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  • A Bloody Start to this New Year
    9 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mary MacElveen
    As each New Year starts many in a “Polly Anna” fashion and with a deep abiding faith in a higher power people believe that it will be better than the last. We celebrate as the seconds pass by where we enter the New Year only for the crushing blow of reality to hit us. We are living through some sort of twilight zone or time loop that has us repeating the same year we left.
    What we left was one of the bloodiest years yet in Iraq and now it is happening all over again (…)

  • The Supremes
    9 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MARY DEIBEL
    To most Americans, Samuel Alito remains as much a "stealth" candidate for Supreme Court as he was the day that President Bush named him to replace the retiring Sandra Day O’Connor, the justice at the center of a deeply divided court.
    But Alito’s work on the federal bench for 15 years, and as a Reagan Justice Department official before that, read large on the radar screen of the Bush White House and its outside advisers.
    Since Bush tapped Alito Oct. 31, outside groups and (…)

  • New Alito Opposition Efforts Launched
    9 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By civilrights.org staff
    With Samuel Alito’s confirmation hearings scheduled to begin next week, groups opposed to President Bush’s nominee to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court are stepping up their efforts to inform the public about Alito’s record.
    IndependentCourt.org, a coalition of public interest organizations, launched a new 30-second television spot Wednesday focusing on the fact that as a federal judge, Alito has more than once broken promises he made to the Senate (…)

  • Abramoff , The GOP Corruption Machine & What Dems Need to Do
    9 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Katrina vanden Heuvel
    It didn’t take Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s guilty plea to three felony counts of conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion to understand that the scale of corruption in the GOP-dominated Congress had risen to obscene heights. But it sure helps expose the cesspool of corruption in that GOP-dominated Congress.
    "When this is all over, this will be bigger than [any government scandal] in the last 50 years, both in the amount of people involved and the (…)

  • The strong man
    8 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Sharon saw himself as a man who makes history, not one who yields to circumstance
    David Grossman
    · Read Karma Nabulsi’s view of Ariel Sharon here
    Ariel Sharon is a man of potent primal urges, of violence, of combat, cunning and brilliance. He is a sharp manipulator, brave and corrupt. He has swung like a mighty pendulum between construction and destruction. He has blatantly ignored limits, whether international boundaries or the boundaries of the law. Clearly he has seen himself as a (…)

  • Abramoffgate: It’s the Same Sleaze, Just Bigger!
    8 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Money talks in this business and b...s... walks!” Ex-Rep. Michael “Ozzie” Myers (D-PA) (1)
    The breaking saga of the ultra-lobbyist, Jack Abramoff, and his massive influence-peddling ways in the nation’s capital, and beyond, too, has brought back some memories for me. In the late 70s, I was working in the City Solicitor’s Office in Baltimore, MD. I remember going over to Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C., to testify on a bill the municipality had an interest in, which was then pending (…)

  • Ariel Sharon. Who gives a damn?
    6 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    All over the news is Ariel Sharon. Why? Because he’s the leader of Israel? So what? Is Israel the center of the universe? How many Jews are there in the USA? When a black or hispanic leader, either here or in Africa or South America, falls ill or dies the US media barely notices, though the population is more black and Hispanic than it is Jewish.
    The truth is that the Jews have long had a stranglehold over US media and this shameless harping on the importance of Ariel Sharon is just (…)

  • Rediscovered testimony given by CIA director in 2001 suggests manipulation of pre-war intelligence
    6 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jason Leopold
    President George W. Bush’s attempt Friday to silence critics who say his administration manipulated prewar intelligence on Iraq is undercut by congressional testimony given in February 2001 by former CIA Director George Tenet, who said that Iraq posed no immediate threat to the United States or other countries in the Middle East.
    Details of Tenet’s testimony have not been reported before.
    Since a criminal indictment was handed up last month against Vice President Dick (…)

  • Powerful Government Accountability Office Report confirms Key 2004 Stolen Election Findings
    5 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman October 26, 2005
    As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove inner circle, a shocking government report shows the floor under the legitimacy of their alleged election to the White House is crumbling.
    The latest critical confirmation of key indicators that the election of 2004 was stolen comes in an extremely powerful, penetrating report from the Government Accountability Office that has gotten virtually no mainstream media (…)

  • The death of freedom
    5 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The rights of ordinary people to speak out against an unjust war and atrocities unleashed in their name are being crushed. Fascism is at the door. Who else will fight it?
    On Christmas Eve, I dropped in on Brian Haw, whose hunched, pacing figure was just visible through the freezing fog. For four and a half years, Brian has camped in Parliament Square with a graphic display of photographs that show the terror and suffering imposed on Iraqi children by British policies. The effectiveness of (…)