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  • Global Eye : Hysterica Passio
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Chris Floyd
    Now we come at last to the heart of darkness. Now we know, from their own words, that the Bush Regime is a cult — a cult whose god is Power, whose adherents believe that they alone control reality, that indeed they create the world anew with each act of their iron will. And the goal of this will — undergirded by the cult’s supreme virtues of war, fury and blind faith — is likewise openly declared: "Empire." You think this is an exaggeration? Then heed the words of the White (…)

  • Open letter to US citizens: American people, please save us from yourselves!
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear America,
    Now that John Kerry has demonstrated himself to the American people as rational and statesmanlike leader, especially compared to the histrionic, contorted and ugly evasions evinced by President Bush during the three debates that were his to loose, hopefully we have embarked on a journey that will culminate in a change of government in the USA.
    Just as the rest of the world sits amazed at the malaise that has seized America since Bush took office and which has manifested (…)

  • Bush ’most hated’ American leader
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    BRITISH spy novelist John Le Carre has branded US President George W. Bush America’s most "universally hated" leader and urged voters to kick him out of office next month.
    The author of global best sellers such as The Spy Who Came In From the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy launched the stinging attack on the US leader and his war in Iraq in an editorial in the Los Angeles Times.
    "Probably no American president in history has been so universally hated abroad as Bush: for his (…)

  • Open letter to the citizens of the United States of America
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Never in the history of humankind has an election had so much at stake
    by Timothy Bancroft-Hinche
    Dear friends,
    As a journalist who has the good fortune to write for an international journal with millions of readers around the world, I have the individual responsibility to inform you of the feeling in the international community regarding the outcome of the election on November 2nd.
    As citizens of the United States of America, who have the power to endorse or to dismiss the policies (…)

  • Got Vote?
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    A helpful primer courtesy of MoveOn.org
    They’re doing it again. In Nevada, a Republican contractor has allegedly ripped up thousands of Democratic registration forms.(1) In Florida, Jeb Bush has purged tens of thousands of legitimate voters - mostly black, mostly Democratic - from the rolls because their names are similar to a felon’s.(2) In Ohio, the Republican Secretary of State has been so uncooperative that a federal judge said that he “apparently seeks to accomplish the same result in (…)

  • Get Out And Vote And Scream
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Now that we’re all completely fried and bitter and media punch-drunk, it’s time to act
    by Mark Morford So here we are, staring down a rather historic moment amidst the sputtering ideological orgy that is the American experiment and if you’re paying any sort of attention at all you’re doubtlessly drunk on election hype and saturated with Bush/Kerry platitudes and you wish a white-hot death upon every screeching TV pundit who is right now analyzing yet another insidious national poll that (…)

  • Winona LaDuke Endorsement of John Kerry for President
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Winona LaDuke
    I am voting for John Kerry this November. I love this land, and I know that we need to make drastic changes in Washington if we are going to protect our land and our communities. I am committed to transforming the American democracy so that it is reflective of the diversity of this country. I believe in a multi-party system and a multi-racial democracy. I believe there are many opinions, not simply two, that merit a hearing on any issue. I believe we should be working (…)

  • The ’sad story’ of the current employment picture 4.2 million jobs below normal
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    The unprecedented loss of payroll jobs 42 months after the start of the last recession is well known. However, it has been argued that the two surveys of employment conditions (the payroll survey and the household survey) tell conflicting stories.1 Some have claimed that the household survey paints a much more favorable employment picture. Last spring, however, two economists at the Cleveland Federal Reserve issued a study entitled "Employment Surveys Are Telling the Same (Sad) Story."2 (…)

  • Less Cash in Their Pockets Trends in Incomes, Wages, Taxes, and Health Spending of Middle-Income Families, 2000-03
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Lawrence Mishel, Michael Ettlinger, and Elise Gould
    The economic well-being of middle-income families has changed significantly over the last few years, largely as a result of three important dynamics. First, the recession that started in March 2001 was followed by an unusually long period-two and a half years-of job losses, despite an increase in output of goods and services. Although employment has grown since September 2003, it has not done so at a sufficient rate to diminish the (…)

  • Bush’s War Against the Military
    31 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ian Williams
    Bush has failed the military on almost every level - marking the difference between being militaristic and pro-military.
    George W. Bush so often invokes his nominal title of "commander in chief" at veterans’ rallies, on military bases and during presidential debates that he now appears like some latter-day caudillo. But his claims to be a commander of any kind in any serious way are a figment of his imagination.
    Discounting that he sent American troops into Iraq on (…)