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If you think environmentalism is all about saving the Earth, protecting the whales, stopping pollution, and the like, here's some news. It's not! Listen to what environmental advocates themselves have to say: "I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an ecologically sound society under socialism. I don't think it's possible under capitalism." Judi Bari, Earth First! member.[Environmentalism equals replacing capitalism with socialism.] "The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society, based on rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food...

McCain tells Obama: no more snow jobs... click here to see it reeeeeally large!This cartoon/graphic is free for any noncommercial use: emails, blogs, forums, newsletters, flyers, whatever! 

The Democrats turn their lonely eyes to Hillary: Give us a message. Lead us home. Even for the Wonder Woman of the Party of JFK, this is no easy task. How to decry the excesses of the Bush administration and the GOP Congress without validating the label "The Party of No"? How to lure enough GOP votes to win elections at a time when Democrat means liberal and liberal is a term of derision? A Web site set up by a minister and his daughter (www.liveliberal.com) has an answer you can wear on a T-shirt: "Liberal is not a dirty...

<p>December 10, 2003 -- HOW is it possible that a president of the United States ends up on E!'s "True Hollywood Story"? Maybe the question really is how in the world did a president's genitals end up as serious discussion within the Justice Department - and how did we the people end up paying $40 million to end up with an impeachment based on a report that reads like a romance novel by Jackie Collins?</p>

"In many American cities, local politicians spend the winter months helping clear away snow. But Southern California is different. Here, elected officials, sometimes using taxpayer money, bring the white stuff in. Man-made snow has already come to Pacoima, Long Beach, downtown Los Angeles and many places in between this year. (A version of the stuff — hail — fell for free in Watts last month, but cost a bundle to clean up.) And in the coming weeks, it is scheduled for several other locales, including a patch in Exposition Park where a representative from Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn's...

Saudi leaders agonize: Where did Wahabism go wrong? SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Thursday, July 3, 2003 ABU DHABI — Saudi leaders are planning to revise the ruling Wahabi ideology said to have spawned Al Qaida and related insurgency movements. On Tuesday, Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz cited what he termed extremist ideas among young Saudis for the emergence of the Al Qaida network in the kingdom. Prince Nayef said these ideas have deviated from mainstream Islam and led to the attacks in Saudi Arabia, Middle East Newsline reported. "Why are these things happenings?" Prince Nayef told the...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. PARIS (AP) — Treasury Secretary John Snow says his focus during his first international economic meeting will be on trying to energize a sagging global economy that is feeling the added drag of a possible war with Iraq. To that end, he said, he will try to get commitments from other industrialized countries to push for greater economic growth. He already has Britain's treasury chief, Gordon Brown, on his side. ``We're very much on the same wave length'' about the need for growth, Snow said Friday. ``He shared my view —...