Current Events/Engaged stuff from before 2007
12-01-06 -
Buddhist delegation to
Columbia Peace Movement
co-sponsored by the
Fellowship of Reconciliation and the
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
11-30-06 -
nuts vote for Bush, a shocking study.
11-27-06 - If you care about
honest elections, read
OpEdNews Exclusive - Clear Evidence 2006 Congressional Elections Hacked
- Results Skewed Nationwide In Favor of Republicans by 4 percent, 3
million votes - By Rob Kall of the
Election Defense
Alliance. See Rigged
Elections.
 11-26-06
AMERICA
101
(on Common Dreams) By
Bill Moyers (Wikipedia link).
This guy speaks to the
heart of our social, political, spiritual, etc dilemmas, a real modern
wise man and hero. He covers a lot of important ground in this talk. One
might say, this ain't Zen. I came here cause it's a Zen site. But look at
it this way: there are two wheels to the temple and I've chanted "may they
turn eternally," in days when I chanted more. The two wheels are the
dharma wheel and the economic wheel. We tend to think of Zen as being the
dharma. But the economic wheel assures that there's a roof over our heads
and food in our bowl, and clean air to breathe and pure water to drink and
that there isn't social chaos or debilitating despotism and so forth so
that we may be of sound, untroubled mind and body enough to awaken to. Moyers really covers both wheels though this
talk definitely emphasizes big problems with the American economic wheel.
Read on and revolt! - DC
Bill Moyers is president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy
and a veteran journalist. He delivered these remarks in San Diego on
October 27 to the Council of Great City Schools , an organization of the
nation’s largest urban public school systems.
11-11-06 - A Topic in the Air but One That Political Candidates Declined to Touch:
Torture of Prisoners
NYTimes - in which PETER STEINFELS suggests "Let all interrogations be
videotaped."
Another excerpt:
at the founding conference, in Princeton last January, of the National
Religious Campaign Against Torture. Prominent religious leaders,
Protestant (both mainline and evangelical), Roman Catholic, Eastern
Orthodox, Jewish and Muslim, issued a statement, "Torture Is a Moral
Issue,"
"Torture violates the basic dignity of the human person that all
religions, in their highest ideals, hold dear. It degrades everyone
involved — policy makers, perpetrators and victims. It contradicts our
nation's most cherished values. Any policies that permit torture and
inhumane treatment are shocking and morally intolerable. Nothing less is
at stake in the torture abuse crisis than the soul of our nation. What
does it signify if torture is condemned in word but allowed in deed? Let
America abolish torture now — without exceptions."
Here's the link, but you've got to sign up.
 11-08-06
- Day after the election. Unhappy day for the Meddling Demons. Happy Day for Beings Revolted
by Reckless Random Rapacious Rape of the Realm. It's probably hopeless,
and yet look at the dancing monk!
See Rigged Elections.
 10-19-06
-
Habeas Corpus...
RIP
("the Great Writ" June 15, 1215 - October 17, 2006)
tee shirts etc.
with large & small black-on-white or
white-on-black graphics
available in the
current events section
of the Cuke Basket.
Wear your grief.
and
yesterday's
Keith Olbermann
on the Military Commissions Act of 2006
is worth reading or seeing - strong stuff.
10-18-07 -
 Henry
Rollins-"freedom is under attack!"
10-17-06
-
The Day Habeas Corpus Died.
(a cuke.com digression into current events)
America Has Freaked Out!!!!
click thumbnail to
enlarge.
This image from here.
Today President Bush signed into law the
Military Commissions Act of 2006 which, it looks like to me, gives him
absolute dictatorial power for no good reason. Why didn't the democrats
who opposed this filibuster?
This is a What did you do? moment.
There might be a lot of them with this government but this is to me the
biggest.
 See
what Keith Olbermann and his guest Jonathon Turley of George Washington
had to say on MSNBC Countdown,
the Day Habeas Corpus Died. The video link is Countdown-King
George.
