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Racing to the Bottom
2007-05-03 19:09:00
By Si Contino5/3/07Because so many notable business pundits appear to be bemused by America?s most recent economic vexation, specifically the collapse of the mortgage markets; I thought I?d take a crack at edifying your readers, to the extent I?m capable, as to its true nature and causes.To begin with one must remember that all the statistics kept on our economy are bogus. They are contrived in such a manner, compiled explicitly for casual regurgitation, so as to never display anything less than full employment, wage growth and a serendipitous lack of inflation.With that as a foundation, what?s actually occurring in this economy is the globalization of assets and wealth. That is to say, because the value of American labor is falling so precipitously, (due to the utilization of cheap foreign labor around the world), the value of the assets held by them is falling in direct correlation with their declining wages. It must.Here?s why:A worker formerly employed in a lost economic sect...
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Reality According to Ninnies
2007-05-03 18:06:00
?I've found an an apartment building in Cincinnati. This is the building, 1732 Vine Street in Cincinnati.It's a task for which I am equal. And, I'd like to spend the next couple of years applying my restoration art skills to it. It's an old bank building circa, 1890, complete with all the potential proud charm that was more commonplace in 1890 than it is in today's appalling McMansion architecture.There are six vacant and dilapidated rental units over what used to be a bank and has since been turned into a small make-shift convenience-like retail store run by a young lady with admirable ambition. Later on you'll see a picture of this young lady. My interest is in helping her achieve her dreams, and restoring the six apartments into comfortable and affordable rental living spaces. Like so many other apartment buildings all across the country, this building will eventually fall victim to condo developers, if someone doesn't save it before then.?By Don Robertson, The American Ph...
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Jahada: To Strive
2007-05-03 16:45:00
5/3/07the tiny fisted buds of cherry blossomsbegin to show their fingershow unviolently spring holds its own,bunched, tight as a knotonly bearing to become itselfthis is nature's jihad?overcoming anachronism,understanding the hallucinatory,finding a way to attain fullnesswithout so much as harminga blade of grass-- Mankh (Walter E. Harris III)He is a poet, essayist, small press publisher and author/editor of seven books including Singing an Epic of Peace, Haiku One Breaths, and Modern Muses.His work is often inspired by nature, current events and world cultures. Mankh's literary website: http://www.allbook-books.com/Thomas Paine's Corner is a site dedicated to advancing universal human rights, fostering social and economic justice, and supporting the cause of all oppressed, exploited, and impoverished human beings on our Earth.

A Whoring She Will Go
2007-05-02 12:54:00
Peggy Noonan (born Margaret Ellen Noonan on September 7, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York) is an author of seven books on politics, religion and culture and a weekly columnist for the Wall Street Journal. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford, New Jersey, and was a Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan. "So begins the Wiki entry for Noonan in one of the Web's most supposedly impartial information platforms. In fact, who would suspect, from that innocuous sentence, that Noonan is almost exactly the opposite of that description? Because if there is one thing for sure about Noonan it is this: Noonan is not a true populist, nor, for that matter, a friend of the working class. But, then again, populist posturing has been the staple of rightwing and fascistoid sellouts since Mussolini and Hitler opened the franchise in the 1920s." [from the introduction to this piece as it appears on Cyrano's Journal Online (http://www.bestcyrano.org/)]Essay by Jason Miller ...
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Open Letter to the Mayor of Hell
2007-05-01 18:06:00
Photo: Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman with Ryen McPherson, producer of the ?Bumfights? videos By Michael Goodspeed 5/1/07 Dear Mayor Goodman,Or perhaps I should begin this communication with the same discourteous introduction as Hunter S. Thompson in his letter to then President Nixon:"Dear Dickhead..."Of course, you remember Hunter. He both lionized and mortified the city over which you so proudly rule in his brilliant tome, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Perhaps Hunter's continuous inebriation opened his perception to some psychic foresight -- in the 21st century, your city, with all its garishly seductive promises of instant wealth, cheappussy, and satanic escapism, has little left but "fear and loathing" to offer.If these introductory comments seem slightly less than etiquette, Oscar, let me assure you that I am not a hothead, a reactionary, a Christian fundamentalist, an activist of any kind, or even an idealist. I'm actually a quite circumspect and even-...
