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This 4th of July put away the flags
Publication Date: 06/25/2011
By Howard Zinn - "Is not nationalism -- that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -- one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred?
These ways of thinking -- cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on -- have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power." Is our military used for corporate enrichment at the expense of world peace? |
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No 'graceful exit' possible from Afghanistan
Publication Date: 08/22/2010
DEEP INSIGHTS, By BOB HERBERT, NY Times: The military brass is just blowing smoke at Obama, giving the nation a load of double-speak that puts even Alan Greenspan to shame. "Half of all the American troop deaths in Afghanistan have occurred since Mr. Obama took office. The war is a giant roadblock in the way of efforts to deal effectively with deteriorating economic and social conditions here in the United States.
Look around at the economy, the public school system, the federal budget deficits, the fiscal conditions plaguing America’s state and local governments." |
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HOWARD DEAN: Stand up to the GOP bullies
Publication Date: 08/10/2010
Howard Dean: "Stand up for what you believe in... After the year and a half this country has just been through, it is pretty obvious that the right-wing has no intention of cooperating with anyone, and that they will do anything to regain power... The only reasonable approach is to stand up to them as you would any group of bullies. Call them out for what they do... I have often said the biggest problem with the Democrats is that we are not tough enough. Now is the time to be tough." |
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Lets all celebrate Pres. Obama's birthday Aug. 4
Publication Date: 07/22/2010
Since his historic election, President Obama has been inundated with a barrage of venomous criticism. What a blessing to the world that little Barack Obama was born on Aug. 14, 1961. Let's dig out our Obama buttons or tee shirts, wear a red, white, and blue tri-color ribbon or clothing on August 4th. Let's celebrate President Obama's birthday on Aug. 4 from shore to shore. Let the whole world know we stand behind him. |
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The Third Depression
Publication Date: 07/09/2010
Paul Krugman - "We are now, I fear, in the early stages of a third depression. It will probably look more like the Long Depression than the much more severe Great Depression. .. And this third depression will be primarily a failure of policy. Around the world — most recently at last weekend’s deeply discouraging G-20 meeting — governments are obsessing about inflation when the real threat is deflation, preaching the need for belt-tightening when the real problem is inadequate spending." |
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Divisive Rhetoric no solution to Immigration
Publication Date: 06/18/2010
By Tracy Emblem: - "Congressman Brian Bilbray never misses an opportunity to air his illegal immigration rhetoric on local and national news." Bilbray is confusing the difference between "amnesty" and "an earned pathway to citizenship". Bilbray's untruthful "facts" refuted. |
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Israel's attack is state sponsored terrorism
Publication Date: 06/05/2010
"Israel attacked a flotilla of ships in international waters carrying food, medicine and other aid to Gaza, killing at least 10 civilians on board and injuring at least 30 more (many reports now put the numbers at 19 dead and 60 injured). The six-ship flotilla was carrying 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid along with 600 people, all civilians, which included 1976 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire of Northern Ireland and European legislators." By Glenn Greenwald |
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Dave Patterson:
Publication Date: 05/22/2010
Ramona citizen activist, Dave Patterson, speaks out: "It's time for the activist community to hit the streets again. Now Obama is striking out to obliterate the Miranda law that protects us from incriminating ourselves. They want a law that allows for diminished rights for whomever they decide is a terrorist." |
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Dave Patterson:
Publication Date: 05/22/2010
Ramona citizen activist, Dave Patterson, speaks out: "It's time for the activist community to hit the streets again. Now Obama is striking out to obliterate the Miranda law that protects us from incriminating ourselves. They want a law that allows for diminished rights for whomever they decide is a terrorist." |
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Dave Patterson:
Publication Date: 05/22/2010
Ramona citizen activist, Dave Patterson, speaks out: "It's time for the activist community to hit the streets again. Now Obama is striking out to obliterate the Miranda law that protects us from incriminating ourselves. They want a law that allows for diminished rights for whomever they decide is a terrorist." |
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Dave Patterson:
Publication Date: 05/22/2010
Ramona citizen activist, Dave Patterson, speaks out: "It's time for the activist community to hit the streets again. Now Obama is striking out to obliterate the Miranda law that protects us from incriminating ourselves. They want a law that allows for diminished rights for whomever they decide is a terrorist." |
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Is US slide into Totalarian Capitalism reversable?
