Dick Cheney
Age: 67
Occupation: Vice President of the United States
Aliases: Big Time, Satan, the President
Remarks: Goes hiding in “undisclosed locations” during times of crises. Shot friend in the face with a shotgun.
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Economic Money Games
There is a danger that people will simply charge ahead unheeding, assuming that America’s economic problems will disappear, and clinging to the delusion that everything will be all right in the end since America is strong and “God is on our side.”
- Osamu Shimomura
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- 04 Sep 2008
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The current preoccupation with economic money games has diverted attention from the enfeeblement of the economy. Americans must come to their senses and return to an economic ideology based on dedication to enterprise and hard work.
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Micro Costs of War
These costs are real and are not going away. You can’t continue to sweep them under the rug. Like your credit card bill, the costs only grow greater if you ignore them.
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- 02 Sep 2008
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By our most conservative estimates, the Iraq War has cost an almost unimaginable $3 trillion. A more realistic estimate, however, is closer to $5 trillion – once you include all the downstream “off-budget costs” of long-term veteran benefits and treatment, the costs of restoring the now-depleted military to its pre-war strength, the considerable costs of actually withdrawing from Iraq and repositioning forces elsewhere in the region.
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Bolton Dodges War Crimes
Environmental Journalist George Mombiot attempts a citizen's arrest of former Under-Secretary of State, John Bolton.
- Sean Condon
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- 27 Aug 2008
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They started a war with doctored evidence and without United Nations consent. They tortured prisoners, paraded them around naked and subjected them to waterboarding. They held suspects in prisons for years without ever charging them.
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America's Confidence Crisis
After five years of lies, incompetence and disorder, the US is facing a moral crisis that it may not survive.
- Sean Condon
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- 08 Aug 2008
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With a cigarette dangling from his lips and blood and war paint smeared across his shell-shocked face, a quick snapshot of Marine Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller, staring at the sun rise over the burnt-out buildings of Fallujah, turned him into an accidental poster of American courage in Iraq.
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Vulture Funds: A New Category in Capitalism
A new capitalism – brutal and conquering – is moving in. It's the capitalism of a new category of vulture funds: private equity funds with the appetite of an ogre that command colossal amounts of capital.
- Ignacio Ramonet
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- 05 Aug 2008
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A new capitalism – brutal and conquering – is moving in. It's the capitalism of a new category of vulture funds: private equity funds with the appetite of an ogre that command colossal amounts of capital.
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Meme War: Freedom Fighters Or Terrorists
What's in a name? The line between "terrorist" and "state terror" blurs with over 30,000 Kurds killed by the Turkish army.
- Jenny Uechi
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- 25 Jul 2008
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Photo: MUSTAFA OZER/AFP/Getty Images
An old Kurdish poem describes the Kurds' existence as one of "a thousand sighs, a thousand tears, a thousand revolts." Described in ancient history as a fierce, mountain-dwelling people, the Kurds are the biggest ethnic group in the world without their own homeland. With 25 to 30 million people dispersed throughout Southern Turkey, Northern Iraq and the West of Iran, the Kurds have undergone brutal oppression by foreigners since the Middle Ages.
Photo: Lalo de Almeida/Redux
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Net Neutrality
Net neutrality has become a rallying cry for a new generation of media activists. A new media democracy movement is spawning from these Big Telecom acts of aggression, and the movement is having a surprising level of success.
- Steve Anderson
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- 21 Jul 2008
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