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  • A court seat for privilege...
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    AMAZING AMNESIA. How sweet the white privilege. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, ’’Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Right on time for the King holiday, America is elevating yet another man to lifetime power on the claim of sincere ignorance of his association with racism and sexism.
    Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito was repeatedly asked in this week’s hearings about his membership in the Concerned Alumni (…)

  • The Impeachment of George W. Bush
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Elizabeth Holtzman
    Finally, it has started. People have begun to speak of impeaching President George W. Bush—not in hushed whispers but openly, in newspapers, on the Internet, in ordinary conversations and even in Congress. As a former member of Congress who sat on the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon, I believe they are right to do so.
    I can still remember the sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach during those (…)

  • Tyrant in the White House Bush Crosses the Rubicon
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
    Dictatorships seldom appear full-fledged but emerge piecemeal. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with one Roman legion he broke the tradition that protected the civilian government from victorious generals and launched the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Fearing that Caesar would become a king, the Senate assassinated him. From the civil wars that followed, Caesar’s grand nephew, Octavian, emerged as the first Roman emperor, Caesar (…)

  • How a bill doesn’t become law
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Sheila Suess Kennedy
    Remember high school government class and the textbook explanation of how a bill becomes law? Congress drafts legislation, which it sends to the president. If the president vetoes it, it fails, unless Congress has enough votes to override the veto. If the president signs the legislation, he issues a press release, hands out commemorative pens and the bill becomes law.
    Or maybe not.
    As the media often note, President Bush has never used his veto. As it turns (…)

  • GORE SLAMS WIRETAPS: ’A PRESIDENT WHO BREAKS THE LAW IS A THREAT TO THE VERY STRUCTURE OF OUR GOVERN
    17 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html
    In Martin Luther King Day address, Gore compares wiretapping of Americans to surveillance of King 01/16/2006 @ 12:08 pm Filed by RAW STORY
    In an address delivered in Washington to multiple standing ovations, Vice President Al Gore repeatedly attacked the Bush Administration for the expansion of executive power — the ability of the government to wiretap its own citizens without legal authority and kidnap Americans abroad.
    His (…)

  • Does DLC stand for Dick’s Legal Counsel ?
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Never has a group of conspirator’s had the good fortune to be blessed by the presence of such a cowardly , tepid " opposition." The fact that the Democratic Leadership in Congress refuses to broach the subject of impeaching the Bush - Cheney administration is proof positive that the Loyal Oppostion are Vichy-Dems , collaborationists who under no circumstance will fulfill their obligation to hold this administration accountable.
    We have an administration that brags about lauching an (…)

  • PUZZLED TO DEATH
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Puzzled to Death
    By Peter Fredson
    January 16, 2006
    I’m puzzled. Perhaps I’m confused and do not see things clearly. I’m not a lawyer, nor do I play one anywhere. But the legality of the Bush administration actions really puzzles me.
    For instance, if the President sends people out to destroy a village because he suspects one person in that village has bad intentions toward him, is that okay? I
    f he does not succeed in killing any terrorist, but instead “accidentally” kills several (…)

  • Evo Morales, Lula Da Silva Hold Talks in Brasilia
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    BRASILIA (PL)- Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales are analyzing Friday the possibilities to boost collaboration, reported the Brazilian Foreign Ministry.
    Full Coverage: Bolivia’s President elect Evo Morales’ World Tour
    In an official note, the Brazilian entity expressed interest in cooperating after the MAS government’s inauguration January 22.
    It added that Morales’ visit facilitates tackling future cooperation in trade, investment (…)

  • Pants on Fire: the Liars of the Bush Administration will take the world down in flames if we let them
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Daniel Patrick Welch
    Sam Alito is merely the latest liar on the block for Bush’s full spectrum dominance agenda. But the show-trial hearings on whether this proto-fascist ideologue should be allowed to shape US social and political development for a generation provide some nuggets of insight into how the corrupt junta’s pathological liars actually work.
    The first order of amazement is that the process can actually take place. Shouldn’t precedence be given to hearings on impeaching and (…)

  • Old, blind, crippled - and fit for execution
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Schwarzenegger accused of ’affront to human dignity’ as he rejects clemency plea
    By Andrew Gumbel
    California’s Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has denied clemency to the oldest prisoner on California’s Death Row, saying a murderer’s life should not be spared because he is old and ill. Although Clarence Ray Allen still has an appeal pending before the Supreme Court, the decision increases the likelihood that he will be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, a day after he turns 76. (…)