Sunday, February 12, 2006

ImpeachBush.org

From ImpeachBush.org:

"Impeachment is the most important issue facing Constitutional government in the United States. Impeachment will determine whether the American people will hold the Bush administration accountable for its High Crimes and Misdemeanors: the supreme international crime -- a war of aggression, rampant militarism, torture, surreptitious laws and treaties, and economic policies that steal from the poor and middle class to further enrich the rich.

Impeachment is also the test that will determine whether We, the People of the United States, still have the power to affect the conduct of our own elected officials and the will to exercise that power.

George Bush seeks $2.77 trillion for the 2007 Fiscal Year budget providing for more military aggression and less education, health care and other programs for the people.

He has nearly three more years to take our country into more wars maybe in Iran, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, or Sudan; three more years to trash the Bill of Rights at home and destroy all respect for the United States abroad; three more years to enrich the rich, impoverish the middle class and poor, undermine the U.S. economy and burden future generations of Americans with burdens they cannot bear.

Our impeachment ad in the New York Times on January 27, 2006 shows we can make a difference. It generated tens of thousands of new votes for impeachment.

The New York Times carried the Impeachment message in the first section, full page, to readers of more than a million copies of the National Edition and the New York Edition of the New York Times.

More newspaper ads, more votes for Impeachment, more organizing and fundraising can make Impeachment a major issue in the 2006 midterm Congressional elections. A committed effort over the next months can move Impeachment to the forefront in the elections and to the floor of the House of Representatives which has the "sole power of Impeachment," and onto the Senate for trial.

Ads in newspapers in Congressional Districts can help activate impeachment organizing to bring the issue home to members and candidates where their election will be decided.

Only Impeachment will warn the next Presidents that the American people will hold them accountable if they lawlessly lead us into wars, aggression and criminal acts to control foreign government and exploit their peoples.

Only Impeachment will assure governments and peoples around the world that the American people understand what their government has done, that the American people are strong and good, and have impeached and removed their lawless leaders from office for violating all the principles America has always espoused, and that We, the People of the United States will remain vigilant and see to it that the government of the United States will hereafter seek peace, friendship, equality of nations and peoples, and respect for the human dignity of every child, woman, and man on Earth.

I urge you to enlist now in the Impeachment Movement for the duration, to organize your community in the struggle and to raise and contribute funds essential to secure the Impeachment of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales and other civil officers found to have committed High Crimes and Misdemeanors."

For more information, go to ImpeachBush.org

Peace and Love,
The Rebellion Magazine

Thursday, February 09, 2006

The Good Lawyers, Shoddy Research, and Surging Oil Prices

"These Justice Department lawyers had stood up to the hard-liners, centered in the office of the vice president, who wanted to give the president virtually unlimited powers in the war on terror. Demanding that the White House stop using what they saw as farfetched rationales for riding rough-shod over the law and the Constitution, they fought to bring government spying and interrogation methods within the law. They did so at their peril...":
Palace Revolt

"Science has become so severely politicized that one has to be skeptical of nearly every research result that is reported.":
The Good Man at NIH

"Surging oil and gas prices have helped Exxon Mobil to unveil the highest quarterly profits reported by a publicly-traded US company.":
A New Record
Big, Big, Big Bucks
Public Citizen Report

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Iraq, continued

"Americans need desperately to understand that 95 percent of all Muslim terrorists in the world were created in the past three years by Bush's invasion of Iraq.":
Blind Ignorance

"Abductions and death threats force doctors, lawyers, businessmen to flee country in fear.":
Exodus of the Educated

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Tuesday, February 07, 2006

The Terrorist in the Mirror and American Made Slave Labor

Noam Chomsky's speech at the Amnesty International Annual Lecture 2006:
The Terrorist in the Mirror

Made in the USA:
Slave Labor

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Friday, February 03, 2006

The American Imperium

"If there is a birth date for today’s American Imperium, it would be Jan. 20, 1981, exactly a quarter century ago, when Ronald Reagan was sworn in as President and Iran released 52 American hostages under circumstances that remain a mystery to this day.":
The Imperium's Quarter Century

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Thursday, February 02, 2006

Los Desaparecidos



Last march for Argentine mothers:
Los Desaparecidos

More information:
Dirty War
National Reorganization Process
Forced Disappearance
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

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Iraq, continued

Battle of Baghdad cover-up unravelling:
Eric May

"'The Bush administration has broken faith with the American soldier and Marine', the report said, citing poor planning for Iraq stability operations, too few troops there to accomplish the mission at an acceptable level of risk, and inadequate equipment and protection for deployed troops.":
Former Pentagon Chief Sees Damage to US Military

FRITTERED AWAY
-$108,140 paid to contractor to refurbish Olympic swimming pool in Hilla. Work never done.
-$662,800 paid to repair Hilla hospital. Much of work never done, including renewing central lift. Three people later died when lift crashed.
-$40,000 gambled away by US soldier assigned as assistant to Iraqi Olympic boxing team on trip to Philippines.
-$2 million locked in a the bathroom safe of a US official.
-$678,000 stashed away in an unlocked foot locker.
-$473,000 paid for internet installation in Ramadi. Work never done.
How US Lost Billions in Wild West Gamble to Rebuild Iraq

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Bloody History of East Timor



The bloody history of East Timor is one of "torture, rape, slavery and starvation leading to the unnatural demise of as many as 180,000 civilians (from a pre-invasion population of 628,000)" and "should shame those ministers, journalists, diplomats and academics who played down or ignored consistent human rights abuses in the former Portuguese colony":

Australia's Role

US Role

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