Torture Inquiry Weighed for 6 Bush OfficialsBut 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."
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Environmental Failure: A Case for a New Green Politics Today’s politics will never deliver environmental sustainability. Environmentalists must join with those seeking to reform politics and strengthen democracy...progressive politics are too enfeebled and Washington is increasingly in the hands of powerful corporate interests and concentrations of great wealth. The best hope for real change in America is a fusion of those concerned about environment, social justice, and strong democracy into one powerful progressive force.
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
Every human being deserves a say in the decisions that affect his or her life and should not be subject to the will of another. Therefore, we will work to increase public participation at every level of government and to ensure that our public representatives are fully accountable to the people who elect them. We will also work to create new types of political organizations which expand the process of participatory democracy by directly including citizens in the decision-making process.
Clean Elections, Changing the Face of America
More competition, a more diverse candidate pool, more time spent with regular voters, freedom from conflicts of interest—these are among the accomplishments of Arizona and Maine’s revolutionary Clean Elections laws...
"We're loyal to America, and we won't stand by while our country, our troops, and our economy are destroyed by a war that's bankrupting us to the tune of $3 trillion," McEllrath said Thursday. "It's time to stand up, and we're doing our part today."
"The courageous decision you made to carry out a strike (today) to protest the war and occupation of Iraq advances our struggle against occupation (and) to bring a better future for us and for the rest of the world as well," according to an e-mailed statement by the General Union of Port Workers in Iraq.
We are a people in clinical depression. Americans know that the ideals that once set our nation apart from the world have been vandalized,
and no matter which party they belong to, they do not see a restoration anytime soon.
In part by their apathy, in part by their passivity, and in part actively, these same masses of people make possible the catastrophes under which they themselves suffer more than anyone else. To stress this guilt on the part of the masses of people, to hold them solely responsible, means to take them seriously.
~ Wilhelm Reich
Anyone who is waiting for the United States to just up and reform itself without agitation from third parties like the Green Party is caught in a delusion that THEY out there will change the world for the better. No, it is only we, as citizen activists, who can begin the move toward change.
Dave McCorquodale, 2005
When the news media unquestionably tolerate this increasingly converging and commonly financed Republican and Democratic duopoly, all of these anti-competitive, dreary, fat-cat-indentured political traditions become more entrenched.
Ralph Nader, Break Down Barriers to Minority Parties
"This abandonment of our faith in government to help meet the challenges we face -- social, economic, and international -- has been costly. We have shut off our critical faculties that under normal circumstances would lead us to be deeply angered by much of what's going on. Despite the events of September 11, 2001, we are less prepared for a national disaster now than we were a few years ago. Our citizens are dying in an underfunded war launched on false pretenses, and our actions have helped to unleash powerful forces that are both lethal and destabilizing. A majority of our representatives are addicted to tax cuts with no regard for their future impact. Short-sighted vested interests are at the table, constructing self-enriching energy policies instead of incentives to conserve; polluters are editing the science out of environmental protection acts."
Jared Berstein, All Together Now, May, 2006
"Without a strong, trusted, non-political voice, too many of us remain Bush-blinded."
"Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will [America's] heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit."
John Quincy Adams, July 4, 1821
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The cover story of the latest issue of Green Pages details how the Florida Greens are working with other anti-nuclear activists to prevent the licensing of three new reactors. With a pro-nuclear President in the White House, it’s critical that Greens work with activists around the country to defeat the idea that the answer to climate change is additional nuclear reactors.
In From Hopenhagen to Nopenhagen Brian Tokar of the Institute for Social Ecology states “After the 2007 climate summit in Bali, Indonesia, the Bush administration tried to initiate an alternate track of negotiations on climate policy that involved only a select handful of the more compliant countries … Now that the Obama administration has adopted essentially the same approach …”
Also included are articles on the upcoming mid-term elections and obituaries for Bob Long and Dennis Brutus. As always; read, comment, distribute.
With radiating waves, a skull and crossbones and a running person, a new ionizing radiation warning symbol is being introduced to supplement the traditional international symbol for radiation, the three cornered trefoil.
The new symbol is being launched today by the IAEA and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to help reduce needless deaths and serious injuries from accidental exposure to large radioactive sources. It will serve as a supplementary warning to the trefoil, which has no intuitive meaning and little recognition beyond those educated in its significance.
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