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A Degree in Citizenship by Catherine Crier A Mature Democracy by Susan Sontag The Assault on Reason by Al Gore Letter from a U.S. citizen by Brian Bloom Afghanistan: We didn't have to do this by Stephanie Salter Patriotism Is Nonpartisan Challenging a Mistaken War Can Take More Courage than Fighting One by George McGovern American Democracy in Trouble by Al Gore First, Do No Harm (Nation building vs. globalization) A Cry for Freedom in the U.S. Senate Remarks by U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, March 10, 2005 Nuking Democracy by Paul Loeb It's Not Your Father's America Any More by Hubert G. Locke Savage America This Isn't The Real America by Jimmy Carter Why It's Over For America by Noam Chomsky We are all socialists now by David Horton God's Own Party by Kevin Phillips (excellent!) A Culture of Corruption "65 lobbyists for every member of Congress" by Bill Moyers If Conservatism Is The Ideology of Freedom, I’m The Queen of England by David Michael Green Republicans on Bush's Policies (outragedmoderates.org) Things Republicans Believe The Frauds of the Clergy the alliance between Church and State by Thom Hartmann Iraq War Facts, Results & Statistics, March 31, 2011 4,444 US Soldiers Killed, 32,051 Seriously Wounded Lie by Lie: The Mother Jones Iraq War Timeline (8/1/90 - 2/14/08) Put on the Spot, Our Punk President Lies Yet Again by Walter C. Uhler, 12.21.2006 FRONTLINE: THE DARK SIDE ("After 9/11, Vice President Richard Cheney seized the initiative.") Dick Cheney's Last Throes Conniving, Greedy, Lying, and Deceitful by Duncan E. Beaton ("a registered Republican since the early 1950s") Bush’s NSA Hubris Matthew Rothschild Weapons of mass deception by Ruth Rosen Did Our Leaders Lie to Us? Do We Even Care? Will Truth Rise Again? by Danny Schechter When Facts Collide With Beliefs . . . Dark Ages America and Post War Presidents U.S. Propaganda Machine Beating Democracy Drum Bush Rewrites History To Criticize His Anti-war Critics Curveball the Goofball by Maureen Dowd Experts on Iraq: A D.C. Truth Squad Emerges Iraq War Coverage Reminds Me of Vietnam Orwell is Alive and Well in the Bush Administration Panel: Agencies 'Dead Wrong' on Iraq WMDs (NPR audio - the report) WMD Commission Continues the Stonewall for Bush by David Corn New light on Bush's war plans By July '02, U.S. set on invasion, British intelligence reported (May 13, 2005) Stop the Crime of the Century Whitewashing the Protection of Terrorists on US Soil Asterisks Dot White House's Iraq Argument When is a Crime so Great it Shouldn't be Acknowledged? by Robert Shetterly Revelations from an Insider: Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on the Bush Administration, Civil Disobedience and the Eternal Fires of Hell Al Gore On the Limits of Executive Power Transcript: Monday, 16 January 2006 Not the People's Choice ("Bush lost the popular vote") and Good Foreign Policy a Casualty of War by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The Silent Scream of Numbers The 2004 election was stolen — will someone please tell the media? by Robert C. Koehler Don't Give Bush Imperial Presidency by Helen Thomas Bush outspent Gore 4-1 during Florida recount George W. in the Garden of Gethsemane by Michael Moore Bush's rocky career as a Texas businessman by Mike Allen The know-nothing defense... ("is a public statement of incompetence") by David Lazarus "The Worst President in History?" Why the Question Mark? Under the Cold Eye of History Al Gore 3.0 Rolling Stone "I'm not sure which planet they live on" by Gen. Anthony Zinni, Speech American Debacle by Zbigniew Brzezinski Top 10 Reasons Not to "Do" Iraq by Ivan Eland, Cato Institute War Will Not End Terrorism by Tamim Ansary A Real War on Terrorism by Robert Wright Bush's evidence of threat disputed by Robert Collier At Navy school in Monterey, voices of skepticism about Iraq war by Robert Collier Following Iraq's bioweapons trail by Robert Novak Iraq, Upside Down by Thomas L. Friedman The General’s Report: How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties by Seymour M. Hersh, 25 Jun 2007 General [Ricardo Sanchez] approved extreme interrogation methods 30 Mar 2005 Memo Says Bush Not Restricted by Torture Bans by Will Dunham, Reuters, 8 June 2004 Pinochet Also Thought He Could "Legalize" Torture Bush Didn't Order Any Breach of Torture Laws, Ashcroft Says by Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, June 2004 A Plunge From the Moral Heights by Richard Cohen, Washington Post, June 2004 Ashcroft and 'the memo' S.F. Chronicle Editorial Ashcroft's Relentless Assault on Civil Liberties People For the American Way J. Edgar Mueller ("seizure of new powers of surveillance is a smokescreen to hide failure") by William Safire Germ Boys and Yes Men by Jeremy Scahill Military and CIA Expanding Intelligence Role in U.S. January 14, 2007 Tom DeLay: Don't Resign by Ralph Nader DeLay's days had long been numbered by E.J. Dionne How Tom DeLay Stole Congress a film by Mark Birnbaum & Jim Schermbeck The Moral Bankruptcy of Fundamentalism A Thin View of 'Life' by E. J. Dionne Jr. Exposing Pro-Life Zealotry by Robert Kuttner The People Don't Always Know Best by Hubert G. Locke A Peach of A Scandal In Georgia (Ralph Reed, Jack Abramoff) by Garrison Keillor With Ineptitude on Full Display, the Party's Over for Republicans ("violently stupid") by Garrison Keillor

