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May 2002

  1. Discovered 17th-century book proclaims: 'Women wiser than men', CNN, April 21, 2002 (Starting the month of May 2002 off with a ray of sunshine for women and the men who love them.)
  2. Fast Track's Trojan Horse, Moving Ideas, May 20, 2002 (Check out the "takings clause." According to the BIG BUSINESS interests, if a government makes zoning laws, environmental restrictions, or other laws and policies that detract from the owner's ability to make money, the government has "taken" the property away from the corporation and the government must compensate the corporate for what it has takes. In plain English, corporations want the government to pay them not to pollute your air, put a whore-house or porno shop on every street corner, or to turn the empty lot next to your child's school into a toxic waste dump. The glories of unregulated capitalism.)
  3. Oil and Enegry, The Bush Family and America's Big Corporations, Venezula and Afghanistan, Enron and Taxes, War and Peace - no, it's not alphabet soup. There is a thread that ties all of these things together - money for the rich and powerful.
              Mass. Rep. Markey Releases Report on Security Gaps at Nuclear Reactor Sites: Why is it Bush wants to send tens or hundreds of billions of dollars developing a space based missile defense system against nuclear weapons, but he isn't willing to spend any money making America's nuclear reactors safe from attack?
              Feds put S.C. on notice: Plutonium will be sent to state, Energy Secretary Abraham tells Hodges By Sammy Fretwell, The State, April 16, 2002 - The Bush Fed's want to truck plutonium from Colorado to South Carolina. I sure would hate to live in any of the states between Rocky Flats, Co. and Savannah River, SC. What if there is an accident and the cargo spills?
              Now it’s illegal to protest nuclear power plants - Crackdown on nuclear protesters promised: Offenders to be hit with federal charges By Frank Munger, News-Sentinel, April 12, 2002
              Norshipco parent's IPO to raise about $139 million, By Carolyn Shapiro, The Virginian-Pilot, April 30, 2002 – another reason for way – because Shrub's daddy is a major owner of the military weapons conglomerate the Carlyle Group – can you say "Conflict of Interest"?
              Our Own Worst Enemy? As the FBI seeks the source of last year's anthrax letters, it finds itself investigating the very laboratories that do its testing. By Laura Rozen, American Prospect, May 20, 2002
              Palestine, Iraq, Cuba and Venezuela -- What's Oil Got to Do With It? The politics of the covert oil war, 2002 AD By Lee Siu Hin, PeaceNoWar.net, April 23, 2002
              Oil Fix -- Bush Will Act Globally to Lock In U.S. Supply By Michael T. Klare, Pacific News Service, April 15, 2002
              Bush's Saudi Appeasement: The Sins of His Father By John LeBoutillier, The Idler, April 26, 2002
              Pentagon to boost profits of defense contractors, iWon.com, April 24, 2002 (Speaking of the Sins of the Father, who has a major interest in the Carlyle Group. Isn't that called conflict of interest? – But back to this article - 15% *guaranteed* profits is not enough to entice enough companies into doing business with the Pentagon. Paid for by your tax dollars.)
              The War at Home: Federal Law Enforcement Officials Follow International Terrorism’s Money Trail from Northern Virginia to Saudi Arabia, but President Bush Says That’s Far Enough, By David Lytel, Demoocrats.com, 29 April 2002. I wonder if poppy Bush having big business dealings with the Saudi's has anything to do with Shrub's policy. Then again, poppy is probably running America's foreign policy.
              CNN CrossFire, April 25, 2002. Read past the story on NASA and space tourism, read past the story on the church scandal, then read the story about Bush and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah ("If that means we move to the right of bin Laden, so be it. To the left of Qadhafi, so be it; or fly to Baghdad and embrace Saddam like a brother, so be it.") and the interview of David Brock, author of Blinded by the Right
              Saudis only wanted males guiding flights, AP, April 28, 2002. They could at least leave their disrespect for women at home when they come here.
              U.S. Can't Produce The Oil It Will Need By William R. Freudenburg, Nesday, April 28, 2002
              US military attache implicated in Venezuela coup, Irish Times, April 4, 2002
              ExxonMobil, Bush Administration Succeed in Ousting Top Global Warming Scientist During Heated Geneva Meeting, World Panel Now Challenged to Remain Authoritative Source for Global Warming Science, Truth Out, April 19, 2002. So much for this administration wanting competent help. They would rather have obsequious sycophants.
              The Coup Failed — And The Fallout Goes On, MSNBC, April 29, 2002. Looks like poppy Bush's buddy, Gustavo Cisneros, financed the aborted Venezuelan coup. Poppy should have been impeached when he was Vice President for his role in Iran-Contra when he helped sell America's military weapons, without the knowledge or consent of Congress, to America's then-enemy Iran. If a, rank-and-file government employee did that, he would go to jail, at a minimum, for misappropriation of government funds.
              Venezuelan Legislator Says U.S. Involved in Coup By Pascal Fletcher, Reuters, April 23, 2002
              Venezuelan coup plotter 'in Miami', David Adams, Times (London), April 24, 2002
              American navy 'helped Venezuelan coup' by Duncan Campbell, The Guardian, April 29, 2002
              RAWA Holds Colorful Sports Festival, March 2002
              Remember Afghan Earthquake Victims, Afghan Women's Mission, accessed April 17, 2002
              More on Events for International Women’s Day by RAWA
              Afghan laws still repress women: Refusing suitor, leaving husband bring jail time By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune, April 28, 2002
              Anti-Women’s Rights Pamphlets in Afghanistan Threaten Reprisals, Feminist Majority, April 16, 2002
              RAWA statement on the occasion of its demonstration on April 28, 2002: April 28 More Sinister Than April 27
              RAWA's aid to earthquake victims in Nahrin
              Depleted Uranium in Bunker Bombs America's big dirty secret, Le Monde diplomatique, March 2002
              RAWA
              RAWA "The US [Govt.] doesn't give a damn for women's rights in Afghanistan"
  4. Feminista
  5. Women's E News
  6. The Many Varieties of REPUBLICAN morality
              House pages bounced for having pot in dorm, Ted Barrett, CNN, May 1, 2002 --- Eleven high school-age REPUBLICAN pages in the House of Representatives were dismissed after being caught with marijuana in their Capitol Hill dormitory. The situation was "handled administratively" and "not handled as a criminal matter," according to a U.S. Capitol Police spokesman. So, the REPUBLICAN zero-tolerance policy means you loose your job. How about some jail time - just like the children of the poor would being doing jail time if caught with marijuana. That's REPUBLICAN morality for you. Now check out the next story about what happened when Goc. Jeb Bush's child was accused of trying to buy illicit drugs.
              Gov. Bush cries in sharing family's ordeal over drugs Gov. Bush cries in sharing family's ordeal over drugs By Peter WAallsten, Miami Herald, May 1, 2002 – Gov. Jeb Bush's drug using daughter gets off with no jail time, no community service, no fine, just a drug treatment program – while the Gov' refuses to sign a bill letting first-offenders of drug offenses off the hook if they go into a drug treatment program. More REPUBLICAN morality for you.
              Bush Still Backward On Women’s Issues by Joe Conason, New York Observer, May 1, 2002
              Ford and the Führer: New Documents Reveal the Close Ties Between Dearborn and the Nazis by Ken Silverstein, The Nation, January 24, 2000 -- Republican morality goes back a long way.
              Head of Florida holocaust Museum links Bush family to Nazis, Herald Tribune, Nov. 11, 2000 - The Bush family fortune was derived from business dealings between W's grandfather (poppy Bush's father) and the NAZIs. Mabye W learned his "conservative compassion" from his granddaddy.
