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Public Comments on Draft (PEIS) Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement

All four proposals in the draft envision the continued production of nuclear weapons and the maintenance of an enduring stockpile.

It is crucial that the public show up to this hearing and make their standpoint known on the record.

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On a cold stormy January 31st in Chicago, fifty brave people skipped school and work, standing in solidarity with other across the country as they demonstrated against torture and the Bush Regime.

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Not the torturer will scare me,
Nor the body’s final fall,
Nor the barrels of death’s rifles,
Nor the shadows on the wall,
Nor the night when to the ground,
The last dim star of pain is hurled,
But the blind indifference,
Of a merciless, unfeeling world.
RogerWaters’,
song Each Small Candle, 1999.

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President Bush signed the fiscal 2008 Defense authorization bill into law Monday, but not before stating that he reserves the right to disregard several sections.

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Because the other politicians make the wrong call

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The U.S. economy is running on artificial wealth that has been manufactured by the Federal Reserve and swallowed by gullible consumers chasing that pot of gold at the end of the easy money rainbow. Is the only way out of this financial mess for the Feds to steal yet more money from the American people by printing more money and hyperinflation?

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Al Gore learns how to avoid abortion questions, George Bush talks to Larry King about Halcyon — all presuming they’re off camera. Composed of 100% unauthorized satellite footage, Spin is a surreal expose of media-constructed reality.

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The neo-cons in the White House and the Pentagon outsmarted themselves. They failed even to address the problem of how to finance their schemes of imperialist wars and global domination. As a result, going into 2008, the US finds itself in the anomalous position of being unable to pay for its own elevated living standards or its wasteful, military

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The people of Palestine have done it again, taking their own fate in their hands after being let down by their own “moderate” political leadership and, indeed, the entire international community in their struggle for freedom. They simply blew up the wall separating Gaza from Egypt, breaking a siege imposed on them …

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In a scathing critique of the war in Afghanistan, John Pilger argues that the tactical victory in Afghanistan in 2001 has become a strategic disaster in South Asia.

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