Seems like More People Died than Prospered under Bush’s Leadership
Another few thousand bit the dust. Chalk another one up for the Bush administration. That’ll be President Bush’s long lasting legacy when we look back on the first few years of the 21st Century. Thousands of people killed on U.S. soil because the president failed to protect them.
Racism and Sexism are at the Core of John Roberts’ Judicial Activism
In a weak effort to shift searing public critique of the Republican and Bush administration’s inadequate, incompetent, and racist response to the Katrina disaster, President Bush announced over the weekend that he was amending his nomination of John G. Roberts to serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Pat Robertson's Cozy Relationship with FEMA
In a distasteful show of insensitivity and partisanship, the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) has called for cash donations be paid to Operation Blessing, a charity front for Pat Robertson’s right-wing Christian fundamentalist TV operation, The 700 Club, and his other corporate schemes.
New Attempt to Marry Science and God
The offensive by the religious right moved up another notch last week as a proposal was advanced to introduce into schools a text-book which attempts to marry concepts of god with science. The theory is being sold under the label of 'intelligent design'.
Helping the Blind to See: Venezuela's People First Policies
So, US televangelist Pat Robertson has ordered his million-strong 'brownshirt' army to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
The New Orleans Crisis and the Bush Ultra-Right Government
The unprecedented New Orleans disaster is reverberating through the world. After a generation of demagoguery about “reverse racism,” equating poverty with sin, and condemnations of activist big government, the Bush administration has no foreign power or ideology to blame for the fact that thousands of overwhelmingly poor and African American people are dead or in life-threatening situations because of a generation of right-wing rule.
Movie Review: The Constant Gardener
Human rights activist Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz) has been found murdered. Her car was discovered overturned in a lakebed in Northern Kenya. A Kenyan doctor by the name of Arnold Bluhm (Hubert Koundé), who had been traveling with Tessa, has disappeared. Arnold and Tessa have secrets.
Anti-War Events Building to September 24th
On September 15, Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey and other congress members will be holding hearings on Capitol Hill on the issue of creating an exit strategy for Iraq. This event will be nine days before what organizers are hoping will be the biggest ever march against the war in Washington.
MAPPING OF THE RICE GENOME: Triumph Of Public Funded Research
IT has been argued that if cereals – rice, wheat, corn, maize, etc --- had not been cultivated by man, human civilisation may not have existed in the form we know today. Settled agriculture was crucially dependant on the cultivation of cereals, all of which are believed to have descended from a wild grass that existed over 50 million years ago.
How the Free Market Killed New Orleans
The free market played a crucial role in the destruction of New Orleans and the death of thousands of its residents. Forewarned that a momentous (force 5) hurricane was going to hit that city and surrounding areas, what did officials do? They played the free market.