              President’s oil companies funded by Bin Laden family and wealthy Saudis who financed Osama bin Laden By Rick Wiles, Freedom News, Sept. 2001 -- like Grandfather, like Father, like Son. More REPUBLICAN morals. "If you do business with terrorists, if you support or succor them, you will not do business with the United States," said President Bush. -- What about if you do business with the people who finance terrorists?
              Pat Robertson's high horse, by Cal Thomas, Nando Times, April 25, 2002 - Even conservative have trouble with Republican morality.
              Answers to Questions about W's Military Record But we already knew all about Republican morality when Bush was selected pResident.
              American Democracy According to the British Press: If you want a free vote, ask nicely -- The American President has a singular view of democracy. After all, look what happened in Florida, Terry Jones, Guardian Observer (UK), April 21, 2002 - Here's where REPUBLICAN morality takes you.
              Bush Family's Whitewater Interest By Robert Parry, Consortium News, March 22, 2002 - Of course, the rich and powerful had an interest in Whitewater. Especially the guy who got the shit kicked out of him by Clinton.
  7. A Collection of Articles on the RC Church Sex Scandal
              Vatican Focuses on US Pedophile Priests Despite Worldwide Abuses, Feminist Majority, April 17, 2002
              Catholic Church Exerts Influence in Chile, Feminist Majority, April 19, 2002
              Pope reported set to give Law Vatican posting by Jack Sullivan and Eric Convey, Boston Herald, April 26, 2002 (Will Law be exempt from extradition to face trial for his obstruction of justice by covering-up for his pedophile priests since he can claim diplomatic immunity as a citizen of the Vatican?)
              Pope Calls Bishops To Publicly Reprimand Dissenters From Church's Moral Teaching, April 26, 2002, "It's the fault of those awful liberals, especially those feminists who think they have a purpose on earth other than to make babies. So what has been the excuse for sexual abuse by priests for the other 1500 years of the RC church's history." (See H. C. Lea, History of Sacerdotal Celibacy for a lot of information that the RC hierarchy prefers that you don't know.)
              Holy See Still Has Its Blinders On by Paul Vitello, Newsday, April 25, 2002
              Law must answer for his actions . . . A Boston Herald editorial, Saturday, April 27, 2002
              4 men sue archdiocese in L.A. for corruption - Racketeer law used against Mahony by V. Dion Haynes, Chicago Tribune, April 30, 2002 - registration required
              Catholics launch donation boycott - Archdiocese urged to adopt reforms By Aamer Madhani and Rudolph Bush, Chicago Tribune, April 30, 2002 (There are only two things any church understands: money and power).
              Cardinal Coverup, Ron Russell, New Times (Los Angeles), May 3, 2002 (This slime-bag Cardinal covered up for a bunch of priests who GANG RAPED a girl.)
              Archdiocese abandons deal in Geoghan case: Committee rebuffs Law, cites serious fiscal threat By Stephen Kurkjian and Walter V. Robinson, Boston Globe, May 4, 2002
              The Vatican and The Richard Nixon playbook, Ron Carroll, San Francisco Chronicle, accessed May 4, 2002
  8. Political Pot-pouri
              A U.S. Cabal Pulling America to War, Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy In Focus, May 3, 2002
              "Flirting with Fascism" By John Chuckman, YellowTimes.org (Canada), March 24, 2002
              Otto Reich Named to Board for US Army's School of the Americas, CounterPunch, May 3, 2002 - One of the many reasons Bush back out of the International World Court - His buddies, like Reich, might be convicted of crimes against humanity and genocide for events that they inspired during the reign of poppy Bush.
              Scientists' deaths are under the microscope By Alanna Mitchell, Simon Cooper And Carolyn Abraham, Globe and Mail, May 4, 2002 – Why have ELEVEN microbiologists who specialized in making biological weapons or defending against them died under mysteriously in the last 5 months? Did they know too much? Why can't the FBI finger someone for the fall 2001 anthrax attacks – especially when it is widely acknowledged that only a couple of dozen people had the skill, access to the equipment, protective vaccinations, and raw materials to produce the military-grade anthrax in the letters to DEMOCRATIC Senators Daschle and Leahy.
