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The original idea of OEN was to become a tough, liberal media site that cast light on the truth. My article today calls on you to do it in your everyday life. Your neighbor or relative, your local store clerk says something that rubs you the wrong way-- some right wing talking point, some bigoted intolerant remark about blacks, gays, jews, muslims--- do something different. Start with reading my article. Time to Hit Back Harder.
It looks like the Superdelegates are finally doing something. It was very interesting yesterday to watch Chris Matthews list a series of right wing dirtballs who have been weighing in supporting Hillary, saying how wonderful she is. Not exactly an endorsement of her liberal, progressive or even democratic credentials. So it's good to see this news: Second Former DNC Chair Paul G. Kirk, Jr Endorses Obama
Last night I got together with four friends from college. We've known each other for 40 years. Three are Doctors-- ER doc, Podiatrist, Psychologist, and one's a retailer and grandfather. I think the grandfather is the happiest. It was funny, reviewing what we recalled from the time we shared at Penn State, from 1968-72, that what seemed like such small things had lingered as happy memories. We never know, as we go through life, which moments will become life long treasures. I've written alot about this on my website www.positivepsychology.net
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I know we're doing good work. I hear from readers and writers who love OEN every day, who tell us we're doing important work. But I am, apparently not good enough at the money end of things. Fundraising last month was bad news. We were off by close to $2000. We really can't afford to keep our operations up at that level. Please help us get this month off to a good start.
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By Len Hart
Bush's Conspiracy To Create An American Police State: Part I, Police States Begin With False Flag Attacks
John Dean makes this chilling point: Nixon, at the height of the Watergate scandal, toyed with the idea of defying the high court, but, in the end thought better of it and resigned. Bush/Cheney, by contrast, won't budge amid declarations that whatever may be alleged against them, they can, themselves "authorize" it and make it legal �even after the fact. If this holds, the US is now in a dictatorship --a police state!
By Michael Richards
A Global Clarion Call To Bold Action;
A global clarion call to creative entrepreneurs and visionary activists.
By Rob Kall
Time To Hit Back Harder
tamp down your tolerance of right wing BS and speak up
By Press Release
Second Former DNC Chair Paul G. Kirk, Jr Endorses Obama
Today, Former Democratic National Committee Chair and Massachusetts supderdelegate Paul G. Kirk, Jr. endorsed Barack Obama. Six of the 11 living former DNC chairs have endorsed Obama, while four support Clinton. The endorsement brings the total number of superdelegates to endorse Barack Obama to 253. Senator Obama is 279 delegates away from securing the Democratic nomination.
By Rabbi Michael Lerner
African-American Perspective On Reverend Wright
This article by Rabbi Michael Lerner discusses the fact that black opinion on Barack Obama and the Rev. Wright issue covers a wide range of thinking and is not some kind of monolithic bloc.
By Kay Ebeling
Court Baffled Over What To Do With Blogger In Press Seat As Jury Selection Begins For Salesian Trial In LA Superior Ct.
Blogger has to sit in chair on wheels and roll up and down the aisle, as judge can't figure out where blogs fit in news media, when blogs are only media covering the court.
By Blaine Kinsey
REAL CAMPAIGN-FINANCE REFORM
Because wealthy donors (particularly corporate interests) exert a pernicious influence that is extremely out of proportion to their population in the political process, we have a serious problem in need of a solution, and I think that my proposal for campaign-finance reform offers an innovative solution.
By Edwin Rutsch
Progressive Values Stories: Scott Henderson On The Common Good
I interviewed Scott Henderson in Los Angeles. Scott who told me the Common Good was the most important progressive value and 'we're all in it together'. He tells a story about growing up in the 50's and feeling a sense of community, but that we've lost that now. He thinks conservatives characterize progressives as wanting to be supported by the state and thinks conservatives have good intentions and mean well, but....
By Bob Koehler
The Possible Future
The hollow justice of the bureaucracy has nothing to do with healing.
By Chris Lugo
There Is Power In A Union
The right to organize and join a union is a fundamental right, which must be preserved and maintained if we are to keep our nation strong. Unions built this nation and built the standard of living that all Americans today enjoy. With the help of trade unions in the United States, workers were able to gain new rights such as the forty-hour work week, worker's pensions, compensation for injuries, and a living wage.
By Cyril Mychalejko
Bullets And Bananas: The Violence Of Free Trade In Guatemala
Less than 24 hours after President Bush met with Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom at the White House on Monday, a worker from a union that filed a trade complaint with Washington against the Guatemalan government was murdered.
By Constance Lavender
Brooks, Globalization, And Governance
The new economy is no more or less global...than ever. The transition we see in America today is from an industrialized economy to The Information, Knowledge, Technology Economy for which America is ill-prepared.
By Bill Knell
UFOs: The Secret Report Ordered By General Douglas MacArthur
AFter 60 years, a 10,000 page report on World War II Foo Fighters remains classified.
By Barbara Bellows-TerraNova
May Day Revisited
We had the chance to understand the real dangers were in the leadership five years ago, but we missed it. While Bush tapdanced on the water, we could have known the Neocon game plan.
By John De Herrera
Hamlet Adaptation (Act 1, Scene 4)
Hamlet adaptation for those who struggle with the Elizabethan English.
By Kay Ebeling
Right To Sodomize Children In Private Not Guaranteed By First Amendment No Matter What Salesian Society Lawyers Say
ongoing coverage of sex crimes in the Catholic Church, specifically pedophile priests and the bishops who aided and abetted their crimes.
By Muhammad Khurshid
No Change In Sight, Despite Democracy Wins
Democrats got majority in the Senate and Congress in the United States. Champoin of democracy in Pakistan reached the corridors of power. They used the words democracy for achieving success. They have promised a big change, but still there is no change in sight. Believe me the people have been losing the confidence. At least in Pakistan the situation is heading towards total anarchy and chaos.
By Project Vote
Legal Voter Disenfranchisement � Coming Soon To A State Near You
In the midst of a presidential election year that is seeing record-breaking voter turnout, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Indiana's draconian voter ID requirement. The controversial law - which requires all voters to provide government issued, photographic proof of identity in order to vote at the polls - threatens to create a legislative domino effect of new voter ID laws ready for implementation bef
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
How To Get Universal Health Care
Both Clinton and Obama believe that Americans have a moral right to universal health care. If this is correct and if this is what you believe, then achieving universal health care that covers absolutely everyone by making health care affordable to absolutely everyone, as it is in many other nations, requires a different kind of government action.
By Micheal Muskal
Another Suspicious Suicide
Yet another in the train of deaths of those who "knew too much."
By Susan Allen
Alert Congress: Labor Taxes Are Illegal
Alert Congress: Labor taxes are illegal According to the Tariff Act of 1913, only foreign earnings are taxable.
By Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo
Scientists Getting Signals Of Alien Life!
Blythe Space Labs and Clarke Observatory have made a tremedous discovery, which maybe to the delight of SCI-FI and UFO fans everywhere. What does this earth shaking discovery mean?
By David Glenn Cox
The Two Americas
The Bush administration, after the contested election of 2000, sought to woo public opinion in their favor. Facing a polarized electorate, they initiated a tax rebate scheme; the actual propose was to pass out alms to the poor to keep them fat and happy. While, in the meantime, the administration was opening the doors of the treasury in the greatest shift of the tax burden in American history.
By Eileen Fleming
IMAGINE: One World Without Nuclear Weapons
All we are saying is give peace a chance...All you need is love...Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one."
By Ed Tubbs
Scalia Was Right, 60 Minutes Stahl Wasn't, Re 4th Amendment & Torture
Justice Scalia was 100% correct: the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits "cruel and unusual PUNISHMENT," and torture, unless employed as "punishment," by definition is not covered by that amendment. Here's how Stahl should have raised the issue.
By Vickie Karp
Clint Curtis On Vote Rescue Radio - Sunday, May 4th, 2-4pm CDT
Clint is a FL computer programmer who rocked the election integrity movement world when he became a whistleblower, alleging publicly in a deposition that FL Republican Congressman Tom Feeney hired him and his former employer, Yang Enterprises of Oviedo,FL,to design "vote-flipping software"� in 2000.
By Andreas Umland
Gorbachev Number Two: Dmitry Medvedev
Should the Russian presidential administration retain its prerogatives, and come under the lasting, full control of Medvedev, the Kremlin will become a focal point of pro-democratic tendencies in Moscow. This development could lead to a situation reminiscent of an earlier period of transition that gained fame under its Russian name "perestroika."
