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  • Meanwhile, back at the White House ...
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Commentary Meanwhile, back at the White House ...
    David Rossie Commentary
    "Oh, dear, George, they convicted Ken."
    "Ken who?"
    "Ken Lay. It’s all over today’s papers."
    "You know I don’t read newspapers."
    "I know, but Ken was your friend. You used to call him Kenny Boy, remember?
    "Never heard of him."
    "What do you mean you never heard of him? He raised all that money for you when you were running for governor and in 2000 when you ran for president. And he flew us to (…)

  • GUARD DUTY FOR DEMOCRACY
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How many laws must Bush break until someone steps up to the plate? Oh sure, we have had many good speakers on the subject-Russ Feinstein, Cindy Sheehan, John Murtha, Al Gore and others in command of the truth, as well as American gumption.
    We have protestors; thousands of them show up in Washington D.C. before the war, and again Sept 24, 2006. There were millions protesting worldwide all of them protesting the war in Iraq. Unprecedented numbers of military families are protesting this (…)

  • Tesco job ads follow non-union line
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jonathan Birchall
    Tesco, the world’s third largest grocer, has listed "maintaining union-free status" and "union avoidance activities" among the responsibilities of senior managers of its planned new network of stores on the US west coast.
    Language in two job descriptions indicates that Tesco - which has a close partnership with its UK union - is set to follow the non-union example of Wal-Mart, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s and others in the US, adding to the pressure on the United Food (…)

  • Enron’s Schemes "The Very Nature of Profit-Based, Market Capitalism"
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wallace Roberts
    Despite the conviction of a couple of bad apples at Enron, its top management is not the real culprit in this case. The real culprit is a bad idea: deregulation of the natural gas and electric power industries.
    Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, the former chairman and CEO respectively, can be said to be just "sharp traders," businessmen who did what the free market demands of rational players: take advantage of every loophole they could find to make a profit.
    Early (…)

  • Hayden Hijinks
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by John Nichols
    If there actually was an opposition party in Washington, the nomination of Air Force General Michael Hayden to serve as director of the Central Intelligence Agency would have been doomed from the start.
    Hayden’s involvement as head of the National Security Agency with the illegal warrantless wiretapping program initiated by the Bush administration, his role in the secret accumulation of the phone records of tens of millions of Americans for surveillance purposes, his (…)

  • Getting No Bill at All Is Better Than Senate Bill
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by David Bacon
    Editor’s Note: Many grassroots immigrant rights groups outside Washington, D.C., say that failure to pass any immigration reform is better than any possible combination of the current House and Senate immigration bills. David Bacon is an associate editor at New America Media and author of "The Children of NAFTA" (University of California Press, 2004). He sits on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Committee of the Bay Area Immigrant Rights Coalition.
    SAN FRANCISCO—When (…)

  • U.S. Plan to Lure Nurses May Hurt Poor Nations
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By CELIA W. DUGGER
    Correction Appended
    As the United States runs short of nurses, senators are looking abroad. A little-noticed provision in their immigration bill would throw open the gate to nurses and, some fear, drain them from the world’s developing countries.
    The legislation is expected to pass this week, and the Senate provision, which removes the limit on the number of nurses who can immigrate, has been largely overlooked in the emotional debate over illegal immigration. (…)

  • The Great Iraq Oil Grab
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The official reasons the U.S. invaded Iraq don’t hold water. So, as the man said, follow the money ... straight to the oil fields.
    By Joshua Holland
    There’s a story, perhaps apocryphal, that Pentagon planners wanted to name the invasion of Iraq, "Operation Iraqi Liberation." Only when someone realized that the acronym — O.I.L. — might raise some uncomfortable questions, was "Operation Iraqi Freedom" born.
    Supporters of the Iraq war airily dismiss chants of "no blood for oil" as a (…)

  • Report to advise Bush on post-Castro Cuba
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Saul Hudson
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. commission is preparing to advise President George W. Bush on how to inject democracy into a post-Castro Cuba, but critics say Washington’s 40 years of isolating the island may limit its chances of heading off a communist succession.
    The report by the Commission on Assistance to a Free Cuba, expected in the next few days, will suggest ways Washington can influence Cubans to turn away from communism and move to democracy and a free-market (…)

  • Rising Wages for Nurses? Nanny State to the Rescue
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Dean Baker
    The New York Times had an article today that inadvertently revealed a huge amount about how wages are set in the US economy ("US Plan to Lure Nurses May Hurt Poor Nations," 5-24-06; A1). We all know the official story - wages are supposed to be set by the market, our old friends supply and demand. When certain skills are in short supply, the wages for workers with these skills are bid up. This leads more people to acquire the skills and may also reduce the demand. Eventually, (…)