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  • Greens Warn of Growing ’Iraqification’ of New Orleans
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - Green Party leaders urged Congress and all Americans to reject the White House’s intention to turn New Orleans and all disaster areas into zones of military control, weakened human rights protections and oversight of federal agencies, and corporate profiteering similar to occupied Iraq.
    "The treatment of New Orleans’ poorest, especially African Americans, has already been widely reported and is now a national shame, as is the ineptitude of Mayor Nagin’s office, FEMA, and other (…)

  • Italian primary elections : the list of polling stations in the world
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    We invite all italians to partecipate to primary election the 16th of October and vote for Fausto BERTINOTTI.
    There will be elections in Italy on the 6th of April 2006, and in preparation for this the coalition of the left is holding primaries to choose the candidate who will run against Berlusconi.
    The poll will take place on Sunday 16 October from 9am til 10pm in a place TBC. All Italian citizens currently living in every countries in the world, even temporarily (i.e. students to, for (…)

  • When Torture becomes Policy
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Whitney
    "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government." Declaration of Independence, July4, 1776
    President Bush has made it clear that he will veto the $435 billion Pentagon appropriations bill because it restricts his ability to abuse prisoners in the war on terror. The bill, which forbids the "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment" of prisoners in US custody, was (…)

  • Exit Polls vs Official Counts: Dr. Freeman and Mr. Mitofsky Face-Off in Election Fraud Debate
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Two experts face-off in lively lectures and discussion about the utility of exit polls when compared to official counts, the potential for election fraud and the role of statistics in adjudicating critical issues of public importance. The University of Pennsylvania’s departments of Center for Organizational Dynamics and Political Science and the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASAP) will host the debate.
    Like most politically savvy Americans, Steve Freeman (…)

  • How To End The War-Boot Out Bush or Pay Dearly in Blood and Money
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Paul Craig Roberts
    George W. Bush is a natural born liar. He lied us into a war, and now he is lying to keep us there. In his October 6 self-congratulatory speech at that neoconservative shrine, the National Endowment for Democracy, the President of the United States said: "Today there are more than 80 Iraqi army battalions fighting the insurgency alongside our forces."
    Eighty Iraqi battalions makes it sound like the US is just lending Iraq a helping hand. I wonder what Congress and (…)

  • Cheney’s Halliburton stock options rose 3,281% last year, senator finds
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An analysis released by a Democratic senator found that Vice President Dick Cheney’s Halliburton stock options have risen 3,281 percent in the last year, RAW STORY can reveal.
    Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) asserts that Cheney’s options — worth $241,498 a year ago — are now valued at more than $8 million. The former CEO of the oil and gas services juggernaut, Cheney has pledged to give proceeds to charity.
    The above graph released by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) charts the value of the (…)

  • Poll: Americans Want Bush Impeached
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Poll: Americans Favor Bush’s Impeachment If He Lied about Iraq
    By a margin of 50% to 44%, Americans say that President Bush should be impeached if he lied about the war in Iraq, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
    The poll was conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,001 U.S. (…)

  • No Will, No Backbone:Washington’s War Dems
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Joshua Frank
    These are tremulous times for the Republican establishment. A poll released this past weekend by Ipsos/Associated Press confirms that Bush’s agenda has slid right off the table and into the trash bin. The president’s popularity has plummeted to a meager 39 percent, the lowest of his tenure. At the center of Bush’s nose dive is the Iraq catastrophe, about which two-thirds of those polled strongly criticized Bush’s handling of the invasion and subsequent occupation. The (…)

  • Gentrification Sweeps Streets of New Orleans Rolling in Cop Cars
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Midnight, on a nice summer night. The air smells sweet and the breeze is lovely. Millions of stars twinkle in the night. Silence amidth a few street lights and no one walking around that I could see. At the turn of the street, Newton Street to be precise, cops, guns and a couple of black young men handcuffed behind their backs, picked up from their home stoop... This was my first encounter as I laid foot in Algiers, New Orleans this morning, 5 hours after a curfew imposed at gun point.
    All (…)

  • Bellaciao GB - A message to all Italians in the UK and to their British friends
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear friends, we would like to ask your help in disseminating this message. There will be elections in Italy on the 6th of April 2006, and in preparation for this the coalition of the left is holding primaries to choose the candidate who will run against Berlusconi.
    We recently formed the Bellaciao Collective of Great Britain, a group dedicated to supporting the political activities of the progressive sections of the Italian diaspora in the UK (more on the group at the end of this (…)