Video-WMP
Video-QT
For one thing, Turley said, "The Congress just gave the president despotic
powers and you could hear the yawn across the country." He said George
Bush has just been made an absolute ruler. He said that Madison said that
the constitution provided protections so strong that we could be ruled by
devils and we would be protected. Those protections have been eliminated.
The President or the Secretary of Defense (or anyone they designate) can now arrest anyone in the world or the US whom he deems
an enemy combatant or even someone who has given "material support" to the
enemy, and this person can just disappear with no charges and no rights.
And they can be tortured because the president now defines what that is.
I could put up lots of other links. Look into it. I urge you to do what
you can - write, call your Senator and Representative and newspaper.
Protest. Don't stop. Or, leave the country. Hmm. That sounds like a good
alternative. Good luck. - DC
10-15-06 - Cuke.com says check out
Kinky Friedman for Governor of
Texas! Check out his ads. His campaign motto at one time was "How hard can
it be?" Kinky was the head of the Texas Jewboys whose big hit was "Why
Don't They Make Jews Like Jesus Anymore?" He's also written some really
good detective novels. Oh oh - he's in trouble for "racist" remarks. He's
an old civil rights advocate. Wonder what that's about. - fellow Texan DC
10-12-06 -
SIGN THE AMERICA I BELIEVE IN PLEDGE
10-07-06 -
Warmongers' Atonement
As for those who've planned this war (since the 90s), lied, cajoled,
persuaded to war, insisted on war, the war-monger President, VP, Sec. of
Defense, of State, the advisors who pushed it - those of us at cuke.com
suggest a compassionate Christian, Buddhist, Islamic, general
spiritual/religious or humanistic approach to their punishment, their
consequences, their atonement:
 Do
not lock them up. First, stop them from spreading their violence and then,
let them do community service. We suggest they work in veteran's hospitals
and serve the wounded - until they are too old or infirm to do so - and
then they too will be nursed and attended to until their days on this
planet are no more.
May all those who supported this war and who profited from it take care of
the wounded veterans and civilians from every country until the last one
has passed.
US Casualties Rise Sharply - WaPo 10-08-06
Norman Solomon on
the Loud Clear Voice of Iraq Vets.
Iraq
Coalition Casualty Count
Casualties in Iraq on Anti-war.com
Wounded Iraqis left Broken and Burdened - WaPo
Iraqis
wounded in US and British Air Strikes
And there's so much more - find it for yourself - endless slaughter and
maiming.
10-05-06 - Check out
World Can't Wait
Drive Out the Bush Regime day of marches - Get the Folk Out! Today!
Pro Bushite dungeon & torture Buddhist submissions
encouraged.
 10-01-06 -
Madness in the USA!
"Freedom,
darling -
democracy, keep you safe, precious," said the Red Queen. Then, her
smile turning into a scowl, she howled,
"Off with their heads!"
Relevant links on this madness:
The Death of the
First American Republic - truthout/perspective
Robert Scheer: Rice More Sordid Than Foley -
Truthdig
Habeas Corpus, R.I.P. (1215 - 2006) By Molly Ivins - Truthdig
In Case I
Disappear By William Rivers Pitt - t r u t h o u t | Perspective
9-27-06 - Thom Hartmann on the
history and
importance of habeas corpus which curtailed the defining power of
tyrants - to arrest and hold anyone they wanted without giving a reason.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
9-26-06 -
9-11-06 - See Robert
Scheer's
Truth Dig editorial on 911 plus video tribute. Notice his related
Links. Also, read
NYT's
Paul Krugman and Huffington
Post's many links and articles including London Times' Simon Jenkens -
Giving Terrorism What it Craves.
9-09-06 - Received this nifty item
today: Check out this scathing rant by George
Carlin. It takes a few minutes to download, but be patient, it's worth it.
--
http://www.trumpetamerica.org/audio/georgecarlinthetruth.mp3 or
try the video link:http://media.smays.com/Video/Carlin_edu.wmv -
Cheers, Ken at the BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS, P.O. Box 1044, Berkeley CA
94701, USA -
http://www.bopsecrets.org - "Making petrified conditions dance by
singing them their own tune."
