Citizens
For Legitimate Government™
is a multi-partisan
activist group established to expose the Bush
coup d'etat, and to oppose the Bush
occupation in all of its manifestations.
CONTENTS
Destroying the Separation of Church and State
Gun Control, law enforcement and Community Safety
- Teacher draws heat for Reagan remarks
- Pills vs. Talking
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U.S. Draws Abortion Line at U.N. Officials May Boycott Session on Children read more
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Unhealthy Cuts for Head Start Mr. Bush wants to cut funding for 2002, in per child terms, by 2 percent. Inflation will further reduce the value of services received by each child. The program has not suffered a similar cut since the Reagan budgets of 1983 and 1986.
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Tax Bill Gives Benefits for Education
Subsidy for Private Schooling Among $30 Billion in Breaks this is money that is NEEDED by our public schools
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MURRAY, Republicans Torpedo Smaller Class Sizes
"Today Senate Republicans told parents, students and teachers that smaller classes are not a national priority,"
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Should Dubya Get a Failing Grade Over School Reform?
Special Report: After touting education as a top priority all the way to the White House, the President appears to have dropped the ball. Even his supporters are angry, report TIME's Karen Tumulty and Jodie Morse
- Judge Orders Marshals to Boston Convention Site
- More data points to jobless recovery
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Congressional Republicans Join Bush Dictatorship in Move to Slash Overtime Pay Working families could see their overtime pay cut, their work week increased and certain occupations no longer covered by overtime pay protection under five separate bills now in play in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Take Action! Tell Dictator Bush: Working families count on overtime pay.
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GOP Trying to Eliminate Overtime The nation's overtime pay law took another hit today as a House panel approved legislation that would let employers offer paid time off instead. Business groups, emboldened by complete Republican control of Congressa and federal executive branch, are pressing the Bush dictatorship to rewrite the labor law requiring employers to pay an hourly rate of time-and-a-half to some workers logging more than 40 hours a week.
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Republican Urges Unpaid Cop, Firefighter Overtime Powerful Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens suggested yesterday that New York's cops and firefighters should work overtime without pay as a wartime sacrifice. [!?! Maybe Halliburton should actually *pay*some*taxes* as a 'wartime sacrifice'. The GOP consists of 'Economic Chickenhawks', as well! --Lori Price]
- More data points to jobless recovery
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Jobs Show Worse-Than-Expected Drop The U.S. economy suffered a worse-than-expected 108,000 decline in payrolls in March as the start of the war with Iraq and profit uncertainties took a toll on hiring.
- Health lobby blocks mental health parity
- Wisconsin gets an "F" when it comes to reproductive health care
- McCollum
challenges President for rollback of Patients Rights, (HE) Truthout,
08/21/01 - Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-North St. Paul) reacted
strongly to President Bush's announcement this past week that he was
scrapping the Clinton Administration's patients' rights rules for
Medicaid enrollees and proposing new rules to take effect next year
- Bush
Undermines Patients' Bill of Rights, (HE) Truthout, 08/30/01 -
Congressman Bill Filner, DA-CA50, explains how Bush's "compromise"
bill with Norwood is actually an HMO bill of rights. An important
read!
- McCollum
challenges President for rollback of Patients Rights, HE Truthout,
08/21/01 - Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-North St. Paul) reacted
strongly to President Bush's announcement this past week that he was
scrapping the Clinton Administration's patients' rights rules for
Medicaid enrollees and proposing new rules to take effect next year.
- Senator
Clinton Urges Administration To Reverse Decision Rolling Back Basic
Patient Protections For Medicaid Recipients, HE,truthout, : 08/15/01
- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton today sent a letter to Health and
Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson asking him to reconsider
the Administration's plans to roll back basic patient protections
for the nearly 20 million poor and disabled Americans in the Medicaid
program.
- Senator
Jean Carnahan delivers democratic response to president bush's weekly
radio address On the Patience Bill of Rights
- BUSH'S BACK-DOOR BOOGIE Bush has done a marvelous job of confirming what
I already knew - to wit, that he doesn't give a tinker's damn for
the uninsured and - further - that he remains deliberately clueless
as to what "choices" we face when it comes to health care.
- Statement of senator edward m. Kennedy regarding the patients' bill of rights
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2 Pharmacy Groups Sue to Block Bush's Drug Discount Plan Two organizations
that represent the nation's pharmacies sued federal health officials
yesterday to try to block President Bush's proposal to offer prescription
drug discount cards to all elderly Americans. Date: 07/18/01
- Dead
Wrong On AIDSRead the WP Op-Ed exposing the misinformation used
by the Bush administration's new chief of the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID). Date: 06/15/01
- Title:
Democrats, Pharmacists Criticize Bush Drug ProposalSummary: Aids
offered details of how the discounts would work. Using a market-based
approach, the plan would rely on companies that manage pharmaceutical
benefits to negotiate reduced prices with drug manufacturers and pass
on the discounts. Drug companies, the theory goes, would be willing
to offer discounts of as much as 20 percent because of the prospect
of a large volume of sales. Date: 07/12/01
- Hospitals
supporting HMO suits Sunday July 08, 2001 Officials feel the threat
of court action will help stem losses they suffer when payments are
delayed or denied "Think of it logically," said Cohen of
the congressional move to allow legal retribution against HMOs. "The
insurance companies have acted in such bad faith that the federal
government is having to enact a law to protect people."
- Conservatives
Pressure Bush in Cell DebateJuly 12, 2001
- Bush
accused of 'waffle' as he tries to escape ethics dilemmaBy Andrew
Gumbel in Los Angeles, 09 July 2001
- Sex
Education Bush administration is forsaking its responsibilities
- Time
to pass a Patients' Bill of Rights By Congressman Bob Filner,
July 3, 2001
- What
Rights Do Patients Need? Insurers must be held accountable.
An Op-Ed By U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton June 22, 2001
The competing proposal supported by President Bush lacks many of these protections. It would allow health plans to decide whether patients can see an outside specialist. It would create external review boards that would be selected and paid for by the health plans themselves. It would fail to protect doctors who fought for patients from being punished by their HMOs. And it wouldn't even cover all insured New Yorkers, because it would leave out more than 2 million who are in employer-offered, self-insured plans.
- White
House irritated over surgeon general's report on sex
- Kennedy
& McCain React to Bush's Threat to Veto Patients' Bill of Rights
Summary: Compares bill's facts with Bush's version of legislation's effect, including Texas outcomes of similar legislation.
Date: 06/22/01
- Gephardt
on rightwing G.O.P.'s attempt to derail the Patients' Bill of Rights
"They seem to be continuing to try to write a bill that has little or no enforcement in it. They keep redefining and redefining the right to enforce one's rights. And they simply do that, in my view, in order to stay in league with the special interests that do not really want a Patients' Bill of Rights and do not certainly want people to be able to enforce it."
- Bush
promises to veto patients' bill of rights
- STATEMENT
OF SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY ON THE URGENT NEED TO PASS REAL PATIENT
PROTECTIONS
- The
Right Patients' Bill of Rights
NY Times, June 18, 2001
The White House-backed alternative in the Senate, sponsored by Bill Frist, Republican of Tennessee, and John Breaux, Democrat from Louisiana, does give patients many of the same rights, like access to specialty care. But on liability issues it seems more concerned with protecting the health care industry, a major Republican campaign contributor, than with protecting patients.
- U.S.
Patients' Bill Changed to Shield Doctors
LA Times, June 15, 2001
Proposed in the Senate by Democrats Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and John Edwards of North Carolina and by Republican John McCain of Arizona, the legislation, scheduled for debate starting on Tuesday, would give patients the unprecedented right to sue health maintenance organizations and insurers for decisions about treatment that result in injury or death. President Bush has threatened to veto the bill, warning that it could lead to a flood of frivolous lawsuits against a wide range of companies and raise health care costs by permitting jury awards of up to $5 million in federal courts and unlimited punitive damages under state law.
- White
House vows to veto health bill
Boston Globe Staff, 6/11/2001
Seeks award cap, federal authority over litigation
- Lott
Seeks Delay on Patients' Rights Debate
NY TIMES June 19
- Bush
would veto current patients' rights plan, aide says
Nando Times, June 10
- Statement Of Senator Edward M. Kennedy Regarding The Patients' Bill Of Rights
- Health
Care Access Threatened With Critical Condition
Budget cut could cut you off from your family physician
WASHINGTON -- President Bush`s proposed 2002 budget would zero out all federal funding for family medicine training programs under Title VII of the Public Health Service Act. These are the only programs at the federal level specifically designed to support family medicine training: they help promising medical students choose to become family physicians and to serve in rural and underserved communities across America.
- STATEMENT
BY REP. NANCY PELOSI
Bush AIDS Plan Lacks Resources to Effectively Fight the AIDS Crisis
- Disabled
veterans plea to GOP falls on deaf ears
- Bush
Administration Order Halts Stem Cell Meeting
NIH Planned Session To Review Fund Requests
- Bush
Budget Makes Major Cuts in Health Plans
- Despite
Outcry, Bush AIDS Office Gutted
- Budget
on Health Care Would Cut Aid to Uninsured
- The
budget would eliminate the Community Access Program
- A
Raid on Medicare
- Patients
bill alive, for now
- Bush
Stalling Bipartisan Bill on Rights of Patients
- bushwhacks
patients' bill of rights
- GOP
Plans Raid on Medicare
- Bush's
Medicare Euthanasia
- Endangering
Medicare
- Bush
Plan Bankrupts Medicare
- CBO Report Ignores Government Looting of Social Security Trust Fund
- Pharmacists, lawmakers fielding calls about Medicaid changes
- U.S.
Paul D. Wellstone Radio Address on Social Security, (SS) Truthout,
08/18/01 - Minnesota's senator sacks Bush's plan to privatize Social
Security as unnecessary, unwise, unfair and untrue to Social Security's
fundamental principles.
- Social
Security Team Eyes Possible Benefit Cuts,SS Yahoo, 08/22/01
- Bush's commission on Social Security reform said on Wednesday
cuts in benefits may be needed to shore up the retirement system
even if private investment accounts are set up....The Congressional
Research Service concluded in a report released earlier this week
that retirement benefit cuts -- ranging from 3.9 percent to 10.8
percent -- may be needed even if personal investment accounts are
set up.
- U.S.
Paul D. Wellstone Radio Address on Social Security, SS Truthout,
08/18/01 - Minnesota's senator sacks Bush's plan to privatize Social
Security as unnecessary, unwise, unfair and untrue to Social Security's
fundamental principles.
- Commission to Have Closed Meetings , SS YaHoo, 08/18/01 - Recommended changes
to Social Security will be formulated behind closed doors while
fiscal and administrative issues related to creating personal Social
Security accounts are discussed. The article cites other examples
of the Federal Advisory Committee Act infractions.
- In the Tank Questions the origins of Bush's Social Security privatization initiative; echoes that women are disproportionately dependent on Social Security. Date: 08/02/01 Read more.
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Bush's budget goes for broke The new budget numbers make it clear that the president's tax cut was aimed at bankrupting the treasury all along. read more
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: Commission to Have Closed Meetings Recommended changes to Social Security will be formulated behind closed doors while fiscal and administrative issues related to creating personal Social Security accounts are discussed. The article cites other examples of the Federal Advisory Committee Act infractions. 08/18/01 read more
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Recommended changes to Social Security will be formulated behind closed doors while fiscal and administrative issues related to creating personal Social Security accounts are discussed. The article cites other examples of the Federal Advisory Committee Act infractions. Read more.
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Two Leaders in U.S. House Reject Plan on Retirement Representatives J. Dennis Hastert, the speaker of the House, and Richard A. Gephardt, the Democratic leader, said today that they would not support a proposal to change Social Security. Date: 07/29/01
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Congressman Bob Filner seeks to block funding for President Bush's Social Security Privatization Plan Congressman Bob Filner offered an amendment today that would attempt to block the administration from providing funds for the purpose of considering or developing a Social Security privatization plan. Rep. Filner's Amendment did not pass -- but for an early procedural amendment to have threatened the Bush administration's Social Security aspirations bodes well for congressional resistance to the plan. Date: 07/25/01
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2016 and All That I knew that the commission on Social Security reform appointed by George W. Bush would produce a slanted report, one designed to bully Congress into privatizing the system. But the draft report released last week is sheer, mean-spirited nonsense. by Paul Krugman
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Please don't botch Social Security I'm afraid Karl Rove's timing is off: You can't pass a huge tax cut tilted heavily toward the rich and then announce that Social Security is about to go belly-up. People make the connection. by Molly Ivins
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statements by -Daschle-Gephardt on Social Security "What is going on here is not a mystery. The Republican party has always opposed Social Security and Medicare, and these latest scare tactics are part of a sixty-six year drive to gut Social Security and let people fend for themselves at age 65.
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Even Most Generous Drug Plan May Be Disappointing to Elderly The Senate majority leader, Tom Daschle, Democrat of South Dakota, said: "We're working under very tight constraints. One of the biggest, of course, has been dictated as a result of the passage of the Bush tax bill. They wanted to pass a tax bill in large measure because they wanted to constrain domestic commitments and investments. This is a perfect example of it."
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Tax cut shrinks projected surplus As the surplus shrinks, budget experts from both parties now say Congress and President Bush will have to tap funds reserved for Medicare to pay for the spending increases they want for the fiscal year that begins in October. Dipping into Medicare is something lawmakers and the White House have vowed not to do. 6/26/01
- Vatican: Bush wants bishops to back his agenda
- Supreme Court to Hear Title IX Case
- Ashcroft Terrorizes New York Doctors
- TIME
FOR A FRESH LOOK AT WELFARE REFORM, WI 08/21/01 - Rep. Bob Filner
outlines challenges of the next round of welfare reform. "Welfare
reform is a slogan. Poverty is a fact. For those who supported the
1996 welfare reform, it is time to make good on the promise of a
better life for those who leave the welfare rolls."
