Heather Wokusch
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Articles by Heather Wokusch
November 21, 2008
To be honest, Obama, you lost me when you voted for the PATRIOT Act reauthorization in 2006. You lost me again when you voted for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) amendment in 2008. And you lost me every single time you voted for yet more war funding.
Don't even get me started ...
March 31, 2008
The lack of oversight characterizing both the Bush administration and crony capitalism have bankrupted the U.S. and created the need for perpetual war. With Cheney stirring up trouble over Iran, we can't wait until November 2008 to fight back.
March 06, 2008
The Pentagon is slated to release a suspected toxicant in Crystal City, Virginia this week, ostensibly to test air sensors.
The operation is just the latest example of the Defense Department´s long history of using service members and civilians as human test subjects, often without their consent or awareness.
May 28, 2007
The Pentagon has a disturbing pattern of withholding information on the impact of chemical/biological weapons and other toxins on US service members. As a result, veterans are often told that their debilitating symptoms are “in their head” and can go decades without receiving medical help. That’s no...
June 07, 2007
Few expect the G8 summit taking place in Heiligendamm, Germany from June 6-8 to yield positive results. The main question is how much damage Bush will do to US international standing during these three days.
At last year’s G8 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, Bush made headlines by groping German...
June 10, 2007
“The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany.” – George W. Bush, May 2006
There’s an unexpected front in the Bush administration’s “war on terror” – Germany. And the roughly 68,000 US troops stationed across the country ofte...
January 02, 2008
“If we cut the Pentagon budget 15%, $75 billion will go into a universal pre-kindergarten program so our children ages 3, 4 and 5 will have access to full-time day care and more money would go into elementary and secondary education. Our college-age students need to know that with a Kucinich adminis...
December 28, 2007
"On September 11, we saw clearly that evil exists in this world, and that it does not value life ... Now we are engaged in a fight against evil and tyranny to preserve and protect life." – George W. Bush in 2002, linking abortion rights with terrorism, as he declared the 29th anniversary of Roe v...
October 07, 2007
The Vatican’s recent snub of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is only the latest salvo in the battle between Pope Benedict XVI and President George W. Bush. This tug of war has profound implications for both U.S. foreign policy and the critical Catholic vote in 2008's presidential race.
Overl...
August 27, 2007
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - George W Bush
Much in the same way that US investors were “steered” into rip-off mortgage loans, the entire country has been “steered” ...
August 12, 2007
"...the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other." - Benjamin Franklin, 1787
They say that if you drop a frog into a pot of boiling water it will immediately jump out, but that if you raise the pot's heat gradually, the frog won't react.
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July 23, 2007
1. Protest war, lose your property?
On July 17th, The White House quietly announced an Executive Order entitled "Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq." Among other developments, it gives Bush the power to "block" the property of people in the US found to...