9-06-06 - Oh no!
Methane bubbling up faster than we thought and this time from
permafrost! Run! Run!
9-05-06 - Ouch! - another
snowballing
global
warming item, a science report from the BBC plus
some
reflections on global warming blues.
Rigged Elections -
earlier posts on Current Events about election fraud and
voter suppression.
6-28-06 -
Military Families Speak Out
6-17-06 - An official cuke.com point of view: we should pay attention to
global warming like we would a boulder above us about to fall. By we I
mean SFZC folk, Zennies in general, Buddhists, Spiritual seekers, and
humanoids. If we keep leaving it up to inanimate corporations and their
lackeys, we may be doomed to inanimaty. It may be too late and too hard,
but why not give it at least a hail Mary. More tomorrow or at least Monday
if I don't get it in before going off for the day. Doing some Aluminati
visiting. Should do an Aluminati update. Luv. dc
6-15-06 - Liz
Wolf's anarchist son is having trouble with the fascists who run this
nasty government. Oh sorry, did I stoop to name-calling? OK. Take
out the "anarchist" from that sentence. His name's Josh Wolf.
He is a journalist. He took footage of protests over a G-8 Summit and
now the FBI and the Justice Department and a grand jury are threatening
him with jail is he doesn't hand his film over. Check it all out on his
web site the Josh
Wolf Grand Jury page. Here's an article from the SF Weekly
called Should
Journalist Josh Wolf be Afraid? There's a typo in that
article for sure. His footage is not of a July 8,2006 protest in SF against
the G8 summit in Scotland. It was 2005.
5-12-06 -
Dean Kamen's amazing power plants. Thanks to JRIII in FW.
5-11-06 -
Save the Internet! Really.
Evil forces are lurking. Act now.
5-03-06 -
On Mexico's Intent to
Legalize All Drugs - which they didn't do - for now.
5-02-06 -
On Steven Colbert's talk
at the White House Press Correspondents Dinner.
4-21-06 -
Thanks to Jessica Parker for emailing the following two photos of
yesterday's demonstration - estimates of 2000 to 4000 on hand to meet Pres
Bush in St Helena, Napa County, CA where he came to relax for a day. His
motorcade was late and took a back road so only a few people were on hand
to chant something about impeaching him has he arrived at a distance.
The photos feature Andrew Atkeison and wife Rosie in terrific masks they
made of George and Laura Bush. The gals we ran into are in the first
photo. Jessica Parker is on the one on the left and her friend Christina
on the right (of the left photo). On the right of
the right photo is Point Reyes cabinetmaker Richard Vacha in camouflage. That's me, DC,
with the World Suicide Club sign.
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Click thumbnails to enlarge.
This is what my sign should have looked like but it was okay. You can get
t-shirts sporting that message by going to
Cuke Basket - WSC.
I plan to jazz up these shirts when I can get Andy Ferguson of
Zen's
Chinese Heritage over here - he knows photo shop really well. Go to
the World Suicide Club News for more on
the WSC.
4-19-06 - We're
going to meet President Bush tomorrow - well, probably we'll just be stuck
in a "Free Speech Zone." Read today's World
Suicide Club News.
4-12-06 -
Check out Greg Palast's comment on
the Rumsfeld must resign trip. Check out his site. This frequent BBC
contributor (whose exposes of voter fraud in America they don't show in
America, only in England)has a web site well worth following. - DC
4-17-06 - Check
out West Point Grads
against the war. And read Eisenhower's quotes on their home page.
A suggestion - Generals and other
people are calling for Rumsfeld to go. That's a good idea, but to get to
the root of the problem, I also think the President and VP should
resign today or be impeached and then, along with their supporters
including lots of the media,
should spend the rest of their lives working in veteran's hospitals.
- DC
2-14-06 -
Cindy Sheehan returns to the SF Bay Area.
2-08-06 -
Thursday,
February 9
UC Berkeley Campus, Boalt Hall
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Teach-In and Vigil on American Torture
and the Dictatorial
Presidency.
