...Unprecedented Deficit Spending ~ Interview with Max Sawicki, economist with the Economic Policy Institute, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus

RE:"CULTISH COMMENTATOR" [arizona.indymedia.org]:(& SEE "HOW BUSH [AND KERRY?] MURDERS MORE AMERICANS IN IRAQ & U.S.")......."The problem with cults is....."

21 May 2004, from Mohammed, a resident of Rafah, Palestine (at www.rafahtoday.org , where there are regular updates and many photos of the ongoing wreckage by Israel)

It is now a phenomenon. CopWatch organizations are being set up all over America, by ordinary citizens, driven to police the police, in grassroots community efforts. Portland, Austin, NYC, Santa Cruz, Cincinnati, Phoenix, Berkeley, Tucson, Denver, and more, have CopWatch organizations in their cities. Recently Portland caused a big stir by producing Portland’s Worst Cop Card Deck. In an interview with the group that created the card deck, I asked what inspired the deck. They said there were many complaints of police “incidents,” mostly at anti-war protests, that “never seemed to go anyplace. People would talk about lawsuits and investigations, then a few weeks later everyone would get distracted by a shiny pebble or something, and nothing would happen. Add that to the fact that after every protest, there would be swarms of pleas to "Identify the officer doing XXX atrocities in this photo" posted all over Indymedia…”

Bill Clinton has been blamed by his detractors for just about everything from curdled milk to genetic mutations. But might there be a more recent president whose own record of misdeeds puts Clinton's to shame? Read the following for why it just may be time for Clinton critics to quit caterwauling.

The Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai Al-Aam reported: "Kuwaiti Islamist missionaries (Du'aat) enticed Kuwaiti teenagers with the idea of Jihad, urged them to take part in the Iraqi resistance against the Americans, and arranged their passage to Syria. There, the teenagers met clandestinely [with trainers] who prepared them for combat and secured their crossing into Iraq via the Syrian border.

Gross distortions on an Iraq column by Editor Rosenthal were amplified on-air by Rush to millions of listeners. However Keith Olbermann of MSNBC and Jay Rosen of NYU weren't about to let the lies go unchallenged...

Ideas for Action at you local movie theater for The Day After Tomorrow movie
The Day After Tomorrow is a movie that, while not realistic scenario of global warming, gives it as a cause and is a great opportunity to get global warming to be put in the forefront of public discourse where it belongs and get the necessary things done to reduce it to minimize its effects and suffering from them.