http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/133099-Dissent+spreads+through+U.S.+military+ranks
andhttp://www.workers.org/2007/us/dissent-0531/ http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/133076-Shrub+on+%22Root+Causes%22
andhttp://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10910.html http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/133061-Iraqi+Women+the+Worse+for+War
andhttp://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/52103/ http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/133056-As+Gaza+burns
andhttp://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/846/re71.htm
also bestof http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/133025-%22Baghdad+is+a+smashed+city...%22
also bestof andhttp://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/iraq_dispatches/000594.php#more from;http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/signs/list_by_category/1-Middle+East+Madness ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ food
safety (usa)The economic case for having
the government enforce rules on food safety seems overwhelming. Consumers
have no way of knowing whether the food they eat is contaminated, and in
this case what you don't know can hurt or even kill you. But there are
some people who refuse to accept that case, because it's ideologically
inconvenient.That's why I blame the
food safety crisis on Milton Friedman, who called for the abolition of
both the food and the drug sides of the F.D.A. What would protect the public
from dangerous or ineffective drugs? "It's in the self-interest of pharmaceutical
companies not to have these bad things," he insisted in a 1999 interview.
He would presumably have applied the same logic to food safety (as he did
to airline safety): regardless of circumstances, you can always trust the
private sector to police itself.O.K.,
I'm not saying that Mr. Friedman directly caused tainted spinach and poisonous
peanut butter. But he did help to make our food less safe, by legitimizing
what the historian Rick Perlstein calls "E. coli conservatives": ideologues
who won't accept even the most compelling case for government regulation.Earlier
this month the administration named, you guessed it, a "food safety czar."
But the food safety crisis isn't caused by the arrangement of the boxes
on the organization chart. It's caused by the dominance within our government
of a literally sickening ideology. from:http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/133094-Signs+Economic+Commentary+for+28+May+2007 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/133010-Wal-Mart+wants+to+be+your+stock+broker http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/133006-Unbelievable%21+How+to+profit+from+global+warming+-+weather+futures http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/132981-Ethanol+Booms%2C+Farmers+Bust http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/132920-Former+Wal-Mart+exec+accuses+CEO+of+ethics+breach+ http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/132821-Regional+currency+to+replace+dollar+in+Argentina-Brazil+trade http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/133094-Signs+Economic+Commentary+for+28+May+2007 from;http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/signs/list_by_category/3-The+Loan+Gunmen ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/132985-Developing+New+Bush+Scandal+Helping+Big+Oil+Companies+Hide+Billions+from+Government+at+Taxpayer+Expense from:http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/signs/list_by_category/12-U.S.+News?page=3orhttp://www.signs-of-the-times.org/signs/list_by_category/12-U.S.+News ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/133064-Bush+-+Constitution+%27Just+A+Goddamned+Piece+Of+Paper%27 from:http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/signs/list_by_category/2-Axis+of+Evil +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/132977-How+Can+Bush+Bring+Freedom+and+Democracy+to+Iraq+When+He+Brings+Tyranny+to+America%3F http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/133054-No+jobs+for+US+citizens+without+Homeland+Security+approval from:http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/signs/list_bestofweb +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ .....etc.......