democratic and Republican Parties, proves that voters are disgusted with both parties. They view both parties as little more than enablers of the corporate elite.
...with a sweep of right-wing demagogues, the ability to transform the economy in the way that FDR did was [and will be] squandered. Wall Street will go about its ways.
Green Economy Not Strategic
The deeper reason he had to be cut loose was that Obama would have had to tell the truth to protect him: yes, Van Jones is for economic justice; he is for conservation and alternative energy; he’s for prison reform; he’s for a re-structured economy based in sustainability, not exploitation and profit; he’s for a serious investigation of 9/11; he believes that ‘clean coal’ is absurd, etc. Obama could not protect him, because to do so he would have had to endorse Van Jones’ beliefs. He was not about to do that.
...an unnecessary and unwise surrender by an Obama administration there is neither ready nor willing to fight "those who spin lies for profit"
Caving in to these unfounded charges means, in other words, giving up hope of making real change on the issues that matter: health care, climate change, economic restructuring--the very things that the majority of Americans elected Barack Obama to do.
Gas could be the calvary in global warming fight
Out went coal, in comes gas. "The environmental component of coal is where we see instability." The recent spurt in gas discoveries may only be the start of a golden age for gas drillers, one that creates wealth that rivals the so-called Gusher Age of the early 20th century. "The question now is how does this change the energy discussion in the U.S. and by how much? This is domestic energy ... it's low carbon, it's low cost and it's abundant. When you add it up, it's revolutionary."
We're increasingly disappointed and alarmed by the current administration's stance on accountability for torture, said Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU’s National Security Project, during a conference call with reporters. On every front, the [Obama] administration is actively obstructing accountability. This administration is shielding Bush administration officials from civil liability, criminal investigation and even public scrutiny for their role in authorizing torture.
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Memo Reveals US Plan to Provoke an Invasion of Iraq
Bush was willing to provoke Saddam Hussein into attacking Americans
David Swanson's Let's Try Democracy
[Although] greenhouse gas emissions come mainly from domestic consumption [in China and in the U.S]...
U.S. should pay for carbon content of imported goods
Reported by Doug Palmer, Fri Jul 17, 2009 1:05am EDT, Reuters
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It's important that those who consume the products being made all around the world to the benefit of America -- and it's our own consumption activity that's causing the emission of greenhouse gases, then quite frankly Americans need to pay for that, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.
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The case of Kristen and Joe Parente, Delaware residents who had always imagined that people turned to government for help only if "they didn’t want to work."
A Homespun Safety Net
By BARBARA EHRENREICH, July 11, 2009, NYT Op-Ed
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Kristen has discovered a radically different approach to dealing with poverty...So the recession tossed Kristen from routine poverty into destitution, and from there, willy-nilly, into a new life as a community organizer and a grass-roots leader.
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The state must spread the burden among all Delaware residents, instead of one group of generally underpaid workers and their families
Most state workers were already getting the short end of the paycheck
By J. Roy Cannon • June 24, 2009
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The Green Party of Delaware strongly opposes Democratic Gov. Jack Markell's proposal to balance the state budget by cutting salaries of state workers, while increasing the cost of their health insurance, resulting in a substantial pay cut.
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The War Party and its Faux-gressive Minions
by Cindy Sheehan
"What happened at TMI was a whole lot worse than what has been reported. Hundreds of times worse."
...radiation releases from the plant were hundreds if not thousands of times higher than the government and industry have acknowledged -- high enough to cause the acute health effects documented in people living near the plant but that have been dismissed by the industry and the government as impossible given official radiation dose estimates.
...stories suggest that area residents actually suffered exposure to levels of radiation high enough to cause acute effects
Trimmer stepped outside on her front porch to fetch her cat when she was hit with a blast of heat and rain. Soon after, her skin became red and itchy as if badly sunburned, a condition known as erythema. About three weeks later, her hair turned white and began falling out. Not long after, she reported, her left kidney "just dried up and disappeared" -- an occurrence so strange that her case was presented to a symposium of doctors at the nearby Hershey Medical Center. All of those symptoms are consistent with high-dose radiation exposure.
