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The Senate, the Iraq War and the 80/20 Rule
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The Senate, the Iraq War and the 80/20 Rule

Do No Evil – In a country that struggles to remain free from the unduly influence of the powerful, the 80/20 Rule applies well; the defenders, as a rule, being the vital few. Truth and honesty are not things that can be changed by a simple vote, and neither should matters clearly written in our Constitution, such as the power to declare war.

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Cracking Down on Tax Evaders

Money – In February, the IRS said it was investigating more than 100 Americans with bank accounts in Liechtenstein, a 15-mile-long country sandwiched between Switzerland and Austria, where financial services account for 30% of the economy, thanks to some of the world's tightest bank-secrecy laws.

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Will the Antiwar Movement Strangle the State?

Politics – The state needs war, it craves war, and it will have war. If you love the state, you necessarily love war. If you respect the state, you embrace war. And some, perhaps many, in the antiwar movement, really believe that the state, that national level government, is or can be a real source of solutions for community and for the country.

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The Real Contract with America: The Bill of Rights
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The Real Contract with America: The Bill of Rights

Politics – Everybody heaved a great sigh of relief when the "Democrats" were back in power, but things quickly returned to business as usual. The rich get richer, the poor and middle class get poorer and the government gets still more power to do as it wills.

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Scott Horton Interviews Scott Ritter on Iran

Politics – discusses the likelihood of a U.S. attack on Iran and the smokescreen of diplomatic progress, how Iran's recent promise of retaliation has raised the stakes by ensuring limited U.S. strikes would be inadequate, how facts and reason are irrelevant since the neocons in command believe they can generate their own realities

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Only Congress Can Declare War
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Only Congress Can Declare War

Do No Evil – By rejecting the advice and the rules laid down by the founders and early Presidents, our recent leaders have gone so far astray from warnings against entangling alliances, that the founders would hardly recognize the government they created.

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What Does It Matter To You?

Do No Evil – Why don't we, especially Christians, feel responsible for innocents killed in Iraq, for death, pain and suffering , from the invasion of a country, brought by people in our Government, for The War Industry and Oil Companies, seeking profits? What would Jesus think?

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Sun Tzu Goes to Washington
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Sun Tzu Goes to Washington

Books – Today's warhawks consider a prolonged war a form of economic output, or a shopping day for the military-industrial complex. Sun Tzu would remind us that this is short-sighted to the point of ruin: "There has never been a state which has benefited from a prolonged war."

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Evil Reigns but None Dare Call it Treason
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Evil Reigns but None Dare Call it Treason

Do No Evil – Torture advocated, secret armies and prisons encouraged, ignoring habeas corpus for anyone pointed to and called "enemy combatant." Yet, non dare call it treason.

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Big brother is watching you and his name is AT&T
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Big brother is watching you and his name is AT&T

Do No Evil – Sometimes he goes by the name of BellSouth and at other times he is known as AOL-Time-Warner. Big brother goes by a lot of names. He is listening to you while you talk and watching you while you type. Everything you say could be recorded so he can look at it somewhere down the line.

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Amid Policy Disputes, Qaeda Grows in Pakistan
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Amid Policy Disputes, Qaeda Grows in Pakistan

News – Late last year, top Bush administration officials decided to take a step they had long resisted. They drafted a secret plan to make it easer for the Pentagon's Special Operations forces to launch missions into the snow-capped mountains of Pakistan to capture or kill top leaders of Al Qaeda.

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Executive Order:Continuing Certain Restrictions To North Korea And North Korean Nationals

Politics – Couched in a directive about handling relations with Noth Korea, George Bush declares Martial Law.

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The Constitution: Bringing us Back from Darkness
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The Constitution: Bringing us Back from Darkness

Do No Evil – When we get away from that Constitutional structure, when we allow a few people (an Oligarchy) or a single person (a Dictator) to supplant those "Laws" for a Self-Governing Institution, that is when we no longer have a Republican form of Government, or as is the common description for American Government - a Democracy

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Do Americans Really Want "Change?"

Do No Evil – Are we ready to see ourselves as an aggressor nation (roughly 200 US military and clandestine operations in foreign countries in the past two centuries, excluding WW1 and WW2), a nation that sides with the rich against the poor, that slights the weak in favor of the strong.

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Legalizing Occupation: Bush's Last Maneuver in Iraq

Politics – One can argue that no pleasant scenarios are possible in Iraq at any time under a US military presence. Iraq's past treasures were squandered immediately after its 'liberation' by US forces, & its present is daunted by bloodshed and uncertainty. Bush now wants to ensure that the country's future is also compromised by violence, humiliation, war

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