Author: Chuckjones

Blood-Pouring Anti-Nuke Clowns Sent to Prison: Weapons of Mass Destruction Protected By Bill Quigley. Three men protesting the presence of weapons of mass destruction in North Dakota were sentenced to federal prison terms of over three years and ordered to pay $17,000 in restitution by a federal judge in Bismarck.   The three dressed as clowns… Continue reading Blood-Pouring Anti-Nuke Clowns Sent to Prison:

The New Media Offensive for the Iraq War By Norman Solomon The American media establishment has launched a major offensive against the option of withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. In the latest media assault, right-wing outfits like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal editorial page are secondary. The heaviest firepower is now coming from… Continue reading The New Media Offensive for the Iraq War

IRAQ TROOP WITHDRAWAL LOOKS FAR OFF – Bush/Cheney appear benched by Baker/Daddy Bush “Coup”. – What can we expect from the Baker Iraq Study Group? – New plans for taming resistance likely to be very bloody. By Nick Mottern, Director, Consumers for Peace The removal of Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense is being described… Continue reading IRAQ TROOP WITHDRAWAL LOOKS FAR OFF

Robin Hood in Reverse: Corporate and Government Looting of the Gulf Coast By Bill Quigley. Bill is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. He can be reached at Quigley@loyno.edu. If you want to know more, check out www.justiceforneworleans.org and look at the CorpWatch report, “Big, Easy Money: Disaster Profiteering… Continue reading Corporate Plundering of US Gulf Coast

BIG OIL READY TO SETTLE FOR LESS IN IRAQ? By Nick Mottern, Director, Consumers for Peace. It looks like U.S. Senator from Texas Kay Bailey Hutchison sent a message this month that big oil is abandoning ambitions for quick access to all of Iraq’s oil wealth, for now, and is willing to settle for operating… Continue reading BIG OIL READY TO SETTLE FOR LESS IN IRAQ?

The Pundit Path for Death in Iraq By Norman Solomon No one knows exactly how many Iraqi civilians have died from the war’s violence since the invasion of their country. The new study from public health researchers at Johns Hopkins University estimates that the number of those deaths is around 601,000, while saying the actual… Continue reading The Pundit Path for Death in Iraq

McGovern’s Trojan Horse by Charles Jenks The pitch: The Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) trumpets its continued support of Rep. James McGovern bill (HR 4232) as “a top legislative priority.” PDA urges all to sign its petition to support the bill, as PDA is “committed to cutting off all funding for the deployment of US… Continue reading Rep. James McGovern’s Trojan Horse

August 21, 2006 New Orleans Trying to Make It Home: New Orleans One Year After Katrina Bill Quigley Quigley@loyno.edu Bernice Mosely is 82 and lives alone in New Orleans in a shotgun double. On August 29, 2005, as Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, the levees constructed by the U.S.  Corps of Engineers failed in five… Continue reading Trying to Make It Home: New Orleans One Year After

[This letter was written by Mohammed Mukhaimar, Psychologist, with children of Gaza] Dear World From here…from across the oceans…from Palestine…..the land of open wounds, from our hearts and souls……..we talk to you. Every day, when the sun rises in the morning, and sets in the evening, and the moon appears, we know there is a… Continue reading Dear World – from Gaza

see photos and download audio mp3’s from emergency WMass forum on Middle East war “The building was not targeted.” That’s the Israeli government’s excuse about its killing of many civilians, including at least 16 children by Human Rights Watch, in its bomb attack on Qana, Lebanon on July 30, 2006. It doesn’t cut it.