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  • Hit Movie Director says Hollywood stars, including Bruce Willis...
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hit Movie Director says Hollywood stars, including Bruce Willis, having political paradigms changed by 9/11 conspiracy documentaries
    by Paul Joseph Watson
    Acclaimed writer-director Richard Linklater, currently riding high on the favorable reception of A Scanner Darkly and best known for his 2003 production School of Rock, has publicly slammed George W. Bush as a "Yalely frat boy" who is in over his head and more corrupt than Richard Nixon.
    Linklater also says that his efforts to (…)

  • THE TRAGIC FATE OF THE DELPHI STRUGGLE
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dave Stratman
    Delphi, General Motors’ largest parts supplier, is in bankruptcy court seeking permission to break labor contracts which run through 2007 with its 33,000 hourly employees. Delphi is demanding a 40% wage cut and reductions in the benefits and pensions of current and retired auto workers. It plans to close 25 plants and fire 23,000 employees. Delphi claims it needs these cuts to become competitive in the global marketplace, the same argument that Ford and GM and countless (…)

  • The war against Palestine and Iraq
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ibrahim Ebeid
    As the racist war on Iraq and Palestine rages on, the killing of Iraqis and Palestinians continue to proliferate with no end in sight. One might wonder if these coordinated attacks projected by the United States and the Zionist entity were no other than a war of terror and genocide against the Arab Nation?
    As a person who was born in Palestine, before the creation of the Zionist state, I was observing the racist acts of the West unfolding against my own country, (…)

  • The Most Influential Australian Of All Time Is....An American
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By DP Mason
    It just makes your heart swell with Australian pride to discover that ’The Most Influential Australian Of All Time’ actually turns out to be an American.
    The Bulletin Magazine has oh-so-pomously decided that some ex-Australian media mogul named Rupert Murdoch deserves to be called ’The Most Influential Australian’, despite the fact that he didn’t think being an Australian citizen was worth as much as owning a few American television stations.
    That Murdoch is ranked above (…)

  • The Dreamslayers & the Internet
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jim Kirwan
    Unregulated Capitalism is a continuing crime that has enabled most of what passes for commerce today.
    The latest and perhaps most serious attempt to regulate those of us who challenge these behemoths of commerce and industry; is the pending legislation that seeks total control over who can use the world-wide web. If these people have their way, the internet will become a toll-road with diamond lanes for them and the backroads of lengthy delays for the rest of America. If (…)

  • Why must every country be forced into the United States’ way of thinking?
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mary MacElveen
    A reader responding to my article concerning North Korea wrote me this response: "Your article makes clear that North Korea is the bigger threat if Chavez is even any kind of threat at all. But I’m curious, you made no mention of the Chavez visit to North Korea planned for later this month. Do you think it wise for Chavez to belly up to the beast as it were? You could make the moral equivalence of the US allies that are just as bad as Kim Jung Il, but I’d rather hear of (…)

  • It’s time to think the unthinkable
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Bruce Dixon, BC Editor
    "Don’t put that out there" is the admonition delivered to folks impolite enough to talk about bad things which might happen but have not yet come to pass, as if mere discussion or consideration of some awful possibility makes it more likely. We at BC understand politeness. But failing to recognize, to examine and to understand unpleasant possibilities before they become devastating realities is worse than impolite. It’s foolish.
    The unpleasant truths of this (…)

  • Sen. Lieberman Literally in Bed With Drug Lobby
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Joe Conason
    Editor’s note: In this column, Conason points out that the Connecticut senator who would lecture us on ethics drafted a bill in 2005 that made generous giveaways to pharmaceutical companies-one month after his wife went to work in the pharmaceuticals division of a major lobbying and PR firm.
    Whenever Sen. Joseph Lieberman complains that he is the target of a “single-issue” challenge by upstart millionaire Ned Lamont, the three-term incumbent proves he doesn’t quite get (…)

  • Lieberman’s Real Problem
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Harold Meyerson
    I am about to become a traitor to my class. Among my estimable colleagues in the Washington commentariat, the idea that Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman is facing a serious challenge from a fellow Democrat over Lieberman’s support for the Iraq war seems to evoke incredulity and exasperation. On the op-ed pages of leading newspapers, we read that Lieberman is "the most kind-hearted and well-intentioned of men" (that’s from the New York Times’ David Brooks), a judgment that (…)

  • Nurses protest move to narrow union roles
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Sandy Kleffman
    More than 400 nurses rallied Tuesday in downtown Oakland, hoping to prevent a legal decision they said could sharply restrict union membership and limit the power of the influential California Nurses Association and other labor groups.
    This is a fight we’re going to win — they’re not going to bust our union,’’ Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the nurse’s union, told the crowd.
    The noon event mirrored a rally in downtown Los Angeles that also drew several hundred (…)