Was the 2004 Election Stolen? by Robert F. Kennedy Jr by Molly Ivins Goodbye, Molly, 1/31/2007 Stop This War, Now! Jan 5, 2007 Habeas Corpus, R.I.P. (1215 - 2006) Remembering Ann Richards DeLay's profession of Christianity sickening The 'Long War'? Oh, Goodie Enough of the D.C. Dems I Will Not Support Hillary Clinton for President An Old, Ugly, Mean Trick Bush administration, dead to morality, says torture is the American way "kill at the whim of a hat" I like conservatives Mr. Bush, Stop the Insanity Watch Out for Those Bush Photo-Ops Tossing out Enron's dirty laundry Enron: Think Bigger A Simple Lesson in Bush Logic Terrorists are Terrible, So Are Financial Liars The return of Cover-up Kissinger You're a mean one, Mr. Bush Um, Folks, This Doesn't Look Like Victory Sultans of Smarm Time to Cut Our Losses World Skeptical of Delusional Bush Reign US Had Hand in Violating Iraq Oil Sanctions by Robert Scheer The Killing Fields of Iraq Subverting Democracy With the Big Lie Bush Links Energized Enron A True Patriot Can Pose Hard Questions The Palestinian Side Must Be Told Lights Out on Bush's Excuses (California energy crisis) The Job Has Become Too Big for Ashcroft Bush Jumps the Gun With Preemptive Strikes What if hunt for 'Evildoers' aimed at us? Did Bush deceive us in his rush to war? An Excuse-Spouting Bush Is Busted by 9/11 Report A Con Job by Pakistan's Pal, George Bush by Paul Krugman, New York Times Attack Iran? Yes He Would Business Bush-style Outraged, just outraged ("Bush's new anger over corporate fraud is less than sincere") The Memory Hole Springtime for Hitler ("repeated often enough, it will become true") Diluting corporate reform Matters of Emphasis ("Does it matter that we were misled into war?") Standard Operating Procedure Bye-Bye, Bush Boom Little Black Lies (about Social Security) What's Going On? (on religious extremists) The Oblivious Right A Private Obsession (American health care) Always Low Wages. Always. What They Did Last Fall (on electoral malfeasance) Dissent -- the American way S.F. Chronicle Editorial, July 4th, 2002 Amy Goodman, "Independent Media In A Time Of War" Why Media Ownership Matters by Amy Goodman and David Goodman Katie Couric Versus Amy Goodman Amy Goodman's 'Empire' by Lizzy Ratner Watergate journalist says media losing public's trust "You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line" - Carl Bernstein Re Rather: The Target Is Journalism by Eric Alterman In Defense of Dan Rather by Mary Mapes To Dan Rather, Mary Mapes, and Mark Cuban: Answer the Treason Charge With a Murrow Moment by Brent Budowsky CNN's Lara Logan Disputes Reporting Bias video News as Commodity + Pervasive Information Control = Loss of Democracy by Joseph Miller Bill Moyers Fights Back by John Nichols (speech) Setting The Record Straight by Bill Moyers Time for Robert Novak to Feel Some Chill Let's Be Honest About Social Security by Mark Weisbrot and Dean Baker We're All Bunnies With These F-16s by Christopher Kremmer Who's the Sucker? US Prepares to Sell F-16s to Pakistan by Christopher Brauchli The Bush Administration Initiates an Arms Race We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us Tell Them, 'Because our Fathers Lied' Bush's Veil Over History by Kitty Kelley Cheney's Torture Policy Hughes' Worst Nightmare Memo to Karen Hughes by John Brown Ex-Powell aide rips Bush on Iraq, detainees Earth I to Bubble Boy: The Year in Review on Earth II by Beth Quinn The 50 Dumbest Things President Bush Said in His First Term Our 27 Months of Hell by Joseph C. Wilson IV The Plame Case: How About Focusing on the Real Issues? by Larry Johnson Rove Leak is Just Part of Larger Scandal by Daniel Schorr Art and politics frightened the FBI: John Lennon most notable example of government monitoring celebrities S.F. Chronicle Disrespect for Truth has Brought a New Dark Age by Paul Craig Roberts

