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IMPEACH
BUSH
Articles
of Impeachment The legal basis for impeachment
Notes for the Consideration of Impeachment Six Background Notes
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Sam Alito is the newest Supreme Court
Justice. Here is what he stands for.
Unchecked Presidential
power
to torture or spy at will:
Long
before al-Qaida, there was Alito, then an
assistant to the U.S. solicitor general, writing a 1984 memo proclaiming
that government officials should be able to order domestic wiretaps
without fear of legal retaliation by their subjects. Almost every
worry about the Bush administration goes back to its arrogant, sweeping
view of executive powers. There again, one finds Alito. –Seattle Post
Intelligencer
The end of reproductive freedom:
There is every reason to believe
that he will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade when the opportunity comes.
–New York Times2 A threat to individual rights: Alito reads the Constitution
and finds more power for the government and fewer rights for individuals.
This apparent indifference to individual rights is disturbing. It
runs counter to American history, which proves that human rights are
won through political and legal struggle. –Grand Forks Herald
A threat to individual
rights
Alito reads the Constitution and finds more power
for the government and fewer rights for individuals. This apparent
indifference to individual rights is disturbing. It runs counter to
American history, which proves that human rights are won through political
and legal struggle. –Grand Forks Herald
A record of deception:
Alito has deceived Congress
and the nation to hide his extreme views: ...evasiveness, however
pragmatic it might be, becomes troubling when it segues into disingenuousness.
His fuzzy memory about his membership in the Concerned Alumni of Princeton,
a group notoriously hostile to minority and women's rights, was simply
not credible. –St. Louis Post-Dispatch
1. "Alito Nomination: Time isn't right," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 8, 2006
2. "Pro-Choice Senators and Judge Alito" New York Times, January 13, 2006
3. "Our Opinion: Alito wrong for Supreme Court," Grand Forks Herald, January 16, 2006
4. "Supreme Court: Alito: Evasions and Reservations," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 15, 2006
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YMSK
Soap Box is pleased to reprint
(with permission from the publisher)
Addicted to War
Why the US Can't Kick Militarism
| Table of Contents | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Chapter
1 | Manifest Destiny | |
| Chapter
2 | The "Cold War" | |
| Chapter
3 | The "New World Order" | |
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Chapter 4 | ||
| Chapter
5 | The War Profiteers | |
| Chapter
6 | The High Price of Militarism | |
| Chapter
| Militarism and the Media | |
| Chapter
8 | Resisting Militarism | |
| The
Next Chapter | Do Something About it | |
| References
and Credits | Reference Notes and Photo and Drawing Credits | |
Check out and support the Addicted
to War website.
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Is the US using weapons of mass destruction?
We have heard much in the past few years about weapons of mass destruction. This article published in the Journal of World Affairs this summer suggests that the United States has used depleted urainum weapons in at least 4 wars since 1991. By any standards, these are weapons of mass destruction. If this is true, it is our OBLIGATION as citizens to see that the use of these weapons ceases immediately. Please read this article and see what you think.
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The Earth Policy Institute has published "The Vision and the Plan",
The Earth Policy Institute, dedicated to providing a vision of an environmentally sustainable economy—an eco-economy—as well as a roadmap of how to get from here to there.
Please read out their recently released Vision and the Plan JUST RELEASED! Plan B and Eco-Economy these suggest a direction we could go to achieve a more sustainable existence.
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