contributions

by Jason Miller
“If my competitor were drowning, I’d stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.” Ray Kroc
“….a funny, jowly, canny, barbarous guy who lives in a multimillion-dollar condo on Park Avenue in Manhattan and conveys himself about the planet in a corporate jet and a private yacht. At sixty-seven, he is unrepentant in the face of criticism. He describes himself as a "tough man in a tough business"….."The animal-rights people," he once said, "want to impose a vegetarian’s (…)

Four years after the invasion of Iraq
Amit Baruah
The U.S. has all but lost the war in Iraq. Suicide bombings, sniper attacks, car blasts, and the downing of American helicopters have become commonplace. The worst sufferers are the ordinary Iraqis.
ON MARCH 20, 2003, when the United States and its "coalition of the willing" began the bombing of Baghdad, President George W. Bush was supremely confident that his "experiment" in Iraq would produce a West Asian order tailored to American (…)

Mr. Bush
I am alone in my room, home at last. I look in the mirror and I don’t know myself. I’ve done terrible things in Iraq; I’ve killed innocent women and children. I cannot live with myself anymore. My wife will understand. I have a gun ready to do what must be done to save my soul.
I am in Walter Reed Hospital. They say I’ll never walk again. What about all those prosthetic legs I see on TV? Nobody seems to care if I get all the care I need. Mr. Bush, I killed for your liberation. (…)

Bush’s ominous statement in 2000: "They have not led. We will," By Mary MacElveen March 26, 2007
In reading these comments as reported by ZeeNews.com in which they wrote that Vice President Dick Cheney, “has assured political allies that an early withdrawal of US forces from Iraq would not be allowed, despite efforts by Congress to impose a deadline on US combat operations there.” I am reminded of what someone said on one of the political lists that I belong to that both Bush and Cheney (…)

“Iraq, like Vietnam, is a no-win, no-end war.” - Ex-U.S. Sen. Max Cleland (D-GA), and also a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War.
Baltimore, MD - If her administrative aide said one more time how much her boss, U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), “cares about the troops,” I think I would have burst a blood vessel. On March 13, 2007, about 30 or so Peace activists met with a representative of her office. The senator, of course, was a no-show. I suspect that if it were the lobbyists from (…)

by David Swanson
Here are the results of the March 23, 2007, vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to give Bush and Cheney over $100 billion more for war. The bill passed with exactly the 218 votes required. Almost all of the Republicans and six Democrats voted No for the wrong reasons. One Democrat voted "Present". But eight Democrats voted No because they oppose further funding of this war. These eight are the beginning of a movement for peace, and the first indication that some (…)

SUE ZEIDLER IN LOS ANGELES
THEY are victims of the United States’ growing mortgage crisis - low-paid workers whose homes have been repossessed amid rising interest rates, a stagnant property market and a lax lending regime.
But in Los Angeles, where having a car is as essential as owning a home, many are sleeping in their vehicles to ensure a roof over their head.
Campaigners for the homeless expect more to hole up in their cars as they lose homes due to the problems that have dogged (…)

When we attacked Afghanistan: "We’ll run down bin Laden,smoke him out of his cave, and bring him to justice"
When Bush asked the FBI "Do we have the evidence?", Tennent responded "It’s a slam dunk!"
Colin Powell at the U.N. "The evidence is solid. Iraq has the WMDs"
Rumsfeld, when asked about WMDs (where are they?). He responded "We know for a fact that they are somewhere around the center of Baghdad..here, and here, and around here"
When we attacked Iraq, Wolfowitz said "It will be (…)

We’ve been warned! Gay Equality Needs to Get Out of the Religious Civil Wars! We’ve been warned! Religious fundies are going to now use the tactic of lobbying all 50 state legislatures to demand that Congress pass an anti-gay constitutional amendment outlawing same-gender marriage. ( http://okstonewall.org/forums/index.php?topic=1663.0 ) Ever notice that the history of homophobia has nearly always been rooted in religious dogma? With the halting progress that gay equality has (…)

Ahmadinejad cancels U.N. Security Council visit
CNN – March 23, 2007
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has canceled a planned visit to the United Nations, and Tehran’s U.N. ambassador, Javad Zarif, on Friday blamed a delay in U.S. visas being issued to the crew of his airplane.
Ahmadinejad wanted to speak to the U.N. Security Council before a vote, scheduled for Saturday, on sanctions against Iran.
Iran, which contends the proposed sanctions are politically motivated, says it (…)