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7/26/07- A faith-based war |
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Washington DC made its reputation around the world as the city where nothing succeeds like failure -- take Bush and Wolfowitz as examples. Few “realists” tell the truth, especially in matters of public policy. But President Bush has discovered a new way around truth: faith. He has faith that the U.S. military will win in Iraq despite the impressive array of facts that would cause less fervent believers to waver. His style of operating -- classify everything and don’t talk to anyone but absolutely loyal reporters and God – contrasts sharply with the Nixon-Kissinger era. Click here to read the article from Progreso Weekly. |
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7/26/07- Sudan 'must pay USS Cole victims' |
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A US court has ordered Sudan to pay $8m (£4m) to the families of 17 marines who died in a suicide bomb attack on the USS Cole warship in Yemen in 2000.
Robert Doumar, a Virginia federal court judge, said there was enough evidence that Sudan had helped al-Qaeda, the terrorist group blamed for the attack. Read the BBC News article here. |
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7/26/07- House Judiciary Committee approves contempt resolution against Bolten and Miers |
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The House Judiciary Committee, in a straight party-line vote, approved a contempt resolution against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, setting up a constitutional battle between the Bush administration and Congress over executive privilege.
After several hours of skirmishing over whether to send a contempt resolution to the House floor, the committee voted by a 22-17 margin to approve the measure. Read the article from The Crypt here. |
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7/27/07- Media Spin on Iraq: We're Leaving (Sort of) |
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Last week, a media advisory from "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" announced a new series of interviews on the PBS show that will address "what Iraq might look like when the U.S. military leaves." Read the article from Huffington Post here. |
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7/27/07- The Media Rediscover Poverty |
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For at least a few days in July, the nation's media paid attention to the plight of the 37 million Americans living in poverty. That's because presidential candidate John Edwards brought them to New Orleans, rural Kentucky and Mississippi, inner city Cleveland and other places on his three-day, eight-state 1800 mile poverty tour.
As a quick look at the Lexis/Nexis media database reveals, during and immediately after Edwards' poverty tour, every major U.S. daily newspaper, as well as the three leading news magazines, published at least one article on poverty. Many columnists and editorial writers, liberals and conservatives alike, used Edwards' tour as a take-off point to write about the issue. Read the article from TomPaine.com here. |
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7/27/07- Number of Environmental Cops Decreasing |
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Fewer U.S. environmental cops are tracking criminal polluters these days, their numbers steadily dropping below levels ordered by Congress. They are pursuing fewer environmental crimes in a strategy by the Bush administration to target bigger polluters.
The number of the Environmental Protection Agency's criminal investigators has dropped this year to 174, below the 200-agent minimum required by Congress, even as the EPA's overall criminal enforcement budget rose nearly 25 percent over three years to $48 million, according to EPA records.
Click here to read the AP story. |
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7/27/07- NCH nurses put union to a vote |
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More than 300 nurses, some sporting scrubs and others wearing street clothes, trickled into the lobby of the Bellasera Hotel in Naples on Thursday with the issue of unionization on their minds.
The nurses, all part of the NCH Healthcare System, attended two meetings at the hotel aimed at reaching a decision on the nursing staff’s unionizing efforts. Nurses put the issue to a vote, and the results will be released Friday. Click here to read the article from Naples News. |
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7/27/07- Winds of change: Project promotes community power generation |
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Paul Lehman had high hopes when Erik Foley from St. Francis University came by his farm to set up an anenometer last spring.
Mr. Lehman had contacted the Loretto school's Renewable Energy Center to learn about the possibility of placing a wind turbine on his Black Angus dairy farm. The anenometer would measure the breezes that blew across the Boswell farm, between Johnstown and Somerset, to determine whether there was enough wind to make the use of a turbine practical. Read the article from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette here. |
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7/27/07- Hurricane Katrina Victims Give Back to West Virginia |
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FAYETTEVILLE -- Hurricane Katrina victims are giving back to people in need here in our area.