 Taigen
Dan Leighton and an impressive list of speakers starting this week.
1-28-06 - One more diversion - The
Center for stopping Alito. On the
other hand, if you're in favor of him,
go here.
1-27-06 -
Call your US Senators or call them all to urge them to either #1
support the filibuster against Alito or #2 not support it if you want to
give more power to Bush and his buddies and their agenda for decades.
Check out No Crony for more on this.
Here's one who feels we're on a dangerous march to fascism that is worth
at least a few phone calls to impede. - DC
1-21-06
-
this week's New Dimensions radio interview program is on "A Holistic
Approach to Global Warming: A sincere and energetic group of college
students have found a way to deal with one of the gravest of threats
facing our world today, by addressing the problem at its roots, bringing
people with diverse viewpoints together--and having a lot of fun along the
way."<http://newdimensions.org/listen-now/programofweek.html>The
program can be heard via the Internet thru January 29. -
thanks to
Andrew Main for the tip.
1-20-06
-
A hopeful response to Lovelock's
pessimistic view from Taigen.
New links for the 3 articles below
1-20-06
- Oh oh! A bad prediction from the creator of Gaia theory, disaster from
global warming.
James Lovelock: The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last
as long as 100,000 years -
read his article in the online UK
Independent. Prepare for "The Revenge of Gaia."
Read
Environment in crisis: :"We are past the point of no return" and
Why Gaia is Wreaking Revenge on Our Abuse of the Environment
from the
same rag.
1-16-06 - California is going to
execute another prisoner tonight, actually at one minute after tomorrow.
This time it's a legally blind, infirm seventy-five year old man who uses
a wheel chair. Talk about pointless bloodlust. It's hopeless, but if you
wish to do something hopeless, call California Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger at (916)445-2841. Sorry - it's a holiday and they're
closed.
While you're at it,
call your senators (can't get through on the 16th - message boxes
full)and tell them, if you are so inclined, to not let
extremist Samuel Alioto be confirmed as the next supreme court justice -
unless you want fertile women to be incubators for the state, unlimited
power for the president, the union of fundamentalist Christian church and
state, and big government and corporate interests always to trump those of
individuals. On the other hand, if you want to read a more pro Alioto
point of view by Deepak Chopra, then
go to this link. Anyway, this is probably hopeless too. Spineless
democrats.
Deepak emphasizes abortion rights too much in the article on Alioto.
There's that but there are also other issues of great importance such as
presidential power, favoring big government and business over the
individual, separation of church and state, and just the general march to
fascism. I think that concentrating too much on the abortion issue weakens
the case against Alioto. But he'll probably get in so I hope this
optimistic view of him proves to be true.
Posted by: Dchadwick on Huffington Post
January 16, 2006 at 02:42pm
1-02-06 -
Eric Alterman in the Nation on how the Bush Administration is and
always has blown it on national security, on homeland protection.
 12-28-05
- Check out
Jason Dusek's blog wherein he compares the new moves of the government
to spy on us with an event in Roman history.
12-21-05 - These are the times that
try us. Reading and hearing the news these days, I decided I want to
emphasize one point that I think should be stressed by those wishing to
check the abuse of power by the executive branch of the US government.
That message is this:
The Bush Administration is inept at
fighting the war on terror. They are increasing the danger while
plundering the commons. They should be impeached primarily for how
poorly they are defending the country, for putting Americans in many
types of danger. - DC
12-12-05 - Last day to save
STANLEY "TOOKIE" WILLIAMS
an email from the
SFZC outreach office
11-18-05
Save Stanley Tookie Williams from
execution. The other day I said save Kevin Cooper. But Tookie Williams
case is more pressing. He is going to be
executed December 13th unless the governor does something. He's clearly
another case of a redeemed man. Again, seems like a lot of so-called
Christians don't believe in either redemption or the commandment against
killing.