- Shed
those aprons, girls The GOP is coming to woo women to the right
They want welfare mothers to work and working mothers to stay home.
by Molly Ivins
- Senate
foreign relations committee approves Boxer bill to reverse the bush
gag rule on international family planning
- Global Gag Rule threatens lives of Nepali women Nepal Family Planning Provider
to Testify Before Congress 19 July 2001
- Bush
Plan Allows States to Give 'Unborn Child' Medical CoverageThe
Bush administration has drafted a new policy that would allow states
to define "an unborn child" as a person eligible for medical
coverage under the Children's Health Insurance Program. Date: 07/06/01
- Bush
Renews Fight on Abortion Aid Curb
GOP Conservatives Courted as House Prepares to Vote on New Proposal
- U.S.
Resists 'Comfort Women' Suit
Japan's War Actions Are Covered by Treaties, Officials Say
- Life
before Roe
- Panel
Votes to Reverse Bush Abortion Decision
- Panel
reverses bush gag order on abortion providers
- ACLU
Urges House to Defeat "Unborn Victims of Violence Act,"
Says Bill Seeks to Erode Reproductive Freedom
- Women's
Forum challenges feminists, gains influence w. Jr
- Conceiving
the Possibilities
Abortion-Rights Activists Have Much to March About as Bush
Casts His Lot with Extremists on Birth Control
- ACLU
Urges House to Defeat "Unborn Victims of Violence Act,"
Says Bill Seeks to Erode Reproductive Freedom
- A
shortsighted president shortchanges women
- bush
is trying to hide is record on women's rights
- Enemy
in the mirror
I am at a loss as to why any woman that was not firmly anti-choice or living among the top five-percenters would have voted for G.W. Bush.
- Budget
Wouldn't Cover Contraceptives
``It is also the height of hypocrisy for a president who opposes a woman's right to choose to also limit women's access to the very thing that prevents unintended pregnancies and makes abortions less necessary,'' Feldt said.
- bush
restricts medicare coverage of RU488
- Shut
down of women office signals shift on women
- Shut
office signals shift on women
- New
abortion restrictions planned, Emboldened House Republicans are
preparing a series of measures
- Stacking
the court anti choice
- Europeans
Look to Match Funds
- GOP
Seeks Abortion Limits
- Bill
would undo Bush's abortion criteria for foreign aid
- Bush
Policy Comes Between a Woman and Her Healthcare Provider
- Less
Gov't Party Wants Big Brother
- Enron faces suit in California over rigging power market
- Enron Traders Caught On Tape
- MasterCard blamed for pushing up shop prices
- American
Cancer Society: Legislation Claims To Reduce Youth Smoking But Instead
Protects Big Tobacco ,CN US Newswire, 06/22/01 - The bill, The
National Youth Smoking Reduction Act," (H.R. 2180), would do little
to protect children due to the numerous loopholes that would only
benefit the tobacco industry.
- Bush
Is Putting Team in Place for a Full-Bore Assault on Regulation,
CP NY Times, 05/23/01- : Across an array of federal agencies, the
Bush administration has begun to make good on its commitment of
broad deregulation, promoting a policy transformation long sought
by the business community and opposed by consumer, labor and environmental
organizations.
- Philip Morris Hasn't Changed Company's Report to Czech Government Argues
Dead Smokers Are Good for Government Budgets. It is the same Philip
Morris that has been invited by the Bush Administration to negotiate
a settlement to the federal tobacco lawsuit.
- School Pesticide Measure Is Attacked House GOP Vows to Kill Senate Provision
for Parental Notice of Chemicals' Use July 19, 2001
- Statement
of Matthew L. Myers, President Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids
Bush Administration Effort to Settle Tobacco Lawsuit Smells Like Sweetheart Deal for Tobacco Industry
- Watch
your mail carefully for the next few weeks. Financial institutions
of all kinds will be telling you, sometimes deviously, how much
they care about your privacy.
- NRDC
Denounces Bush Administration Suspension of Arsenic-in-Drinking-Water
Protections
- bush
continue to oppose price caps on energy
- Bush
Budget May Cripple Tobacco Lawsuit, Memo Warns
- Presidential
Budget May End U.S. Tobacco Suit
- EPA
isn't helping, Bush tells president Jeb Bush asks his brother
for federal support for Florida's plan to store untreated water
in the underground aquifer.
- Texas
energy firm gauged California
- White
House Plans to Revise New Medical Privacy Rules
- Bush
Proposes Cuts in Fraud Enforcement
- bush
wants to scrap the internet privacy agreement
- bush
oppose consummer privacy in the name of "bidness"
- Bankruptcy
Deform Redux
- Bankruptcy
Bill Lobby
- Senate
Nixes Bankruptcy Exemptions
- The
Bankruptcy Reform Issue
- Senate
Rejects Credit Card Limits
- Bankruptcy
Bill Helps Select Few
- A
Reversal on Public Access to Chemical Data
- Real
Quid Pro Quo
- Supreme
Court Term Marked by Election Controversy Ends"The legacy
of Bush v. Gore will be shaped in large part by the Court's ultimate
response to these other challenges," Shapiro noted. "We
will then have a better idea of whether the Court actually announced
a constitutional principle in Bush v. Gore, or merely a result."
- FBI warns cities
- Black Admissions Drop 30% at Berkeley
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Security Concerns Threaten State's Open Records, Meetings Law, [CR], Palm Beach Post, 09/26/01 - -- Florida is under a state of emergency, legislators are considering closing committee meetings, and routine public records are being withheld in the name of a massive federal terrorism investigation. In the two weeks since suicide attacks killed thousands, civil libertarians are growing worried that Florida's ironclad Government-in-the-Sunshine Law -- the most open in the nation -- could become collateral damage.
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Senate Democrat Proposes Alternative Antiterrorism Plan, [CR] New York Times, 09/20/01 <> The White Houseís proposed anti-terrorist legislative package faces opposition as Senator Patrick J. Leahy of VT, Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, takes a pragmatic approach to preserve civil liberties in the wake of the anti-terrorist frenzy; while GAís conservative Republican representative Bob Barr voices concerns about Internet surveillance.
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New Powers Sought for Surveillance , (CR) Washington Post, 09/17/01 - In the wake of the attacks, proposals include ending the ban on political assassination, more power to conduct wiretaps, detain foreigners, track money-laundering cases, recruit and pay overseas agents linked to terrorist groups and human rights abuses, and create a counterterrorism czar inside the White House.
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Protests are out and we will decide what you can investigate , (CR) Online Journal, 08/31/01 - The Bush administration has brought two concepts to the forefront of the nation's consciousness. One, you are no longer allowed to protest, and two, they will tell you what you can and cannot investigate.
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Democracy's future depends on an informed public , (CR) Online Journal, 08/31/01 - Carla Binion uses two topics of importance to the sustenance of American democracy, unwarranted arrests and unauditable elections, as supports for the necessity of a truth-telling TV news network devoted to keeping democracy.
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Decision to Skip U.N. Meeting Lamented, (CR) Washington Post, 08/28/01 - Powell will stay away from the World Conference Against Racism, which begins Friday, because of the administration's opposition to what it calls "offensive language" in a proposed final conference communique that would condemn Israel's treatment of Palestinians as racist.