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We really don't know what George Bush Sr. has done to us during his lifetim
2007-05-01 16:23:00
#14 The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USA by Mike Palecek 5/1/07 CLEVELAND, OHIO ? KGB.It's a novel.Saturday I spoke to a group at The Planet bookstore in Ann Arbor.Glenn came up to me, started touching all my books neatly arranged on the table, and asked me, where's KGB. I said I had written it a long time ago. It was my first book.The letters stand for Killing George Bush .I've got one copy in the car, but that's it.Oh. I thought that was what this was all about, he said.Glenn said that Rush Limbaugh had said there was this guy on a book tour around the country, saying we should kill George Bush ."I thought, this must be the guy!" he said.Oh. Well. In the first place, I kind of doubt that Limbaugh would even know who I am.But, yeah, I guess that could be me.I'm not looking to kill George Bush, but I did write a novel back around the turn of the century that does have that scenario as a premise.KGB is set in the Woodbury County jail in Sioux City I...
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The Death of the Chilean Way to Socialism and the Martyrdom of President Sa
2007-04-30 05:35:00
By William Blum 4/29/07 Originally published on Cyrano?s Journal "A hammer and sickle stamped on your child's forehead" Excerpted from the book Killing Hope by William Blum When Salvador Allende, a committed Marxist, came within three percent of winning the Chilean presidency in 1958, the United States decided that the next election, in 1964, could not be left in the hands of providence, or democracy. Washington took it all very gravely. At the outset of the Kennedy administration in 1961, an electoral committee was established, composed of top-level officials from the State Department, the CIA and the White House. In Santiago, a parallel committee of embassy and CIA people was set up. "U.S. government intervention in Chile in 1964 was blatant and almost obscene," said one intelligence officer strategically placed at the time. "We were shipping people off right and left, mainly State Dept. but also CIA, with all sorts of covers." All in all, as many as 100 American operati...
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Super-Imperialism: The Shameful Legacy of Liberal Democrats
2007-04-29 21:57:00
By Carolyn Baker 4/28/07 Originally published at Speaking Truth to Power It is a war against the globalization of the market, against the destruction of nature and the confiscation of resources, against the termination of indigenous peoples and their lands, against the growing maldistribution of wealth and the consequent decline in standards of living for all but the rich. --Andrew Kopkind Professor Michael Hudson, an independent Wall St. financial economist, has written an extraordinary book entitled Super Imperialism: The Origins and Fundamentals Of U.S. World Dominance. I first heard of Michael Hudson when browsing Bonnie Faulkner?s ?Guns And Butter? website, and as I listened to him, I knew that I needed to read Super Imperialism for many reasons, not the least of which is that I am not an economist and am only beginning to educate myself on how the money works in the domestic and world economies. For this reason, I have been reluctant to write a review of Hudson?s book; I...
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It is indeed the dawn of a new day
2007-04-29 21:48:00
By Mike Palecek 4/29/07 "Indiana wants me. Lord, I can't go back there." ? Jesus#13 The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USASWEETWATERS COFFEE SHOP THING, ANN ARBOR, MI ?Indiana license plates have American flags and "In God We Trust."Indiana also has more war memorials per square foot than any other state in the union.There is also Purple Heart Highway and Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway and probably twelve other war highways.In downtown Indianapolis there is this huge statue memorial: The Soldiers & Sailors Statue in The Circle.I know because I was there, driving nine times around the circle trying to find my way north on West Street to find Spencer's Bar to meet with the Indianapolis Drinking Liberally group.Meridian - RightRight on SouthLeft on WestMcCarty to Delaware, leftLeft on EastRight on Washington.You can't miss it.I always miss it.Some Indianans most likely believe that their license plats and the war memorials and church on Sunday and Jesus ar...
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HOMELAND INSECURITY
2007-04-28 22:08:00
By Paul Levy 4/28/07 If terrorists themselves had infiltrated our government and taken control of our country, they could not have done worse damage to our once great nation than George Bush and his regime have accomplished. Bush is just the latest incarnation - in amplified form - of self-serving, darker forces that have progressively insinuated themselves into our government over many administrations. Like his predecessors, Bush is a finger-puppet of the underlying financial-military-industrial crime syndicate that has animated and controlled our government for many years. In their most incredible fantasy, no external terrorist with suicide bombs or box cutters could have ever imagined being able to eviscerate the United States in the way that the Bush administration has. What the people and corporations controlling the White House have done in reaction to the seemingly external threat of terrorism - which they themselves have purposefully helped to create - is truly ...