By Steven Leser
Joseph Andrew, Former DNC Chair Switches Support From Clinton To Obama
"A vote to continue this process is a vote that assists John McCain" - Joe Andrew
By Andrew Bard Schmookler
"Long National Nightmare" Is What Obama Should Be Talking About
The force that has borne Obama this far is the force of the yearning of millions of Americans for a fundamental change in the spirit that governs political power in America. The heart of Obama's campaign strategy must be to stoke the fires of that yearning, and to find ways of helping new constituencies contact their inner knowing of how dark the spirit of power in America has lately been.
By Larisa Alexandrovna
Break-ins Plague Targets Of US Attorneys
In two states where US attorneys are already under fire for serious allegations of political prosecutions, seven people associated with three federal cases have experienced 10 suspicious incidents including break-ins and arson.These crimes raise serious questions about possible use of deliberate intimidation tactics not only because of who the victims are & already wide criticism of the prosecutions to begin with,but also...
By David Michael Green
John McCain And The Luck Of The (Scotch-)Irish
How Could John McCain Possibly Still Be In Contention To Win The PResidency?
By Stephen Crockett
Gas Tax Nonsense And Fundamental Energy Industry Change
Article argues against a gas tax suspension and in favor of fundamental energy industry changes.
By JGideon
'Daily Voting News' For May 1, 2008
a collection of local, state, national and international articles on electronic voting and election issues
By Nezua
Hillary Clinton In Eugene, Oregon [pt. 4]
THE CONCLUSION of our (well, Nezua's) four part series featuring Hillary Clinton's rally at Lane County's South Eugene High School in Oregon. The answer (to an attendee's question in Part 3) you've been waiting for! And all with that sweet grating buzzy hum on the audio track that gives all the animals in the room bad dreams! Woo! A fresh video from Oregon's MTV Choose or Lose Street Team '08 Representative.
By Press Release
Natl Lawyers Guild To Testify On Torture Liabiliy Before House SubComm
National Lawyers Guild President Marjorie Cohn will provide testimony at a hearing titled "From the Department of Justice to Guant�namo Bay: Administration Lawyers and Administration Interrogation Rules," before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties of the House Judiciary Committee. The hearing will begin at 10:00 a.m. at 2141 Rayburn House Office Building in Washington DC.
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Powdered Cocaine Not Just For White Yuppies Any More
AP article traces use of powder cocaine from whites (more affluent) to others since price went down. Latinos are often ones cited in court cases. Lots of information on trafficking over the years. Only deterrence at the border can stop increased usage, say authorities.
CQ Politics | Push To Shift Iraq Costs Has Bipartisan Flavor
In the upcoming appropriations questions concerning Iraq war costs, the Democrats have looked across the aisle in the Senate. With Collins and Warner signing on, cost of work done in Iraq is proposed to shift to Iraqis. There might also be House activity in the future. No done deal, it is a signal that the US is tired of paying for Iraq government functions. Stay tuned!
Iran Moving Into The Big League
From the Persian Gulf to the Caspian region, the Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia and beyond, Iran thanks to its geographical location is an ideal connecting bridge that has not until now fully exploited its advantageous equidistance from India and Europe. This is exemplified in the US$7.6 billion gas pipeline that will flow from Iran to Pakistan to India, and which is finally close to reality.
Divert, Distract, And Demonize - By Justin Raimondo
The War Party's strategy to sink Barack Obama
Douglas Feith's War And Decision: Life In A Neocon's Parallel Universe
Douglas J. Feith's new book War and Decision. Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism is an old-fashioned morality tale written by a man with little discernible moral sense or any real concern for the truth. In a nutshell, Feith's story resembles a 1930s cowboy movie.
Deaths Ground US Training Planes
Two incidents, each killing two pilots, has caused the military to stop using the super-sonic planes used to train pilots. An investigation of the plane's reliability will be made. Those training in the planes can be from NATO, for example.
Buying Faith-Based Missile Defense
"That's a tremendous red herring that we're not even talking about here. What we're talking about is the capacity of the people of this country [who are] spending hundreds of billions of dollars on this system � they ought to know against what it will work and against what it won't work. And I'm not sure that information is going to affect any other country's capacity... but it should affect our decision-making process..."
Union Shuts West Coast Ports In Antiwar Protest
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union brought all ports on the US west coast in a one-day protest against the US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. The Union said some 10,000 workers joined the antiwar protest, spurred in part by its belief that big shipping companies are profiting from the war.
Rep, Blogger Has Al Franken's Senate Campaign Reeling
The man has been at it to help Republicans. Keith Ellison survived. It appears from this AP report that the blogger has allegations of tax-delinquency matters against Franken. He also has an alleged pipeline to the Republican Party and Steve Coleman.