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Scarfo: Feds Plead for Secrecy , (CR) Lycos wired news, 08/27/01 - Should a mobster be set free because the government used a keyboard tap? (Like a wiretap, but on your keyboard.) Will this accused receive a fair trial - behind closed doors? When observers are barred from the courtroom? When documents are withheld from the defense attorneys? When the trial is moved to a location other than a courtroom? What's up with all this? If his rights are violated: will YOURS be next?
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Global Economy's New Guardian D.C.'s Answer to IMF, World Bank Protests: Miles of Chain-Link , (CR) Washington Post, 08/30/01 - The fence will be nine feet tall. It will have a perimeter of 2 1/2 miles. It will enclose 220 downtown acres and block 27 streets, according to preliminary plans. Corralled will be: the White House, parts of Foggy Bottom and George Washington University, four apartment buildings, a church, dozens of stores, restaurants and offices.
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The Pentagon And the Professor, (CR) Washington Post, 08/29/01 - Incredible governmental set-up of thoughtful scientific academian using his mind and skills to question the feasibility of the missile defense shield proposal.
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STATEMENT, GEORGIA CONGRESSWOMAN CYNTHIA McKINNEY McKinney Lays Out the Facts on Reparations Now! The treatment of blacks in this country has historically been deplorable and while steps have been made to better the racial climate, nothing has been done to compensate those who have been wronged in the process. Bush does not want to talk about reparations because he opposes paying compensation to black Americans for slavery. That is what Ari Fleischer his spokesman, had the nerve to categorically state at a White House briefing. I hope that is a mischaracterization of President Bush's attitude, especially given the facts surrounding the November 2000 elections. Read more.
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Ashcroft may reverse policy that protects journalists The case of a reporter jailed Friday for refusing to give her research to federal prosecutors has raised concerns that Attorney General John Ashcroft is reversing a policy that gives journalists wide latitude in protecting confidential sources and unpublished information Date: 07/27/01
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British protesters claim Genoa police took brutal revenge for summit riots Battered, bruised and angry, four of the Britons arrested in Genoa during the anti-capitalist demonstrations arrived home yesterday claiming they had been beaten and tortured by baton-wielding Italian police. Date: 07/27/01
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CPSC Choice Provokes ControversyConsumers Union of United States Inc. is scheduled to join a coalition in denouncing her nomination. July 24, 2001
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Statement from DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe on the Bush Mexican Immigration Proposal The Bush Administration's apparent decision to back away from a proposal that would grant permanent legal status to millions of hard-working Mexican immigrants shows the Republican Party's true lack of compassion and sensitivity.
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World Conference Against Racism Statement Hearing in the House Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, Ranking Member july 31, 2001, So you see Madam Chair, Iπm more than a little suspicious that President Bush is disingenuous with respect to his opposition to racism and that in truth he really doesnπt care about it at all. And therefore no wonder he doesnπt see the need for this country to support the World Conference Against Racism.
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Exporting corporate control A gold company with ties to the Bush family tries to muzzle a muckraking journalis By Joe Conason July 20, 2001
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STATEMENT CONGRESSMAN JESSE JACKSON, JR. on Constitutional Amendments Conservatives have already introduced approximately 50 constitutional amendments in the 107th Congress. Conservatives introduced nearly 75 constitutional amendments in the 106th Congress. They organize their base around what they believe are their fundamental constitutional rights -- a balanced budget amendment; term limits; right to life; prohibition against flag desecration; voluntary school prayer; line-item veto; English as the official language; limiting the public debt; protecting the rights of crime victims; religious freedom; spending limitations; and the abolition of personal income, estate, and gift taxes. These are just some of what conservatives consider their fundamental rights and what they are trying to put in the Constitution. Date: 07/17/01
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Hearing for two activists delayed Prosecutors want more time to decide whether to move ahead with charges against protesters arrested last month at a rally for President George W. Bush in Tampa, FL. Date: 07/17/01
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Speaking Truth to Power! NAACP's Leader Julian Bond address to the 92nd National Convention is poignant, historical, humorousÖand politically pointed. Date: 07/08/01
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June 20, 2001 What Vieques is About , Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Surely we, as a civilized nation, need to rise above sacrificing the freedom and safety of innocent American citizens so that unnecessary war games can take place. It is now time for the Navy's bombing of Vieques to stop, so that the cleanup can begin and the people of Vieques can once again call this beautiful island "home."
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STATEMENTS OF CONGRESSMAN JOHN CONYERS, JR. and JESSE JACKSON JR. on RELEASE OF JACQUELINE JACKSON
When a person of Ms. Jackson's stature and reputation can be so cavalierly mistreated and abused by our federal government, it should give us all pause. I'm concerned that ordinary citizens engaged in civil disobedience in Puerto Rico may be facing even more abusive treatment. As a result, even though Ms. Jackson will be released, I am calling for hearings on the way that U.S. citizens who haven't been convicted of a crime are being mistreated in our federal prisons. We will not let this issue die.
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Conyers Demands that Ashcroft Release Jacqueline Jackson from Solitary Confinement "If a person of Ms. Jackson's stature and reputation can be so cavalierly mistreated and abused by our federal government, I'm concerned that ordinary citizens are facing even more abusive treatment. Whatever the resolution of Ms. Jackson's case, this may well necessitate hearings to shed further light on the problem of abusive treatment of persons charged with minor misdemeanor offenses."
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Groups Fault Plan to Listen, Search and Seize, [CR] NY Times, 09/20/01 A coalition of 150 groups from across the political spectrum object to various proposed anti-terrorist powers including: broad new wiretapping authority; the power to deport immigrants suspected of terrorism without any court review of the evidence; use information collected by foreign governments against American citizens including information obtained by techniques that would have violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against illegal searches and seizures; authority for the government to seize evidence from terrorism suspects, including DNA samples; to seize the assets of foreign governments suspected of aiding terrorists; and to gain wider access to educational records and tax returns, and more.
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Liberty at Risk, [CR] Washington Post, 09/19/01 Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) details past legislative attempts to enhance public safety and some historical threats to civil liberties, ending with: "History has taught us that we should not use the threat of violence as an excuse to suppress legitimate constitutional rights and liberties." Justice Department is abandoning civil rights case against New York Police Department The federal government has apparently shelved a civil rights case against the police department that was begun three years ago amid outrage over the torture of a Haitian immigrant in a police bathroom in Brooklyn.
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The Executioner in Chief Summary: New Department of Justice guidelines circumvent state laws by allowing federal prosecution of certain murder cases in states without capital punishment. Date: June 20, 2001
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SENATOR BARBARA BOXER'S FLOOR STATEMENT ON THE EDUCATION AMENDMENT :
The second reason this amendment is such a disappointment to me is that, in my opinion, it tolerates discrimination. A year and a half ago, Congress awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest honor this nation can bestow on civilians, to the "Little Rock Nine." More than a generation ago, as children, they had the courage to help desegregate the Little Rock public schools.
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Treated Like Trash
NY Times June 14, 2001
Velda González may be 68 years old, the vice president of the Senate in Puerto Rico and a grandmother several times over. But none of that mattered to U.S. Navy officials who treated her like trash, which is the same way they've treated so many others who have been arrested for protesting the Navy's bombing exercises on the island of Vieques.