Affidavits from four reactor operators confirm that the plant manager was aware of a dramatic pressure spike after which the internal pressure dropped to outside pressure; he also noted that the control room shook and doors were blown off hinges.
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Environmental disaster in Tennessee
EPA Rethinking Coal Ash Regulation
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Half a billion tons in and near DE
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An estimated 2,340 lobbyists went to Capitol Hill last year to influence federal policy on climate change. Two of them were there to promote green building.
 Whose voice do you think is going to ring the loudest in the halls of Congress?
US Solar Market Had Record Growth in 2008 Despite Economy
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Obama Backs Bush On Bagram Detainees
Obama's Guantanamo
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U.S. Troop Buildup
The top U.S. commander in
Afghanistan, Gen. David D.
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I can easily imagine a scenario in which the
United States undermines its fragile recovery in
the same way that societies have undermined themselves
since the dawn of time — with endless warfare.
--- Bob Herbert, NYTimes, Mar. 3, 2009
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Congratulations to everyone who voted for the Green Party for sticking with your values and your beliefs.
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First All-Women-of-Color Presidential Ticket in US History: Green Party Nominee Cynthia McKinney and Running Mate Rosa Clemente on War, Democracy and Hip Hop
The Green Party made history when it nominated the first all-women-of-color presidential ticket in US history. Former Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who was the first African American woman elected to Congress in Georgia, won the Green Party’s nomination in 2008. She named longtime community organizer, journalist and former director of the Hip Hop Caucus, Rosa Clemente, as her running mate.
What kind of change are we really going to have? I wish we could assume a break from the special-interest orthodoxy that seems to have a grip on Washington, D.C. It is this special-interest orthodoxy that has led to war and occupation, civil liberties attacks, social injustice, unemployment, poor yet very costly education and healthcare.
So, we have a lot of work to do. The people of this country have a lot of work to do. The incoming Obama administration is going to have a lot of work to do.
Voters who were motivated by Barack Obama's message of change will now have to fight if they really want change to take place during the next four years. Rosa Clemente, our candidate for Vice President, talked about the Green Party's 'imperative' throughout the campaign. The Green Imperative will move forward during the Obama Administration, as people demand that change be more than a campaign slogan.
--- Jill Bussiere, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States
Truth Commission
President-elect Obama is going to have to decide whether he wants power without principle or whether he wants to start with a true change, to say that no matter where an investigation will take us, if there are crimes to be found, they will be prosecuted.
ACLU Asks Justice Department To Appoint Independent Prosecutor To Investigate Torture
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We face a code red emergency. At stake is the survival of human civilization.
FINANCIAL COUP D'ETAT
Well the bubble has burst and the markets are falling towards a new level. If we are going to shift our capital out of fraudulent bubbles and into enterprises that hold out the hope for real solutions in the real economy, then alternative energy is an investment area that is going to be very long lived. The opportunities for change are many and the technologies that need to be applied are also many.
The people in this country, the poor people especially and the people of color especially, have been as much victims of American power as people in other countries.
They don't understand the basic undemocratic nature of the American political system in which all power is concentrated within two parties which are not very far from one another and people cannot easily tell the difference.
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But lying to the American people? That's alright, according to the Democrat's values. Spying on innocent American people. That's alright, according to the Democratic values. Starting a war and killing innocent people? That's alright, according to the Democrat leaders values. And so instead of us getting accountable government, and instead of us even having an opposition party that acts like an opposition party, we've got complicity.
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Oil is defeating the Earth; oil money is now dominating the debate; oil lobbyists are now controlling the agenda. The debate is now about who supports how much drilling.
The defense of the planet has receded when the politics has become hard.
The debate is largely surrendered when the battle matters the most and the leader of the free world is being chosen.
Anyone can champion the Earth when it's easy, yet too many remain silent when it's hard.
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It’s Clear We are Obsessed with Warfare and Aggression
How we spend our money is a good indication of our values. Buying a flashy car or lots of bling-bling jewelry sends one kind of message. Investing in your kid’s education sends a different message. In this time of budget cutbacks, we should be reassessing our values.