Time Rewrote History With "25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis" "... what really happened.", by David Fiderer, February 20, 2009 "When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation -- namely, life, liberty and justice for all. Dictatorships such as Musharraf's suppress individual rights and freedoms and empower the most extreme elements of society. Oppressed citizens, unable to represent themselves through other means, often turn to extremism and religious fundamentalism." -- Benazir Bhutto, A False Choice for Pakistan Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer (NPR interview) The Imperial Presidency New York Times Editorial, January 7, 2007 A Surge of Constitutionalism by Gary Hart Bush Seeks Immunity for Violating War Crimes Act by Elizabeth Holtzman Reclaiming The Issues: "Keep George Out Of Jail" by Thom Hartmann Imperial Overreach is Accelerating the Global Decline of America by Martin Jacques Iraq Civilians: 50,000 Dead-- But Who's Counting? iraqbodycount.org What's all that oil worth in human blood? They Behead; We Do It With Smart Bombs Bin Laden comes home to roost 'Blowback' in Kashmir (India and Pakistan) THE ECONOMIC PRICE OF WAR War on Terror Masks Bush's Grand Strategy Perpetual War Against a Vague Enemy The 'War on Terror' Badly Needs a Total Rewrite by Larry Beinhart (Oct 1, 2004) When Evil Doing Comes Like Falling Rain by Kathy Kelly A photographer witnesses the devastating aftermath of six Iraqi children whose parents were shot before their eyes by U.S. troops - Newsweek THE IRAQ WAR: Three years - S.F. Chronicle Winning the Oil Endgame - TED Talk by Amory Lovins Bush Says U.S. Pullout Would Let Iraq Radicals Use Oil as a Weapon November 5, 2006 Iraq's Oil CBS 60 Minutes by Steve Kroft Peak Oil is Snake Oil! by Raymond J. Learsy War Signals? (Iran), September 22, 2006 Oil, Geopolitics, and the Coming War with Iran Sleepwalking to Disaster in Iran by Scott Ritter While You Were at War . . . by Richard A. Clarke, December 31, 2006 An Inconvenient Truth A Planet on the Brink ecology and economy... You've Come a Long Way, Maybe (Earth Day, 1970 vs. 2005) who killed the electric car Bush Scam on Fuel Cells Bush Is Blowing Smoke on Energy (Business Week) EPA Leader Resigns to Protest Bush Every Nook and Cranny: The Dangerous Spread of Commercialized Culture by Gary Ruskin and Juliet Schor The super rich vs the wretched How Rich is Too Rich For Democracy? by Thom Hartmann Speaking of Democracy: Corporate Vs. Voter Free-Speech US-Chartered Corporations Unpatriotic Behavior by Ralph Nader Buffett slams dividend tax cut (May 20, 2003) Down and Out in White-Collar America Economic Apartheid in America John Kenneth Galbraith Understood Capitalism as Lived - Not as Theorized The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group (BuzzFlash Interview) Carlyle's way - Making a mint inside 'the iron triangle' of defense, government, and industry. The Axis of Corporate Evil Connections and Then Some Who is Bush's Brain? Karl Rove is... Entries For a Devil’s Dictionary of the Bush Era by Tom Engelhardt The Scandal of John Negroponte John Bolton vs. Democracy Bush Administration Has Done Much to Provoke Hostility at UN by Mark Weisbrot The Kingdom and the Towers, by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, Vanity Fair, August 2011 Total Information Awareness Feds Open 'Total' Tech Spy System Overview of the Information Awareness Office by John Poindexter - from Electronic Frontier Foundation DARPA's LifeLog ("every conceivable bit of information about a person's life, indexed and searchable") Super Diary Worries Privacy Activists Fear Itself "our culture of dread" World support for U.S. at new low Why Does No One Like Bush? Bush and Taxpayer-Funded Propaganda Bush lobbying effort skirts law Administration has spent at least $2.2 million so far by Rex Nutting, MarketWatch Sidney Blumenthal, Author of "The Clinton Wars" - BuzzFlash interview 9/11: Wild Conspiracies and Rational Concerns When 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Go Bad "Out-there conspiracy theorizing serves the interests of the powers-that-be by making their real transgressions seem tame in comparison" - David Corn, AlterNet.org Even Republicans and military members applaud 'Fahrenheit 9/11' A Democrat Knows That the Leaf Turns by Garrison Keillor, July 2004 Striking a Blow for Dissent The Peace Movement Lives Not in Our Name S.F. Bay Area A Radical in the White House Franklin Delano Roosevelt Reviving Faith in Role of Government The Concept of Evil: Why It's Intellectually Valid and Politically and Spiritually Important Iraq Cannot Be Won by Rep. John Murtha They Don't Know Jack (on Rep. Jack Murtha) Gelded Donkeys: Why the Democrats Are Worse Than Useless by Robert Freeman Come on, Democratic Party, "Stand With The People" by Ralph Nader Why are the Democrats such weenies? by Jon Carroll Keeping the Pressure On: The Dems Should Demand a No Pardon Pledge Disgrace Democrats Need A New Script by Helen Thomas