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Mr. Ashcroft's Skimpy Report
NY Times June 10, 2001
There is "no evidence of racial bias in the administration of the federal death penalty," Attorney General John Ashcroft declared last week upon issuing a Justice Department report that purports to settle the issue. But the report does no such thing.
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Seabrook officials pass ordinance on group planning rally
A Florida group that wants to protest a conference honoring Florida Judge Sanders Sauls and Secretary of State Katherine Harris has run into problems with the city council.
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McKinney, "U.S. Plans to Boycott UN Racism Conference."
"I can foresee no acceptable reason this country can offer for non-participation..."
- Vote on Michigan appeals court nominee delayed
- Sen. Kennedy loses bid to block Pryor court appointment
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Clarence Thomas, Revenge Terry Wooten's nomination to the U.S. District Court in South Carolina pays back Wooten, who was the chief counsel to the Republican minority on the Senate Judiciary Committee, a spot that in essence made him the legal point man for the pro-Thomas forces. Date: 07/30/01
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Bush judicial nominees gave money to GOP candidates A survey of campaign fundraising records shows that nearly half of President Bush?s nominees to the federal bench have given money to the GOP. Several have a history of extensive contributions that may hinder their confirmation in the Democratic Senate. Date: 07/25/01
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G.O.P. Reports an 'Impasse' Over Senate Reorganization
NY Times, June 15, 2001 Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the new Judiciary chairman, issued a statement saying: "There is more than a little irony in the charge from some Republican quarters that the Democratic Senate will treat President Bush's judicial nominees unfairly. Some Republicans seem to be expecting in Democrats the same wiles that the G.O.P. Senate used in killing so many of President Clinton's nominees."
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GOP rejects Democratic offer on reorganizing Senate
"I'm not sure I've ever heard of anything quite like that before," Daschle told CNN. "We're going to use the nominating process that the Senate has used for decades, if not generations -- just go through the hearing process and make our decisions without making any early commitments about what we are going to do one way or the other."
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Jeffrey Sutton Appears to be at/ near top of Bush Appointment List
Apparently Bush shows every sign of pushing the Sutton nomination and the nomination of other states' rights jurists supported by the Federalist Society despite its obvious inconsistency with his commitment to uphold the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Bush urges approval for 11 judges
Senate Democrats, noting that Republicans went out of their way to block some of President Clinton's nominees, said they will carefully review all the nominees. They pledged to fight any effort to stack the federal judiciary with conservative ideologues.
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Debate Rages Over Home-State Veto on Judges
"We're simply saying, 'Let's use the same procedure that our Republican colleagues have used for the last six years,''' said Senate Democratic leader Thomas Daschle of South Dakota. "We simply want to be able to say we've had a chance to assure that these nominees represent excellence, they represent diversity, and they represent moderation,'' Daschle said on ABC's "This Week'' program. "We are not going to be supportive of some far-right-wing judge on any court.''
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Justice for Judges: Senate Democrats Threaten to Use Republican Tactics and the GOP Screams Bloody Murder
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Democrats Block Picks for 2 Justice Posts
Claiming Republican Power Grab, Senators Protest Change in Judicial Vetting
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Even Before Bush Can Name Them, Democrats, GOP Clash Over Judges
Senate: Parties are at odds over rules for nominating jurists. The fighting could escalate soon as lawmakers vow to block two Justice Dept. nominees.
- White House 'trying to help Howard'
- Lone Star gets loonier
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Behind the Show of Bipartisanship: Muted Dissent, (PA) Washington Post, 09/17/01- : The rush by lawmakers to give rhetorical support, money and broad war-making authority to President Bush to respond to terrorism was a display of bipartisan unity and deference to the executive branch that is without precedent in Washington in recent decades. But lurking beneath the surface of this united front is a more complicated reality.
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Ahhh-oooo, Werewolves in Washington, PA Sun Herald, 06/06/01 - A humorous, pointed satire on the partisan accusations facing the report by the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights report on the Florida election debacle.
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Critics Blast Commission Report, Leak, (page code) Fox News, 06/05/01 - A controversial report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights says the Justice Department should investigate the possibility of discrimination in last year's elections in Florida.
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McCain Is Considering Leaving GOP
"He seems to be changing rapidly before our eyes," said Robert McIntyre, head of Citizens for Tax Justice and a major critic of the Bush tax cut. "It's very interesting. It's almost like he stopped hanging around with the wrong people, and has woken up."
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The Oldest Senator
While some colleagues privately express concern about Strom Thurmond's abilities, they all know why he carries on: In a chamber split 50-50, he's the 50th Republican vote
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Embassy Row
When a new president sits down to decide who will represent the United States in countries abroad, the names of big campaign contributors almost always come up.
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ShadowWith Help From Congressional Republicans And The Bush
'Faith-Based' Initiative, Controversial Korean Evangelist Sun Myung
Moon Is Trying To Expand His Religious-Political Empire, June 2001
- Religious Leaders Would Be Allowed More Freedom to Participate in Partisan Politics
- Gay rights group: Church broke law
- White House Secretly Assured Religious Right That Faith-Based Funding Plan Will Allow Religious Groups To Proselytize Bush Administration's 'stealth' Strategy Is 'scandalous Duplicity,' Charges AU's Lynn Read more.
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A WIDER BUSH PLAN FOR RELIGIOUS 'COMMUNITARIANISM:' Secularism, Individualism Are The Targets In A New Culture War Funding of religious groups is just one part of President Bush's expansive faith-based agenda. The new buzz word on Capitol Hill is "communitarianism," a philosophy which excoriates individualism and secularism in favor of gauzy notions of "community," "civility," and "values." 08/01/01
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Bush Urges High Court on Vouchers The Bush administration urged the Supreme Court to take up school vouchers Friday, arguing that an Ohio school choice program does not violate the Constitution's ban on government promotion of religion.
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How Bush Sold Out the Christian Right Summary: The very concept of a church-state wedding is stupendously anti-constitutional-and only modern, archconservative lawyers could assault the Bill of Rights on the matter with a straight face and ideological cattle prod. Date: 6-24-01
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Faith-Based Groups Should Be Careful What Whey Wish For Summary: Having the state pay for religion actually runs the danger of removing morality from religious life, because government money always comes with strings attached the Bush administration's proposed cutbacks in other social programs that would help these communities dwarf anything that might be gained in faith-based funding. They stand to lose more than they gain. Date: 6-22-01
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New fan of Dorothy Day neglects her values Summary: Bush misattributes quote to activist while pandering to religious crowd to foster support for faith-based initiative. Date: 6/15/2001
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White House Rejects Powell's Choice to Run Refugee Bureau
The White House has overruled Secretary of State Colin L. Powell on his choice to run an important refugee bureau at the State Department and has insisted on a nominee who represents the Vatican's diplomatic mission at the United Nations.
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Ashcroft's Faith Plays Visible Role at Justice
Bible Sessions With Staffers Draw Questions and Criticism
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Lieberman Raises Red Flag on Faith-Based Initiative The senator has trouble with civil rights provisions of faith-based approach.