When you look at where the United States spends its money, it’s clear we are obsessed with warfare and aggression. The United States alone spends as much on its military as the next 15 largest countries combined.
From 2003 to 2008, we spent over $800 billion on the "global war on terror." This year’s budget asks for nearly $100 billion more. This total is greater than Obama’s stimulus plan that some in Congress oppose as "too big." Where is the outrage over the military budget?
Gov. Jack Markell has announced a $750 million budget shortfall for Delaware. Yet this is a fraction of the $4 billion share of Delaware residents’ federal taxes to date used to pay for just the Iraq war.
That’s $5,000 per Delaware resident. We could have provided a lot of social services and jobs, which would have enhanced our quality of life more than occupying Iraq.
Couldn’t we find more productive ways to spend that money, creating jobs and wealth by making products someone actually wants to buy such as solar and wind technology?
Obama promises to send more troops to Afghanistan and to keep a large force of "peacekeepers" in Iraq for a long time. Are we going to pay to keep sending troops and unmanned drones to kill Afghan civilians, or are we going to provide health care and education for our citizens? It all comes down to values and priorities.
We are what we spend.
Steven Hegedus, Newark
letter to editor of the News Journal, 2009-04-11
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Meet the New Boss...
We have an African-American president, but let us also bear in mind that he is but a symbol, and our need and faith may not suffice for the symbol of change to deliver real change.
There is a tremendous schism between what Barack Obama is saying, and what he is doing. Already, he is gathering around him a group of people that are not only likely to maintain status quo, but worse, cause our current catastrophic situation to worsen.
...America collectively has fallen into a hypnotic trance, distracted by domestic economic problems and incapable, due to our collective ignorance of the world we live in, of deciphering the reality on the ground in the Middle East.
In fighting climate change, we must fight not only the oil companies, the airlines and the governments of the rich world; we must also fight ourselves.
Repudiate antisemitism. Reject bigotry against Arabs and Muslims. End the rigged trials. Close Guantanamo Bay. Redeem America.
Don't ignore brutal truth about Gitmo
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Today we find that the ball is back in our court. It's up to the People now to "flip the script" once again. A massive grassroots movement of the People must coalesce very quickly, which can move Chairman Conyers and the House Judiciary Committee to hold hearings on H.Res. 1258.
In violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of president George W. Bush...both personally and through his subordinates...illegally spent public dollars on a secret propaganda campaign to manufacture a false cause for war against Iraq.
The Department of Defense policy is clear — we treat all detainees humanely. The United States operates safe, humane and professional detention operations for unlawful enemy combatants at war with this country.
Capt. Carolyn Wood, who led the interrogators at Bagram, was sent to Abu Ghraib in the summer of 2003 and assumed control of interrogation operations there that August. Wood remains an active-duty military intelligence officer.
The surge was created to disguise what was really taking place on the ground; ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. No one disputes this. The Sunnis have been effectively purged from the capital. That's not a "political solution". It is a war crime.
America's fallen asleep. America's sleeping through a moment in history that's going to affect us forever. It's gonna be, we're the country who had our Senate investigate and found out we went to war under false pretenses and we didn't do anything. We said, "That's okay. We'll just let that go because we're distracted by oil prices and a new presidential election." So we don't have time to take care of our dirty business. But, man, you got to take care of your house. You can't let that go.
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Delaware to have offshore wind farm in 2012
Environmental benefits are nice, but expensive. Clean energy proponents are well-meaning, but naive and not very practical. If we want real energy we need to make a mess somewhere.
When offshore wind turbines can be erected twice as fast as offshore oil rigs
it's a clear sign that the energy economy is changing.
The conventional wisdom has been turned on its head, burning more fossil fuels doesn’t make economic or environmental sense for Delaware -- Tommywonk
Carper Nuclear Corporate Socialist
In the state which is the first to do something truly wonderful – approving the first offshore wind farm in the nation – it is dismaying to read that our own U.S. Senator Tom Carper is acting as a shill for the nuclear power industry.
