USA TodayArlington, Va., United States — www.usatoday.com
"What's more, the executives and Clear Channel's political action committee gave 77% of their $334,501 in federal contributions to Republicans. That's a bigger share than any other entertainment company, says the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics." [more]
"The Quartet's plan is now a dead issue. Instead, there are continuing violent attacks by Palestinian terrorist groups and increasingly harsh reprisals from Israel. Supporting such policies is the worst thing America could do for Israelis who want peace." [more]
"Alarmed by the number of suicides among soldiers in Iraq, the Army has asked a team of doctors to determine whether the stress of combat and long deployments is contributing to the deaths. A psychiatrist at the Army's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences ... is helping to investigate the suicides in Iraq. 'Is there something different going on in Iraq that we really need to pay attention to?' " [more]
A series of letters to hometown newspapers, purportedly written by US soldiers in Iraq, contain identical language. The letters praise the US effort to rebuild the war-torn Mideast nation. [more]
"Lawmakers of both parties warned before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that stabilizing post-war Iraq could be far more expensive than waging war. For months, the Bush administration was reluctant to discuss the financial costs of the commitment, much as the Johnson administration seldom directly addressed the budget impact of Vietnam." [more]
"The matter-of-fact way in which Rumsfeld suggested [nuclear weapons'] possible role [in US combat] was a rare public sign of a growing effort by the administration to end the decade-long ban on developing and testing new nuclear bombs." [more]
"The premise on which the White House sold this war to Americans — Iraq had weapons of mass destruction that were a direct threat to us — has yet to be validated. Some who accepted that are beginning to feel a little bit had. If you're going to invade a country without direct provocation, the justification should be ironclad both before and after the fact." [more]
"About 500 servicemembers filed for conscientious objector status during the Persian Gulf War, according to the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress. Peace groups say as many as three times that number refused to fight, and many served prison sentences up to 18 months." [more]
"Desperate to prevent attacks, the FBI is stopping promising investigations and making quick arrests at even a hint of potential violence. ... Since Sept. 11, 2001, there have been 112 terror-related convictions in the United States; none has involved an active plot by a terror cell." [more]
"The Pentagon is preparing to use anti-personnel land mines in a war with Iraq, despite U.S. policy that calls for the military to stop using the mines everywhere in the world except Korea by 2003." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more]
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