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Support for Religion-Based Plan Is Hedged: a lot of people are for it, but only if you discriminate against certain religions they don't agree with!
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Au Asks Congress To Remove Extremists From Faith-Based Summit's Religious Advisory Committee One Committee Member Tapped By House Gop Conference Called Jews 'dirty And Wicked'
- New 'Hiccup' for Florida Voters
- Fight over electronic voting riles League of Women Voters
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Ashcroft Campaign Violations
- Gun victim plans takeover revenge on manufacturer
- NRA Opens Office in Baghdad
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Nuclear Plants Could Be Next Targets of Terrorists by Rear Admiral (RET) Eugene Carroll, [GN] truthout.com A retired rear admiral identifies other terrorist targets, and advises: "The only realistic hope to reduce the danger of future attacks lies not in violent reprisals by American forces, but in positive preventive programs, taken in concert with other nations to attack the root causes of terrorism by political and economic means."
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Senate Backs Strict Safety Tests for Mexican Trucks in U.S. A recent study by the inspector general of the Department of Transportation found that nearly two in five Mexican trucks failed basic safety inspections, compared with one in four American trucks or one in seven Canadian trucks. The Senate defied threats from the White House and the Mexican government today and voted overwhelmingly to support efforts to impose strict safety standards on Mexican trucks seeking access to American roads. 07/27/01
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Attorney General Declares Individual Right to Bear Arms Summary: Ashcroft's declaration heralds a change in the government's traditional interpretation of the Second Amendment and signals a big victory for the NRA. Date: 07/11/01
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Violence Policy Center Endorses Schumer Proposal to Protect Brady Law From Being Gutted by Ashcroft Justice Department Legislation Needed to Enable Law Enforcement to Keep Guns Out of the Hands of Criminals. June 29, 2001
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Nafta
We are writing to you to express our serious concerns with your decision to begin approving Mexican motor carrier applications for cross-border trucking services outside existing border commercial zones.
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Ashcroft Supports Broad View of Gun Rights
"Let me state unequivocally my view that the text and the original intent of the Second Amendment clearly protect the right of individuals to keep and bear firearms," Mr. Ashcroft wrote. "While some have argued that the Second Amendment guarantees only a `collective right' of the states to maintain militias, I believe the amendment's plain meaning and original intent prove otherwise."
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Bush's new drug czar
John Walters, a hard-line drug warrior, is the leading candidate to replace Barry McCaffrey. Advocates say he's a throwback to the bad old days of Bill Bennett.
The Bennett-Walters drug office was characterized by widespread use of the bully pulpit to issue harsh moral condemnations of users of illegal drugs, little distinction between marijuana and drugs like heroin and cocaine and an emphasis on punishment over rehabilitation
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Guns for America Texas Style
- War spending 'has made country more vulnerable'
- High-profile air strikes 'killed only civilians'
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Loyal Opposition A WAR WITHOUT END: We cannot win a war on terrorism, [PE] TomPaine.com - Is war really the only answer? No, there ARE other options.
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Fighting Terrorism on a Global Front, [PE] NY Times, 09/21/01 The Secretary General of the UN, Kofi Annan, describes how it provides the forum necessary for building a universal coalition and can ensure global legitimacy for the long-term response to terrorism.
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An Imbalance of Power: Afghanistan's Deceptive Strengths, [PE] NY Times, 09/20/01 A reporter knowledgeable about the Russian failed military experience in Afghanistan describes some of the challenges.
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Shield Plan Buoyed by a Bipartisan Mood , (PE) NY Times, 09/13/01 - The suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon appear to have strengthened, not weakened, the prospects for Congressional support of President Bush's missile defense plan.
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Afghan Clerics Weigh Handover of bin Laden (PE) Even if the Taliban decides to turn over bin Laden, it may not avert retaliation, says Defense Secretary Rumsfield. 09/18/01 read more
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The Need for Dissent (PE) REFLECTIONS ON BIN LADEN, MILITARY SPENDING, WEAPONS MANUFACTURING, AIRPORT SECURITY, PLUTONIUM PROLIFERATION AND MORE. 09/18/01 read more
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Now IS the Time to Speak for Peace (PE) It is time to face some difficult truths: The war being planned is not about the emotions of citizens and their leaders spinning out of control. Yes, people are angry, and many are hungry for revenge. But that is merely a cover for the politicians. 09/17/01 read more
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U.S. Draws Abortion Line at U.N. Officials May Boycott Session on Children, (PE) Washington Post, 08/28/01 - The U.S. may boycott a U.N. conference on children because its draft document supports abortion. Other conferences the government has opted out of include those to stem the spread of small arms and enforce restrictions on the proliferation of biological weapons.
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U.S. to Give Details of Shield Tests to China , (PE) Washington Post, 09/02/01 - Read thoughtfully, this is a truly alarming article disclosing Team Bush's acknowledgement that pursuing the missile shield (by land, sea and space) will accelerate China's missile deployment and resumption of nuclear weapons testing.
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Putin's guided missile, PE The Guardian, 06/21/02 - Vladimir Putin's threat to expand Russia's long-range nuclear weapons capability, after a decade of hard-won, negotiated reductions, is a stark and timely reminder of the dangers inherent in US missile defence plans.
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THE "ENEMY WITHIN":,PE Statewatch, 08/22/01 - A special report by Statewatch on the EU's plans to combat future protests at EU and international meetings in Europe shows the EU plans would impose a variety of restrictions on protestors or enhance governmental restrictions and surveillance.
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Biden Delegation Meets with Chinese President Jiang Zemin in Rare Setting, PE Truthout, 08/08/01 - Head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committeee meets with Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Defense Minister Chi Hao-tian, telling them: "Öwe welcome China's emergence on the world scene as a great power, because great powers adhere to international norms in the areas of nonproliferation, human rights, and trade."
