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1,500th U.S. Troop Death in Iraq, Military Families Mourn and Speak Out:
by MFSO Monday, Feb. 28, 2005 at 4:48 PM

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02/24/05 AccessNorthGa: Marine wounded with Oakwood leatherneck back home. Lance Corporal David Payton had been recovering in the same Texas hospital where Matt Turner of Oakwood is hospitalized. Payton still has not completely recovered from his injuries. Among other things, he says he still can't see well.

02/24/05 AP: Dazey soldier recovering after injury in Iraq. Billy Quick was on patrol when he was hit in the face last November. He said his head was turned away, but he still lost the vision in his right eye.

02/24/05 AP: Army medic gets Purple Heart for shrapnel wounds in Iraq. Army medic Sgt. Sean Luke...was wounded in both legs by shrapnel from a mortar last October while deployed in Iraq. He was traveling with two other medics on a mission outside the city of Ramadi when the tank they were riding in was hit by a mortar.

02/24/05 11alive: Injured Ga. Soldier Returns Home. Lance Cpl. David Payton, of Powder Springs, sustained second- and third-degree burns in an enemy bomb attack on January 30. The 21-year-old also suffered chemical burns to his lungs and esophagus.

02/24/05 Messengernews: Fort Dodge wounded in Iraq. Lance Cpl. Lucas Devine, 22, underwent two outpatient surgeries to remove shrapnel and returned to duty in Iraq, according to his father, Mike Devine, of Fort Dodge.

02/24/05 kdbc: El Paso Soldier ambushed and seriously injured. Twenty-two-year-old Luis Aranda, a Franklin High School graduate and sergeant in the Marine Corps, is in serious but stable condition after he was ambushed on Tuesday.

02/23/05 Startribune: Two other Minnesotans injured in Iraq. The injured soldiers were not identified; one quickly returned to duty, while the other was taken to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. He was reported to be in stable condition.

02/23/05 The Modesto Bee: Soldier headed to valley to heal. The Iraqi sniper's bullet that didn't kill Spc. Kenneth Michael did take out a good chunk of his gut. His stomach remains open, covered by dressings. One of 1,004 battle casualties from Iraq to be treated at Walter Reed, should be released this week.

Theyrule.net

They Rule aims to provide a glimpse of some of the relationships of the US ruling class. It takes as its focus the boards of some of the most powerful U.S. companies, which share many of the same directors. Some individuals sit on 5, 6 or 7 of the top 500 companies. It allows users to browse through these interlocking directories and run searches on the boards and companies. A user can save a map of connections complete with their annotations and email links to these maps to others. They Rule is a starting point for research about these powerful individuals and corporations.

Blogging Foreign Policy

Web of Influence By: Daniel W. Drezner, Henry Farrell

For the traditional media—and ultimately, policymakers—this makes the blogosphere difficult to ignore as a filter through which the public considers foreign-policy questions.

Anti Bush Media Links

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Corporate Water Privatization Committee

SHOW THIRST IN YOUR COMMUNITY!

Act locally to push back the Bush agenda on privatization! Show THIRST in your community. Produced by independent filmmakers Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman, THIRST is being shown in communities across the United States. In Lee Massachusetts, it was a key factor in winning the vote against privatization of the town's water/sewer system.

The Sierra Club's Water Privatization Task Force members are available to speak at a community forum in conjunction with the showing of THIRST. Please contact us immediately if there is any move to privatize your municipal water/sewer system or to build a privately owned facilities for a new subdivision.

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Addictedtowar.com

"This is the most important comic book ever written. To be a true patriot (in the American revolutionary sense) is to understand the cruelty of U.S. foreign policy. Read this book and pass it on to as many people as you can."

Woody Harrelson, Actor

Hunter S. Thompson

We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world--a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us . . . No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you.

Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid rich kids like George Bush?

They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us--they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis.

And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not.

Fuck them.

Free Mojtaba and Arash Day! Support Our Right To Blog!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4278241.stm
Global blogger action day called

The global web blog community is being called into action to lend support to two imprisoned Iranian bloggers. The month-old Committee to Protect Bloggers' is asking those with blogs to dedicate their sites on 22 February to the "Free Mojtaba and Arash Day".