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Spoken like a true American
2007-04-28 21:26:00
By Sylvain Lamoureux 4/28/07 * There was a post a little while back on Thomas Paine's Corner called The obscenity of pursuing the American Dream that had a comment by, what sounded to me, a True American or Canadian for that matter. It was the anonymous comment that birthed this article. Here is the comment: * ?Brilliant? I find the comments about the American Dream obscene in that people are free to fail in this country as well as succeed. Freedom and Democracy is not about the Federal Government providing for every concievable need that can be imagined by people who want everything handed to them. If you live in poverty, get a job. If you are working two more more jobs and living in poverty, go back to school and get an education. People who don't have two cars, or a big screen TV or whatever think they are living in poverty. True people are starving in some parts of the world but it is not, yours or my fault. Without the United States and it's economy millions of more pe...
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I'm livin' in the motherfucking U.S.A
2007-04-28 03:19:00
#12 The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USA By Mike Palecek 4/27/07" So fuck the FCC. Fuck the FBI. Fuck the CIA.I'm livin' in the motherfucking U.S.A."? Steve Earle, "The Revolution Starts Now"HILLSDALE, MICHIGAN, U.S.A ? "I was either going to fucking move or fucking change this town."That is Richard Wunsch, the owner of Volume One Books of Hillsdale, Michigan."And I haven't done either."But he keeps trying.Geezuz, that means ... everything.Wunsch has been a first and second grade teacher in Chicago. He has been a block layer, factory worker. He is a radical, a member of the intelligentsia of the United States. There definitely is such a thing. I am finding that out.Wunsch is wearing a union jacket while he sits in his bookstore and visits with me and Aimee England ? who "runs everything" at the store ? as well as visitors strolling in and out of the busy place in downtown Hillsdale, in southern Michigan.Wunsch talks Steven into sticking around and heari...
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The Origin of Violence in Virginia: A Brief History
2007-04-27 18:03:00
By Jonathan Scott4/27/07As published at Black Agenda Report and Cyrano's Journal Online"Gun control will not prevent violence and mass murder in America - certainly not in Virginia , a state that is "second to none" in its barbaric history of violence. The author puts the origins of endemic violence in perspective, as the legacy of racial and class exploitation that claimed whole peoples, and has never truly ended. Although Virginia Tech shooter Seung Hui Cho was "clearly a sociopath," sociopaths also founded Virginia and have been in charge ever since. In a grotesque sense, Cho was simply acting like an American.""American violence and mass murder, which began in Virginia, will not be prevented by gun control laws in Virginia today or any time in the future.""The present is also history." - José Carlos MariáteguiWhile Seung Hui Cho was purchasing the two Glock 9 mm handguns as well as fifty hollow point bullets he would use a few months later on his classmates and professors at Vir...
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Ward Churchill's Pacifism as Pathology
2007-04-26 00:20:00
Reviewed by Patrice Greanville4/25/07Originally published at Cyrano?s Journal Online This is a small but indispensable volume for anyone seriously interested in social change, and who sooner or later may have to consider the place of violence in the general scheme of things.As the title implies, and wasting little time in preparing the audience for what will surely be a disturbing argument to many, the author lays out his case against white progressives?or, to be precise, the liberal/social democratic complacent legions of mostly well-educated middle and upper middle class activists?who are deemed "delusional" not only in the ineffectual tactics and strategies they pursue (which the ruling elites are only too happy to accommodate as per a well-scripted minuet), but in the belief that they are actually performing revolutionary acts...The crux of Churchill's argument?pretty hard to refute?is that mainstream liberals, and a sizeable contingent of self-defined "Leftists" (read here mos...
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Behind the Mask of Evil
2007-04-26 00:07:00
By Doug Soderstrom, Ph.D.4/25/07It is so very easy for us to condemn acts of evil, to pretend that all is well ?with us,? that the evil that has been committed has emerged from the belly of a beast, that the other fellow, the one who committed the act, is someone very different than we are, someone beyond our capacity to understand, never realizing that we do such a thing in order to justify our angered need to condemn our foe. The much more difficult task is to take the time to understand our enemy, to try to understand why such a person may have chosen to do what he did, for in doing such a thing we begin to understand ourselves, and in better understanding ourselves we are led to the realization that we are in no way different from that of our enemy, that rather than choosing to hate him, we have little choice but to forgive the one we have been taught to hate.As a psychologist, I am bothered by those (especially the ?so-called professionals? on television) who continue to point ...