11-22-05 - Cindy Sheehan,
Not One
More Mother's Child
Reading and Booksigning
Introduced by Maxine Hong Kingston
Saturday December 3 - 7:30 p.m.
Berkeley Jewish Community Center
Walnut and Vine
Organized by Black Oak Books
Thank you! - See more on Cindy and this book just down
a bit on this page
11-21-05 Today's link is
the
Information Clearing
House's home page. It's solid. Check out the Must Watch 5 min. video:
Our President is a liar?
A way
to help in Pakistan
from Elizabeth Sawyer
of Back Porch Zendo.
Dear Friends,
My friend came with a
brilliant idea to get emergency blankets to Pakistan before winter. He
contacted the manufacturer of Heatsheets, used by marathon runners, and
Mercy Corps, and arranged for 26,000 balnkets to be shipped to the
earthquake ravaged zone. The blankets cost $1 each including shipping and
will each protect two people... A lot of bang for the buck.
The address to send a
contribution to is:
Mercy Corps
Dept CR96
(Refer to this department so the contribution gets routed
to this project)
3015 SW 1st Avenue
Portland OR 97291
(888-256-1900)
11-16-05 To understand the subject of
intelligent design more deeply, please go to the site for
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti
Monster.
 11-15-04
- Go to Save Kevin Cooper to
read about a man either scheduled to be executed for a crime he didn't do,
or someone who is clearly rehabilitated and. It surprises me that
politicians who often invoke the names of "god" and "Jesus" have so little
faith in redemption. Also on this site are his writings.
For more on this go
to the
Campaign to end the Death Penalty.
11-07-05
- A
Bay Area Event to Launch
Not One
More Mother's Child,
by
Cindy
Sheehan
published by
Koa Books
Friday, November 18, 7 p.m. - "Turning the Tide: Taking on Bush's Wars
at Home and Abroad," at UC Berkeley, VLSB Room #2050, Donation
requested at door. Contact, Todd Chretien 510-590-6073
More on
Not One More Mother's Child
10-28-05 -
Must read letter in Truthout.org
by Lawrence B.
Wilkerson who served as chief of staff to Secretary
of State Colin L. Powell from 2002 to 2005. It's called The
White House Cabal. Originally published in the LA Times Tuesday 25
October 2005.[
Go to Original ]. The Truthout page with the damning letter by Mr.
Wilkerson also includes an interview with him and links to other
materials. This is the meat of the problem at the bottom of Scooter
Libby's indictments. It's the worst accusations of abuse of power from the
highest ranking official one could have hoped for.
I searched Google to
get a photo of Wilkerson but only came up with a couple of images of grave
markers. That was chilling. I'm sure the reckless neocons would love to
see him six feet under. - DC
10-21-05 -
Who Didn't Get it Wrong?
Lost this - just made the point that tons of us knew - had
the biggest march and demo I ever saw in SF that went unreported. Weapons
inspectors, millions knew it was BS. (on WMDs and what a threat Iraq was to the US and England)
9-01-05 - Information
on the conditions in Mississippi and New Orleans, various charities, and
ways to donate to the relief effort
 6-20-05
- Another t-shirt to balance the anti-administration sentiment of the
first one - "Ignore the Downing Street Memo". In response to irate Republican Buddhist emails we present the
other side of the Downing Street controversy. Again, go to the Cuke
Basket at Cafe Press - take your side and proudly display it.
6-12-05 - Go to the Cuke
Basket at Cafe Press to find an exiting new development here at
cuke.com. We start off this new venture with a political question on
t-shirts and soon, other items, which sport the image seen below with the
piercing question: What's the Downing
Street Memo? When you buy these timely t-shirts etc, you'll
spread the question everybody should consider (as far as I'm concerned)
and help to support cuke.com and more mischief.
5-13-05 - The future of PBS
5-08-05 - The
Cost of the War in Iraq counter
will remain at the top section of this page. Check out the site and what
else the money could buy. I've moved the Iraq Body Count back up here too.
