Real issues the news is barely touching on

[MikeNY]

Torture tactics and war crimes occuring in Iraq on a daily basis
"No exit strategy"

No timetable for pullout even though Iraq is a conquered nation

Hardcore fascist appointed to Supreme Court "no outrage"

Attorney General Gonzalez supports absolute rule of executive branch (i.e. dictatorship) "no outrage"

Bush signs CAFTA, promotes Patriot Act, turning US into borderless corporate bordello police state

Big Brother Emerges- US makes the ultimate tradeoff and puts security ahead of freedom.

U.S. operated concentration camps established at Guantanamo Bay and various top secret locations

George Bush, the President who established the New World Order and turned America from republic to empire

9/11 the 21st cenutry Reichstag fire

[rurallib]

1. The one that scares me is the "Star Wars" missle defense system

- That and the starvation of our school systems.
- Infrastructures throughout the country badly in need of repair (highways, water, sewer systems etc)
- Global Warming should be getting HUGE headlines but gets barely a mention.
- Implications of our debts to China & Japan.
- How are Ben & Jen doin'?

[Greeby]

2. What do you expect

Media is owned by the same mega-corporations who are benefitting from having a corporatist in power

[MikeNY]

5. True that

True. The propaganda model of news still holds -> http://cybrary.uwinnipeg.ca/services/il/Media/propagandamodel.htm

[LoKnLoD]

3. forgot

peak oil and the imminent collapse of our economy

the housing bubble about to collapse

[TerdlowSmedley]

4. The one that affects me too many times a day to overlook:

The demonization of loyal opposition

[intheflow]

6. And don't forget Coingate

and the other election fraWds in Ohio in Novemeber '04.

[FreedomAngel82]

7. Oh of course not

One of them might end up dead like Mr. Lemme. Oh and I love your signature intheflow.

[Just Me]

8. True. They're also failing to cover the administration's crimes,...

,...associated with all of the foregoing.

This tyranny has betrayed both Americans and American democratic principles and our Constitution and our promises to the world.

:grr: