Alternative Obituaries:John Fitzgerald KennedyRonald Reagan Johnny CashKerry ThornleyTerry Ritchie Cost of the War in Iraq (JavaScript Error) To see more details, click here. Commentaries: What Difference Does An Assassination Make? Robert MacNamara's telling Moment of Truth: A coup, an assassination, and a commitment to war. January, 2010 Well-known Dissenters to the Official 9/11 Story A partial list of military, intelligence and security officials, plus some Former elected and appointed officials. December 2009 The Other Saddam This 2003 enlightening article on women's rights under the Saddam Hussein regime, by an Indian diplomat, was in danger of disappearing from the internet forever. Just to make sure it wouldn't, I fished it up for this website. "This Place is a Message"Our ambiguous, deadly letters to Future Earth August 19, 2008 Thank You, Chrysler I needed that slap in the face!January 1, 2007 REIGIODICY . . . .because 'faith' means never having to think about stuffNovember 22, 2006 My Pagan ManifestoMarch 17, 2006 Next Question, Mr. President!December 28, 2005 Another Brownie Moment October 1, 2004 *On Assistant Editing, Union Organizing, and the Zen of ObituariesSeptember 20, 2005 An Open Letter to W re Hurricane KatrinaSeptember 1, 2005 Our Quagmire - Their GoldmineJune 29, 2005 "Rednecks'" Values vs. California'sJune 28, 2005 Democracy or Republic?you decide Sympathy For The Torturer Zell Miller's Cracker Barrel Philosophy Is All Wet:soldiers don't fight for freedom of speech Summer, 2004 Does YOUR Vote Count?Not Much. . . . Spring, 2004 Saul Alinsky Told Us There'd Be Days Like ThisFreedom Of Speech In A Cage Leo Strauss Has A Plan For Your LifeAugust, 2004 Sabrina Harman & Her CorpseMay 2004 NOW They Care About The LiesThat Led Us Into War Under Whose God?The problem with being a "Christian Nation" 9/11:Unspeakable Conclusions Good & EvilSeptember, 2001 Dracula's Daughter Runs for Prez December 24, 1998 Collateral Damage and Other Poems The Path With No Heart January 7, 1999 Your Rights in Court - a guide for those without money Save Democracy for a Penny! Defense Lawyer Tony Serra discusses the Secret Police Motif and the KGB-ing of America For Valentine's Day: The Anarchist's Wedding Guide11 Reasons NOT To Go Through With It With an Addendum re Gay Marriage Living History - a short story The Easter Bunny's Very Best Trick Sheena, Queen of Tujunga, Speaks out on the secession of the San Fernando Valley from Los Angeles Wake Me Up When Hitler is Really DeadPlus, an angry letter from "Doc" Farmer in answer to someone's plea to "support the troops" An Open Letter To The Reagan Family, From The Burke Family The sight Americans are dying to see". . ". . . a worker’s life is cheap, and an employer always gets the benefit of the doubt. . . . . . . the maximum criminal penalty for willfully violating a safety standard or regulation and causing a worker to die is six months in prison, while the maximum sentence for mail fraud is 30 years, the maximum sentence for improperly hunting migratory birds is two years, the maximum sentence for dealing in counterfeit money is 20 years, the mandatory sentence for piracy is life. The maximum civil penalty for a willful safety violation that results in death is $70,000, while violating the South Pacific Tuna Act can bring a fine of $325,000, violating the Clean Air Act can cost one $270,000, and violating the Fluid Milk Promotion Act can cost $135,000. "Killing a worker through willfully lax safety standards is a misdemeanor. Typically the fine starts low and goes lower. In 2007, an inspector’s median initial penalty in worker fatality cases was $5,900 and was negotiated down to a median final penalty of $3,675. Between 2004 and 2007 OSHA had not bothered to collect almost half of the penalties it had imposed in fatality cases, equaling more than $27 million." from "Death at Work in America" By JOANN WYPIJEWSKI Counterpunch, April 29, 2009 www.counterpunch.org . .American democracy is in much deeper trouble than most people wish to acknowledge. Behind the reassuring facade, the regular elections and so forth, the substantive meaning of self-government has been hollowed out. What exists behind the formal shell is a systemic breakdown of the shared civic values we call democracy." William Greider, in "Who Will Tell The People?" (Simon & Schuster)"In this country we embrace the myth that we are still a democracy when we know that we are not a democracy, that we are not free, that the government does not serve us but subjugates us. Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people, but, at last, has beome the people's master."Gerry Spence, in "From Freedom To Slavery""In the final analysis, free trade is less an economic strategy than a moral doctrine. . . . It assumes that the highest good is to shop." ~David Morris, from "The Case Against the Global Economy"
