Two Years Later, Iraq War Drains Military
Heavy Demands Offset Combat Experience By Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post Two years after the United States launched a war in Iraq with a crushing display of power, a guerrilla conflict is grinding away at the resources of the U.S. military and casting uncertainty over the fitness of the ...
Steady Drop in Black Army Recruits; Data Said to Reflect Views on Iraq War
By Josh White / Washington Post The percentage of new Army recruits who are black has slipped dramatically over the past five years, reflecting a lack of support among African Americans for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as an economy that is providing more enticing options at ...
THE MARCH OF FREEDOM George gets support for his emergency war funding, including $600 million for the biggest terrorist target in the world. After the US death toll in Iraq passes 1,500, Prime Minister Allawi extends the country's state of emergency. Saddam Hussein's son may have been planning to topple ...
Calling All Soldiers: Military Recruiters Face Resistance from Young Anti-War Activists
By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg / Amsterdam News The military spends about $3 billion each year to convince young people that enlistment will give them college money, job training and an alternative to working at McDonald's. In the wake of the growing conflict in Iraq, which has resulted in over a thousand ...
Economic Growth Likely to Dip in 2005
By Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Economic growth will slow this year but will still be sufficient to reduce the nation's unemployment rate, business economists say. In its latest economic outlook, the National Association for Business Economics predicts the economy — as measured by gross domestic product — ...
'He was a crook'; Hunter S. Thompson on the death of Richard Nixon
Rolling Stone HUNTER S. THOMPSON 'He was a crook' Jun 16, 1994 MEMO FROM THE NATIONAL AFFAIRS DESK DATE: MAY 1, 1994 FROM: DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON SUBJECT: THE DEATH OF RICHARD NIXON: NOTES ON THE PASSING OF AN AMERICAN MONSTER....HE WAS A LIAR AND A QUITTER, AND HE SHOULD ...
Iraqis Frustrated by Shortages in Oil-Rich Country
BAQUBA, Iraq ( CNN) -- "No gas, no fuel. This is destruction, not freedom!" It is just another morning at the pump at a fuel station in Mansuriye, northeast of Baquba, where tempers of the weary civilians waiting for gasoline in oil-rich Iraq are flaring. Dozens of men crowded at ...
By Steve Fainaru / Washington Post BAGHDAD, Feb. 8 -- A man walked into a crowd of Iraqi army recruits in central Baghdad on Tuesday and blew himself up, killing at least 21 people and wounding at least 27. The death toll has reached 168 in Iraq since the Jan. ...
Eyewitness: Taking detainee testimony in Iraq
BBC US-led international forces in Iraq are currently holding thousands of Iraqi people suspected of involvement in the violent campaign against the Iraqi government and the occupying forces. But some detainees complain of arbitrary detention and abusive treatment. Peggy Gish, 62, is an American woman who has spent 13 months ...
US to Take Bigger Bite of Iraq's Economic Pie
'Helping' Govt Cut Social Subsidies, Give US Corporations Full Access to Iraqi Oil By Emad Mekay / Inter Press Service WASHINGTON - The United States is helping the interim Iraqi government continue to make major economic changes, including cuts to social subsidies, full access for U.S. companies to the nation's ...
By Terry HorneThe Indianapolis Star Sen. Evan Bayh suggested Thursday that it was time for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to step down. The Indiana Democrat made his comments to both National Public Radio and The Indianapolis Star as a "no-confidence" movement gained momentum in the Senate. In recent days, Republican ...
Moore’s Magic: 9/11 Electrifies By Rex Reed / New York Observer Michael Moore leaves no turn unstoned. There are multitudes of shattering, seminal moments in his brilliant Bush-whacking documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, that reveal more about the cynicism, greed and ineptitude in the U.S. government than you will ever learn from ...
