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There are links to stories that are of interest to the PPWP on this page, and also there are indexes of articles on the Articles Page and the Opinion Page

 

Various Articles

Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit

Feeding the Hungry is a Crime

The Maggots in Your Mushrooms

Powell, Rice and Obama 
Putting Black Faces on Imperial Aggression - by Glen Ford

 

Universal Health Care - Ohio Information

 

 

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Family of Man Cleared by DNA who Died in Prison Still Seeks Justice
There was no physical evidence

Media

The Grassroots Netroots Alliance is a new nationwide effort to build up a netroots and grassroots army of millions of radical but practical-minded voters and activists.

Manufacturing Consent
by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
Selected Webs (also see Links)
Inequality.org 
All the charts and statistics 

INEQUALITY MATTERS
The Book

The Black Agenda Report

Website for young progressives: Left Hook

Citizen's Grassroots Congress 

Campaign Finance - a local proposal 

LINK TO:
The Columbus Free Press
Speaking Truth To Power
An alternative voice to the corporate controlled press

An Interview with Daniel Lazare  
Author of 
The Frozen Republic (includes criticism of Green Party platform)

CounterPunch

Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair

A "take no prisoners" approach to the Democrats and Republicans 

Labor Issues and Tax Policy

AFL - CIO Main Page  (National)
Ohio AFL-CIO (includes all local links and activist guide)

FTAA links and commentary

Increase Federal Minimum Wage to Living Wage

Comprehensive study finds tax incentives for established companies do not create, and likely actually REDUCE jobs!!!

Comics 
Tom Tommorrow 
(Click on "Comic" at top of page. The link will pop up)
Kirktoons
  
Tom the Dancing Bug 
Bush's Best Friends
The Uncompromising Liberal Media

More Cartoons
Books / Poetry

The Mangled

Books:
The Elite Consensus: When Corporations Wield the Constitution

The Velvet Coup:
The Constitution, the Supreme Court and the Decline of American Democracy - by Daniel Lazare

Also by Lazare:  The Frozen Republic: How the Constitution Is Paralyzing Democracy

More Books:
Capitalist Punishment

New - Best Movies of All Time 

Manufacturing Consent
by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
---An excerpt - the first five filters.   A new "Anti-Ideology," Terrorism, has now replaced Communism as the fifth filter, Chomsky seems to suggest in an interview in 2002. 

 

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Quotations

"We have never interfered in the in the internal government of a country and have no intention of doing so, never have had any thought of that kind."

--Ronald Reagan -- 9-28-82

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"Once you have seen certain things, you can't un-see them."

-- Arundhati Roy

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“I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.”  In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism."

--Maj. General Smedley Butler, USMC

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"It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in."
---Colin Powell; in answering a question about the number of Iraqis killed in the Gulf War, 1991

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"The illegal we can do right now; the unconstitutional will take a little longer."
                                               --Henry Kissinger 

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"Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." -- Eugene V. Debs

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"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. "

-- Noam Chomsky

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"Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the military-industrial complex, but not that type of socialism which maintains public projects for the disemployed and the unemployed alike."

-- William O. Douglas, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1969

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"Our upside down welfare state is 'socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.' The great welfare scandal of the age concerns the dole we give rich people."

William O. Douglas, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1969

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We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know." 

--Donald Rumsfeld

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.  This world in arms is not spending money alone.  It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."

---President Dwight D. Eisenhower  - April 16, 1953

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"[American leaders] are perhaps not so much immoral as they are amoral. It's not that they take pleasure in causing so much death and suffering. It's that they just don't care ... the same that could be said about a sociopath. As long as the death and suffering advance the agenda of the empire, as long as the right people and the right corporations gain wealth and power and privilege and prestige, as long as the death and suffering aren't happening to them or people close to them ... then they just don't care about it happening to other people, including the American soldiers whom they throw into wars…”

"Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II" 
-- by William Blum 

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"Have you noticed how the Republicans and Democrats try to copy each other at their conventions?  Like at the Democratic convention John Kerry's daughter told a story about how he once gave CPR to her hamster. At the Republican convention the Bush girls are going to tell a story about how when their hamster was bad, their dad built them a little electric chair." —Jay Leno

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Chris Floyd:

Meet the Global Ruling Class

A History Of Medicare and Efforts To Stop It.

Rumsfeld's Plan to Provoke Terrorists

Greg Palast interviews Hugo Chávez

Why Do They Hate Us

New Age Nonsense

New York Times is Sold Brooklyn Bridge

US House Republicans Condemn Media for Finally Doing Job
Go to H RES 895

A Comic Apology   
by M. Shahid Alam

Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007 (so far) 

Stealing Money from Kids      
by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

Poverty Links:
IPINET   Poverty USA     KWRU    ITEP  More links on Welfare and Economic Justice Page
Selected Votes

How U.S. House Voted on Iraq War Resolution. 

How Your Senator Voted on the Iraq War Resolution     

How Senate voted on war and welfare reform

Geography - maps of the world - Very good source for geographical study

U.S. World's Leading Jailer

Who pays highest taxes? Rich or Poor?  Local and State:           Federal:

Anti-War links:    Not in Our Name    United for Peace    Veterans for Common Sense
A People's History of the United States - online text



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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