Wanted: A leader for America

By Noam Chomsky

The human toll of Katrina is incalculable, especially among the region's poorest citizens, but a relevant number is the 28-per cent poverty rate in New Orleans - more than twice the national rate. During the Bush administration the US poverty rate has grown, and welfare's limited safety net has been weakened further.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10534.htm

United States of Shame

by Maureen Dowd

America is once more plunged into a snake pit of anarchy, death, looting, raping, marauding thugs, suffering innocents, a shattered infrastructure, a gutted police force, insufficient troop levels and criminally negligent government planning. But this time it's happening in America.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10532.htm

Their God Is Bigger Than Our God

His mouthpieces in America - who always seem so sure of themselves, so sure that they alone hear God speaking, and so willing to share His wisdom with the rest of us - have gone strangely quiet of late.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1005-20.htm

Judge: Use of Religion in Hiring Decisions OK ·
A federal court in New York has ruled that the Salvation Army may hire and fire employees according to their religious beliefs -- even though it receives most of its money for social services
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4945299

US poverty: chronic ill, little hope for cure:
Four decades after a U.S. president declared war on poverty, more than 37 million people in the world's richest country are officially classified as poor and their number has been on the rise for years.
http://tinyurl.com/anzgb

Congress Seeks to Slash Food Aid for Poor :
Under orders to whittle agriculture spending by $3 billion, Republicans in Congress propose to slash food programs for the poor by $574 million and subsidies and conservation programs by $1 billion each,
http://tinyurl.com/7d4mw

Alaska Airlines takes flying fish to a whole new level :
$500,000 grant from federal funding pays for custom paint job on company's passenger jet
http://www.adn.com/front/story/7038924p-6942571c.html

No aid planned to help low-income families, seniors with energy costs:
The Bush administration yesterday said it has no plans to ask Congress for additional funds to help low-income families and financially stretched seniors deal with rapidly escalating home heating bills.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05277/582214.stm

The Crime of "Unauthorized Reproduction":
New law will require marriage as a legal condition of motherhood
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/3/213554/300

Wal-Mart Turns in Student's Anti-Bush Photo, Secret Service Investigates Him:
Selina Jarvis is the chair of the social studies department at Currituck County High School in North Carolina, and she is not used to having the Secret Service question her or one of her students.
http://progressive.org/mag_mc100405

Connect the Dots:
"For years, governments all over the world have secretly been collaborating with the high-end color laser printer industry in order to track the origin of every color copy made. They're doing it by programming the printers to create specific patterns of yellow dots-not visible to the naked eye-on every copy
http://webserver.computoredge.com/editorial/2339/world.htm