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Bush's Bloody Strategy for Victory

These are a few very interesting articles which I've received from Matthew Rothschild, Editor of The Progressive Magazine

Matthew Rothschild has been with The Progressive since 1983. His McCarthyism Watch web column has chronicled more than 150 incidents of repression since 9/11. His exclusive web commentaries, This Just In, run on the website several times a week. Monday through Friday, two-minute web radio commentaries that are also available as podcasts, as is his weekly half-hour interview show, Progressive Radio. He co-founded and directs the Progressive Media Project.

" We’re beginning to see the outlines of Bush’s military strategy in Iraq. It’s not withdrawal. Don’t kid yourself.

Bush intends to prevail.

While he may, under domestic pressure, bring 10,000 or 20,000 or even 50,000 troops home, he has no intention of ending this war. "Read rest of article here...


What's Good for General Motors Is Killing America
By Ruth Conniff
November 28, 2005

" Wall Street analysts are praising GM's decision to close a dozen North American plants, cut 30,000 jobs, and trim health care and other benefits. But if GM is a symbol of the American industrial golden age, its decline (from half of U.S. car sales thirty years ago to a only quarter recently) is a sign of the destruction of the American social contract. No more pensions, family-supporting wages, or hardworking, blue-collar membership in the middle class. Instead, we are living in the era of Wal-Mart wages, food stamps and Medicare for the children of the working class, and a disappearing American Dream. That shift may be good for General Motors shareholders, but it is killing America. " Read rest of article here...

" I also wanted to share with you something I came across in my reading. It's from David Krieger's "Today Is Not a Good Day for War". Krieger is founder of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He's also a poet, and I was especially taken by the following short poem, which I offer to you in its entirety:

A SHORT HISTORY LESSON: 1945

August 6th:
Dropped atomic bomb
on civilians
at Hiroshima.

August 8th:
Agreed to hold
war crimes trials
for Nazis.

August 9th:
Dropped atomic bomb
on civilians
at Nagasaki.

The hypocrisy of U.S. foreign policy does not begin an end with George W. Bush. It is a long and ignoble tradition.

It's a tradition we've got to break! "

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posted by Annamarie at 11:49 PM