Iranians Hint at Links Between Nuclear and Political Power
By Nazila Fathi / New York Times TEHRAN, Dec. 5 - Iranian officials have made comments in recent days that hint that they have increased their nuclear activities since last year to put Iran in a better position to negotiate with the world. In a rare admission, Sirous Nasseri, a ...
US Jobless Claims Rise More Than Expected
By Nancy Waitz / Reuters The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits rose 25,000 last week to 349,000, a government report showed on Thursday, with some analysts citing the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday as distorting the data. But the U.S. Labor Department survey also showed the number of ...
WTOL News11 TOLEDO -- The unemployment rate is going up in Ohio. The new numbers are out and Ohio had more people out of work in October than any other state. The number of people out of work went up from 354,000 in September to 373,000 in October. The news ...
HALLELUJAH / FALLUJAH Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee defends the sanctity of marriage against its gravest threat. US prison population hits record 1.47 million! In Wisconsin, people come together to explore whether the election was stolen. Were Tuesday's results worse than 2000? New Mexico voters red with embarrassment over delayed count, ...
ELECTORS vs. ELECTRONS The investigation into the missing 60,000 Florida absentee ballots is kinda over. Jeb Bush encourages people to challenge other people's votes on election day which will hopefully create gridlock and/or chaos. More on the Florida issue here. Election monitors could overwhelm voters at the polls. Hundreds of ...
Why Democrats shouldn't be scared - By Michael Moore
By Michael Moore / USA Today NEW YORK — If I've heard it once, I've heard it a hundred times from discouraged Democrats and liberals as the Republican convention here wrapped up this week. Their shoulders hunched, their eyes at a droop, they lower their voice to a whisper hoping ...
Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican
by John Gray Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards. He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because ...
Mike's RNC Protest Resource Guide
BE SAFE, PEACEFUL, AND CALCULATED TO BE EFFECTIVE - Bring friends and family. Pack food and water. Be prepared: United for Peace and Justice is a coalition of more than 800 local and national groups throughout the United States who have joined together to oppose our government's policy of permanent ...
How a Movie Can Move the Voting Public (Part 3)
“I have been a dedicated Republican for all of my life. Never really depended what they supported. I would vote because they were Republican. I saw ‘F/911 today.’ I was moved beyond words. I had to write and simply say thank you. Because of this movie, this year I will ...
Ummm, where have we heard this before? The Bush administration is actively pursuing possible ties between Iran and 9/11. Shall we start the countdown to war? Political activist groups challenge the legality of Fox's "fair and balanced" trademark. Bob Herbert describes the emerging catastrophe that is black male unemployment. That ...
Strong Reactions in Indiana, PA
By Kelsey Volkmann / The Indiana Gazette (PA) July 10, 2004 'Fahrenheit 9/11' still stirs controversy It would be an understatement to say Michael Moore's latest film, "Fahrenheit 9/11," has grabbed its share of headlines. This pointed attack on the Bush administration's actions regarding Sept. 11 has garnered first place ...
F9/11 Benefits the Newport International Film Festival
'Fahrenheit 9/11' packed at Pickens By James J. Gillis / Newport Daily News NEWPORT - Lila Lipscomb made her first trip to Newport Friday, her first trip to New England even. But she would rather have been home in industrial Flint, Mich. - even with its double-digit unemployment and its ...
More Views from America #5: Texas to Wyoming
TEXAS Dallas: "I made a point to go see Farenheit 9/11 over the weekend...actually I made a point to make sure some friends saw it as well...even going so far as to pay for their tickets. I ended up taking 3 friends to two different screenings, at a Loews in ...
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March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
February 20th, 2013
Last night was the Motion Picture Academy-sponsored dinner in Beverly Hills honoring the directors and producers of this year's five nominated films for Best Documentary. ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
'Dirty Wars' by Jeremy Scahill
Why have you started a comedy festival in northern Michigan in the middle of winter?
Because if you were here in the dead of winter in the middle of nowhere (which is actually somewhere to us), you'd need a few laughs too ... Continue Reading
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