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  • The Stolen Election Of 2004. The Numbers Simply Do Not Add Up
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Stolen Election Of 2004 The Numbers Simply Do Not Add Up By Michael Parenti July 13, 2006 The 2004 presidential contest between Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry and the Republican incumbent, President Bush Jr., amounted to another stolen election. This has been well documented by such investigators as Rep. John Conyers, Mark Crispin Miller, Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman, Bev Harris, and others. Here is an overview of what they have reported, along with observations of my own. (…)

  • Foreign Companies Buy US Roads, Bridges
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Foreign Companies Buy US Roads, Bridges By Leslie Miller, Associated Press Writer July 15, 2006; 2:44 EDT
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Roads and bridges built by U.S. taxpayers are starting to be sold off, and so far foreign-owned companies are doing the buying.
    On a single day in June, an Australian-Spanish partnership paid $3.8 billion to lease the Indiana Toll Road. An Australian company bought a 99-year lease on Virginia’s Pocahontas Parkway, and Texas officials decided to let a (…)

  • House Committee Probes Abrahmoff-Bush Ties
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

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    House Committee Probes Abrahmoff-Bush Ties
    July 15, 2006 at 11:44AM
    A U.S. House committee wants to know what contacts convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his team had with the Bush White House, it was reported Saturday.
    The House Government Reform Committee subpoenaed Abrahoff’s former law firm for billing records, the Washington Post reported.
    The subpoena seeks all the billing records from the Greenberg Traurig law firm "referring or (…)

  • Activists Sue To Block Electronic Voting
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Activists Sue To Block Electronic Voting By The Associated Press July 13, 2006 at 3:31 ET Computerized voting was supposed to be the cure for ballot fiascos such as the 2000 presidential election, but activist groups say it has only worsened the problem and they’ve gone to court across the country to ban the new machines.
    Lawsuits have been filed in at least nine states, alleging that the machines are wide open to computer hackers and prone to temperamental fits of technology that have (…)

  • US Suffers Winner’s Complex - Gorbachev
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    US Suffers Winner’s Complex - Gorbachev ABC News Created: 13.07.2006 11:48 MSK Mikhail Gorbachev is generally regarded as the man who broke down the “iron curtain” that separated the communist world from the West and thawed the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Now, 15 years after a coup removed him from power and the Soviet Union dissolved, he has some stern words for the United States, whose relationship with Russia has soured lately.
    “We have made some (…)

  • The Real Agenda
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Editorial: The Real Agenda July 16, 2006
    It is only now, nearly five years after Sept. 11, that the full picture of the Bush administration’s response to the terror attacks is becoming clear. Much of it, we can see now, had far less to do with fighting Osama bin Laden than with expanding presidential power.
    Over and over again, the same pattern emerges: Given a choice between following the rules or carving out some unprecedented executive power, the White House always shrugged off the (…)

  • Tax Revenue Mysteries
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tax Revenue Mysteries By Alan Reynolds Published July 16, 2006 Federal tax receipts continue to soar, with the individual income tax now expected to rise about 15 percent this year and the corporate tax by 20 percent. A year ago, when people noticed tax receipts were going to be up by 15 percent, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman tried to dismiss it as "a temporary blip." That card can’t be played twice. The Bush team, on the other hand, has an odd habit of describing reductions in (…)

  • We Need An Honest Debate On Iraq
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    We Need An Honest Debate On Iraq By E.J. Dionne 7/16/2006 The most intellectually honest case for the war in Iraq was never about Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction. It was the Big Bang Theory. Not to be confused with theories about the origins of the universe, the Middle East Big Bang idea was simple and seductive. Unlike other arguments for the war, it was based on some facts. The point was that the Middle East was a mess. A nest of authoritarian regimes bred (…)

  • Former Vets With GOP Ties Boost War Effort In Blogs
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Former Vets With GOP Ties Boost War Effort In Blogs By Jerry Zremski, News National Correspondent 6/25/2006 WASHINGTON - A former spokesman for President Bush recently offered to several newspapers supposedly objective freelance stories from Iraq by two combat veterans who lead a pro-war group with deep Republican ties. Several months after revelations that a Pentagon contractor was paying Iraqi news outlets for favorable war coverage, former White House spokesman Taylor Gross approached (…)

  • Students Call NZ To Speak Out On Israel Aggression
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Students Call NZ To Speak Out On Israel Aggression
    The University of Auckland’s Students for Justice in Palestine call on the New Zealand government to pressure Israel to end the callous bombing raids in occupied Gaza and nearby Lebanon that has resulted in the death of civilians on both sides. The international community has failed yet again to address the core issues of the Middle East conflict by only calling for ’restraint’ alone, thereby paving the way for another regional conflict. (…)