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Conservative Coalition Pushes Missile Shield on Capitol Hill A coalition of conservative organizations, concerned that their top military priority is facing a tough battle on Capitol Hill, has begun a national lobbying campaign to pressure Congress into supporting President Bush's plans for a missile shield. 08/06/01 read more
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Senate Leader to Challenge Bush on Missile Defense Senate Leader to Challenge Bush on Missile Defense Summary: Tom Daschle, the Senate majority leader, plans to continue his challenge to President Bush on missile defense by accusing the president of taking a "single-minded approach" to national security, according to an advance text of a speech Mr. Daschle is to deliver. Date: 08/09/01 read more
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The Oops List: Nuclear Weapons Accidents These are just a few of the many accidents and incidents involving U.S. nuclear weapons based in foreign countries that were not mentioned in May 1981, when the Defense Department released what it claimed was the first "comprehensive" list of U.S. nuclear weapons accidents. That compilation, titled "Narrative Summaries of Accidents Involving U.S. Nuclear Weapons, 1950-1980," listed only 32 "Broken Arrow"-type nuclear accidents and incidents during a 30-year period. Broken Arrows include lost weapons, burned weapons, dropped weapons, ruptured weapons, and weapons in which high explosives were inadvertently detonated; they are the most severe officially categorized nuclear weapon accidents Date: 11/2000 read more
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U.S. Cools Toward Land Mine Phase-Out Plan Defense: Clinton promised to give up the weapons by 2006, but Bush administration says they may be necessary. read more
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Treaties Don't Belong to Presidents Alone Presidents can't terminate statutes they don't like. They must persuade both houses of Congress to join in a repeal. Should the termination of treaties operate any differently? read more
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Bush Flatly States U.S. Will Pull Out of Missile Treaty Our Unelected pResident says he is definitely going to dump the Antiballistic Missile Treaty that the rest of America and the world worked so hard to acheive, so that he can test his star wars toys. read more
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N. Korea sticks to missile pledge North Korean leader Kim Jong Il announced his country intends to observe the moratorium on long-range missile testing until 2003. Putin and Jong reaffirmed the importance of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty which the U.S. is currently trying to amend in order to proceed with the testing of a missile defence system. Date: 08/04/01
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The rigged missile defense test The Pentagon and the Bush administration are determined to sell the American people a national missile defense system that will probably increase tensions with allies and adversaries and will surely cost more than $100 billion. Their latest marketing exercise took place on the evening of July 14, when a "kill vehicle" launched from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific smashed into a rocket sent up from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Date: 07/31/01
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Critics decry Bush stand on treatiesWhite House critics increasingly wonder: Will Bush find an international treaty he likes? Date: 07/26/01
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U.S. Sole Nation to Reject Germ Warfare Treaty Draft The United States already facing criticism from European nations for rejecting initiatives on climate change and small arms trade announced today it is rejecting a U.N. draft treaty designed to give teeth to an anti-germ warfare accord. Date: 07/25/01
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U.S. rejects germ warfare treaty The United States, again standing alone against most world opinion, on Wednesday rejected as unworkable a proposed international plan for enforcing a 30-year ban on using germs in warfare. Date: 07/25/01
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Germany to protest Dan Coats remarksFriday, 3 August 2001 The new ambassador select to Germany is an attempting to undermine Shroeder's alliance, by rousing the rightwing opposition and strengthening their rhetorical power. Trust me, this is not an accident. Bush's government is attempting to divide and conquer nations by riling their rightwings against moderation, and likewise undermining the EU's liberal-moderate base. The Bush government is looking to subvert the ruling alliance in Germany by playing on the military nationalism of Germans, and remember, there is a neo-fascist insurgency taking place under the surface of liberal moderation. MORE
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Bush to raise 'private army' in drugs war Back-door military escalation in Andes, Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor Sunday July 22, 2001 The Observer
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NMD Test the real scandal is that the defense being developed won't work - and few in Washington seem to know or care.
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Bush rejects compliance rules for biological-weapons treaty The Bush administration has decided to oppose a draft agreement to enforce a 26-year-old germ-weapons treaty, administration officials said yesterday. The administration, already under fire for rejecting allied-backed initiatives on climate change and small-arms trade, has concluded that the guidelines will not stop the spread of biological weapons and could hurt U.S. business interestsÖ.With Bush's decision, the United States joins China, Libya, Cuba, Iran and Pakistan in voicing opposition to the rules. Allies in Europe and Latin America support the language. Date: 07/22/01
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Bush Sends Non-Negotiable Negotiators to Europe Bush exhibits his lack of integrity by failing to deliver Kyoto alternatives after requesting a delay to develop them; instructs negotiators not to negotiate on Kyoto; reneges on a pledge of providing 250 million to a proposed 1 billion fund to to help developing countries adopt alternative energy technologies; and plans to renege on the 1972 ABM treaty by developing the National Missile Defense System. Date: 07/18/01
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Going Backwards Successful US 'Star Wars' Test Provokes Anger Around World Russia denounced the latest missile test by the United States yesterday a test that succeeded with a flash of white light 144 miles above the Pacific Ocean and accused it of threatening to undermine international efforts opposed to a new arms race. China, which is also strongly against the tests, made no formal criticism but the official Xinhua news agency said: "Arms control experts said that the US missile defence plan, opposed by the international community, will not only spark a new arms race, but also threaten world peace and security, and stimulate nuclear proliferation." Date: 07/16/01
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Bush's 'A' Team Stumbling on Foreign Policy Instead of the All-Star team that we thought the woefully inexperienced Bush had put together, it looks as if he has the team that couldn't shoot straight. It makes you nostalgic for the days of Warren Christopher. The Bush team seems disjointed, out of step with the times, more ideological than practical, arrogant and, at times, even inept. It seems to be operating in a time warp when security considerations instead of economics were the center of international relations and the key to American influence in the world. 07/16/01
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Bush the RadicalOp-Ed detailing the intentions and inherent dangers in Bush's disregard for the anti-ballistic missile treaty, US resumption of nuclear testing, and our alliance with NATO. 07/21/01
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Jiang and Putin unite to block US supremacy PRESIDENT Jiang Zemin of China flew to Moscow last night to cement a strategic pact with Russia designed to boost trade between the two countries and co-ordinate their opposition to American dominance of world affairs. The accord falls short of a military alliance, but provides for swift joint action "in case of extraordinary situations or a threat to each other's security", Aleksandr Losyukov, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister, said in a clear reference to the quick development by the Pentagon of a "son of Star Wars" anti-missile shield. 07/16/01
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U.S. Expects to Violate ABM in MonthsThe United States has told Russia and its allies that it expects its development of a missile defense will conflict with a Cold War-era treaty in months, not years, documents obtained by Reuters showed. At the Pentagon, an official said on Wednesday that U.S. defense officials would outline a missile defense plan on Thursday that would propose breaking ground at a test site in Alaska next month. 07/12/01
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Bush Speeds Missile Defense PlansThe administration is moving as fast as possible to build at least rudimentary missile defenses by 2005, regardless of probable objections by Moscow that the United States is violating the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Although President Bush has repeatedly stated his determination to build a missile shield, yesterday was the first time that the administration had laid out a detailed plan and timetable for erecting an initial system for shooting down enemy missiles. 07/12/01
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STATEMENT BY U.S. SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN On the Bush Administration's Opposition to a UN Accord to Stem the Flow of Guns Feeding International Terrorism and Drug Wars First, Mr. Bolton's position on the Second Amendment is in direct contradiction to decades of Supreme Court precedent. Not one single gun control law has ever been overturned by the Court on Second Amendment grounds... Contrary to the constant claims of the NRA, the meaning of the Second Amendment has been well-settled for more than 60 years....
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Bush Budget Lays Foundation for National Missile Shield Defense: Critics fear Alaskan test range could undermine the ABM treaty. June 28, 2001
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Bush's Anti-Logic Shield, Part 2 Summary: Tart and humorous poke at the illogic of the missile defense shield. 06/18/01
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Schakowsky to president bush during anti national missile defense rally
Star wars is better left to the experts in hollywood
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Powell Fails to Persuade NATO on Antimissile Plan In his first effort to sell President Bush's missile defense plan to allies, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell failed today to pierce NATO's sharp opposition. He could not even convince them that a threat of a missile attack against their countries actually exists.