Publication Date: 03/19/2010
INSIGHTS - by Chris Hedges: "There are no constraints left to halt America’s slide into a totalitarian capitalism. Electoral politics are a sham. The media have been debased and defanged by corporate owners. The working class has been impoverished and is now being plunged into profound despair. The legal system has been corrupted to serve corporate interests. Popular institutions, from labor unions to political parties, have been destroyed or emasculated by corporate power." |
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End Insurance Corp's chokehold on health care
Publication Date: 03/06/2010
OP-ED - by Pierre Tristam, Daytona Beach News-Journal
"For once, I agree with Republicans on health care reform. We should scrap it all and start over. But scrapping the Democrats' proposal isn't enough. It builds on an existing system dominated by private insurers whose twin goals are to cover as few of the sick as possible while making as much money as possible when covering the healthy. That's not an insurance system. It's a predatory swindle. And it's certainly not a health care system." |
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End Insurance Corp's chokehold on health care
Publication Date: 03/06/2010
OP-ED - by Pierre Tristam, Daytona Beach News-Journal
"For once, I agree with Republicans on health care reform. We should scrap it all and start over. But scrapping the Democrats' proposal isn't enough. It builds on an existing system dominated by private insurers whose twin goals are to cover as few of the sick as possible while making as much money as possible when covering the healthy. That's not an insurance system. It's a predatory swindle. And it's certainly not a health care system." |
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Howard Zinn awakened America's conscience
Publication Date: 02/07/2010
Howard Zinn's perspective:
"WAR IS TERRORISM.
You can't stop terrorism with terrorism.
EVERY WAR IS A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN." INSIGHTS - by Howard Zinn |
The Progressive Post
Featured Article:
Howard Zinn awakened America's conscience
Publication Date: 02/07/2010
Howard Zinn's perspective:
"WAR IS TERRORISM.
You can't stop terrorism with terrorism.
EVERY WAR IS A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN." INSIGHTS - by Howard Zinn |
The Progressive Post
Featured Article:
Howard Zinn awakened America's conscience
Publication Date: 02/07/2010
Howard Zinn's perspective:
"WAR IS TERRORISM.
You can't stop terrorism with terrorism.
EVERY WAR IS A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN." INSIGHTS - by Howard Zinn |
The Progressive Post
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Can Life Be Lived in Dignity by Every San Diegan?
Publication Date: 01/10/2010
INSIGHTS - San Diegan John Falchi read a moving story by San Diego writer Rocky Neptune and commented: "This is one of the most well-written, heartfelt stories about homelessness that I have ever read. It needs to be circulated widely. Thank you for sharing it with us; I will help to pass it on."
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The Progressive Post
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Can Life Be Lived in Dignity by Every San Diegan?
Publication Date: 01/10/2010
INSIGHTS - San Diegan John Falchi read a moving story by San Diego writer Rocky Neptune and commented: "This is one of the most well-written, heartfelt stories about homelessness that I have ever read. It needs to be circulated widely. Thank you for sharing it with us; I will help to pass it on."
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The Progressive Post
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Can Life Be Lived in Dignity by Every San Diegan?
Publication Date: 01/10/2010
INSIGHTS - San Diegan John Falchi read a moving story by San Diego writer Rocky Neptune and commented: "This is one of the most well-written, heartfelt stories about homelessness that I have ever read. It needs to be circulated widely. Thank you for sharing it with us; I will help to pass it on."
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The Progressive Post
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Finally, a Federal Hate Crimes Bill
Publication Date: 11/23/2009
FLASH! Same-gender marriage initiative qualifies for ballot!
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By Tracy Emblem, candidate for Congress in CA 50th. "On October 28, 2009, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd legislation expanded the legal definition of “hate crime” to include attacks based on sexual orientation. The bill passed Congress and was signed into law by President Obama, but Congressman Brian Bilbray failed to take a leadership role and voted “NO” on this historic civil rights legislation." [Bilbray belongs to the "Party of NO!"] |
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Renewable Energy-a Conservative Approach
Publication Date: 11/07/2009
No new nuclear power plants have been built in the US since the late 1970's. Senator Lamar Alexander from Tennessee recently unveiled the Republican blueprint to build 100 nuclear power plants in the US within the next 20 years. Why the rush to build nuclear power plants again? -By Tracy Emblem |
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Renewable Energy-a Conservative Approach
Publication Date: 11/07/2009
No new nuclear power plants have been built in the US since the late 1970's. Senator Lamar Alexander from Tennessee recently unveiled the Republican blueprint to build 100 nuclear power plants in the US within the next 20 years. Why the rush to build nuclear power plants again? -By Tracy Emblem |
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Renewable Energy-a Conservative Approach
Publication Date: 11/07/2009
No new nuclear power plants have been built in the US since the late 1970's. Senator Lamar Alexander from Tennessee recently unveiled the Republican blueprint to build 100 nuclear power plants in the US within the next 20 years. Why the rush to build nuclear power plants again? -By Tracy Emblem |
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That was a BIG Tea Party on the D.C. Mall Saturday
Publication Date: 09/19/2009
Many thousands of protesters gathered for the right-wing fringe Tea Party in the D.C. Mall last Saturday. Michelle Malkin said 2 million. DailyKos presents the hard truth about the lies. By Joe Howard Crews |
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Should certain Americans have special rights?
Publication Date: 09/03/2009
INSIGHTS - by Joe Howard Crews. "All men are created equal" under the law, so should certain classes of people, or certain religious sects get special protection? Why do we have special protection for racial minorities, women and disabled, and should gays be afforded such protection also? |
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The shame of America's dismal health care
Publication Date: 08/19/2009
A British journalist was aghast at the thousands of poor who came to the giant healthcare clinic set up in the Los Angeles at the Forum. "I've been very conservative in my outlook for the whole of my life. I've been described as being about 90,000 miles to the right of Attila the Hun. But I think one reaches the reality that something [Healthcare] doesn't work... In this country something has to be done. And as a proud member of the US community but a loyal British subject to the core, I would say that if Britain could fix it in 1944, surely we could fix it here in America." |
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Pig torture for war training: barbaric unethical
Publication Date: 08/06/2009
DICK EIDEN of Vista issues a call to action and protest over the outrageous pig-torture and dissection on a Valley Center grove for medic-training for the military. The NORTH COUNTY TIMES tried to justify this action in an editorial, which has stirred up a brewing controversy. |
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Gay Marriage and the Constitution
Publication Date: 07/23/2009
Power lawyer David Boises explains why he and Ted Olsen came together as an unlikely team to work to overturn CA Prop 8 against gay marriage. Their reasoning is profound and solid. Their monumental lawsuit could possibly legalize gay marriage throughout the entire nation. |
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Gay Marriage and the Constitution
Publication Date: 07/23/2009
Power lawyer David Boises explains why he and Ted Olsen came together as an unlikely team to work to overturn CA Prop 8 against gay marriage. Their reasoning is profound and solid. Their monumental lawsuit could possibly legalize gay marriage throughout the entire nation. |
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Blood still flows in war for gay civil rights
Publication Date: 07/04/2009
INSIGHTS - by Joe Howard Crews - So how did America celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn Riot? With a smarmy, gala reception for gay leaders at the White House, with a SD sheriff's combat raid on the home of a lesbian couple in San Diego, and a bust at a gay bar in Ft. Worth. |
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How to keep Insurance Companies honest
Publication Date: 06/18/2009
By Paul Krugman: "The devil is in the details. Health reform will fail unless we get serious cost control — and we won’t get that kind of control unless we fundamentally change the way the insurance industry, in particular, behaves. So let me offer Congress two pieces of advice: 1) Don’t trust the insurance industry. 2) Don’t trust the insurance industry." |
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How to keep Insurance Companies honest
Publication Date: 06/18/2009
By Paul Krugman: "The devil is in the details. Health reform will fail unless we get serious cost control — and we won’t get that kind of control unless we fundamentally change the way the insurance industry, in particular, behaves. So let me offer Congress two pieces of advice: 1) Don’t trust the insurance industry. 2) Don’t trust the insurance industry." |
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Is nation ready for straight Supreme Ct. Justice?
Publication Date: 05/22/2009
There appears to be a real possibility that President Obama’s first nominee to the Supreme Court could be an openly heterosexual justice. Should a person who has been an activist for "heterosexual only" marriage be disqualified? By Joe Howard Crews, editor |
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Is nation ready for straight Supreme Ct. Justice?
Publication Date: 05/22/2009
There appears to be a real possibility that President Obama’s first nominee to the Supreme Court could be an openly heterosexual justice. Should a person who has been an activist for "heterosexual only" marriage be disqualified? By Joe Howard Crews, editor |
The Progressive Post
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Is nation ready for straight Supreme Ct. Justice?
Publication Date: 05/22/2009
There appears to be a real possibility that President Obama’s first nominee to the Supreme Court could be an openly heterosexual justice. Should a person who has been an activist for "heterosexual only" marriage be disqualified? By Joe Howard Crews, editor |
The Progressive Post
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Is nation ready for straight Supreme Ct. Justice?
Publication Date: 05/22/2009
There appears to be a real possibility that President Obama’s first nominee to the Supreme Court could be an openly heterosexual justice. Should a person who has been an activist for "heterosexual only" marriage be disqualified? By Joe Howard Crews, editor |
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Socalized Medicine: The Time has come
Publication Date: 03/20/2009
INSIGHTS - By James O. GoldsboroughSixteen years after Bill and Hillary Clinton tried to create a health care system with universal coverage, Barack Obama is back at it. He wants to avoid the mistakes the Clintons made, but leaves no doubt his goal is the same: to bring down healthcare costs and create a system where all Americans have health insurance. It's a tough time to introduce reforms more sweeping than anything since the New Deal. |
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Socalized Medicine: The Time has come
Publication Date: 03/20/2009
INSIGHTS - By James O. GoldsboroughSixteen years after Bill and Hillary Clinton tried to create a health care system with universal coverage, Barack Obama is back at it. He wants to avoid the mistakes the Clintons made, but leaves no doubt his goal is the same: to bring down healthcare costs and create a system where all Americans have health insurance. It's a tough time to introduce reforms more sweeping than anything since the New Deal. |
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Socalized Medicine: The Time has come
Publication Date: 03/20/2009
INSIGHTS - By James O. GoldsboroughSixteen years after Bill and Hillary Clinton tried to create a health care system with universal coverage, Barack Obama is back at it. He wants to avoid the mistakes the Clintons made, but leaves no doubt his goal is the same: to bring down healthcare costs and create a system where all Americans have health insurance. It's a tough time to introduce reforms more sweeping than anything since the New Deal. |
The Progressive Post
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Socalized Medicine: The Time has come
Publication Date: 03/20/2009
INSIGHTS - By James O. GoldsboroughSixteen years after Bill and Hillary Clinton tried to create a health care system with universal coverage, Barack Obama is back at it. He wants to avoid the mistakes the Clintons made, but leaves no doubt his goal is the same: to bring down healthcare costs and create a system where all Americans have health insurance. It's a tough time to introduce reforms more sweeping than anything since the New Deal. |
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I am grateful to Bush for just one thing only
Publication Date: 01/26/2009
INSIGHTS - by Joe Howard Crews. What if that little boy had not been born in Hawaii on Aug. 4, 1961? Thoughts that ran through my mind on Inauguration Day. |
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US turns its head as Palestinians are slaughted
Publication Date: 01/10/2009
INSIGHTS into HELL - The barbarism of the Israeli War Machine is worse than I could have imagined. These photos are deeply disturbing.
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It is all about compassion - by Max Disposti
Publication Date: 12/21/2008
INSIGHTS - Several days ago the NC Times published an especially hateful letter about gays and marriage. Max Disposti of Oceanside wrote this perceptive and astute response, published in the NC Times as a Community Forum. Read the original letter also.
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The Wall St Journal actually printed this - WOW!
Publication Date: 12/08/2008
My, my - what a difference a decade makes. The Wall Street Journal just published this. Yes the Wall Street Journal, the voice of Rupert Murdoch, the voice of corporate capitalism in America sounding like Mother Jones magazine. The irony is that contracting out government services has created a welfare state for private companies, and an increase in the size of government. The exact opposite of what the neo-cons claimed it would do.
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Can the State consecrate gay marriage?
Publication Date: 11/25/2008
Passionate letters are published daily in the North County Times about gay marriage. A large percentage state they have no objection to gay couples having equal rights; their objection is to use of the term “marriage” for gay unions. With the closeness of the vote on PROP 8, one wonders if avoidance of this one word could have settled this bitter culture war and brought equal rights to gays. INSIGHTS - by Joe Howard Crews, editor |
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Will CA fail the nation in justice for marriage?
Publication Date: 11/05/2008
"I'm angry and heartsick about what may happen in California on November 4th", admits Anthony Romero, Exec. Director of the ACLU, because CA will either make the leap to justice for the Nation, or it will follow the dark forces of prejudice and fear. PROP 8 is a critical choice for the future of justice. Romero is gay. |
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Will CA fail the nation in justice for marriage?
Publication Date: 11/05/2008
"I'm angry and heartsick about what may happen in California on November 4th", admits Anthony Romero, Exec. Director of the ACLU, because CA will either make the leap to justice for the Nation, or it will follow the dark forces of prejudice and fear. PROP 8 is a critical choice for the future of justice. Romero is gay. |
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How strong is the full FAITH & CREDIT?
Publication Date: 10/12/2008
INSIGHTS by Joe Howard Crews Sep. 30, 2008. Our currency, our debt and our economy are "backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government". What does that mean? What happened to all the money? |
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How strong is the full FAITH & CREDIT?
Publication Date: 10/12/2008
INSIGHTS by Joe Howard Crews Sep. 30, 2008. Our currency, our debt and our economy are "backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government". What does that mean? What happened to all the money? |
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What makes the Sarah Palin anomie possible?
Publication Date: 09/19/2008
INSIGHTS - by Joe Howard Crews --How was Palin able to burst so large and powerful, and so quickly onto the center stage of power and adoration of American politics? How is it possible that she, like some Greek goddess, has descended from Mount Olympus and breathed life into a encrusted old man who adorns himself with the mantle of the Hero? Or will she become the Julia Vipsania Agripina and McCain Emperor I. Claudius, leading this nation into bloody tragedy and dissipation? |
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Pre-marital sex is forgivable. Deceit is not.
Publication Date: 09/04/2008
INSIGHTS - Sarah Palin’s 17-year old daughter is five months pregnant, it was revealed yesterday by the NY Times. This is a personal family matter unless: (1) mother Sarah failed to instruct here daughter in sex education, use of condoms and taught abstinence only (2) Sarah Palin failed to disclose the matter to her party during the vetting proces (3) McCain was aware and failed to reveal it to his party. By Joe Howard Crews
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Impeachment is more urgent than ever
Publication Date: 08/24/2008
INSIGHTS: The Urgency of Impeachment
By Jeeni Criscenzo "It's hard not to feel burnt out. It's almost impossible not to just throw my hands up in the air and give up. But what's at stake, if we do give up, is so horrendous that we can't stop now. This goes beyond the environmental issues in my hometown (I can always move) or the survival of the United States (we can just keep our heads low and adjust to living under fascism), or even the demise of civilization. What is happening threatens the survival of the human species - maybe even of all life! Against this unthinkable outcome, we must all work to our last breath." |
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McCain is no Teddy Roosevelt Republican
Publication Date: 08/10/2008
INSIGHTS - by Joe Howard Crews. McCain keeps trying to recast himself as a different kind of Republican from that of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. In McCain's mind, he is a Teddy Roosevelt Republican. Here are the facts: |
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Obama's humble Prayer at the Western Wall
Publication Date: 08/02/2008
For some prayer is a public ostentation. For others, such as Barack Obama, it was meant as a private matter between himself and his Creator. INSIGHTS, by Joe Howard Crews
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Obama's humble Prayer at the Western Wall
Publication Date: 08/02/2008
For some prayer is a public ostentation. For others, such as Barack Obama, it was meant as a private matter between himself and his Creator. INSIGHTS, by Joe Howard Crews
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Jeeni Criscenzo: We are entering a new Renaissance
Publication Date: 07/07/2008
INSIGHTS by Joe Howard Crews = I went to a wedding today. It was such a joyous event, I have to share it with you. It’s the first time I’ve ever cried at a wedding. It makes me quite happy that I, at 70 years, can feel such joy. It made me so happy to see Jeenie and Juan take their wedding vows today. Here's why: |
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Vista center of gay marriage activity on 1st day
Publication Date: 06/19/2008
INSIGHTS - by Joe Howard Crews - The first same-sex couples in San Diego County were legally wed on Tuesday morning, June 17 at five county offices, including Vista, and by the time November rolls around, many thousand of couples will have wed. Traditional marriage is constantly changing, always moving in the direction of equality and California is leading the way. |
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The alternative to Impeachment is unthinkable
Publication Date: 06/04/2008
The American people have a choice ahead of them. They can continue to be shamed as a nation of torturers, or they can put a stop to this administration’s ongoing crimes against humanity. Abusing and terrorizing innocent people doesn’t make us safer. ... Taking impeachment off the table means there is no limit to the Bush team’s depravity, and that torture will continue in our name. by Linda Boyd |
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HEALTHCARE: Obama vs. McCain, night and day
Publication Date: 05/25/2008
INSIGHTS - by Joe Howard Crews . The differences between the fundamental philosophy of the Democrats and the Republicans is nowhere more apparent than in the matters of life, death and healthcare. |
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White pastors preach vile hatred of America
Publication Date: 05/07/2008
Behold the double standard: John McCain sought out the endorsement of John Hagee, the warmongering, Catholic-bashing Texas preacher, who said the people of New Orleans got what they deserved for their sins.
But no one suggests McCain shares Hagee's delusions or thinks AIDS is God's punishment for homosexuality. Pat Robertson called for the assassination of a foreign head of state and asked God to remove Supreme Court justices, yet he remains a force in the Republican religious right. By Bill Moyers |
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White pastors preach vile hatred of America
Publication Date: 05/07/2008
Behold the double standard: John McCain sought out the endorsement of John Hagee, the warmongering, Catholic-bashing Texas preacher, who said the people of New Orleans got what they deserved for their sins.
But no one suggests McCain shares Hagee's delusions or thinks AIDS is God's punishment for homosexuality. Pat Robertson called for the assassination of a foreign head of state and asked God to remove Supreme Court justices, yet he remains a force in the Republican religious right. By Bill Moyers |
The Progressive Post
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White pastors preach vile hatred of America
Publication Date: 05/07/2008
Behold the double standard: John McCain sought out the endorsement of John Hagee, the warmongering, Catholic-bashing Texas preacher, who said the people of New Orleans got what they deserved for their sins.
