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Heather Wokusch is the author of The Progressives' Handbook: Get the Facts and Make a Difference Now, which went to #1 on Amazon's political activism charts in December 2007 (www.progressiveshandbook.com). Heather can be reached at www.heatherwokusch.com.
SHARE Thursday, December 21, 2006 How Breaches in the US Nuclear-Weapons Program Endanger You
Last week, the watchdog Project on Government Oversight reported that workers at Pantex, a Texan nuclear-weapons plant, had almost accidentally detonated a W56 warhead in the spring of 2005. A W56 has 100 times the Hiroshima bomb's yield.
Unfortunately, the sloppiness and lack of oversight demonstrated at Pantex characterize the running of many US nuclear-weapons facilities.
SHARE Friday, December 15, 2006 It's Not Just Bush: We're Accountable Too
Blaming everything on a handful of people at the top, no matter how destructive and abusive they've been, misses a critical point.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 15, 2006 How the Republicans Could Win It All Back in 2008
As much as I enjoyed the midterm rout, I just can't shake the feeling that it might be a set up.
Curious that the Republicans failed to use its army of attorneys to challenge the election results. Curious also that Rumsfeld's inevitable departure came after the elections.
SHARE Monday, October 9, 2006 North Korea's Nuclear Test and Bush's FUBAR Foreign Policy
As had been threatened, North Korea's Kim Jong-Il reportedly conducted an underground nuclear test yesterday, a move which promotes a global nuclear arms race and nullifies non-proliferation agreements.
Take it personally.
SHARE Wednesday, October 4, 2006 Now that you could be labeled an enemy combatant...
Since Congress recently handed Bush the power to identify American citizens as "unlawful enemy combatants" and detain them indefinitely without charge, it's worth examining the administration's record of prisoner abuse as well as the building of stateside detention centers.
SHARE Wednesday, September 20, 2006 Rumsfeld's Guinea Pigs: US Citizens at Risk for Military-Weapons Testing
It barely made news last week when Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne called for the testing of nonlethal weaponry on US citizens in crowd-control situations. According to Wynne, "If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation."