Archive for August, 2007



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Aug

Kucinich on the Record

BY AMANDA GRISCOM LITTLE
An interview with Dennis Kucinich about his presidential platform on energy and the environment

Dateline: 01 Aug 2007

This is part of a series of interviews with presidential candidates produced jointly by and Outside.
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Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. The only one with a vision intelligent and bold enough to solve this nation’s central moral and economic problems. Of course, that in itself relegates him to the corporate media’s Siberia.
Editorial disclosure: Cyrano’s Journal supports Dennis Kucinich without reservations.
Photo: SEIU via flickr

He may be eating the front-runners’ dust in the polls, but among deep-green voters, Dennis Kucinich is considered a trailblazer. A Democratic U.S. rep from Cleveland, Ohio, Kucinich is calling for a radical overhaul of the U.S. government and economy — one that infuses every agency in the executive branch with a sustainability agenda, phases out coal and nuclear power entirely, and calls on every American to ratchet down their resource consumption and participate in a national conservation program. Continue reading ‘Kucinich on the Record’

01
Aug

CLASSIC ESSAYS: The Bush Hitler Thing

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The inescapable flagwaving idiots’ brigade on display.

BY “SL”
CLASSIC ARCHIVES
(This was a t r u t h o u t Reader Submission)
t r u t h o u t is a fraternal site | Friday 09 January 2004

Dear Sir,

My family was one of Hitler’s victims. We lost a lot under the Nazi occupation, including an uncle who died in the camps and a cousin killed by a booby trap. I was terrified when my father went ballistic after finding my brother and me playing with a hand grenade. (I was only 12 at the time, and my brother insisted the grenade was safe.) I remember the rubble and the hardships of ‘austerity’ - and the bomb craters from Allied bombs. As late as the 1980s, I had to take detours while bombs were being removed - they litter the countryside, buried under parking lots,buildings, and in the canals and rivers to this day. Believe me, I learned a lot about Hitler while I was growing up, both in Europe and here in the US - both my parents were in the war and talked about it constantly, unlike most American families. I spent my earliest years with the second-hand fear that trickled down from their PTSD - undiagnosed and untreated in those days. Continue reading ‘CLASSIC ESSAYS: The Bush Hitler Thing’




 

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