Political Attention Deficit Disorder – New Psychiatric Condition

According to a report not yet released, the Council on Science and Public Health of the American Medical Association has recommended that a chronic and widespread affliction of Americans be officially declared a psychiatric disorder. It has been named the Political Attention Deficit Disorder (PADD). It is recommended that the disorder be included in a …

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The Exit of Cindy Sheehan ~ Ron Jacobs anaylzes Cindy Sheehan’s declaration to leave public life.

First, read Good Riddance Attention Whoreby CindySheehan ~ May 28, 2007 Then: Don’t Go Too Far Away, Cindy I have to admit that I was quite surprised when I read that Cindy Sheehan is leaving the peace movement. After reading her explanation for the move, I was less surprised, but still a bit disappointed. After …

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Bill Moyers returns! “Buying the War” on Bill Moyers Journal

How did the mainstream press get it so wrong? How did the evidence disputing the existence of weapons of mass destruction and the link between Saddam Hussein to 9-11 continue to go largely unreported? “What the conservative media did was easy to fathom; they had been cheerleaders for the White House from the beginning and …

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McCain & Lindsey’s stroll and what it hath wrought at the Shorja market in Baghdad

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The crack of shots fired by unseen snipers echoed on Monday through Baghdad’s wholesale Shorja market, a day after U.S. Senator John McCain held up his visit there as one sign of improving security in Baghdad. and “Who said there was security?” asked carpet salesman Abu Ammar, 55, who said he sold …

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Objecting to This War

In an editorial Johnson failed constituents in The Olympian on March 16, 2007 the writer called our city councilman TJ Johnson a scofflaw which means “a person who flouts rules, conventions, or accepted practices … One who habitually violates the law” I was glad to see that a letter to the editor from Alec and …

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Monday Februay 5: National Day of Action when Lt. Ehren Watada goes on trial at Ft. Lewis, Washington

On Monday, February 5, 2007, when Lt. Watada goes on trial, supporters will rally outside the gates of Fort Lewis, Washington for a peaceful, non-violent demonstration. Monday, February 5, 2007 9am –Lt. Watada’s Military Court Martial begins 11:30am –Student Rally with Iraq Veterans Against the War 1pm –Political Art Performance 3pm Rally and Vigil Fort …

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Four articles for today …

Impeachment by the People ~ by wonderful Howard Zinn Courage is in short supply in Washington, D.C. The realities of the Iraq War cry out for the overthrow of a government that is criminally responsible for death, mutilation, torture, humiliation, chaos. But all we hear in the nation’s capital, which is the source of those …

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