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By Nick Mottern, Director, ConsumersforPeace.org HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, NY - The reality of U.S. troops killing and dying for Iraqi oil hit U.S. public consciousness hard on June 19, 2008 when it was announced that the occupied government of Iraq intended to award no-bid oil service contracts to ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron and Total. Political cartoonist Jeff Danziger deftly captured the contradiction of great wealth being amassed by giant oil compani… Continue

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Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com: St. Augustine People for Peace and Justice has been encountering problems with the St. Johns County Sheriff's Department in the recent past. I have attached a letter that our group has sent along with photos of t-shirts being distributed by the Sheriff (see t shirts in the video link above). 30 June 2008 Dear Sheriff Shoar, As citizens of St. Johns County and me… Continue

Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and are instituted to secure the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But “…whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. …all experience hath sh… Continue

"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. T… Continue

John McCain has long been a major player in a radical militaristic group driven by an ideology of global expansionism and dominance attained through perpetual, pre-emptive, unilateral, multiple wars. The credo of this group is “the end justifies the means,” and the end of establishing the United States as the world’s sole superpower justifies, in its estimation, anything from military control over the information on the Internet to the use of genocidal biological weapons. Over its two terms, the… Continue

In Matthew 22:21, we read the words of Jesus, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” How can this seeming dilemma be resolved? With about 47 percent of the federal budget going for the costs of all our wars to date, some taxpayers who fully pay their taxes may feel their deeply held moral consciences' are violated. This dilemma can be resolved by the legislation which has been introduced in Congress by 50 bi-partisan co-sponsors. This Peace Tax F… Continue

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By JON PARELES NEW ORLEANS — Mac Rebennack, the 67-year-old New Orleans pianist, guitarist and songwriter better known as Dr. John, carries the city’s lore in his fingers, his scratchy voice and his memory. He has lived in New York City and on Long Island since the 1980s, but when he… Continue