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Food Contamination - A Much Larger Set of Problems
2007-04-25 23:35:00
By Rowan Wolf of Uncommon Thought Journal4/25/07Just as the Dubai Ports World fiasco (1, 2, 3) brought to public attention that the US has ceded control of our ports to international corporate control, the pet food contamination has brought to the fore problems with globalization, our food supply, and the ineffectiveness of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Those of you who have been following my coverage of this story know that I predicted this was going to be a very big story. Well it is growing by leaps and bounds.After the story essentially went dark for four days in the US press, it has reemerged with a flurry of articles on the inadequacies of the FDA (CBS, CNN, AP and many others).As this story emerges in all of its various renditions, not so subtle variations also emerge. For example, the hogs that ate contaminated feed may (or may not) have made it into the food the human food supply. The US press is either being nonspecific about what food the hogs ate (CNN) or stati...
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The New American Century (Revised)
2007-04-25 22:01:00
By Don Robertson, The American Philosopher4/25/07Everyone knows, history teaches lessons. I've read enough history, and a number varied enough and of different vintages of the same history, to know one of the most important lessons that can be derived from history, is to learn just how wrong historical analysis can be. These more subtle lessons learned from history provide a better analysis for revising strategies already implemented based upon the lessons taken from conclusions wrongly made by an initial faulty representation and subsequently erroneous interpretation of history.The Neocon analysis of American history written in the few decades prior to their incomprehensible strategic planning assertions, and, providing the basis for faulty empirical deductions, has provided the nation with catastrophic leadership in recent years. These strategic planners quite literally had not their facts straight. They have made horribly illegitimate blunders, even if they have had the seat of ...
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Environment, Globalization, and Genocide
2007-04-24 20:11:00
By Rowan Wolf of Uncommon Thought4/24/07The environment is the straight line link between globalization and genocide. The policies and practices of globalization institutions (such as the IMF and World Bank), and the practices of transforming nations for "participation" in a globalized free market capitalist economy, result in environmental destruction and the destruction of the peoples who live there. Whether it is global warming driven by "modernization" destroying the Arctic and the Inuit who live there, or the Tuareg and Fulani of Niger, or the devastation spreading across Africa, the practices and consequences of modern globalization wreak havoc.Conservationist Michael Fay was quite blunt about these relationships in his interview with Sadia Lafti on the National Geographic sponsored Megaflyover of Africa to document the "Human Footprint" effects:"Fay said he believed international aid to Africa must be transformed to preserve the continent's basic resources instead of extract...
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Freedom for Alan Johnston: Freedom for Us All
2007-04-24 19:35:00
By Ramzy Baroud4/24/07In Trafalgar Square in London, dozens of journalists representing every major news organization descended on a designated corner in the tourist infested area in support of Alan Johns ton , the BBC correspondent kidnapped in Gaza on March 12, 2006, one month after his ordeal began. Awaiting the arrival of Alan?s family to a press conference, organized by Reporters without Borders, I stood along with a few activists. My nervous smiles, interrupted by brief statements to inquiring journalists, could hardly hide my utter feelings of shame. It?s not often that I feel this way, taking part in a solidarity event in support of anyone. This time was different, however, despite all attempts to distance oneself from responsibility. ?Alan, they are not from amongst us,? read of the banners held by hundreds of journalists gathering in Ramallah, in the West Bank, to support Alan on the same day we gathered in London. The unfortunate fact is that while the kidnappers were not e...
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Reflections on Black Marxism
2007-04-23 22:03:00
By TRAVIS TATUMRace & Class Vol. 47(2)4/23/07Abstract: Black Marxism , Cedric Robinson?s work on the Black radical tradition is, in effect, a challenge to the basic cultural and social assumptions of western society. These assumptions ? the underlying ?terms of order? holding society together ? limit our perception of the choices that are available to us, even seeping into programmes for radical change, such as Marxism. But by recovering the hidden histories of resistance by those on the margins of capitalism, in this case in the African diaspora, we can move beyond the misconceptions and myths that bind us to power.The re-emergence of Black Marxism: the making of the Black radical tradition comes at a most opportune time, given the current political ascendancy of conservatism in American politics. Indeed, so long is it since the fall of the Soviet Union and the Berlin wall, one wonders whether or not there is even an interest in Marxism. And, in this regard, Robinson?s title may see...
