Archive for May, 2003
Pentagon Aims Guns at Lynch Reports
Robert Scheer, AlterNet
May 29, 2003
It is one thing when the talk-show bullies, who shamelessly smeared the last president even as he attacked the training camps of Al Qaeda, now term it anti-American or even treasonous to dare criticize the Bush administration. It’s another when our Pentagon — a $400-billion-a-year juggernaut — savages individual journalists for questioning its version of events.
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The View From the Middle of the Road
By Liv Dillon, AlterNet
Several weeks ago my mother made a comment to me about free speech in America. She said that it wasn’t really free if you got arrested every time you exercised your right to dissent. She’s no radical, but the sentiment is becoming clearer and clearer even to those standing most firmly in the middle of the road.
No commentsStrange Weather Lately
Kurt Vonnegut, In These Times/AlterNet
May 19, 2003
The following is adapted from a Clemens Lecture presented in April for the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut.
First things first: I want it clearly understood that this mustache I’m wearing is my father’s mustache. I should have brought his photograph. My big brother Bernie, now dead, a physical chemist who discovered that silver iodide can sometimes make it snow or rain, he wore it, too.
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One Filipina For Sale : Philippine President Visits White House
Joint Statement by Ninotchka Rosca, International Spokesperson of GABRIELA Purple Rose Campaign Against The Sex Trafficking of Filipinas, and GABRIELA Network USA.
No commentsNo to Repression and State Terror! Oppose the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2003!
by Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN)
May 19, 2003
We are deeply concerned about the spate of apparent terrorist acts that have shaken the country, especially in various parts of Mindanao.
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