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"Loyalty to country, always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it." -- Mark Twain
In This Issue
Enough of Bush and Co.'s babble about prosperity
Let's look at our economy by the numbers
Also in this issue:
- The Big Buy: Tom Delay's Stolen Congress
- ALITO STRIKES
- CORPORATIZING THE BORDER
- ATTACK BY THE CORPORATE FOXES
- HOW STRANGE IS RICK SANTORUM?
- NEW GUY, SAME BAD POLICY
- BUSH LAWYERS
- THE GOP'S XENOPHOBIC GOOFINESS
- POSTER: Are you better off yet?
- SOURCES for July 2006 issue
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August's Lowdown
Corporations scoff at workers' rights--even the right to come home from work alive
Their names probably won't mean mean anything to you, but these people ought to have some modicum of personal recognition: Jason Anderson, Aaron Dale "Bubba" Burkeen, Donald Clark, Stephen Curtis, Gordon Jones, Roy Wyatt Kemp, Karl Kleppinger, Blair Manuel, Dewey Revette, Shane Roshto, and Adam Weise. These are the 11 workers who were killed when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico on April 20.
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The Big Buy: Tom Delay's Stolen Congress
Brave New Films' The Big Buy, now out on DVD, is jampacked with 75 minutes of archival footage and interviews with folks like Hightower, Molly Ivins and representatives from around the political spectrum, The Big Buy is a must-see for insight into the corruption machine that -- in spite of Delay's resignation -- continues to attack democracy on the national level. For more information, visit www.tomdelaymovie.com; purchase your own copy by visiting http://tomdelaymovie.com/buy.php?track=lowdown.