Warfare As It Really Is

*= "My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest...no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism...true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village." : Gandhi

*FOCUS | Bush Team Imposes Thick Veil of Secrecy
As the Bush administration has dramatically accelerated the classification of information as "top secret" or "confidential," one office is refusing to report on its annual activity in classifying documents: the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.



*=The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.: William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

*Jim Hightower | Bush's Imperial Presidency
Referencing past presidents and their various forms of suppressing dissent in times of war, Jim Hightower views the Bush-Cheney regime as pushing the most massive and rapid expansion of presidential might America has ever known.



*= "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.": Mussolini

*Details of Patriot Act Spying Revealed
The FBI issued thousands of subpoenas to banks, phone companies and Internet providers last year, aggressively using a power enhanced under the Patriot Act to monitor the activities of US citizens.



*= They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls: Lord Edward Coke


Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War? As Many As 250,000

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In Bush's War 2400

The War in Iraq Costs $277,147,958,701 See the cost in your community


*REPORTING ON AMERICA'S MOST UNWANTED
(1 may 2006) "Immersion journalists" Sasha Abramsky and Steve Bogira
bring the lives of the impoverished, adjudicated, and disenfranchised
to life.

From: In These Times



*=It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like "democracy," "freedom," "rights," "justice," which have so often inspired heroism and have led men to give their lives for things which make life worthwhile, can also become a trap, the means of destroying the very things men desire to uphold. Sir Norman Angell (1874 - 1967), 1956.


*MAY 1 IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS BOYCOTT: ONLINE VIDEO CHANNEL
(1 may 2006) Footage from Monday's immigrants' rights boycott will be
aggregated on the Media Rights platform. Citizen journalists from
across the U.S. can self-publish their footage to the online channel.

From: Arts Engine, Inc



*= "When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." Frederic Bastiat - (1801-1850) French economist, statesman, and author. Source: The Law, by Frederic Bastiat, 1850


*GI Special 4E1 They Were Not Mindless War Machines.pdf


Bob Herbert | Warfare as It Really Is
"In the first few moments of the documentary film 'Baghdad ER,' we see a man dressed in hospital scrubs carrying a bloodied arm that has been amputated above the elbow. He deposits it in a large red plastic bag," writes Bob Herbert. "This HBO production is reality television with a vengeance - warfare as it really is. And while it is frightening, harrowing and deeply painful to watch, it should be required viewing for all but the youngest Americans."