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95 to 5 The vote that got the U.S. booted off the Human Rights Commission was to the U.N. what Senator Jim Jeffords's vote to leave the Republican Party was to the Senate — a wake-up call, a signal that the world will push back against radical Bush policies just as Senator Jeffords did.
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US spurns chemical weapons ban A 1972 treaty banning biological weapons has been added to the list of international protocols Bush has decided to ignore, writes Mark Tran
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Congress Backs Pentagon Budget Heavy on Future Weapons
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Wasteful spending in Iraq has topped $1 billion
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Treaties May Curb Farmers' Subsidies, (MS) NY Times, 08/31/01 - Every five or six years Congress argues over how to subsidize farmers. But this time around the forces against big subsidies have a new weapon: the international trade agreements the United States signed promising to reduce those payments. For the first time in the tumultuous debate over farm policy, lawmakers trying to increase already ballooning farm subsidies could be forced to retreat because of limits required under the World Trade Organization for certain subsidies.
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After First 6 Months, Bush Is to Change Focus After First 6 Months, Bush Is to Change Focus Summary: Midway through his first year, President Bush is planning a significant change in focus that includes renewed attention to issues like education and immigration and a vigorous discussion of values. Don't believe it! 08/04/01 read more
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Burton's German Trip Protested It is "only a decoy and (that) the actual purpose of the trip was for the congressman to visit his wife." read more
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Bush Sets a Deadline On Trade Pact Powers President Bush set a new deadline for Congress yesterday, saying he wants additional power to negotiate trade deals in time for a World Trade Organization conference that begins Nov. 9. Trade promotion authority, which lapsed in 1994, would allow the administration to negotiate deals that then must be passed or rejected by Congress without amendments. Date: 07/28/01
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White House Mobilizes to Win Trade Negotiating Powers Mobilizing with a command center, a new Web site and five-inch-thick binders for lawmakers, the Bush White House is battling to win back broad trade-negotiating powers that Congress denied his predecessor. Date: 07/26/01
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NAACP Chairman Criticizes Bush Julian Bond had harsh words on Sunday for President Bush's record in his first months in office, criticizing some of Bush's Cabinet choices and denouncing his faith-based initiative.
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SCHAKOWSKY COSPONSORS LEGISLATION TO CREATE NATIONAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FUND "We are facing a crisis and our mission is clear. Unfortunately, President Bush does not share our goals. While he is fond of referring to himself as a compassionate, his budget tells the true story. In order to pay for his tax cut for the rich and reward his special interests allies in the oil and gas industry, President Bush cuts $2 billion from our nation's housing programs. Who is going to suffer? The answer is families, seniors, and persons with disabilities struggling to find an affordable, safe, and decent place to live.
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SHAME ON MR. NATSIOS, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONGRESSWOMAN JAN SCHAKOWSKY
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FROM THE EDITORS: Scientific American "Faith-Based Reasoning" Scientists are often lampooned as living in an ivory tower, but lately it seems that it is the scientists who are grounded in reality and the U.S. political establishment that is floating among the clouds.
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Refusing to Save Africans NY Times, June 11, 2001 Africans may be dying by the millions from AIDS, but the brutal stereotyping of the Dark Continent lives on, encouraged by U.S. government officials who should know better. This view of Africans as so ignorant they can't master the concept of taking their medicine on time has become a touchstone of the Bush administration.
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Unpopular Fee Makes Activists of Hog Farmers NY Times, June11, 2001 Bush's secretary of agriculture, Ann M. Veneman, overturned the results of a referendum referendum that these small farmers had worked hard pass. Another case of favoritism of big business over the little guy. In this case the activists are people who actually voted for Bush!
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The Backslap Backlash NY Times, June 9, 2001 Photo ops are nothing new in the modern American presidency, but didn't they use to occasionally dramatize a president's policies rather than disguise them? It's now reaching the point that a smiling Bush appearance blessing any cause, program or habitat is tantamount to a visit from the angel of death.
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Faith-Based Reasoning June 2001 Scientific American It would be nice not to have to shell out money for emissions controls. It would be nice to have a magic shield against all nuclear threats. It would be nice to be perfectly sure about everything, to get 365 vacation days a year and to spend some of that time on Mars. But we can't confuse wants with facts. As Richard Feynman said, "Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself." The dangers of ignoring its messages are greater than merely making politicians look foolish.
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STATEMENT BY U.S. SENATOR BARBARA BOXER FOR MEMORIAL DAY 2001 During the recent tax bill debate, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer offered an amendment to encourage businesses to employ those veterans currently living in poverty. Defeated on a 49-50 vote, the measure would have provided tax credits to employers who hire veterans. The measure, which would cost $452 million over ten years, would be offset by cutting the reduction in the top marginal tax rate by less than one-tenth of one percent.
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Senate Tax Bill Will Reduce Charitable Giving by ignoring the pResident's promise to increase private charitable giving through tax relief targeted to low- and moderate-income taxpayers and repealing the estate tax, the Senate has passed a bill that will reduce charitable giving and harm the millions of Americans who rely on the vital services provided by charitable organizations.
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Bush Administration OKs Billionaire's Montana Oil Well A federal land agency on Monday upheld billionaire Philip Anschutz's right to drill an exploratory oil well in an area of south-central Montana where Native American tribes want to preserve sacred rock drawings.
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O'Neill lays out vision for tax Paul O'Neill, US Treasury Secretary, has laid out a vision for a radical reform of the US tax structure, including a sweeping revision of the Social Security - or public pension - system and abolition of corporate income tax and capital gains tax on businesses. In an interview with the FT at his Treasury office, Mr O'Neill espoused changes that would reach far beyond the legislation currently before Congress.
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U.S. Loses Seat on U.N. Committee In another embarrassing blow, the United States lost its seat on an international drug monitoring body on the same day it was voted off the U.N. Human Rights Commission, U.S. officials confirmed Monday.
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Beam Me Up, Rummy By Gail Collins Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld appeared on "Meet the Press" last weekend and explained how the Bush administration was going to go about building a hitherto unbuildable missile shield to protect the United States from nuclear assaults by rogue nations.
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The Unrefined Truth By PAUL KRUGMAN Gasoline prices are rising again, and the administration is rushing to turn this into another argument for its drill-and-burn energy strategy. But a look at the causes of the current gasoline shortage actually suggests a quite different moral: namely, that conservation ought to be a major element in our energy strategy, and that lack of conservation is a large part of what we've been doing wrong.
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Bush to Reveal First Judicial Choices Soon Apparently Bush shows every sign of pushing the Sutton nomination and the nomination of other states' rights jurists supported by the Federalist Society despite its obvious inconsistency with his commitment to uphold the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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President Bush's corporate catnip Welcome to the GOP's ethical Washington, where Rep. Tom DeLay sells White House access and Bush ladles corporate gravy over his "fat-free" budget.
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President Bush's corporate catnip - The president's first budget proves that Aid to Dependent Corporations is a lot more resilient than Aid to Families with Dependent Children.
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Global-Warming: Bush's Double Blunder By rejecting the Kyoto Accord, he may have hurt the world's chances for limiting greenhouse gases -- and the interests of U.S. companies
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