24 April 2003
'There IS no rest of the world' Leaked White House Transcript (5)
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Lee Waters
PRESIDENT BUSH: Alright! Alright! Alright! Saddam Hussein, down the toilet. Good work guys. That'll teach that towelhead son-of-a-bitch to mess with my daddy.

VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: Yessir, yessir, yessir, it's all over but...
23 April 2003
The decline and fall of American journalism
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Alexander Cockburn
Until Judith Miller's piece showed up on the front page of the New York Times on April 22, I'd thought the distillation of disingenuous U.S. press coverage of the invasion of Iraq came with the images of the April 9 hauling down of Saddam...
21 April 2003
Why four died in Ohio: Governor Rhodes and his relationship with the FBI
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Bob Fitrakis
Ten days after Governor James A. Rhodes assumed office on January 14, 1963, a Cincinnati FBI agent wrote Director J. Edgar Hoover a memo stating: “At this moment he [Rhodes] is busier than a one-armed paper hanger . . . . Consequently, I...
20 April 2003
The Remington of our time
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Alexander Cockburn
I nominate The New Yorker's Jeffrey Goldberg as the Remington of our time, though without the artistic talent. Remington? Back in 1898, William Randolph Hearst was trying to fan war fever between the United States and Spain. He dispatched...
20 April 2003
Money for AIDS, not for war
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Africa Action
As the U.S. spends tens of billions of dollars on a pre-emptive war in the Persian Gulf, we demand that this money be spent on the real global priority - the HIV/AIDS crisis.

AIDS is the greatest global threat to human...
20 April 2003
Poem
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Melanie Gnosa
In the end there will be no humanity.
There will be nothing left.

This is our fate
as we have chosen it.
This is the end
we strive to achieve.
Look at what we have gained and all that we've lost,...

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