Posted on April 5, 2008 by jurnei
10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don’t):
1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has “evolved,” yet he’s continued to oppose key civil rights laws.1
2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, [...]
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Posted on March 30, 2008 by jurnei
Here is a great resource discovered on digg.com - Project Censored from Sonoma State University.
Check out their site, which has the endorsement of Walter Cronkite - “Project censored is one of the organizations that we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and our broadcast outlets are practicing thorough and ethical journalism.”
Here is [...]
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Posted on March 19, 2008 by jurnei
This week marks the 5th Anniversary of the Iraq War. To mark this anniversary, many thousands of End the War demonstrations are happening throughout the U.S.
Today, Mary Pallant, Democratic Candidate for Congress, is hosting a demonstration in Thousand Oaks from 5:30 to 7:30 PM at the intersection of Moorpark Blvd. and Thousand [...]
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Posted on March 12, 2008 by jurnei
George Bush vetoed a bill that would have prohibited the CIA from torturing and abusing prisoners and detainees.
This morning the House voted on whether to override Bush’s veto. Unfortunately the vote failed to meet the two thirds majority needed to override the veto.
Click here to see how your representative voted on this issue. “Yea” was [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2008 by jurnei
GENEVA (AFP) — The United States is guilty of “persistent and systematic” racial discrimination across all aspects of society from Guantanamo Bay to the justice and school systems, rights groups charged on Wednesday.
“The persistent and systematic issues of racial discrimination have not been addressed” by the US government despite its adoption in 1994 of the [...]
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Posted on February 20, 2008 by jurnei
Today from Russ Tuttle - The Nation:
Secret evidence. Denial of habeas corpus. Evidence obtained by waterboarding. Indefinite detention. The litany of complaints about the treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay is long, disturbing and by now familiar. Nonetheless, a new wave of shock and criticism greeted the Pentagon’s announcement on [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2008 by jurnei
Thought this list was amazing. In looking it over, there appears to be still many missing. Check the List of Bush Controversies on Wikipedia.
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Posted on February 16, 2008 by jurnei
McCain has sold his soul to the devil just for a shot at the presidency. Once an outspoken critic of the Bush Administration’s use of torture, he now backs away from his previously principles just to get more votes from the Right-Wing Bush nuts. This past week, John McCain voted against a bill that would [...]
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Posted on February 9, 2008 by jurnei
This is a couple of days old, but important:
From the LA Times
The assertion stuns critics and revives debate over the widely condemned interrogation technique.
By Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
February 7, 2008
WASHINGTON — The White House said Wednesday that the widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding is legal and that President Bush could [...]
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