JFK Speech on Secret Societies and Freedom of the Press

Neil Young on CNN - April 18th 2006

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Iraqi Girl tells of US Attack in Haditha	Karl Rove, Valerie Plame by David Shuster	Dick Cheney "Just A Big Bowl of Bad" (on Letterman)	The Timeline of a Corrupt Budget	"Republicans Are Bobbleheads"
Pink- Dear Mr President	Dixie Chicks "Not Ready To Make Nice" (on Letterman)	Al Gore and Jon Stewart (Daily Show)	Who Killed The Electric Car?

by Pat Oliphant

Purple America Map: Election 2004 Results How different is the blue from the red from the purple? Also: cartograms (and here), maps in which the sizes of states have been rescaled according to their population:

Doonesbury, October 18th, 2002, © Copyright Garry Trudeau

Beginning October 11, 2004, Doonesbury featured a series of links in the context of an "Honest Voices Reading List"

John Eisenhower: Why I will vote for John Kerry for President WSJ reporter Fassihi's e-mail to friends Why conservatives must not vote for Bush (A Reaganite argues that Bush is a dangerous, profligate, moralizing radical -- and that his reelection would be catastrophic both for the right and for America.) LOCAL VIEW: Going to war in Iraq was a mistake Kerry Will Restore American Dignity - 2004 Iconoclast Presidential Endorsement (Crawford, TX weekly newspaper) A Questionable Kind Of Conservatism by George Will, July 23, 2003

War is Just a Racket by General Smedley Butler, USMC (more)

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president,
or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile,
but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought,
by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
-- Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, Farewell Address, January 17, 1961

A cloud over civilisation Corporate power is the driving force behind
US foreign policy - and the slaughter in Iraq by JK Galbraith, July 2004

"Which is more troubling to you as a citizen: Bill Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky
or George Bush's relationship with Ken Lay [of Enron]?" - Paul Begala

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

"Has anyone seen Bush speak when Cheney's drinking water?" - Robin Williams

"Watch out for the backswing, kid" by Oliphant, September 19, 2001

QUITTING THE PAINT FACTORY: On the virtues of idleness by Mark Slouka - Harper's Magazine The death of empires by Jon Carroll "All we are saying is give peace a chance" -- John Lennon Discourses and Poetry of Jelaluddin Rumi "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." -- Satchel Paige Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. War cannot be humanized, it can only be abolished.    -- Albert Einstein

Marla Ruzicka - Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC)
killed in Baghdad, 16 April 2005 - age: 28
One (Especially) Sad Death in Iraq by David Corn
Lakeport mourns its loss S.F. Chronicle
LAKEPORT More than 600 mourn peace activist at service S.F. Chronicle
The Agony of War by Bob Herbert

George W. Bush quotations

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." -- Bertrand Russell

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