A group of high school students from a Methodist church in Slidell, La., just outside of New Orleans, are serving as missionaries.
Here in West Virginia, they're putting a roof on a home in Oak Hill. Read the article from the State Journal here. |
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7/27/07- SANTA FE BECOMES A CITY FOR PEACE! |
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On July 12, 2007 Santa Fe, New Mexico passed a Bring the Troops Home resolution. Click here to see the list of cities that have also passed Cities for Peace resolutions. |
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7/30/07- UN Chief Ban Ki-moon in California to discuss global warming |
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the United States to take the lead in combating global warming during a visit to California to learn about the state's aggressive campaign to curb its greenhouse gas emissions.
"The whole planet earth is at a crucial juncture,'' Ban told an audience at an event organized by the World Affairs Council of Northern California on Thursday. "Time is of essence. The cost of inaction will be far greater than the cost of action.'' Read the article from The Malaysian Star here. |
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7/30/07- HIV Experts Applaud Bill Protecting Access to Anti-AIDS Drugs |
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The HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA), representing more than 3,600 clinicians and researchers specializing in HIV/AIDS, supports bills introduced in both the House and Senate.
These measures would codify into law guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that requires Part D drug plans to cover nearly all drugs in six "protected classes": those for HIV/AIDS, mental illnesses, cancer, epilepsy, autoimmune diseases, and transplant patients. Read the article from Kansas City InfoZine here. |
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7/30/07- Hunger, disease spread in Iraq - Oxfam report |
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Hunger and disease are spreading in Iraq as violence masks a deepening humanitarian crisis, British charity Oxfam said in a report on Monday.
The charity said 28 percent of Iraqi children are malnourished, 15 percent of Iraqis regularly cannot afford enough to eat and 70 percent lack clean drinking water, all sharp increases since 2003. Read the Reuters article here. |
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7/30/07- Disabled worker cases at record |
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The Social Security Administration faces a record — and rapidly growing — backlog of appeals by people who claim they are too disabled to work. Through June, it had just over 745,000 cases pending, and the wait for a hearing averaged 17 months, also a record.
Claimants in some parts of the country must wait up to 31 months, according to the agency. "People have died waiting for a hearing," Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue says. Click here to read the USA Today article. |
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7/30/07- U.S. Senate revives Higher Education Act |
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The U.S. Senate passed legislation on July 24 that will reauthorize the Higher Education Act of 1965 - a law that oversees student-aid programs financed by the government - and boost federal funding for student aid.
The legislation also addresses the recent scandal involving the student-loan industry and the ongoing investigation by the office of New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo by limiting both the use of preferred-lenders listings at colleges and any rewards a college may receive for recommending certain lenders to students. A nationwide code of conduct that would prevent college employees from making financial arrangements with loan companies and receiving a share of the companies' profits in exchange for promoting specific lenders is also a provision of the new bill. Read the article from Michigan Daily here. |
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7/30/07- In Opposing Tax Plan, Schumer Breaks With Party |
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June was a busy month for Senator Charles E. Schumer. On the phone, at large parties and small gatherings around the nation, he raised more than $1 million from the booming private equity and hedge fund industries for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, of which he is chairman. Read the New York Times article here. |
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8/8/07-U.S. Says Iran-Supplied Bomb Kills More Troops |
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Attacks on American-led forces using a lethal type of roadside bomb said to be supplied by Iran reached a new high in July, according to the American military. Read the New York Times article here. |
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9/4/07 Information Regarding Inequality Issues |
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Inequality.org is a resource committed to presenting the most accurate and up to date information regarding inequality issues. Here |
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9/4/07 Poverty and the Cost of War |
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What domestic sacrifices are being made in the name of the Iraq War? H. Rizvi discusses poverty and the War spending in "U.S. Poverty Data Raise New Questions About Cost of War" Here |
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9/5/07 Iraq War Resolution Passed |
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Iraq War Resolution Passes in Durango CO here
Article from Durango Herald here |
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