Poll: More Disapprove Of Bush Than Any Other President
"Support for the war, the assessment of the economy and approval of Mr. Bush are all about the same -- bad."
Voting Rights Are Too Important To Leave To The States
The NY Times has a good editorial today on how Congress should overstep the Supreme Court, and set mandatory, national voter registration laws that make it easy for everyone to register to vote. Are you listening, Democrats in Congress?
North Korea Promises Steps To Break Nuclear-deal Impasse
Christian Science Monitor reports on North Korea's willingness to blow up a cooling tower, which is a visual sign to the world concerning its nuclear activities. This, according to the article, comes at a time when the country badly needs recognition by international financial institutions in order to have better economic conditions. This is worth exploring in other media accounts.
Defeating The "Chain Of Command For Treason"
"Chain of Command for Treason" is the Evil Alliance among Elites. their Foundations and Corporations with Government Officials to Loot and Destroy America. This statement is not the least bit exaggerated or hypothetical, it is based on today's cold hard brutal reality. These Elites and their whores in government are involved in the most dastardly and deadly Treason in recorded history, second only to that of Judas Iscariot.
Rev. Wright's Honorary Degree Canceled By Northwestern
"In light of the controversy around Dr. Wright and to ensure the celebratory character of commencement not be affected, the university has withdrawn its invitation to Dr. Wright,'' said Alan Cubbage, vice president for university relations.
The Iranian Chessboard: Five Ways To Think About Iran Under The Gun By Pepe Escobar
Pepe Escobar continues to offer an extremely astute analysis of what is going on in and around Iran, especially in light of the relentless propaganda offensive the White House and Pentagon, not to mention Israel, which is literally salivating for Bush to attack Iran, have unleashed to attempt to demonize Iran in the last few days. An attack, Escobar points out, is going to be a disaster for everybody.
NY Times Showcases New Book "The Framing Of Mumia Abu-Jamal"
The book, "The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal," by J. Patrick O'Connor, asserts that Officer Daniel Faulkner died on Dec. 9, 1981, from shots fired by Kenneth Freeman, a business partner of the brother of the convicted man, Mr. Abu-Jamal, who has been on death row for 25 years for a crime he says he did not commit.
Gulf States May End Dollar Pegs, Kuwait Minister Says
Gulf states are considering dropping their pegs to the dollar after the U.S. currency's decline stoked inflation across the region, Kuwaiti Finance Minister Mustafa al-Shimali said. The idea of dropping the peg "has been started by other Gulf countries and they are partially going this way because the dollar has been going down for some time," al-Shimali said.
Garrison Keillor: Remember When It Was Fun To Fly?
When I went through airport security in Minneapolis, it was an object lesson in something-a line of a hundred people twisted around in the cattle chute, 16 men and women in the white TSA shirts with the epaulets, an obese young woman shouting at us to take our laptop computers out of our cases in a voice she learned from a prison camp movie.
ACLU: Pentagon Documents Highlight Interrogation Methods
The military continued to use abusive interrogation methods on detainees after a 2003 directive meant to end such practices, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday after reviewing newly released documents. The documents make it clear that psychologists were employed in the context of military operations. They were not there to serve as mental health providers.
Poll: Only 2.9 Percent Of Americans Are LGB
Hunter College released the results of a groundbreaking poll Wednesday that found only 2.9% of Americans over 18 identify as LGB, lower than the 4-5% often cited in voter exit polls. The survey also found that LGBs are more politically active than their straight counterparts, women and men vary in the ways they categorize themselves on the LGB continuum, and LGB youth have different priorities for the movement than older LGBs.
Mike Malloy: May Day! May Day!
Will he? Won't he? Yes? No? Oh, my, that Dick Cheney's such a tease. For over two years little fuzzy rumors of Dick's hot desire to kill hundreds of thousands more Muslims - this time in Iran - have been crawling all over the place. Dick's going to do it again: He's going to order yet another invasion of yet another country.
U.S. Launches Foreign News Web Sites
The Pentagon is setting up a global network of foreign-language news Web sites, including an Arabic site for Iraqis, and hiring local journalists to write current events stories and other content that promote U.S. interests and counter insurgent messages. Mawtani.com looks like a conventional news Web site. Only the �about� link at the bottom of the site takes readers to a page that discloses the Pentagon sponsorship.
