Home > Keywords > Politics > Governments

Governments

  • Failure to impeach Bush a dereliction of duty
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    My heart received a modest lift when I spotted your March 17 article on Page A5 noting that consensus among Americans is growing that the President deserves congressional censure for his clandestine acts of domestic espionage.
    That would be a very gratifying development, but hardly the most appropriate denouement.
    My heart would be lifted much higher were I to read that Congress had finally decided to do its duty and impeach the President on the charge of violating the federal statutes, (…)

  • U.S. policy now aims to isolate Venezuela’s Chavez By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    U.S. policy now aims to isolate Venezuela’s Chavez
    Sunday, March 12, 2006 By Paul Richter, Los Angeles Times
    WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is stepping up efforts to counter the attempts of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to build a unified opposition to U.S. influence in a region that is drifting politically to the left.
    U.S. diplomats have sought in recent years to mute their conflicts with Chavez, fearing that a war of words with the flamboyant populist could raise his (…)

  • Throwing Stones at Venezuela By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Throwing Stones at Venezuela
    By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet Posted on April 1, 2006, Printed on April 5, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/34270/
    It’s certainly no surprise. Even over a year ago, journalists were remarking at the "left turn" that so many Latin American countries were making. Of late, however, we only hear about Hugo Chavez and Venezuela. The South American country has taken the place of Cuba as the new whipping boy of alternative political models. But the targeted (…)

  • Harvard Takes On the Israel Lobby By Joshua Holland, AlterNet.
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A few weeks ago two scholars published a study that might have languished in the obscurity of academia.
    But the paper was about the impact that the "Israel Lobby" — which the authors characterized as a loose confederation of like-minded individuals and groups — has on U.S. policy in the Middle East. So, predictably, it set off a nice little firestorm with accusations of anti-Semitism flying around our most hallowed Ivy League colleges and members of Congress discussing how to respond to (…)

  • Blair and the Neo-Cons’ Permanent World War
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    By now, the manner in which Blair & Co have again hoodwinked Britain into a totally illegal military strike -this time using nuclear weapons- against a peaceful nation should have become frighteningly clear.
    But it hasn’t.
    The Bliar’s low-profile treatment of Iran, added to the contradictory signals sent out by him and others such as Foreign Minister, Jack Straw and John Reid, whose job is better described as the Secretary for War, has worked very well to keep the country in the (…)

  • Bush’s War Hawks Edged Out of the Nest by Jim Lobe
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 by Inter Press Service
    Bush’s War Hawks Edged Out of the Nest
    by Jim Lobe
    WASHINGTON - Although still united in pushing for confrontation with Iran, the coalition of hawks that propelled U.S. troops toward Baghdad three years ago appears to have finally run out of steam.
    Demoralized by the quagmire in Iraq, as well as Pres. George W. Bush’s still falling approval and credibility ratings, the coalition of aggressive nationalists, (…)

  • Ulster thrown into crisis by murder of Sinn Féin spy
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    3 comments

    Denis Donaldson, the senior Sinn Féin administrator who had admitted being a British agent for 20 years, was yesterday found shot dead inside the isolated cottage to which he had retreated in Co Donegal. Reports last night suggested his body had been mutilated and his right hand almost severed.
    Suspicions that he had been murdered by dissident republicans cast a shadow over the government’s hopes of reviving the stalled political process. Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime (…)

  • VENEZUELA : The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Video
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Video
    Sometimes, a good documentary is all about being in the right place at the right time. It does not get much better for Kim Bartley and Donnacha O’Briain, who, in late 2001 began filming a documentary about Hugo Chavez, the controversial President of Venezuela. As they worked on their documentary, events in Venezuela reached a fever pitch and the duo was able to capture on film a coup from the perspective of the Chavez government. The footage is (…)

  • RIDE , RIDE THE ANTI- JOEMENTUM TIDE !
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The national Democratic Party has shat upon it’s base yet expects it’s strongest supporters to form a mighty host on Election Day 2006.... Such insufferable arrogance is the result of placing IDF volunteer Rahm Emanuel and his loopy pro-Blair , DLC confederates in charge of plotting strategy in the forthcoming canvass.... Our country needs an opposition party, now more than ever.... Many conservatives privately acknowledge that to be the case.... The national Democratic Party is (…)

  • A CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER : PRESIDENT JOHN McCAIN
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    7 comments

    He is the warmonger’s war-monger.... He makes Bush look like Gandhi .... The prospect of President John McCain should scare the hell out of you . It probably doesn’t scare you because his bitches in the MSM refuse to inform you of his volcanic temper and irrational lust for war..... What hypocricy we see on display... The African-American congresswomen Cynthia McKinney is facing an arrest warrant and possible indictment because those Jim-Crow KKK Capitol Hill police thugs goated her (…)