But no one suggests McCain shares Hagee's delusions or thinks AIDS is God's punishment for homosexuality. Pat Robertson called for the assassination of a foreign head of state and asked God to remove Supreme Court justices, yet he remains a force in the Republican religious right. By Bill Moyers |
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Harvard professor: Obama 'best student I ever had'
Publication Date: 04/06/2008
One of the nation's foremost constitutional lawyers, Lawrence Tribe of Harvard, called Barack Obama the "best student I ever had". Restoring the constitution is one of the most pressing issues facing our nation today, and having a president who understands the vital underpining of our Constitution will be essential. |
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Publisher's perceptions per Palast's probe
Publication Date: 03/20/2008
Progressive Post's Publisher Rick Hall's thoughts about Greg Palast's expose' |
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Publisher's perceptions per Palast's probe
Publication Date: 03/20/2008
Progressive Post's Publisher Rick Hall's thoughts about Greg Palast's expose' |
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Poor Hillary bears such a heavy cross
Publication Date: 02/22/2008
INSIGHTS by Joe Howard Crews. One thing we do know -- only Obama has the possibility of healing our nation. The greatest asset of Obama is that he can bring reconciliation. Hillary cannot. All she can bring is a coverup. |
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SD, frontier for new Civil Rights movement
Publication Date: 02/08/2008
INSIGHTS - San Diego, as a hot bed of anti-immigrant fervor, is fertile ground for the next civil rights movement, just as Selma, Alabama was for black people. By John Fanestil of San Diego. |
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INSIGHTS: The insanity of Americ's wars
Publication Date: 01/19/2008
Why do we send our most valiant sons and daughters to wars that are not necessary, ask them to kill people that have not attacked us, and then expect them to live with it as model citizens? |
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Years to rebuild what George Bush destroyed
Publication Date: 01/05/2008
The rebuilding of our nation is daunting and enormous after 7 years of the Bush administration. But we can restore our nation. INSIGHTS by Joe Howard Crews. |
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Opinion: Australia bests the US on global warming
Publication Date: 12/20/2007
Australia, can you do us a favor? Bring some of your environmental savvy to the US! INSIGHTS by Nina Hall |
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OPINION: We have nothing to fear but fear itself
Publication Date: 12/05/2007
"I believe that it's high time that we Americans stop being fearful, and as FDR suggested step up to the plate to solve our problems rationally ... Our leadership in Washington has taken the opposite road of FDR and has instilled fear in the hearts of Americans instead of confidence." By Dave Patterson |
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THANKSGIVING: A native American view
Publication Date: 11/23/2007
When the Pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock, they were poor and hungry - half of them died within a few months from disease and hunger. When Squanto, a Wampanoag man, found them, they were in a pitiful state. He spoke English, having traveled to Europe, and took pity on them. Their English crops had failed. The native people fed them through the winter and taught them how to grow their food. |
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In memory of co-founder of NCCP, Shelli Hallidy
Publication Date: 11/05/2007
Rick Hall, publisher of The Progressive Post, remembers Shelli Hallidy, a co-founder of North County Coalition for Peace & Justice. |
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What KLSD means to me.
Publication Date: 10/19/2007
In the days before KLSD, that meant having to choose between bad, horrible, inane, insane or just incredibly stupid. My heart sinks just recounting the many hours I’ve spent listening to this group spew their crap about how it is a good thing that the haves get more while the less fortunate simply don’t deserve to have anything. |
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Congress 'swiftboats' MoveOn - Editorial LA Times
Publication Date: 10/08/2007
A petty Congress votes to "swiftboat" MoveOn.org. "Oddly, Congress didn't seem eager to intervene after a far more egregious and consequential low blow directed at a military man by a political activist group: the infamous "Swift boat" ads attacking Democratic Sen. John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign." EDITORIAL LA Times |
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Congress 'swiftboats' MoveOn - Editorial LA Times
Publication Date: 10/08/2007
A petty Congress votes to "swiftboat" MoveOn.org. "Oddly, Congress didn't seem eager to intervene after a far more egregious and consequential low blow directed at a military man by a political activist group: the infamous "Swift boat" ads attacking Democratic Sen. John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign." EDITORIAL LA Times |
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I will take this conservative reality to my grave
Publication Date: 09/06/2007
Hindsight has given me 20/20 understanding of just how right George W. Bush is. Someday history will record the truth as I now understand it. DELUSIONAL INSIGHTS - by Joe Howard Crews - Sep. 4, 2007 |
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The Health Care war is ON in North County
Publication Date: 08/22/2007
INSIGHTS - by Joe Howard Crews
Reps. Darrell Issa and Brian Bilbray voted to exclude millions of kids from children’s health care as their final despicable act in Congress before coming home for August vacation. Almost 9 out of 10 voters in North County approve of this program, SCHIP. This is a war we will win. |
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Ramona patriots protest to protect Constitution
Publication Date: 08/08/2007
INSIGHTS - by Dave Patterson of Ramona, clearly defines why patriots in the Ramona Forum manned a protest booth at the Ramona Country Fair this past weekend to defend free speech and protest the Bush War. |
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White House in 'panic mode' over GOP defections
Publication Date: 07/20/2007
ABC News has been told the White House is in "panic mode" over the recent defections of Republican senators on the president's stay-the-course policy in Iraq. |
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This 'DREAM' is a deadly nightmare for security
Publication Date: 07/05/2007
"To ask someone else's kids to go fight a war that American kids won't fight is unconscionable and must be stopped now. There are many reasons that we shouldn't ask foreign citizens to fight our wars, including the question of their true allegiance." By Dave Patterson |
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Democratic leaders are not leading
Publication Date: 06/20/2007
INSIGHTS - Editorial - “We can only do so much,” whines House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). No, Nancy. The problem is that you have done so little. Next to nothing really. Of the vaunted list of progressive measures you came into office as Speaker promising to push, only one—the minimum wage bill—passed, and you managed that only by making it “blood money”—that is, by tying it to the Iraq War funding bill so that the president wouldn’t veto it. That was a sick deal.
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BLACKWATER would a make bad neighbor
Publication Date: 06/06/2007
COMMUNITY FORUM, - by Jim Brown/B> of Encinitas says BLACKWATER would make a bad neighbor for the San Diego community of Potrero in East Count. Their type of activity will seriously disrupt the tranquility of the peaceful, rural community. [BLACKWATER is a bunch of bloody mercenaries sucking out of the public tax trough.] Published in the North County Times. |
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Christian gun freaks and American Fascism
Publication Date: 05/18/2007
INSIGHTS - by Joe Howard Crews May 11, 2007 - My eye fell to the T-shirt the young blond man was wearing, with large block lettering: “CHRISTIAN - AMERICAN - HETEROSEXUAL - PRO-GUN - CONSERVATIVE.” I wrote the message down. I was dismayed. This young man champions a powerful, dangerous and conflicted message that is poisoning many of America’s youth. |
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INSIGHTS: Mission Accomplished in retrospect
Publication Date: 05/05/2007
INSIGHTS - 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) ..." by three writers. |
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INSIGHTS: Mission Accomplished in retrospect
Publication Date: 05/05/2007
INSIGHTS - 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) ..." by three writers. |
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The Bold, the weak and the mad politicians
Publication Date: 04/04/2007
INSIGHTS - The Bold, the weak and the mad politicians Bush vows he will veto the war funding bill, rather than let Congress step on his turf to make unending and unlimited war as he sees fit. And he will, too. Then what?
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So Gen Pace does not tolerate sexual immorality?
Publication Date: 03/24/2007
"General Pace ... You may be a straight-arrow kind of guy who has never and would never visit a whorehouse but if we are talking morality, do you condemn the “johns” in your command with the same animosity that you direct towards gay soldiers?" INSIGHTS by Rosa Maria Pequeros- March 20, 2007 |
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So Gen Pace does not tolerate sexual immorality?
Publication Date: 03/24/2007
"General Pace ... You may be a straight-arrow kind of guy who has never and would never visit a whorehouse but if we are talking morality, do you condemn the “johns” in your command with the same animosity that you direct towards gay soldiers?" INSIGHTS by Rosa Maria Pequeros- March 20, 2007 |
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Surprising concessions from John Yoo on the war
Publication Date: 02/23/2007
Op-ed on state sponsored torture - By Dave Patterson -
Bush's Legal Architect for Torture John Yoo spoke at USD on Feb. 12. This dangerous and terrifying man made 3 startling concessions, however. Thus we know the new Congress is on the right path. A plan of action: By Dave Patterson of Ramona, CA. |
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Muddled Thinking About Conscription
Publication Date: 02/09/2007
INSIGHTS -Please, no draft! Rick Jahnkow of San Diego explains why he is so opposed to the military draft: "Whenever a draft has been employed in the USA, it has been used to make waging war possible, not as a device to keep our government from entering a conflict." |
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Can the people save themselves from BUSH?
Publication Date: 01/17/2007
INSIGHTS by Dave Wiley - Vet for Peace. The ancient Greeks would have completely understood the situation the American people find themselves in. A common theme in Greek mythology is that of a hero or king suffering from hubris. The Greek drama for America is: Can the people save their nation from their demented king. By Dave Wiley, local Vet for Peace. |
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The tide has changed for America
Publication Date: 01/04/2007
INSIGHTS - by Joe Howard Crews - Jan. 2, 2007. I saw a giant sign on New Year's Day in Balboa Park: "NOT ONE MORE DEATH. NOT ONE MORE DOLLAR." America already agrees with this message. Enforcing it is our new mission. |
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The Storm comes at Dawn
Publication Date: 12/21/2006
INSIGHTS - by Joe Howard Crews. We come together now at this season to remember the Prince of Peace - but he does not rule America. Still we come together with joy because we have love for one another, and we have hope for Peace. We feel the dawn of a new day in America, but the battle for peace is yet to come. |
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The real lesson of the Vietnam War
Publication Date: 12/09/2006
Dominos: The real lesson of the Vietnam War.
