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  • BRAZIL : The Lula government and the “new ruling class” : the definitive bankruptcy of centrism
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org
    The Lula government and the “new ruling class” The definitive bankruptcy of centrism in Brazil By Hector Benoit 20 April 2006
    When the Workers Party (PT) of Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva began to win mass support among workers, beginning with the big metalworkers’ strikes of 1978-80, many so-called “Marxist” intellectuals maintained that we would finally see a “legitimate” workers’ party.
    Finally, they said, Marxism would break free (…)

  • Cramdown, Stripdown, Lockdown Democracy In The USA
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) was passed on the heels of the Florida 2000 presidential election and its “hanging chad” problem. These ambiguous ballot chads riveted and frustrated the nation for a couple of months in late 2000. However, few thought the solution to the ambiguity of hanging chad evidence of a voter’s intent would be to completely eliminate that evidence.
    With the help of nearly $4 billion in federal grants, HAVA eliminates the evidence of voter intent by (…)

  • ROVE INDICTMENT IMMINENT ?
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Is Karl Rove about to get the hee-ho ? http://www.democrats.com/node/8634 Will he FINNALLY BE INDICTED ?... If indicted , will he prosecuted about trivial matters ? ......... Will the disclosure of of Plame’s CIA identity ever be linked to the real damage incurred to the national security of these United States ?........ I don’t personally give a fig if Rove gave squirrelly testimony to Pat Fitzgerald........... I do care if these leaks lead to the rolling up of a CIA (…)

  • UNCURIOUS GEORGE & 9/11
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Was George W. Bush aware that a hijacking was in progress BEFORE the first plane struck the WTC at 8 : 46 am Eastern Time , the morning of 9/11/01 ? ......... A report from ABC News White House correspondent John Cochran strongly suggests this was the case............ " Peter , as you know ,the President’s down in Florida talking about education. He got out of his hotel suite this moring , was about to leave , reporters saw White House Chief of Staff Andy Card whisper into the (…)

  • All Eyes on May Day A Real Day Without Mexicans?
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JOHN ROSS
    Outgoing Mexican president Vicente Fox’s long-treasured pipedream of an immigration agreement with Washington went up in smoke in early April when Republican senators torpedoed a compromise measure that would have legalized millions of undocumented workers living north of the border and guaranteed hundreds of thousands of unemployed Mexicans short-term jobs in the U.S.
    But the proposed reform carried by Senators Ted Kennedy (Dem Ma.) and John McCain (Rep. Ariz.) would have (…)

  • Europe’s radical left is still struggling to articulate new strategies for social, economic and political change
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Emerging New Euroleft
    by Hilary Wainwright Manchester
    From my desk in the north of England, the grass seems considerably greener—or the poppies redder—across the water in Europe. Here in Britain political look-alikes compete frenetically for the center ground, and politicians of the radical left are sidelined by a grossly disproportionate electoral system. In contrast, Norway’s Left Socialist Party is part of the government; Italy’s radical Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (…)

  • Bush won’t exclude Iran nuke strike
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Saul Hudson
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday failed to secure international support for targeted sanctions against Iran and President George W. Bush refused to rule out nuclear strikes if diplomacy failed to curb the Islamic Republic’s atomic ambitions.
    Bush said he would discuss Iran’s nuclear activities with China’s President Hu Jintao, who has been cool toward sanctions, during his U.S. visit this week.
    Asked if his options included planning for a nuclear (…)

  • Lessons of a Left Victory in France
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Rick Wolff
    France’s leading bureaucrats, from President Jacques Chirac on down, have been defeated. French neo-liberalism — the dismantling of its welfare state in favor of business — has suffered a serious blow. A powerful alliance of high-school and university students and of organized labor achieved the victory against the government’s law that undercut job security for workers under 26 years of age. The alliance forced Chirac to annul the law — exactly what he and the other (…)

  • Desert Rats Leave The Sinking Ship Why Rumsfeld Should Not Resign
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Greg Palast
    Well, here they come: the wannabe Rommels, the gaggle of generals, safely retired, to lay siege to Donald Rumsfeld. This week, six of them have called for the Secretary of Defense’s resignation.
    Well, according to my watch, they’re about four years too late — and they still don’t get it.
    I know that most of my readers will be tickled pink that the bemedalled boys in crew cuts are finally ready to kick Rummy in the rump, in public. But to me, it just shows me that these (…)

  • Continuing Quiet Death Of Democracy By John Pilger
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    April 15, 2006
    Continuing Quiet Death Of Democracy
    By John Pilger
    http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-04/15pilger.cfm
    People ask: Can this be happening in Britain? Surely not. A centuries-old democratic constitution cannot be swept away. Basic human rights cannot be made abstract Those who once comforted themselves that a Labour government would never commit such an epic crime in Iraq might now abandon a last delusion, that their freedom is inviolable. If they knew.
    The (…)