His positive arguments for more nuclear power – protecting the environment from the effects of coal burning and growing the economy – could also be applied to building more renewable energy sources without the unanswered dangers of where and how to store nuclear waste for the long term.
Sen. Carper’s arguments for building more nuclear power plants conveniently ignore certain facts. Mining and concentration of nuclear fuel and the building of the power plants is extremely energy intensive, requiring burning much fossil fuel. In the event of an accident, the nuclear power industry is underwritten by the federal government (i.e., the U.S. taxpayers) since no insurance company will cover the nuclear industry.
Recent accidents have shaken the faith of the French in nuclear energy. The plants across the river, which will be up for renewal, do not sit on solid bedrock, but on the dredgings from the Delaware River. In the event of an earthquake, these plants could suffer significant damage.
It is sad to see Sen. Carper promoting the growth of an industry which never came close to its promised potential except to the shareholders who were guaranteed profits by our government. The nuclear power industry is an example of corporate socialism.
(letter to the editors of the News Journal, Aug. 4, 2008)
David McCorquodale, Green Party, Wilmington
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Good Night and Good Luck: The Entire Government Has Failed Us on Iraq
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We will be the change
Recently I attended Powershift 2009 in Washingon, with 12,000 other enthusiastic, young college people concerned about the environmental future of our nation.
Our future is in danger if we continue on our current path of destruction.
There were students from 50 states and representatives from other nations as well at this conference. The turnout, optimism and enthusiasm of my peers was empowering and motivational. I was allowed to see grassroots democracy at work.
I saw the power that ordinary citizens can have, as they protested, against the dirty energy coal plant that powers our own Capitol building in D.C.
Green, renewable energy needs to begin at the White House and in the Capitol.
Through Powershift and the Energy Action Coalition we were given the opportunity to meet with our elected officials on Capitol Hill to voice our opinions.
Although Sen. Tom Carper could not make his scheduled meeting due to the snow,
we met with Jennifer Kane, his legislative assistant. We left Sen. Carper with a green hard hat to remind him that we need to get to work immediately on our most important energy issues.
The energy crisis, climate change, and environmental degradation are the burdens our generation inherits from the mistakes and abuses of our elders.
We demand a change. We will be the change.
Rina Binder-Macleod, Newark
(letter to editors of the News Journal)
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9 out of 10 Delawareans agree...
Wind energy is positive change in perilous world
When I look at a windmill, I see a reason to have hope. I see a future where peace is possible. It is a source of energy that can allow our nation to cease using military force to control foreign oil resources.
Wind energy is clean. It will not damage our lungs, pollute our water or harm our children. Because it provides energy without burning fossil fuels, windmills will not increase atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Replacing coal power plants with windmills will move us from a perilous path toward global climate change.
In a world with limited natural resources but endless fear, violence, political unrest and social ills, it is not often that we are given an opportunity to make a positive change with so little asked in return. For the sake of our children and our children's children, Delaware must take advantage of this opportunity without delay.
I hope our state lawmakers can look beyond petty politics and give us a reason to hope.
Adira Riben, Wilmington
WORLD CONSTABLES, IRREGULAR WARFARE, THE EL SALVADOR MODEL
Bob Lutz, CEO of GM: Anybody who exhales is polluting like mad...
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 Tommywonk on Wind at the beach
TOXIC West Virginia: Quickly and efficiently, the oldest mountain range in the world is being systematically obliterated.
CORN ETHANOL HAVOC: Diversion of U.S. corn to ethanol creates enormous disruption in Mexico, increases domestic food price inflation, must be shipped by truck, rail.
This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. Lyndon B. Johnson
Out of Iraq and into Iran...there's more to the picture...
The Cost of Coal...
IGCC PR: The death throes of Big Fossil.
...The Pentagon is pursuing alternative fuels for the same reason it pioneered racial integration and developed the Internet - mission effectiveness is on the line.
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"I don't think it is impossible for us to make substantial gains in reducing global warming. We can't afford a defeatist attitude. We have to be forceful. If we throw up our hands and do nothing, we are accepting the worst-case scenario."
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MEET THE NEW BOSS...