Get Carter! The Attack On Jimmy Carter's Middle East Peace Efforts
Former President Jimmy Carter has the ability to appear almost out of thin air, landing in the midst of some of the most complex international crises. He's done it again, this time meeting with the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas. For reaching out to this significant section of the Palestinian movement, he is being demonized by both the Bush administration and the administration of Israeli Prime Minister Olmert.
Dockworkers Take May Day Off, Idling All West Coast Ports
Thousands of dockworkers at 29 West Coast ports, including Los Angeles and Long Beach, took the day off work today in what their union called a protest of the war in Iraq, effectively shutting down operations at the busy complexes. "We are supporting the troops and telling politicians in Washington that it's time to end the war in Iraq," said union President Bob McEllrath.
U.S. Launches Foreign News Web Sites
The Pentagon is setting up a global network of foreign-language news Web sites, including an Arabic site for Iraqis, and hiring local journalists to write current events stories and other content that promote U.S. interests and counter insurgent messages. Mawtani.com looks like a conventional news Web site. Only the �about� link at the bottom of the site takes readers to a page that discloses the Pentagon sponsorship.
Chris Floyd: Feeding Moloch: Last Barriers To War On Iran Come Down
Anyone who thinks the Bush Administration does not intend to attack Iran either has rocks in the head or their head in the sand. Warmongers have raised their cacophonous howling of threat and accusation against Iran to new levels. Every day now, some major Administration figure makes fiery charges that Iran is directly, deliberately killing US soldiers in Iraq-a clear casus belli, if true, which it almost certainly is not.
Unqualified
Winning the election is more important than telling the truth for the other two front- runners too. That's why none of them are qualified to be President of the United States. So now it is ever more clear that there is no hope at all among the leading three candidates that any one of them has the courage, the consciousness, or the capacity to lead this country out of its quagmire.
Unqualified
Winning the election is more important than telling the truth for the other two front- runners too. That's why none of them are qualified to be President of the United States. So now it is ever more clear that there is no hope at all among the leading three candidates that any one of them has the courage, the consciousness, or the capacity to lead this country out of its quagmire.
Multimedia: Labor Says No To Housing Cuts
5-01-08, 7:19 pm NEW YORK - Trade unionists, housing activists, and residents of New York City public housing gathered at City Hall today to protest the Bush administration's proposed budget cuts to the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).
The World Is Run By Sleazy Creeps With A License To Print Money By William Bowles
Have you noticed that whenever we see/hear a corporate boss or government hack open their mouths, they're invariably no more than mediocre creeps in shiny suits? So who do these so-called regulatory bodies work for, us or the industries they claim to be regulating?
Pennsylvania Avenue -- Book On 2 Branches Of Govt
John Harwood and Gerald Seib collaborated on this book about the deals made in politics. Politico Wire says it's a must read.
Huge Rally In Cuba Marks May Day Per BBC
A picture of the crowd in the article. Raul Castro appeared and the union leader started the May Day march. Castro has made it clear that there will be no reform of the one-party political system. Other reforms have been instituted.
The Missing Debate US/Russian Relations
Stephen Cohen favors foreign policy debate by candidates over US relations with Putin. Russia has nuclear matters to discuss, oil to sell, and desire to interact with new more robust emerging nations. It is leery of NATO coming to its borders and discouraged by US abrogation of the ABM treaties. Avoid a new cold war, he says.
So Now The Press Tells Candidates When To Quit?
Looking back through modern U.S. campaigns, there's simply no media model for so many members of the press to try to drive a competitive candidate from the field while the primary season is still unfolding. Clinton does have a chance to win. Yet she has been told by the press to go home and to get over herself.
House Committee Threatens Rove With Subpoena
The House Judiciary Committee threatened Thursday to subpoena former White House adviser Karl Rove if he does not agree by May 12 to testify about former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman's corruption case. Citing executive privilege, the White House has consistently refused to let current or former staffers testify.
Fear Of A Black Phallus
George W. Bush had a "spiritual advisor" named Ted Haggard. Why didn't any media outlets dig up Ted Haggard's dirt during the 2000 and 2004 elections? Because Dubya is white, and a mainstream Protestant. The only time a presidential candidate's religious beliefs are an issue is if the candidate is a person of color, or a Mormon, or Catholic, or a Muslim.
Dockworkers Protest Iraq War
Thousands of dockworkers at West Coast ports stayed off the job on Thursday in what their union said was a call for an end to the war in Iraq.
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