Like an untold number of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, the brave young men of Bravo Troop were lab rats in a slipshod military experiment. Theirs is the story of everything that's gone wrong in this great fiasco of a war.

 

by Robert Draper for the Texas Monthly Magazine

 

A little more than halfway into their year-long tour of duty, with one dead and more than a dozen others wounded by improvised explosive devices, the young men of Bravo Troop found themselves thinking about a quiet little city where such mayhem would have been unfathomable. It was not their tranquil flyspeck towns of Burnsville, North Carolina; or Grants, New Mexico; or Sidney, Ohio; or Daphne, Alabama. Nor was it Killeen, the Central Texas home of their military base, Fort Hood. Rather, the city in question was Al Hillah, the provincial capital of Babil, in central Iraq, which they'd left only five weeks before. They'd begun their tour there because, according to intel, the Shiites were funneling weapons through Al Hillah up to Baghdad. Yet Bravo Troop never found evidence of a major supply line. They encountered no insurgents, no enemy fire.

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A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW

I think we have proven that, given an opportunity, we can win. We can build an audience. We can hold an audience. We can make money. We can be successful in talk radio. We have disproven the old theory that liberals can't do talk radio. That's why I feel good about talk radio.

-- Bill Press, Emmy winner, Author, Talk-Radio Host, Former Chair, California Democratic Party

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BuzzFlash has been offering up a series of interviews with progressive radio talk show hosts over the last year. That's because we believe that pro-Constitution Americans vitally need to build upon the small beachhead that has been established to reclaim the airwaves for democracy.

We are glad to talk today with Bill Press, who wakes us up very early here in Chicago every morning, with a very informative and affable introduction to the political news on the horizon.

Press is a veteran journalist, political communications operative, and radio host.  He currently lives with his wife in Washington D.C., where he broadcasts from the Center for American Progress.

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Peaceful Vocations is planning a new project. We are developing an interactive theater group. We'll be interfacing with students across
or near their high schools, other public gathering places, and recruiting their assistance with some skits, which will be designed to illuminate the process of military indoctrination and military
life. Tuesday, February 5 @ 7pm /1919 Hemphill /1919 Hemphill St. /Fort Worth, TX 76110

Ramsey / 682-556-0553/evolve@1919hemphill.org

 

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A Story of Media Spin-How Americans came to underestimate civilian deaths in Iraq by a factor of 100

 

A Presentation by Les Roberts, PhD, Epidemiologist Associate Professor, Columbia University
* Professor Roberts is the lead author of the 2006 Lancet medical journal study which shook the world, revealing 655,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the U.S. occupation.
* His study was the most valid scientific analysis of the human cost of the Iraq War.
A Waco Friends of Peace Event
Thursday, Feb. 7 - 7 PM /Poppa Rollo's Pizza/Outback Room /703 N. Valley Mills Dr, Waco

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Sammy --

In fact, Republican's are not very excited by any of their candidates- they'd vote for a dead guy over anybody running in their primaries. See the video that proves it here! Are you on Facebook? Well, "grampa" Seder just figured out how to post there- become my Friend at samsedershow! Don't forget Maron v. Seder on the sammycam every tuesday 11am. ( 10 am our time ) See past shows here

By Thomas Boothe and Danielle Follett, Le Monde diplomatique

A small group of activists in the rural northeastern corner of Tennessee in the United States persuaded their local public radio station, WETS, to start broadcasting the progressive news-hour Democracy Now two years ago. This pocket of Appalachia would seem to be unwelcoming territory for such an endeavor since the economically depressed farming and mining region votes overwhelmingly Republican -- by as much as 75 percent in the last presidential election -- and is, according to Joseph Fitsanakis, organizer of Democracy Now Tri-Cities (DNTC), "the kind of place where 30 years ago you couldn't really do anything politically unless you were a Klan member."

And there was an immediate response; some donors to the mostly listener-supported radio station, which is a partnership between East Tennessee State University and the listeners, warned that continued donations would depend on Democracy Now being taken off the air. It could have been much worse; Fitsanakis points out that in this part of the country, political activism has sometimes been met with personal attacks, including bullets through windows and dog poisonings. "People that got involved in organizing mining, the unionists, have a lot of that kind of story to tell you."

