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December's Lowdown
Corporate elites and their small-minded political servants are creating the Incredibly Shrinking America
"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." What a paragraph! This sparse, 52-word opening of our Constitution did not merely launch a fledgling nation--but a bold experiment in democratic idealism.
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Our system, designed by Big Business, is ranked 37th in the world
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- THE REAL MOTHER'S DAY
- A GUSHER FROM EXXON MOBIL
- "THE K STREET PROJECT"
- THE GRANNY PEACE BRIGADE
- WATCH MY LIPS
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WATCH MY LIPS
It seems like yesterday that the entire BushCheney regime was ridiculing the United Nations, declaring that if that body's security council refused to pass a war resolution against Iraq, the U.S. would attack anyway. They claimed the right to disregard the will of the U.N. whenever they pleased.
But now Iran says it too has the sovereign right to ignore the U.N. and will continue to develop its nuclear capability even if the Security Council formally condemns it. To which Condi Rice said, with a straight face: "The security council is the primary and most important institution of peace and stability and security, and it cannot have its will simply ignored by a member state."