              Donald Rumsfeld Pulling the Wool Over the Media's Eyes on the Carlyle/Crusader Missile, BuzzFlash, May 7, 2002
              Class War as Waged by the Rich: Estate Tax Repeal: Republicans Fight for an American Aristocracy, BuzzFlash, May 7, 2002
              Bacha Khan's Private War: Faction Leader Battles Kabul Appointees As U.S. Hunts Enemies in His Back Yard by Peter Baker, Washington Post, May 4, 2002
              Another story on class warfare by the rich: America is the most unequal society in the industrialized West, (London) Observer, April 28, 2002
              US Media Interests: Champions of Profit, Propaganda and Puffery By John Stanton and Wayne Madsen, CounterPunch, April 25, 2002
              SOUTHPAW: Georgie goes to school By Inday Espina-Varona, Manila Times, April 16, 2002
              When The Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP) Is On The Attack, It Hits The Gutter Running, A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL, April 22, 2002
              IMF and World Bank succeed in Bankrupting Argentina: Argentina orders banks to close - Government fears economic collapse as cash outflow rises by David Teather, The Guardian, April 20, 2002 - The policies of the IMF and the World Band that drove Argentina to bankrupcy sound very similar to the economic policies of the Bush administration.
              Kucinich Statement on Ridge Secret Meeting with House Committee, April 11, 2002 - On Putsch's Imperial Presidency Accountable to NO One
  9. Women's News
              NGOs Send Letter to U.S. Administration on Position at UN Special Session on Children, signed by dozens of women's organizations, April 22, 2002
              Reproductive Health Crisis for Zimbabwean Adolescents In the Spotlight at UN Special Session on Children, Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, May 3, 2002
              U.S. Negotiates at U.N. Special Session for Removal of References to 'Reproductive Health Services,' Promote Abstinence for Preventing HIV/AIDS, Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, May 09, 2002
              U.S. Promises to Afghan Women Unfulfilled, Marie Cocco, Newsday, May 7, 2002
              Proposed Law Would Protect Nannies, Others By Michelle Tsa, WEnew, April 14, 2002
              Michigan Republican Target EMILY's List, a partisan, pro-choice Democratic organization by David Miller, April 17, 2002 (I guess EMILY's List must be too effective for the Republicans to fight fair and square.)
              Women Raise the City The Help Set Out to Help Themselves: Domestic Disturbance by Chisun Lee, Village Voice, March 13-19, 2002
              Sudanese Girls Sold into Marriage, Feminist Majority, April 12, 2002 (Sudanese girls who fled their country’s civil war in the early 1990’s are reportedly being sold into marriages by their foster families in the Kahuma refugee camps of Kenya....)