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A Review of Chris Hedges' Christian Fascism
2007-04-23 21:20:00
by Stephen Lendman4/23/07Chris Hedges is a journalist who for two decades was a foreign correspondent for the New York Times spending much of his time reporting from conflict zones in El Salvador, the Middle East and from Serbia covering the Balkan wars of the 1990s that divided and destroyed a country under the guise of humanitarian intervention providing cover for naked imperialism. There it allowed NATO (meaning the US) to expand into Central and Eastern Europe to keep predatory capitalism on the march for markets, resources and cheap labor everywhere using wars to get them and eliminate "uncooperative" heads of state like Slobodan Milosevic who was kidnapped, Mafia/Mossad-style, by the ICTY kangaroo court in the Hague, hung out to dry when he got there, and in the end effectively or, in fact, murdered to shut him up and prevent ugly truths coming out about what the conflict was really about and who the real criminals were. The wars and subsequent show-trials had nothing to do w...
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A Feral Dog Howls in Harvard Yard
2007-04-23 21:05:00
Hang the professors but save the eunuchs for laterby Joe Bageant4/17/07Originally published at Dissident VoiceIt is time to close America's universities, and perhaps prosecute the professoriat under the RICO act as a corrupt and racketeering-influenced organization. American universities these days have the moral character of electronic churches, and as little educational value. They are an embarrassment to civilization.-- Fred Reed, American expatriate writer and ?equal-opportunity irritant.?If there is one bright spot in the bleak absurdity of slogging along in our new totalist American state, it is that ordinary working Americans are undisciplined as hell. We are genuine moral and intellectual slobs whose consciousness is pretty much glued onto an armature of noise, sports, sex, sugar and saturated fats. Oh, we nod toward the government bullhorns of ideology, even throw beer cans and cheer when told we are winning some war or Olympic sports event. But when it comes right down to...
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Still Crazy (After All These Years)
2007-04-22 21:44:00
By Don Robertson, The American Philosopher 4/22/07 The hobgoblins of psychology have plagued humankind now for well more than a century. These shamans of the mind have had a profound impact on culture. It is well enough understood, demonstrated and, written as the topic of volumes, how insanity fosters itself culturally. This is all well understood. If you're going to go crazy, you will invariably do it, and go crazy in exactly the manner that is strictly prescribed by the culture in which you exist. There is no doubt among the learned here. It is equally well established that the course being trekked by our humanity is toward a more globally uniform culture. Because no one is plotting this course, and because it is impossible to plot this course, the current cultural course appears to be evolving into an ever more complex and hazardous maze from within which there cannot possibly arise any morally decent goal or any possible existential release. As I push toward si...
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101 Ways to Massacre Students
2007-04-22 02:56:00
By Carolyn Baker 4/21/07 Speaking Truth to Power Once again, a horrific eruption of violence in the United States has been turned into a National Enquirer ?blood and circuses? spectacle on every television network in the nation. Curiously, grotesque and ghastly as the carnage is, it seems that Americans are not impacted by bloodbaths until they occur in their own back yards. Juan Cole said it best yesterday when he stated, ?the horrific shootings at Virginia Tech should give us a baseline for what the Iraqis are actually living through. They have two Virginia Tech-style attacks every single day?. We seem incapable of coming to terms with violence: Either we distance ourselves from it as ?something happening over there? or we voyeuristically wallow in it 24/7 with grisly images of a massacre or the incessant repetition of a video tape made by a perpetrator exuding psychotic rage from every pore. In neither case does America appear to be capable of asking the deeper, di...
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Pet Food Debacle Is Getting Even Larger
2007-04-22 02:23:00
By Rowan Wolf of Uncommon Thought Journal 4/21/07 While it has not been added to the US list of problematic ingredients, there was an article today from South Africa of renal failure in dogs and cats due to melamine in corn gluten. While the food was processed in South Africa, the gluten - once again - came from suppliers in China. This would place on the danger list wheat, rice, and corn gluten and concentrated vegetable protein from any of these sources. As was pointed out in an April 3rd article by Christie Keith in the SF Gate - Bigger than you think: The story behind the pet food recall - it is possible that the contamination may be in the human food supply as well. What we have happening here is a growing number of companies in China which have supplied and array of grain glutens, powders, and concentrated vegetable proteins on the international market. What this would seem to indicate is that this is not a "contamination" issue. "Contamination" is an accident. It might...