Their Blood, Our Oil
On Sunday, September 15, Rep. Mike Castle, Sen. Tom Carper, and Sen. Joe Biden had Op-Eds in the News-Journal explaining their views on Iraq. All three made some mention about distributing oil revenue.
Why is that? Although the opponents of the Iraq invasion said in March 2003, "No Blood for Oil," retired chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan recently wrote, "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil."
Since March of 2003, President Bush, the UN, and pro-counsel Bremer pushed through executive orders and laws giving control of Iraq oil assets to American and British oil corporations. Those orders are only good through 2007.
For over a year, the U.S. has been pushing the Iraqi legislature to agree to an oil law, one which allows foreign oil companies, instead of the Iraqi people, to keep most of the revenue.
Hasan Jum'a Awwad, Head of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, has urged Congress "not to link withdrawal with the oil law." In an Open Letter, he wrote:
Everyone knows that the oil law does not serve the Iraqi people, and that it serves Bush, his supporters and the foreign companies at the expense of the Iraqi people who have been wronged and deprived of their right to their oil despite enduring all difficulties. The general public in Iraq is totally convinced that Bush wants to rush the promulgation of the oil law so as to be leaving Iraq with a victory of sorts, because his project is failing every day and the occupation is collapsing in all parts of Iraq.
Why do all of Delaware's Congress people continue to insist on an oil agreement, to which no faction in Iraq will assent?
There has has been too much blood for oil already.
Tell your representative to get the U.S. out of Iraq.
David McCorquodale, Treasurer, Green Party of Delaware
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It makes Vietnam look like a cakewalk.
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The Bush administration has magnified the problems in Iraq by neglecting diplomacy and by not developing an energy policy.
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Bush's pre-emption strategy was controversial even before Iraq and the war itself has been so badly mismanaged that even our allies doubt our competence.
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Iraq's civil war did not begin until after the U.S. intervention.
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I think the hangover from this war will be at least as bad as Vietnam and wouldn't be surprised by a growing movement toward retrenchment and isolationism.
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A car bomb exploded Saturday killing at least 58 and wounding scores close to some of the country's most sacred shrines...99 [is] the number of U.S. military who have died this month...
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War Protesters Gather Along Independence Mall
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Impeaching Bush (AlterNet/DN video)
Time For The Democrats To Put Up Or Shut Up
We still have a chance to see if there really is a difference between Democrats and Republicans. But the signs are already out there. John "impeach Bush" Conyers has been told to shut up. And he's obeyed. No more "impeachment talk" said Nancy "it's time for a change" Pelosi, and she's going to be the new Speaker of the House. All that talk of impeachment benefited the Democrats during the election campaign by making them appear to be anti-Bush, but now reality sets in and we're now being served up a milquetoast banquet. Eat it at your peril, America.
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"There are some who, uh, feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is: Bring 'em on. We got the force necessary to deal with the security situation."
- George W. Bush, July 2, 2003.
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Afghans 'may swing to Taliban'
The majority of Afghans will begin supporting Taliban militants unless conditions improve in the country in the next six months.
Popular war: Nothing has been more destructive to the true interest of this country than the mode adopted for its defense. -- Nathanael Greene to Colonel Alexander Hamilton, Camp on the Pedee River, South Carolina, 10 January 1781
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Washington shrugs off Guantanamo suicides as merely good PR
...have the results of their folly also taken on a life of their own, unstoppable by any political change in Washington or London?
"We learn more and more of the truth of what is happening in Iraq every day. We learn what is happening to America and our allies as a result of the voters of these United States electing the wrong men and women: unjustifiable wars, the undermining of vital social programs, willful neglect of the maintenance of the infrastructure of our nation, and dangerous 'ignorance' of climate change that could result in unprecedented disaster. This is the legacy of these leaders. Neither of the two largest political parties in this country is doing anything to make things the way they are supposed be."
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Iraq is disintegrating
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And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat
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"So why are you still here?"
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HELEN THOMAS: They didn't do anything to you, or to our country
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the war in Iraq is "not winnable. It's over"
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I no longer think that there is any hope for national reconciliation.
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Ethnic cleansing has started in Iraq
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We're sorry, but we won't change, and we'll do it again.