              Women Bear Brunt of Suffering Caused by Angola War By Nicole Itano, WEnews, May 9, 2002
              An Interview With U.S. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Democrat and Progressive, BuzzFlash, May 9, 2002
              A Pastoral Letter to the President, By Rev. Rich Lang, Democratic Underground, May 8, 2002
              Why I Am A Democrat By Rebecca Knight, BuzzFlash, May 9, 2002
  10. News Round-UP
              Some Dare Call It Conspiracy, Bassman, Democratic Underground, April 25, 2002
              A Tipping Point? By Robert Kuttner, American Prospect, May 6, 2002
              Money Talks, Washington Post, April 18, 2002
              Partisan Defense? Democrats Removal from Pentagon Boards Critized, Thomas Ricks, Washington Post, April 18, 2002
              Fight or flight?: David Brock's exposé of the Republican attack machine shows that Democrats have to get serious about fighting back. And that doesn't mean Al Gore's Florida-style fisticuffs. By David Talbot, Salon, April 17, 2002
              Liberal Pride: Can the left wing learn from the right? by Steven C. Day, Popular Politics, April 16, 2002
              The Mighty Wurlitzer: What progressives can learn from David Brock's account of the conservative machine. By Robert Borosage, American Prospect, May 6, 2002
              Why I Am A Democrat By Rebecca Knight, BuzzFlash, May 9, 2002
              Gender Apartheid in America: Bush Pushes for Sex Segregated Schools, Just Like in Saudi Arabia, CNN, May 10, 2002
              Daschle: `Somebody ought to go to jail' for Enron price manipulation By Mark Sherman, AP, May 9, 2002
  11. Women's Human Rights Net
  12. AVIVA News Africa
  13. Do We Care?: As leaders gather at the UN, the U.S. has yet to ratify the world treat on children's rights By Jo Becker, Human Rights Watch, May 5, 2002 – Why won't the US ratify the world treaty on the rights of the child? Because the Christian Right is afraid that they won't be able to properly 'discipline' their children any more. I'm not making this up. I really don't think that any treaty the US signs is going to stop one US parent from beating their child senseless.
  14. Global Women's Rights Treaty Gets Second Wind By Peggy Simpson, Women's E News, May 4, 2002
  15. Church Politicking
              Church Politicking and Congress
              Americans Don't Want Churches Mixing Religion With Partisan Politics, New Poll Shows, March 20, 2002
              Politicizing The Pulpit: North Carolina Congressman, Religious Right Push Bill To Allow Church Electioneering By Rob Boston, Church and State, April 2002
  16. Regressive Progressive? by Katha Pollitt, The Nation, May 27, 2002
  17. Human Cargo: Business Is Booming for Traffickers Trading in Women and Children By Leela Jacinto, ABC News, May 15, 2002 – Organized Crime's Fastest Growing Activity: Trafficking in Women and Children
  18. AVIVA Asia News
  19. AVIVA Austrialia-Asia News
  20. At MIT, they can put words in our mouths By Gareth Cook, Boston Globe, May 15, 2002. So in 5 years how will be able to trust the media and know that the visual images haven't been doctored and the sound tracks haven't been doctored to literally put anything into any person's mouth that the film editor chooses to put into someone's mouth?
  21. Afghanistan plans gas pipeline paid for by your tax dollars, BBC, May 13, 2002 - Remember how liberals wanted a reconstruction plan for Afghanistan after "the war" on al-Queda? Well, this isn't exactly what most liberals had in mind. What about building new schools? Building an electricity infrastructure - electricity generated from the water flowing out of the mountains? What about building a real economy for Afghanistan - not enriching America's oil companies.
  22. Canon Law Expert Says US Bishops Not Morally Responsible for Sex Abuse, Feminist Majority, May 20, 2002
  23. Riddle of the spores: Why has the FBI investigation into the anthrax attacks stalled? The evidence points one way, George Monbiot, The Guardian, May 21, 2002
  24. Judicial Nominations Without DeLay by Christian Livemore, Am Pol, May 13, 2002
  25. AVIVA Europe News
  26. AVIVA Middle East News
  27. Afghan families sell daughters for food, Associated Press, May 23, 2002
  28. Real American Law is on the Voter's Side by Margie Burns, May 1, 2002
  29. Memorial Day, BuzzFlash, May 27, 2002
              Bush Family Patriotism
  30. Hidden Injuries of Class By John B. Judis, American Prospect, June 3, 2002 "The president adopted the classic conservative strategy for undermining agencies that regulate business: Underfund them, and when that doesn't work, replace government regulation with Herbert Hoover-style business self-regulation. As governor of Texas, Bush did just that with the state's clean-air laws; as president, he has followed the same strategy toward environmental- and worker-safety regulations."
  31. Study shows network news sources skew white, male & elite, FAIR, May 2002
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