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The obscenity of pursuing the American Dream
2007-04-22 01:33:00
What you do is of little significance, but it is very important that you do it. --Gandhi #10 The American Dream Book Tour & Protest Across the USA by Mike Palecek 4/21/07 UNDISCLOSED LOCATION BETWEEN THE INTERSTATE & THE WOODS ? I made it into Wisconsin this afternoon.Slipped across the border in between a Fed Ex van and a white Ford pickup.Shhh. I think there might be Canadians in the hall.If I am captured in Wisconsin I suspect I will be sent back to Minnesota ? just as I was sent packing from Canada yesterday and deported to North Dakota ? then no doubt, back to Iowa, where I will be tortured, without a doubt, by endless hours of being exposed to coffee chatter, country music, nine hours of Rush Limbaugh every day, and no minimum speed limit.I can't go back to Iowa. I won't.I won't be taken alive.Shhhh.The next time I go back to Iowa, it's for life.I can't do that kind of time.Shhh!Somewhere around two o'clock this afternoon, driving south on Highway ...
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USA: Cornering the Market on Morality
2007-04-20 10:25:00
William Blum interviewed by Jason Miller(including satirical commentary by Miller)4/20/07?We have morality on our side?.?---William BlumIronic words flowing from the pen of a man who has devoted forty years of his life to hard-core dissent against the United States, the most moral nation in the history of civilization.We are a nation founded upon bedrock principles of Christianity.Would Christ not have approved of chattel slavery, the Native American genocide, and the millions of ?savages? we have slaughtered to expand our borders and to maintain ?Pax Americana?? Those who have died to sustain our peace and prosperity were but martyrs for a cause greater than themselves. In a sense, each one of them was a little Jesus.Jesus certainly would have approved of American Capitalism. He was a fisher of men. Our bourgeois are fishers of men?s wealth. Those who reach the apex of our system?s hierarchy enable Christianity to flourish. By clawing their way to the top (driven by the greed and s...
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American Dream Now a Nightmare for Millions
2007-04-19 18:28:00
U.S. Census: One in Five Lives on Less than $7 per dayBy William ShanleyNew Haven, Connecticut (April 16, 2007) From Combined News Services and Evolution Solutions Newsroom -- A 2004 analysis of data by the US Census reports that 60 million American s now live on less than $7 per day. That's one in five in the U.S. living on less than $2,555 per year. At the same time, the richest 1 per cent now garners about 16 per cent of national income, double what they earned in the 1960s.[1]While global income inequality is probably greater than it has ever been in human history, with half the world's population living on less than $3 per day, and the richest 1% receiving as much as the bottom 57%, the fact that so many Americans are living on so little, is particularly confounding.The so-called ?wealthiest, most abundant nation on Earth? now has the widest gap between rich and poor of any industrialized nation.[2] In light of the fact that one dollar spent in the Caribbean, Latin America and...
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"I HOPE IT'S YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS THAT DIE" - US Representative Dana Rohraba
2007-04-19 17:43:00
By US Army Reserves Colonel (Retired) Ann Wright4/19/07AfterDowningStreet.org"I HOPE IT'S YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS THAT DIE" said US Representative Dana Rohrabacher to American citizens who questioned the Bush Administration's unlawful extraordinary rendition policies.Congressional hearings provide a deep insight into the inner spirit of our elected representatives-and sometimes, the insight is not pretty.On April 17, we witnessed Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) unleash his unbridled anger onto members of the European Parliament's committee on Human rights who were invited guests and witnesses in the House Foreign Affairs European subcommittee hearing. The European Parliamentary human rights committee had issued a report in January, 2007 sharply critical of the Bush administration's extraordinary rendition program in which persons from all over the world were detained by either CIA or local police and then flown by CIA jet (torture taxi) to other countries where they were impr...
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UNIMPEACHABLE - A Bush "Tribute"
2007-04-19 02:15:00
4/18/07An original creation of World 5.0Watch this succinct and powerful 2:23 video by clicking here!Unimpeachable, that's what you areUnimpeachable, regardless of warLike the lost sense of democracyAnd the thought of all those atrocitiesNever before has someone been moreUnimpeachable in every wayAnd forever more, that's how you'll stayCongress says no, unbelievableGuess that makes them also culpableThey think we are so forgettable tooUnimpeachable in every wayAnd forever more, that's how you'll stayCongress says no, it's incredibleThat someone so unimpeachableThinks that we are so forgettable tooThomas Paine's Corner is a site dedicated to advancing universal human rights, fostering social and economic justice, and supporting the cause of all oppressed, exploited, and impoverished human beings on our Earth.
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