Arash Sigarchi is still in Lakan prison in the Iranian city of Rashat.

Fellow Iranian blogger Mojtaba Saminejad has been released from prison in Tehran but still faces charges.

They have both been deprived of their liberty by the Iranian government for expressing opinions on their blogs.

http://committeetoprotectbloggers.blogspot.com/
http://iranbloggers.blogspot.com/
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/02/22/022429.php
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68708

If you are in the United States, contact either the Representative at the Iranian Interest Section of the Pakistani Embassy or the Ambassador to Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations. (Iran has no embassy in the United States.) Here is the contact information.

Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif
Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran http://www.un.int/iran/
622 Third Ave. New York, NY 10017
Tel: (212) 687-2020 / Fax: (212) 867-7086
E-mail: Email the ambassador mailto:iran@un.int

Iranian Representative
Embassy of Pakistan
Interests Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran http://www.daftar.org/Eng/default.asp?lang=eng
2209 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.Washington, D.C. 20007
Email the Interests Section mailto:requests@daftar.org

Regulations.gov

Regulations.gov is the U.S. Government web site that makes it easier for you to participate in Federal rulemaking - an essential part of the American democratic process.

On this site, you can find, review, and submit comments on Federal documents that are open for comment and published in the Federal Register, the Government’s legal newspaper. As a member of the public, you can submit comments about these regulations, and have the Government take your views into account.

U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe

A Review of Post Cold-War Policy, Force Levels and War Planning
by Hans Kristensen, National Resources Defense Council

Mediamatters.org

Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Conservative misinformation is defined as news or commentary presented in the media that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda.

For the first time, Media Matters for America has put in place a system to monitor the media for conservative misinformation -- every day, in real time -- in 2004 and beyond.

Media Matters for America's website - www.mediamatters.org - is the principal vehicle for disseminating research and information through a range of initiatives:

Media Monitoring: Comprehensively monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets to identify conservative misinformation.

Media Analysis: Analyze the monitoring data, including broader trends in media coverage of politics and public policy, and post reports detailing the ways in which conservative misinformation is disseminated through media.

Nationalpriorities.org

Americans Pay High Cost for War provides state-by-state data on the number of soldiers killed and wounded, the dollar cost, and the number of reservists and National Guard troops on active duty. This data is presented in the context of worsening conditions in Iraq as well as expert opinions on national security policy.

Congress.org

Congress.org, a free public service of Capitol Advantage, is a "one-stop-shop" where one can identify their Congressional representatives; research Congressional voting records; learn about the issues of the day; and send e-mail directly to Congress. Constituents can even opt to have their e-mail message hand-delivered to their Representative or Senator's office on Capitol Hill - all without ever leaving their computer.

Costofwar.com - See How Much the U.S. Spends to Kill People

Because Killing People for Money Costs Money.

3000 Plus Anti-Bush Web Sites

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Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States

All those histories of this country centered on the Founding Fathers and the Presidents weigh oppressively on the capacity of the ordinary citizen to act. They suggest that in times of crisis we must look to someone to save us: in the Revolutionary crisis, the Founding Fathers; in the slavery crisis, Lincoln; in the Depression, Roosevelt; in the Vietnam-Water gate crisis, Carter. And that between occasional crises everything is all right, and it is sufficient for us to be restored to that normal state. They teach us that the supreme act of citizenship is to choose among saviors, by going into a voting booth every four years to choose between two white and well-off Anglo-Saxon males of inoffensive personality and orthodox opinions.
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The prospect is for times of turmoil, struggle, but also inspiration. There is a chance that ... a movement could succeed in doing what the system itself has never done-bring about great change with little violence. This is possible because the more of the 99 percent that begin to see themselves as sharing needs, the more the guards and the prisoners see their common interest, the more the Establishment becomes isolated, ineffectual. The elite's weapons, money, control of information would be useless in the face of a determined population. The servants of the system would refuse to work to continue the old, deadly order, and would begin using their time, their space-the very things given them by the system to keep them quiet-to dismantle that system while creating a new one.

