The Awareness Network

Howard Zinn RIP: A Repost of an Excellent Commencement Speech from 2005

Howard Zinn - "But this is your day -- the students graduating today. It's a happy day for you and your families. I know you have your own hopes for the future, so it may be a little presumptuous for me to tell you what hopes I have for you, but they are exactly the same ones that I have for my grandchildren."

Top Ten Worst Things About the Bush Years

The Bush Decade – Ten Worst Things; Or, the Rise of the New Oligarchs A great article about the worst of the Bush years. Here are a few highlights. For more, read the whole article as it appeared on the NewsTrust.net website: 10. Stagnating worker wages and the emergence of a new monied aristocracy. Of all the [...]

Chase Bank Resorts to Subterfuge to Trump Students for a Sensible Drug Policy

Recently, Micah Daigle, Executive Director of the Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), asked supporters to vote for SSDP in a competition on Facebook that would have earned them $25K and a shot at $1 million. Thousands of activists and supporters took action, catapulting SSDP into fourteenth place. The SSDP needed to place within the [...]

Help Obama Reform Drug Policy

I just now received an email from the Drug Policy Alliance requesting that I write a note to President-elect Obama in regards to who he chooses to be his drug czar. Below is a sample of my letter (based on the suggestions of the DPA). Feel free to copy it, augment it, or use it [...]

Sarah Palin Abused Power for Personal Gain

Panel Finds Sarah Palin Abuses her Power as Governor The chief investigator of an Alaska legislative panel, Stephen Branchflower, concluded Friday that Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper. The politically charged inquiry jeopardized her reputation as a reformer on John McCain’s Republican [...]

Bush’s Torture Policy Architects Dodge Questions

Watch these men, considered the architects of the Bush Administration’s policy on torture, including the “legal” torturing of suspects’ children and the horrible act of being buried alive. Watch as they squirm and slither their way out of answering questions posed by a congressional committee. Truly awful human beings. a

Bush White House Slammed by Insider

The manner in which Bush managed the Iraq debacle almost guaranteed that the use of force would become the only feasible option. In the permanent campaign era, it was all about manipulating sources of public opinion to the president's advantage - Scott McClellan, Former White House Press Secretary

Mission Accomplished, Oil-Man

G. W. Bush finally accomplishes his mission, despite his almost perfect record of miserable failure in all his previous business dealings.

GAO Reports Widespread Abuses in Gov’t Accounts

A report by the Government Accountability Office examined spending controls across the federal government following reports of credit-card abuse at various governmental departments including the Defense Department, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs.

Downsize DC Internet Radio Show

Not only is the Real ID Act bad for America, but it is also anti-American. We're now at the point where we need to turn up the pressure at a national level, and get rid of this horrible idea once and for all.