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Who We Are and What We Do
By SASAN FAYAZMANESHIt is now nearly three years since nineteen young men from Saudi Arabia and Egypt opened the Pandora's Box by attacking the World Trade Center and Pentagon with hijacked planes. But the answer to "why did they do it?" still remains unsettled. "They did it because of what we do," some say. Others contend ( Read more... )

I think True Cost Economics is the answer to so many of our problems ( Read more... )

"The point of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your ( Read more... )

It's about time John Kerry grew himself a spine. Here is an exerpt from some of his remarks concerning the RNC:

"The election comes down to this. If you believe this country is heading in the right direction, you should support George Bush. But if you believe America needs to move in a new direction, join with us. John and I offer a better plan ( Read more... )

this is a letter to the editor which was posted in liberal:It is said that if a lie is repeated often enough, it becomes fact. Apparently this is true for James Parmalee, who has bought into the Republican smear machine's characterization of Senator John Kerry as a flip-flopper. It is true that Kerry voted for the No Child Left Behind Act, but speaking ( Read more... )

"This, finally, is the punch line of our two hundred years on the Great Plains: we trap out the beaver, subtract the Mandan, infect the Blackfeet and the Hidatsa and the Assiniboin, overdose the Arikara; call the land a desert and hurry across it to get to California and Oregon; suck up the buffalo, bones and all; kill off nations of elk and ( Read more... )

The Republican National Convention starts in NYC this week. Tens of thousands of protesters are expected ( Read more... )

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." ~John Kenneth Galbraith