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Cynthia McKinney, Green Party Presidential Candidate, interviewed by WBAI Pacifica about – War in Iraq & the Dept of Peace
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/cynthia-mckinney-green-party-presidential-candidate-interviewed-on-issues/2080730332
Also, challenges trying to support Impeachment, bringing the troops home, repealing the Patriot Act, supporting Civil Rights in the Democratic Party. Voting Your Values and why she's become a Green. Her friend Dennis Kucinich and the challenge they faced being independent thinkers as Democrats. Depressing voter turnout as election spoiler. Economic problems and solutions. Supporting organized labor. Greening society. Had she been Speaker of the House. Health Care Issues. Thoughts about VP and Cabinet and your input. Taking the next step and becoming a Green.

Why Not a Department of Peace?
Gary Borders, News-Journal.com
http://www.news-journal.com/opin/content/news/opinion/stories/2008/04/13/04132008_Borders_column.html

Petreaus & Crocker, Obama & Clinton: No Matter Who Wins, the War Goes On
Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=594&Itemid=1

Kucinich Re-election Bid Raises $830K in Six Weeks
Sabrina Eaton, Cleveland Plain Dealer
http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/04/kucinich_reelection_bid_raises.html

Memo to Petraeus & Crocker: More Laughs, Please
Dick Cavett, Talk Show
http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/memo-to-petraeus-crocker-more-laughs-please/?th&emc=th

Hell Entrance Freezes Over in Omaha
David Swanson, OpEdNews.com
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_david_sw_080411_hell_entrance_freeze.htm

Look Who Capitulated to the Communists! Nixon and the Neocons of Bush & Cheney!
Bill Hare, Political Cortex
http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2008/4/8/162645/6200

Time for Changes Journal – How Societies Regress to Become Pathocracies
DemocraticUnderground.com
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Time%20for%20change/297

At the time of Bruce Springsteen’s hit song: BORN IN THE USA, a letter to the Editor by Linda Zoblotsky
I wonder how many people love Bruce Springsteen’s song, BORN IN THE USA just because the name of the song is BORN IN THE USA and he sings BORN IN THE USA? I wonder how many people who love that song actually take a look at the lyrics. Bruce Springsteen is singing about a man who fought in Viet Nam for the United States military and when he came back, he couldn’t find a job, medical and mental health help or a place to live. Some people believe we should have a long-term presence and occupation of the country of Iraq, a country which is not the 51st state of the USA. BORN IN THE USA is an angry song and people returning from Iraq and Afghanistan will have their own stories to tell. The discussion about Obama’s minister spreading hate because he said the words, “God Damn America” has no weight unless we can really stop the wheels of the Pledge of Allegiance going around in our brain and realize that Jeremiah Wright was speaking about the real life experience of what some African Americans and other Americans live from day to day. When Bruce Springsteen sang BORN IN THE USA did the mainstream media question Bruce Springsteen’s patriotism and did the public of the USA protest against Bruce Springsteen and stop buying his records? If these kinds of honest songs and sentiments are very real and if we are a free country, then why are we afraid to listen to and let people express their real life experience?

[Duchess Note: Many thanks to Linda in TX for the above articles. FYI, many updates to the “links” in left hand column.]