I would like a US Body Count as well and would like to include the
physically and mentally wounded as well. I'm sure there's a lot on the web
I could link to for that. - DC
4-26-05 - In addition to the Drug
Policy Alliance mentioned below on 2-27-05, check out the
Marijuana Policy Project. Both
organizations emphasize "harm reduction" meaning their goal is to reduce
the harm from the war on drugs as well as the drugs. Of course the war on
drugs causes a great deal more harm than the drugs as it did even during
the prohibition of alcohol which is infinitely more harmful than
marijuana.
Check out the Future of Food
film announcement on the Back Porch Zendo page.
3-24-05 - Go to the Fellowship of
Reconciliation website and read about the Massacre in
San José de Apartadó and what you can do
about it. The president of this peace community has for some reason
publicly stated that this village is connected with the FARC guerillas,
130 of its members have been killed, and the State Dept. has put a
temporary hold on continued military aid due at least in part to the
massacre there. This is a good time to act. - DC
3-9-05 -
Buddhist Peace Fellowship Vigil for those who've died in Iraq at the
American Friends Service Committee exhibit late March and April
in San Francisco and Seattle.
And please go to the article on the BPF site about the
massacre
in San Jose de Apartado where Sarah Weintraub works with the
Fellowship of Reconciliation’s Colombia Peace Presence Project. Sarah is
the daughter of SFZC abbess Linda Cutts and Steve Weintraub.
Read Robert Scheer's LA Times
articles here. He's always right on to my mind and to Taigen's. I
just put this link above the dated suggestions so it will always be there
and will no longer recommend or link to individual columns. I'm spending
too much time on current events' links. After all, it only has to do with
my trivial obsession of saving the world from destruction or an Orwellian
future and I've got important things to do. - DC
Thanks to David Cohen for
America Number One?
2-27-05 - The Drug
Policy Alliance is a terrific group, originally funded, as I
understand it, by progressive philanthropist George Soros, which works
toward reducing the harm from drugs and the war on drugs. Go to this
website and check them out. Especially right now look at what they're
doing to combat the attack on AARP.
2-25-05 - Clay Chadwick's (13) report for his biology class on
Preeminent Scientists
Protest Bush Administration's Misuse of Science.
Taigen's Peace and
Justice Page.
2-23-05 - More on the
World Suicide Club, namely comments on the old WSC newsletter and
nuclear annihilation.
And three more entries to
Taigen's Peace and
Justice Page.
2-20-05 - Day one of
Taigen's Peace and
Justice Page in which the emails and links we receive from him
here at cuke.com will be posted. Thanks for all the hard work Taigen. He
didn't ask me to do this, I just feel an itch to do something but don't
have the time and realized that putting his stuff up here this way was the
best thing I could do right now in this area. - DC
1-05-05 - Go to
Development to see DC's comments on Hamlin Piper's heinous attempts to
stop people from supporting cuke.com.
12/30/04 - A friend of mine has been encouraging me to bring back news
of the World Suicide Club (the largest most powerful organization on
earth, working toward the elimination of all higher forms of life through
global thermonuclear war) which I spent a lot of time on in 1980 when I
was working on the Nuclear Freeze movement. The WSC, of course, strongly
opposed the Nuclear Freeze, but just sort of laughed at our efforts to
save the world. Their motto "All at once," and slogan, "It's going to
happen," (or was that vice-versa?) reveal the smugness of this nefarious
outfit. Seems they've been working hard since then and now have the world in their
group I mean grip. I don't know how much further this can go these busy and broke
days, but take a look at one of the WSC's logos or was this the decal? In
the old days there was a newsletter, bumper sticker, decal, a record,
t-shirts, and a membership package. Now there's just this page to go to. But don't
be fooled. The WSC has confidence that the human race just can't help but
destroy itself and a great deal of other life as well. Go to
http://www.worldsuicide.org/.
