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  • COLORS Restaurant - A new democratic worker-cooperative challenges the industry
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    COLORS Restaurant - A new democratic worker-cooperative challenges the industry By John Lawrence
    In the fall of 2005, COLORS restaurant opened in the heart of Greenwich Village, in New York City. In an elegant setting with Bauhaus and Art Deco touches, COLORS offers a creative seasonal menu based on favorite family recipes of its staff, who hail from 22 countries.
    More than an excellent restaurant, however, COLORS is one part of a labor struggle to revolutionize the New York restaurant (…)

  • Arabic T-shirt sparks airport row
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Arabic T-shirt sparks airport row
    8/31/2006 9:00:00 AM GMT
    Jarrar, an architect of Iraqi descent, was wearing a T-shirt that read “We Will Not Be Silent”
    “I grew up and spent all my life living under authoritarian regimes. And I know that these things happen. But I’m shocked that they happened to me here, in the U.S. Especially that I moved from Iraq because of the war that was waged in Iraq under titles like democracy and freedom,” said Iraqi-born architect Raed Jarrar.
    Jarrar, an (…)

  • Behind the plan to bomb Iran
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Behind the plan to bomb Iran By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
    Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say.
    It is no longer a secret that the administration of US President George W Bush has been methodically paving the way toward a bombing strike against Iran. The administration’s plans of an aerial military attack against that country have recently been exposed by a number of reliable sources. [1]
    There is strong evidence that the US (…)

  • We need you as much as you need us ... it is a symbiotic relationship, folks!
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mary MacElveen
    Many have emailed me that stating that I hate United States and nothing can be farther from the truth ... I love my country, just not its government.
    On many occasions through writing for VHeadline.com, I have told my readers in the United States how their own damn government was their enemy and not President Hugo Chavez.
    On several occasions, I have written favorable comments when it comes to Congressman Ron Paul of Texas. In my eyes, he is very much the patriot. (…)

  • Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mike Schiller
    Permission granted to publish & post this article on any website at will, free of charge.
    Tom Kean, the Republican running against Bob Menendez for the U.S. Senate seat recently vacated by John Corzine, is trying very hard to avoid talking about the issues. For instance, he’d rather avoid letting New Jersey know that he would have voted to confirm Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. He’d rather avoid discussing whether he would have voted for the Bush tax cuts that (…)

  • Bush to Launch Series of Speeches on War
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — President Bush is kicking off another series of speeches to counter opposition to the war in Iraq, impatience with the rising U.S. death toll and anxiety about possible terrorist attacks.
    Bush delivers the first speech Thursday to the annual American Legion convention in Salt Lake City. The appearances will continue through the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and culminate on Sept. 19 when Bush addresses the U.N. Security Council.
    It is the third time (…)

  • Iran may pull out of NPT; U.S. weighing sanctions without UN
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Yossi Melman and Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondents and Agencies
    Iran may develop nuclear weapons and pull out from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if international pressure against its nuclear program continues, a senior Iranian official warned yesterday.
    The statements made by Iranian Parliament Vice Speaker Mohammad Reza Bahonar mark the first time a senior Iranian official specifically mentioned the development of nuclear weapons as part of the country’s nuclear program, (…)

  • Real Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By STEVEN GREENHOUSE and DAVID LEONHARDT
    With the economy beginning to slow, the current expansion has a chance to become the first sustained period of economic growth since World War II that fails to offer a prolonged increase in real wages for most workers.
    That situation is adding to fears among Republicans that the economy will hurt vulnerable incumbents in this year’s midterm elections even though overall growth has been healthy for much of the last five years.
    The median hourly (…)

  • Trying to Make It Home New Orleans a Year After Katrina
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By BILL QUIGLEY New Orleans .
    Bernice Mosely is 82 and lives alone in New Orleans in a shotgun double. On August 29, 2005, as Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, the levees constructed by the U.S. Corps of Engineers failed in five places and New Orleans filled with water.
    One year ago Ms. Mosely was on the second floor of her neighborhood church. Days later, she was helicoptered out. She was so dehydrated she spent eight days in a hospital. Her next door neighbor, 89 years old, stayed behind to (…)

  • Medicaid and Medicare Cuts: (Almost) Everyone Pays
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    de Sam Uretsky
    Unless you belong to the select and dwindling group of those with fully employer-paid health coverage-or to the 40-million-and-counting with no health insurance at all-you’ve probably noticed your health insurance premiums rising at a frightening pace. In 2005, premiums for family coverage rose by an average of 9.2%, six percentage points more than the rate of inflation, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Annual Survey Of Employer Health Benefits. The cost of health (…)