INSIGHTS - by Joe Howard Crews - Dec. 05, 2006. A miracle happened when the United States got out of Vietnam. This is the real lesson.
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EDITORIAL- Draft would ensure fairness &Peace
Publication Date: 11/22/2006
EDITORIAL - by Dave Patterson - Institution of a military draft would ensure fairness and Peace. Vet for Peace, Dave Patterson, agrees with Rep. Charlie Rangel that a military draft would dramatically reduce the risk of war by this country, and reverse a 'volunteer' army of the poor, disadvantaged and misinformed who have no other economic alternative. |
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Our Recommendations, Candidates in ELECTION
Publication Date: 11/08/2006
ProgressivePost brings our recommendations for the most progressive, talented candidates and for the State Propositions. Nov. 7 election. |
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Our Recommendations, Candidates in ELECTION
Publication Date: 11/08/2006
ProgressivePost brings our recommendations for the most progressive, talented candidates and for the State Propositions. Nov. 7 election. |
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Criscenzo represents the best of America
Publication Date: 10/20/2006
INSIGHTS - by Jeeni Criscenzo - Candidate Jeeni Criscenzo answers the question: "How do I know that you won't be like the rest of them once you get to Washington?" Criscenzo comes from the heart to reveal the kind of person she is. She is part of the change we need desperately in Congress. |
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Republican Party in moral meldown
Publication Date: 10/05/2006
INSIGHTS - by Joe Howard Crews.Republican Party in moral meltdown. Who will lead us back into the light? |
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The new 'Coin of the Realm'
Publication Date: 09/28/2006
INSIGHTS: by Joe Howard Crews - Sep. 19, 2006. The new ‘Coin of the Realm'. Economics and morality, philosophical musings. |
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INSIGHTS - Troubling Sounds in the Economy
Publication Date: 09/08/2006
It doesn't take a Harvard economist to tell middle America that something serious is wrong with our economy. We know it is headed for trouble even as White House illusionist seek to reassure us. INSIGHTS - by Joe Howard Crews. |
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Can Israel learn from this war on Lebanon?
Publication Date: 08/16/2006
INSIGHTS - Best article of the week.
An enduring peace in the Middle East requires two things: first, that the Arab states accept Israel's right to exist; and second, that Israel must come to see itself as an integral part of the region. The latter requires the kind of transformation in Israeli - and western - attitudes that is not even conceived of, let alone discussed. From THE GUARDIAN. |
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A Cry Against Apathy - Fernando Suarez del Solar
Publication Date: 08/04/2006
INSIGHTS - by Fernando Suarez del Solar - Aug. 1, 2006.
The world today is faced with the possibility of an imminent third world war; we stand at the gates of Hell itself. Fernando importunes us to unite in a mighty army demanding PEACE. |
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Duncan Hunter vs. The Rule of Law
Publication Date: 07/21/2006
By Joe Howard Crews. -
No sooner had the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Bush military kangaroos court in Guantanamo illegal, than our own congressman, Rep. Duncan Hunter, began trying to undermine the court’s ruling. This is as un-American as a politician can get. Furthermore, Hunter undermines support for our troops in time of war. |
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Mama always gave me a new penny
Publication Date: 07/07/2006
Today is her birthday. I've always gone to her birthday party for as long as I can remember ... It's was always such a happy occasion. But this year I don’t think I will go. A couple of other people in the family have told me the same thing. INSIGHTS by Joe Howard Crews. |
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Police can now break your door down, No-Knock.
Publication Date: 06/23/2006
The new Bush-Alito court ruled police can now bust your door down without knocking. The protection of "evidence" is more important than Constitutional rights of citizens. Conservatives and gun-rights supporters are up in arms. |
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Busby vs. Bilbray - What is really at stake here
Publication Date: 06/09/2006
This race is about much more than Busby vs. Bilbray. This race is about more than one seat in the House. It is the bellwether which will sound across all America, saying "Enough is enough! |
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It could never happen in America
Publication Date: 05/25/2006
Nazi Germany exterminated six million Jews, 8.6 % of its population. When Nazis forces were finally crushed, the Allies moved in on the extermination camps, and were horrified. They opened up the camps for reporters and the world to see. Dachau, Buchenwald, Sobibor, Treblinka and Asuschwitz-Birkenau are names that will live in greater infamy than Abu Ghraib in the history of atrocity. |
