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  • A Look Into the Mirror By Manuel Valenzuela
    10 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Through the veneer that is Washington, with its grand monuments to great men, its hallowed halls of history, its monolithic structures of governance, its corridors of power, its seats of wealth and effervescent illumination as the reincarnation of ancient Rome, can we, if we dare look upon the vision emanating from its shallow pools, see the manifestation of what America, and by consequence Americans, has become. To see inside the capital of modern day Democracy, Freedom, Liberty, Manifest (…)

  • Marchers Celebrate Voting Rights Act in Atlanta
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Hamil R. Harris
    ATLANTA, Aug. 6 — Thousands of marchers joined many of the icons of the American civil rights movement Saturday morning as they walked through the streets of Atlanta to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act and to built support for extending protections from that bill.
    "Keep Hope Alive, Extend the Voting Rights Act," chanted the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, president of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, one of the leaders of the march. He was joined by former (…)

  • Roberts Devoted Free Time to Liberal Cases
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By HOPE YEN
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite his view that death penalty appeals are clogging the courts, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts provided free legal help to an inmate languishing on Florida’s death row for two decades.
    The 25 hours of legal assistance that Roberts reported to the Senate Judiciary Committee are minuscule compared with thousands of hours contributed by dozens of other attorneys in the case of John Ferguson, who was convicted in 1978 of killing eight people in one of (…)

  • Few want vote in booming Dubai
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Heather Sharp
    As part of a series about young people in the Middle East, the BBC News website reports on views about democratic reform in a city where change does not seem high on the agenda.
    "We live in the best democracy ever," says Samir Marzouqi, 19, who lives in a country where citizens never vote.
    As a national of the United Arab Emirates, he lives in what is now the only country in the Gulf which has no elected bodies. Political parties are banned.
    But he points out that (…)

  • Informed Consent
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Communiqué: Revolutionary Council of Concerned Citizens (RCCC). " Patriots Act, take back the White House" Republicans, Democrats, libertarians, conservatives, liberals, Americans in general
    Preface: Manifesto for the Revolution.
    Informed consent of a collective body is the heart and soul of a Democracy. Going to war with manipulated intelligence precludes an informed consent by the congress, Senate and the American people. This leads to mistrust. The Patriot act which passed before it (…)

  • ’Universal Democracy’ Is the Goal As Congress Eyes New Legislation
    3 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - When senators return to Washington this September, they will be set to consider new legislation that would commit America to ending tyranny the world over.
    Tucked inside the House version of a bill that authorizes spending on foreign aid is the language of what is known as the ADVANCE Democracy Act. The act instructs American ambassadors and embassy staffs to draw up democracy transition plans for unfree regimes, with input from nonviolent opposition movements in the various (…)

  • Federal Judge Says Patriot Act Too Vague
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Federal Judge Says Patriot Act Too Vague
    By LINDA DEUTSCH
    LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has ruled that some provisions of the U.S. Patriot Act dealing with foreign terrorist organizations remain too vague to be understood by a person of average intelligence and are therefore unconstitutional.
    U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins found that Congress failed to remedy all the problems she defined in a 2004 ruling that struck down key provisions of the act. Her decision was handed down (…)

  • How the American Right became an enemy of peace and freedom (1964)
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Transformation of the American Right by Murray N. Rothbard
    First published in Continuum, Summer 1964, pp. 220-231.
    In the spate of recent books and articles on the burgeoning conservative movement, little has been said of its governing ideas and its intellectual leadership. Instead, attention has been centered on the mass phenomena of the Right-wing: The Billy James Hargises, the Birchers, the various crusaders for God and country. And yet, the neglect of the ruling ideas of the (…)

  • Difficulty of our democracies vis-a-vis to terrorism.
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    It will certainly not be a question of legitimating terrorist acts but of locating this phenomenon which is not new since there exists in the various chapters of the history everywhere, especially and primarily where the force of the dominant political States, managers of the world to the considerable cultural powers sought and still seek to impose certain disciplines of expansionism limited by the slopes of missiles only ramparts on the economic invasion.
    Where processes which uses the (…)

  • BILL O’REILLY IN DRAG
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    BILL O’REILLY IN DRAG
    By William Fisher
    Michelle Malkin, sometimes known as Bill O’Reilly in drag, opened one of her recent syndicated rants with this question:
    “Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Civil-liberties activists, anti-war organizers, eco-militants and animal-rights operatives are in a fright over news that the nefarious FBI is watching them. Why on earth would the government be worried about harmless liberal grannies, innocent vegetarians, unassuming rainforest lovers and other ‘peaceful (…)