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Amy Goodman on DemocracyNow! Now airs in Dallas on KNON 89.3

 

The show will be aired twice weekly, Tuesdays and Thursdays until support builds to have it on the air all week! Please call the station and give your thanks and financial support if you can!

KNON Office: 214-828-9500

George W. Bush is famous for his attachment to a painting which he acquired after becoming a "born again Christian." It's by W.H.D. Koerner and is entitled "A Charge to Keep." Bush was so taken by it, that he took the painting's name for his own official autobiography. And here's what he says about it:

I thought I would share with you a recent bit of Texas history which epitomizes our mission. When you come into my office, please take a look at the beautiful painting of a horseman determinedly charging up what appears to be a steep and rough trail. This is us. What adds complete life to the painting for me is the message of Charles Wesley that we serve One greater than ourselves.

So in Bush's view (or perhaps I should say, faith) the key figure, with whom he personally identifies, is a missionary spreading the word of the Methodist Christianity in the American West in the late nineteenth century

 

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Come celebrate TCM's 31 Days of Oscar at the Magnolia Theatre. We will be digitally presenting past Oscar winners all month. These screenings are free and open to everyone. Pick up your tickets on the day of the show at the box office, while supplies last. Stick around afterwards for a post-film discussion!
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) - Monday, February 11th at 2:30pm

 

In Time For Super Tuesday, It's Super Obama Girl

http://www.barelypolitical.com/

 

NOW | Middle Class Families Near Economic Collapse?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020208G.shtml

"NOW on PBS heads to America's heartland - Illinois - to investigate rampant anxiety among America's middle class. How did families on the edge of financial collapse get to this point, and which presidential candidate do they think can restore economic hope and stability?"

 

"The People Speak".

On August 5, 2005 Cindy gave one of her most powerful speech's at the Veterans for Peace Convention in Dallas Tx.The next day Cindy began her stand in Crawford.  Please watch this powerful reading of that heartfelt speech by Marisa Tomei in Howard Zinn's

 

VIDEO | Marc Ash: My Interview With Rep. Henry Waxman http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013108A.shtml

Marc Ash, Truthout's executive director, talks with House Oversight Committee chair, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-California), about ongoing government investigations and violations of federal law by the Bush administration.

 

VIDEO: Keith Olbermann | Special Comment Regarding FISA http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020108B.shtml

Keith Olbermann, on MSNBC Countdown, comments: "And finally, as promised, a Special Comment - of FISA and the telecoms. In a presidency of hypocrisy - an administration of exploitation - a labyrinth of leadership - in which every vital fact is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma hidden under a claim of executive privilege supervised by an idiot - this one ... is surprisingly easy."

Graphic above is an actual 1932 campaign poster see more info here

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Voices of Peace Chorus

New Texas Symphony Orchestra

Male Chorus, First Baptist Church Hamilton Park
Voices of Peace on the 5th anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq.
 

 Author of A Letter to America
 

Where's the Outrage?
Blog Podcast
 

 Listen to the Errington Thompson Show
Saturdays - 9am EST

Air America - Asheville, NC

880 the Revolution

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Anyone in search of a concise, scary, and darkly entertaining overview of the Grand Old Party record--or in need of talking points for debating conservatives--will find the perfect guide in The GOP-Hater's Handbook.

Summarizing, detailing, and bewailing the more significant Republican outrages past and present--and some of the more trivial ones--this book is the brainchild of Jack Huberman, the former Canadian who took up U.S. citizenship just so he could vote against Dubya in 2000.

With punchy sidebars and political cartoons, The GOP-Hater's Handbook is the perfect gift for that special GOP-hater in your life--or for any misguided Republican you hope to rescue from the outer darkness.

About the Authors

Jack Huberman is the author of the bestselling Bush Hater's Handbook and its sequel, Bushit!. More of his writing can be found atwww.jackhuberman.com

 

By ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writer
Thu Jan 31, 9:30 AM ET

DALLAS - Some Methodist ministers are making a final yet improbable attempt to stop George W. Bush's presidential library, museum and public policy institute from being built at Southern Methodist University.

They say United Methodist law requires approval from the church's South Central Jurisdiction, whose 290 delegates meet in July. The
opponents say at least one-third of the delegates are against the Bush institute because it will promote his administration's policies
that they feel conflict with church teachings.

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