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FROM FOX NEWS:
WASHINGTON — Ninety-five bishops from President Bush’s church said Thursday they repent their “complicity” in the “unjust and immoral” invasion and occupation of Iraq.
“In the face of the United States administration’s rush toward military action based on misleading information, too many of us were silent,” said a statement of conscience signed by more [...]

Noam Chomsky is not a website, but since you’re reading this on a website (probably), you’ll want to go to virtual place to learn more. Noam Chomsky is probably the guy who I would consider the smartest guy alive currently. An M.I.T. linguistics professor by trade, a political commentator and activist by passion, [...]

From commondreams.org:
The typical white family has $80,000 in assets; the average black family about $6,000. It’s a wealth gap out of the Middle Ages. Some 46 million can’t afford health insurance, 18,000 of whom will die early because of it.
The US, we learn, is 43rd in the world infant mortality rankings. A baby born in [...]

Nice rant, Kanye.
“I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family and they say we are looting, you see a white family and they say they are looking for food. And, you know, its been five days because most of the people are black … We already realize a [...]

When leaders use fear to motivate people, dictatorship arises. The corrupting influence of political power overcomes all but the humblest leaders. Fear becomes a tool. It is wielded as a weapon of propaganda.
The iron fist of ancient emperors briefly held on to domination, and earned them a place in history’s list of “world leaders.” The [...]

Nov. 12, 2006: UPDATED VERSION
This post assumes that you are familiar with this Letter From Ecuador
The “civilized” world’s addiction to oil takes it into the rainforests of Latin America. Manhatten is still being purchased for handfuls of beads. “How Did Our Oil Git Under Their Sand?” as a popular bumpersticker reads, fits here, [...]

Questions
for my Republican Christian friends:
Can you be a true follower of the Christ who commanded us to look out for the poor and weak of society and remain a survival-of-the-fittest capitalist, and a trickle-down economics Republican?
How does Republican economic philosophy fit in with the Christian doctrine of helping the poor, caring for the widow, and [...]

What Would Jesus Do…
If he were president? Or an American voter?
An Essay by Jim Miles
October 20, 2003
The national unity enjoyed by this country after terrorism struck September 11, 2001 has been squandered by our president. By wasting American lives and international goodwill on a political war in Iraq, Bush has left us worse off now [...]