The prisoners of the system will continue to rebel, as before, in ways that cannot be foreseen, at times that cannot be predicted. The new fact of our era is the chance that they may be joined by the guards. We readers and writers of books have been, for the most part, among the guards. If we understand that, and act on it, not only will life be more satisfying, right off, but our grandchildren, or our great grandchildren, might possibly see a different and marvelous world.

The Ten Worst Corporations of 2004

Abbott Laboratories: Drug Pricing Chutzpah
Aig: Deferred Prosecutions On The Rise
Coca-Cola: Killercoke.Org Vs. Cokekills.Org
Dow Chemical: Forgive Us Our Trespasses
Glaxosmithkline: Deadly Depressing
Hardee’s: Heart Attack On A Bun
Merck: 55,000 Dead
Mcwane: Death On The Job
Riggs Bank: The Pinochet Connection
Wal-Mart: The Workfare Company

Flag.blackened.net - Noam Chomsky Interview

Anarchism, Marxism & Hope for the Future

Noam Chomsky is widely known for his critique of U.S foreign policy, and for his work as a linguist. Less well known is his ongoing support for libertarian socialist objectives. In a special interview done for Red and Black Revolution, Chomsky gives his views on anarchism and marxism, and the prospects for socialism now. The interview was conducted in May 1995 by Kevin Doyle.

Axisofeve.org - Operation Expose and Depose

"Let's expose the bastard, one panty at a time!"
--axis of eve supporter

The Axis of Eve is a coalition of brazen women on a mission to EXPOSE and DEPOSE President Select George W. Bush and his deceitful administration. Convinced that effective political action can be irreverent and exciting, we have launched a titillating campaign of TRUTH-FLASHING coordinated around our provocative line of protest panties, emblazoned with anti-bush slogans like "expose bush", "weapon of mass seduction," and "ballot box."

Billboardliberation.com - The Art & Science of Billboard Improvement

...a comprehensive guide to the alteration of outdoor advertising

Introduction
Look up! Billboards have become as ubiquitous as human suffering, as difficult to ignore as a beggar's outstretched fist. Every time you leave your couch or cubicle, momentarily severing the electronic umbilicus, you enter the realm of their impressions. Larger than life, subtle as war, they assault your senses with a complex coda of commercial instructions, the messenger RNA of capitalism. Every time you get in a car, or ride a bus, or witness a sporting event, you receive their instructions. You can't run and you can't hide, because your getaway route is lined to the horizon with signs, and your hidey-hole has a panoramic view of an 8-sheet poster panel.

There are a million stories in the Big City, and as many reasons to want to hack a billboard. We have our reasons, and we don't presume to judge yours. In this manual, we have made a conscious effort to steer clear of ideology and stick to methodology. The procedures outlined here are based on our 20+ years' experience executing billboard improvements professionally, safely, and (knock wood) without injury or arrest. In most cases, is should not be necessary to follow the elaborate, even obsessive precautions we outline here. A can of spray paint, a blithe spirit, and a balmy night are all your really need.

- Blank DeCoverly, BLF Information Systems

Nine Eleven - Key Essays

Noam Chomsky: Terror and a Just Response

Stephen Shalom: Why Do They Hate Us?

Martin Espada: Alabanza

Arundhati Roy: Come September / War is Peace

Robert Fisk: The Awesome Cruelty of a Doomed People

Opensecrets.org

The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. The Center conducts computer-based research on campaign finance issues for the news media, academics, activists, and the public at large. The Center’s work is aimed at creating a more educated voter, an involved citizenry, and a more responsive government.

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Findlaw.com - Supreme Court Opinions

FindLaw's searchable database of the Supreme Court decisions since 1893...Browsable by year and US Reports volume number and searchable by citation, case title and full text.

State Education Data Profiles

Search for statewide information in elementary/secondary education, postsecondary education and selected demographics for all states in the U.S.

Voices of World War II

Audio experiences from the Front and at Home.

Meettheneighbors.org

Meet the Neighbors allows you to learn more about the folks next door. Meet, chat, organize or simply hang out with "the locals." Find community events like picnics and parties. Or click the name of a registered neighbor to view their profile.