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05.17 Why American Colleges Are Becoming a Force for Inequality
05.17 Why Private Schools Are Dying Out
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05.22 Global inaction shows that the climate sceptics have already won [6:22 video]
05.22 Dylan Ratigan & Life After Cable News [5:39 video]
05.21 Ellen Page [6:49 video]
05.20 Lisa P. Jackson [6:19 video]
05.20 Climate Change Denial is Costing us Trillions, Threatening Farming, Fishing, Animals (Video)
05.20 Blinding Us From Science
05.20 The Baltimore Lead Study [3:17 video]
05.19 A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit
05.18 Four Examples from the Last Week Prove Obama Is Full of Hot Air on Climate Protection
05.17 The Murky World of Hospital Prices
05.17 New Jersey Hospital Is the Costliest in the Nation
05.17 Angelina Jolie has done something extraordinary
05.17 Obama must Make Fighting Climate Change National Project, or Die the death of a thousand Scandals
05.17 Study: Why Pot Smokers Are Skinnier
05.16 What Will It Take for Us to Recognize That the Way We Live Could Be Destroying Life as We Know It?
05.16 How Drug Companies Keep Medicine Out of Reach
Video Health Care Systems in Less Corrupt Countries
05.22 Costs of Spying on the AP That the Establishment Ignores
05.22 Greg Sargent (and others) are playing us rubes!
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05.21 Guatemala annuls Rios Montt's genocide conviction
05.21 Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
05.21 The Criminal Case Against the Tea Party Cabal and Why the Justice Department Won’t Pursue It
05.21 Carl Hiaasen: IRS went after small fry, but let the big ones get away
05.18 Senator wants U.S. in oil price-fixing probe
05.18 Timothy Geithner Is Key To IRS Scandal
05.16 Why Won't the SEC Rein In the Firms That Tanked America's Economy?
05.16 Elizabeth Warren to Obama Administration: Take the Banks to Court, Already!
05.17 The Great American Descent into Plutocracy
05.17 The Real Benghazi Scandal
05.16 Take Politics Away From the I.R.S.
05.16 Should 501(c)(4)’s Be Eliminated?
05.16 What We Mean When We Say 'Race Is a Social Construct'
05.22 Even Before Apple Tax Breaks, Ireland’s Policy Had Its Critics
05.22 Apple Avoids Paying $17 Million In Taxes Every Day Through A Ballsy But Genius Tax Avoidance Scheme
05.22 David Dayen: The Uprising of the Second Tier in a Time of Late Capitalism
05.20 Paul Krugman’s right: Austerity kills
05.20 Is EVERY Market Rigged?
05.19 Can two senators end ‘too big to fail’?
05.18 Pope blames tyranny of capitalism for making people miserable[1:00 video]
05.18 A Simple Graph That Should Silence Austerians and Gold Bugs Forever [graph]
05.18 The Savings Heist
05.18 Sheila Krumholz and Danielle Brian on How Money Rules Washington [20:31 video]
Ref. : Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair [25:35 video]
Ref. : Nurses vs. High-Speed Traders
Ref. : We’re More Unequal Than You Think – Graphic: Unequal rise in income
05.22 C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh: The Great Jobs Disaster
05.21 Jobless Youth: Europe's Hollow Efforts to Save a Lost Generation
05.21 The Job Market of 2045 [14:32 podcast]
05.19 Italy coalition: Thousands rally in Rome against cuts [graphic]
05.18 Hans Rosling: the man who's making data cool [3:19 video]
05.18 Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' is permanent
05.17 Egypt 'suffering worst economic crisis since 1930s'
05.16 Catholic Church Finally Decides That Austerity is Bad
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COMMENTARY:
Code Pink Challenges White House
Reading an “Open Letter” to First Lady Laura Bush, Sarandon mocked President George W. Bush as a warmonger and derided him for calling himself “The Decider.” She reminded Laura Bush that Americans really “don’t want their kids to go off to war and die.”
Sarandon was also one of the principal speakers at a large anti-war rally, which was held on the National Mall, on October 26, 2002. Since then, the Bush-Cheney Gang has been caught up in a web of sordid scandals, such as the disgraceful torturing of detainees at Abu Ghraib; spying on U.S. citizens; the Valerie Plame affair, featuring the Neocon, Irving “Scooter” Libby; and the case of the sleazy lobbyist and fixer, Jack Abramoff. Meanwhile, the administration is suspected, too, of creating a framework, via Homeland Security Agency and the Patriot Act, for a possible Police State.
On March, 2003, Ann Wright, a high-ranking diplomat in the U.S. Department of State, resigned her position rather than endorse the Iraqi War. She seemed to sum up the feelings of the hundreds of people in the crowd when she declared, to a loud round of applause, “It’s time to take our country back!”
The Ladies in Pink are making a critical difference on the issues. As they chanted out in unison, in front of the White House, “Stop the killings, not one more! Mothers say ‘no’ to war,” I could imagine their call being heard across America.
AUTHOR NOTE: The splendid historian Will Durant considered Ancient Iraq (Babylon) to be one of the prime wellsprings of the culture of the peoples of the Christian West. He pointed out that it had sourced the “foundations of mathematics, astronomy, medicine, grammar, lexicography, archeology, history, and philosophy.” The Myth stories concerning the Creation, a God/Man rising from the dead, a Holy Virgin Mother and the Flood and Ark; the “Epic of Gilgamesh"; along with the legendary “Hammurabi-the-Lawgiver” also came from this sacred land. See Our Oriental Heritage, Vol. 1.
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This story was published on May 15, 2006.