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In Initial Steps of Recovery Process, President Admits Powerlessness
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The linear thinking of evil: Obviously, the violence in Baghdad is still terrible, and therefore there needs to be more troops.
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All of Us Participate in a New Iraq
What can we do? Get together with a few friends and figure it out! If we were willing to put something on the line, if we were willing to stick out our own necks, things could change....Ray McGovern
Speaking of President Bush, the House member said, The most worrisome thing is that this guy has a messianic vision. Seymour M. Hersh:
THE IRAN PLANS
We built this big monster with Iraq, and there was nothing there. This is son of Iraq. We've got twenty-five hundred dead, people running all over the world doing stupid things, and officers outside the Beltway asking, 'What the hell is going on?'
"The issue is not whether the military option would be used but who approved the start of operations already."
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U.S. Invasion of Iraq
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The Public is Sour:
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The cynical Bush White House has always seen the "war on terror" as a political tool.
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Vacuous Media Ignores Peace Vigil
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Murtha Baffles White House: Are We Turning Sane?
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One of the worst failings of most major media in the United States has been the acceptance of the Bush-Cheney line that there is no easy or smart way out of the mess they got our troops into.
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Mining Rule Changed
In a sharp reversal of Bush
administration policies, the En-
vironmental Protection Agen-
cy said Tuesday that it planned
an aggressive review of permit
requests for mountaintop coal
mining, citing serious concerns
about potential harm to water
quality. Officials of the National
Mining Association, an industry
group, said the action amounted
to a moratorium on 200 pending
mining permits.
NYTimes, Mar. 25, 2009
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Education isn't the answer to inequality
The top 1% of the American income distribution has earned most of the gains of the post-1995 productivity growth revival. Invest Globally, Stagnate Locally: "When you have labor shares shrinking relative to capital shares, you tend to get a rise in economic nationalism, which is a democratic response to some of the effects of globalization."
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Younger people are significantly less likely to have jobs now than they did six years ago
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The goal of the YOYO movement is to accelerate shifting economic risks to individuals and their families.
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If education and training are not the building blocks to solid employment, what is?
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Immigration: The party in power, a subsidiary of the corporate elite, has no real interest in arresting the flow of cheap labor.
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Dissent, freedoms, privacy under sustained assault: 'Domestic Terrorism'
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Healthcare: A Call for Unity: For the Congress to pass law that takes away from citizens who have so little clearly reflects the cruel and cynical mindset of government, a soulless indifference of our political leaders.
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A-PeakOil-ypse Now
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A small chance of greenhouse gas emissions being kept below dangerous levels
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Global Warming
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RGGI REELS, REGION RALLIES
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Latest news on
RGGI
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Boycott ExxonMobil
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Greens urge stronger RGGI
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Grassroots GW,
Kyoto-style...We start to reduce CO2
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CHECK THAT: emissions of greenhouse gases hit record level
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The Internet allows us to see how news is made,
as though we were walking through a factory tour, and we can compare the very similar results of a mass production system. Turns out the news can be as fake as a department store Santa.
July 4 Weapons of Mass Distraction (Frank Rich)
mediamattters.org
Even when prominent Democrats and some Republicans draw troubling conclusions about Bush's megalomania, the major news media barely mentions the protests.
... Robert Fisk on our compliant MSM, Iraq, Middle East democracy
... When the actual goal is war, the PR task is to make a show of leaving no diplomatic stone unturned.
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Water Wars ...
the ideology of "development" is not delivering any solutions...
Bohai dying ...
DuPont Edge Moor Plant
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Our Waste
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Fear of a Trash Planet
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Our Air
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DE Buy Nothing Day...Free Speech, The Price of Consumerism
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Kids Have NDD
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2005 Green Party Annual Meeting
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 Local Green Blogs
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What they really mean is that we can't leave as long as the war can continue to be fought by other people's children, and as long as we can continue to put this George W. Bush-inspired madness on a credit card.
A major part of the protest against the war springs simply from the fact that we are losing it.
It is a putrid human, social and political disaster, and getting worse, not better.
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