Maybe more will follow. Site-wise, this is a Digression but is it a Current Event? I
say yes. - DC
9/05/04 - Check out
Election
Countdown Calendar Dot Com [discontinued after the election - maybe
I'll archive it here in a while] which is the beginning of the end for this
section as a part of cuke.com. We will see how it works out. But I'm
digging ECCDC. - DC of CC
7/30/04 - In Defense of Bush
7/20/04 - Buddhist
Peace Fellowship notice: BPF Members and Buddhist Activists to Meditate at
Democratic and Republican Conventions; Join 275-Mile Peace Walk from
Boston to New York
6/28/04 - Condom Wars
By Doug Ireland, LA Weekly
6/24/04 - A digression - Read Rex Reed's review of
Fahrenheit 911. See it this weekend.
5/31/-4 - Happy Memorial Day
5/15/04 - Hi. Back from the Noh Race at Tassajara. Please excuse
me for contaminating the purity of this obscure Buddhist archival site
with mere petty politics, but I want you to read this FOX interview
with John Kerry which was recommended by Taigen who has
reservations about Kerry but thought this article well demonstrated that
he is a far cry from Bush.
5/10/04 - Reflections on
the Horrible Photos from Iraq
5/05/04 - Species Threats - The two biggest threats to the species, neither of which are
being discussed or dealt with by major candidates or media. Your read it
here on cuke.com.
4/23/04 - NEWS FLASH!!! - Terry Jones of Monty Python on why we're in the mess we're in.
LINKS:
MichaelMoore.com, the
official website of Michael Moore
Check out the real news... [Taken from Michael
Moore's website]
 
  
 
 
 
8/132/04 - At the recommendation of some syndicated columnist whom I
can't remember who it was, check out: www.campaigndesk.org,
www.mediamatters.org,
www.dailyhowler.com
5/02/03 - Thanks to Taigen Dan Leighton for the following note and
links [the ones I already had were Common Dreams and Democracy Now.
And here are some other links for your current events reading pleasure:
       
http://moveon.org/ - Our international
network of more than 2,000,000 online activists is one of the most
effective and responsive outlets for democratic participation available
today.
PROJECT CENSORED
Capitol Hill Blue
The Washington Monthly Online - http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/
- especially look for "Practice to Deceive"
NewYorker.com has collected much of the magazine's coverage of the
terrorist attacks and their aftermath and added a selection of relevant
articles from The New Yorker's archive. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/previous/
4/24/03 - Thanks to Dr Alastair J. Reid, Girton College, Cambridge, for
the following links: First, from his own - Don't
expect democracy this time: Japan and Iraq,.
He also adds: One more link you might consider is to the Cambridge
(UK)-based Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq at http://www.casi.org.uk/. It is a very
authoritative source of information, often being the first to publish
leaks from the UN. See brief correspondence
between Dr. Reid and DC on Crooked Cucumber.
Thanks to Jim Labosky in Palmyra, PA for the following:
In reference to your 'Question to Readers' in the Current
Events section... I think if it matters to you (which obviously it does)
then you should keep the section on your site. Anyone who would focus on
the 'present' in these weird times needs FACTS... which are sadly missing
from the mainstream press. I've been using www.buzzflash.com and www.guardian.co.uk (which I don't
think you have listed) and, more recently, Information
Clearinghouse. Of
course you still have to pick through the opinions, but even The English Aljazeera site [or try Cursor's Aljazeera Link] has
more factual info than Fox News or CNN!
Thanks for the wealth of info on Suzuki. I visit your site
often.
4/19/03 - A reader is turned off by the
slant of this page. DC responds.
A question to readers - Should I even bother with a page like
this when there's so much stuff elsewhere on the internet and in other
media about all this? Should I keep the focus of cuke.com more
disciplined? - DC
Neil Rubenking's comment on the Iraq civilian casualty
counter and other stuff
4/16/03 - Today's article by Arianna
Huffington and a comment by Abe Lincoln, and,
in war humor, an apology
by Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks.
A reader's Comment on the Iraq Body Count
update above. And thanks to him for sending this link: http://www.indict.org.uk/
- Bringing Iraqi war criminals to justice
4/11/03 - an interview with
Noam Chomsky on the Iraq War
It only hurts when I laugh
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