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Iran was willing to cease uranium production in 2003, but the Bush Admin Refused to negotiate or even discuss what could have been a peaceful and politically advantageous resolution to the conflict 2007-10-22 14:17:07 I had heard a report of this diplomatic dispatch that was sent to the Bush Administration by the Iranians about six months ago.  However, as the way things stand in the current state of American intellectual public discourse, I did not even attempt to disseminate the report I had encountered to a wider audience.  All too often, accurate [...] ...

Of missiles, antimissiles and human targets 2007-10-14 16:56:56 There are some events whether of regional, national or international significance, that carve a niche in our memories and remain there for the rest of our conscious lives; that is, assuming they also have personal meaning and import. For many of us who were past the age of reason [...] ...

Arrogance and Insolence in the Age of Empire 2007-09-28 13:12:31 Just like some rather assertive domestic servants of old, or today?s proud Mac users, ?I don?t do Windows.?  Metaphorically speaking, that is!  What I really mean to say is that for all the references I may rely on to support a given thesis, it?s my preference to stay away from that genre.  But if my [...] ...

Kill the Protect America Act 2007-09-20 23:58:22 The single largest anti-Constitutional contribution to the Bush Regime by the Protect America Act (PAA) is its effective cancellation of legislative and judicial oversight on warrantless wiretapping. It authorizes open-ended surveillance of Americans’ overseas phone calls and e-mails without a warrant.[1] When this bill was signed into law on 08-05-07, legislative and judicial power in [...] ... America

The Case for Direct Democracy 2007-09-20 10:31:50 We, as a party, do not support direct democracy because of some romantic notion, which we prioritize to the point that we ignore empirical contingencies and the complexities they create for anyone who attempts to configure changes that are more than minute tweaks to the current complex of sociopolitical institutions, constituting American governance. Rather, our insistence [...] ...

Charlatanry… nowadays as American as apple pie 2007-09-16 17:11:36 It’s been a decade since my interest in the stock market was surgically removed from my investment system. And just as some people consider themselves cancer survivors, I, too, consider myself a Wall Street survivor. That, of course, hasn’t stopped me from tuning in now and then to that cable channel of bullishly ticker-happy telecapitalism, [...] ... Apple

Revision of American Sociopolitical History: restoring to populism its dignity 2007-09-09 21:55:53  Introduction to American Radicalized Sociopolitical Movements in Informationalism and the Network Society a working paper by Russell Cole After becoming versed in this typically neglected aspect to the American story [Populism and the People’s Party], I became fixated on the truly unique poignancy it deserved in any narration of American sociopolitical history; one characterized, in most every other [...] ... History

Upcoming bipartisan crime against peace 2007-09-09 18:24:52 George W. Bush is about to take us deeper into the jungles of the Middle East by way of establishing his New Jonestown, a group of military bases in Iraq from where America can impart order and democracy for the region, from the Tora Bora mountains of Afghan lands to the menacing Arab neighbors that [...] ...

About Dustin Brim: ongoing investigation into tragedy caused by uranium fallout 2007-09-07 11:20:54 by Lonnie D. Story .September 11, 2006 I have fought long and hard over this decision. At a time when I have faced the greatest challenge of my present life and future, I have battled what I should and should not share of this work. The excerpt below is somewhere within the first quarter of the manuscript that [...] ...

Who should be embarrassed? the Undercover Cop or the Under the Cover Senator 2007-08-31 19:07:35 I have written this short piece – which is inappropriately posted in the context of this Website – for the betterment of my own psychic wellbeing; a therapy that is called for after a long day of hearing nothing other than the rebroadcast tape of the policeman’s interrogation of Senator Craig after the Officer had [...] ...

Lackluster Appeal 2007-08-22 14:06:56 An Editorial by: Chuck Adkins As I sit here this rainy, dreary, evening.  I feel compelled to write.  I do not know about anyone else, but it seems as if we are in some sort of bizarre political nightmare.  We have a President, who is, essentially, isolated from the rest of the World.  We also have [...] ...

Positive signs of growth for the Populist Party of America: Your donations are directed toward a project that repeatedly demonstrates it ability to materialize into an organization capable of achieving its goals 2007-08-21 22:28:07 Pitch in. Support Liberty! Bush and his Congressional enablers in the Democratic and Republican parties seem almost drunk with power these days - protecting their interests, not your liberty. They’ve been running this government in such a way that it has almost nothing in common with the ideals of liberty that the Constitution was created to protect. Here [...] ... America

Why I am voting for Ron Paul 2007-08-21 09:26:54 I have never considered myself much of a Libertarian. I certainly do not possess a strong affinity for a free-market economy, and I do not believe that the free-market can serve as a conceptual paradigm that is deployable for the resolution of every and any social problem. For example, the horrific display of inhumanity that [...] ... Ron Paul

Rove Story, or never having to say you’re sorry 2007-08-18 15:43:25 An Article by: Ben Tanosborn   It’s official; by month’s end, Karl Rove will be out of the White House.  And it will be of his own accord, not indicted and, most importantly, without having to ask his admired boss, and close friend, for a presidential pardon.  It’s time for the maestro directing the Washington Busharmonic to lay [...] ...

Soviet Style Democracy in America 2007-08-13 12:57:02 The need for direct democracy in America has never been more apparent than it is right now. We - the populace - are left impotent as the politicians whom we elected to office as representatives neglect to embody in their advocacies the will and interests that we - the American Public - possess, whose [...] ... America