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With the chicken hawk-driven war on Iraq in high gear, Bush and Cheney have learned that the best way to silence the Democratic Party, distract from their miserable domestic outrages and provide the corporate and rich classes with favors is to envelop our nation in fear. Using false or distorted statements, contrary to the findings…
If you are facing financial difficulties and heading toward bankruptcy, it is all so much nicer to be a corporate executive than just an ordinary hard working citizen. And if the financial lobbyists and their friends in Congress have their way this year, the disparity between the kid glove treatment of corporate bankruptcy and tough…
If you are facing financial difficulties and heading toward bankruptcy, it is all so much nicer to be a corporate executive than just an ordinary hard working citizen. And if the financial lobbyists and their friends in Congress have their way this year, the disparity between the kid glove treatment of corporate bankruptcy and tough…
As this is written, the campaign known as “shock and awe” has begun over Iraq and the five million civilian inhabitants of Baghdad. Bombs indeed shock, but why the word “awe”? This is Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s way of turning the Iraq bombardment against what he knows is a defenseless country, run by a brutal…
For years, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has run a very active enforcement program against major American corporations accused of trading with statutory enemies of the United States. For years, OFAC would call corporate lawyers into their offices, demand that the companies pay to the Treasury Department thousands of dollars to…
Over the last six weeks, major civic groups with deep concerns about the impending war with Iraq have requested meetings with President Bush, who not once in the past year has met with a domestic antiwar delegation. Astonishingly, not one of these groups, which collectively represent millions of Americans, have received any invitations to meet…
ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING CLERGY, LABOR, ENVIRONMENT, BUSINESSES, STUDENTS, PEACE GROUPS, WOMENS’ GROUPS, CITY COUNCILS, CONSUMERS, VETERANS, PROFESSORS AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY EXPERTS REQUEST MEETINGS WITH PRESIDENT BUSH Over the last six weeks, civic groups with deep concerns about the impending war with Iraq have requested meetings with President Bush, who not once in the past year has…
March 9, 2003 President George W. Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President, We, the leaders of the undersigned women’s rights organizations, request a meeting with you to discuss our concerns about a possible war against Iraq. Violence often simply begets violence. Women’s groups have long favored non-violent,…
For decades Republicans and conservative Democrats were vehement in their defense of states’ rights. Federal legislation on everything from civil rights to gun control to environmental and health safeguards-and a host of other consumer protections-have faced vigorous opposition centered around the argument that such issues were the province of the states, not the federal government.…
March 6, 2003 President George W. Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President: Before you decide whether to attack Iraq, we the undersigned business executives, Republicans, Democrats and Independents, respectfully request the opportunity to meet with you to discuss our concerns about the economic consequences of such a…