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INSIGHTS: Mission Accomplished in retrospect INSIGHTS - "Mission Accomplished" in retrospect. Four years ago, George W. Bush landed on the deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln in San Diego. "It’s been a wasted four years, a wasted $500 billion (or $2 trillion, if you count the debt and futre veterans’ care), a wasted 3400 American lives (or 55,000 American lives if you count all the physically maimed and injured, or 250,000 if you add in the psychologically damaged), a wasted 650,000 Iraqi lives (most of them innocent women and children and the elderly) ..." Three writers. Read More

Event Reminders: Calendar of Progressive Events in SD County Wednesday, 05/02/2007 Calendar of Events Peace Resource Center, all San Diego County. For April - CLICK HERE. Read More All Democratic events SD County = Jellison List Wednesday, 05/02/2007 List of Democratic Party events in San Diego County: CLICK HERE. Read More Nccpj general meeting Wednesday, 05/02/2007 Regular meeting. Read More Blackwater Wednesday, 05/02/2007 "Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army" Read More BLACKWATER expert speaks in La Mesa - May 2 Wednesday, 05/02/2007 Jeremy Scahill, expert on BLACKWATER, and author of newly release book on this scandalous mercenary organization, will speak at the First Unitarian Universalist Church in San Diego on Tuesday, May 1 and at La Mesa Community Center on May 2. Read More Hedge Funds could destroy our financial system Friday, 05/04/2007 Hedge funds are using unscrupulous and unregulated schemes: creating an unregulated sector of wild-west financial engineering rife with conflicts of interest. They borrow huge sums, purchase a company largely with other people's money, pay themselves huge dividends, strip and sell profitable assets, cut labor and pension costs, and then unload the remains onto someone else. Read More ARMED MADHOUSE Friday, 05/04/2007 Greg Palast and friends Randi Rhodes, Robert Kennedy Jr., Laura Flanders, Amy Goodman, Jim Hightower, Ben Cohen and more will launch the the brand new, updated, defend-yourself-from-the-dying-regime edition of Armed Madhouse