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  • Cuban Parliament: 2006 Will Be Brighter
    25 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Havana, (Prensa Latina) The Cuban Parliament closed its last session of the year reaffirming the social, economic and political programs of the Revolution, slamming the new threats by the US government and painting a brighter future for 2006. # Fidel Castro: Transition in US
    The legislative discussions, led by the President of the Councils of State and Ministers Fidel Castro, assessed the Island’s economic indicators that showed an 11.8 percent growth, and passed the budget for the next (…)

  • Taken for a ride in the ’war on terror’
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Syed Saleem Shahzad
    KARACHI - Since the onset of the "war on terror", the US has detained more than 3,000 people worldwide in a network of secret prisons established by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a number of regions, from Southeast Asia to North Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe.
    Revelations of this policy have drawn a flood of criticism, with allegations that prisoners held in such countries at the CIA’s behest could have been subject to unlawful interrogation.
    US (…)

  • Impeach Bush over NSA spying order
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear Editor: I would like to express my support for Sen. Russ Feingold’s filibuster against renewal of the Patriot Act. Feingold’s filibuster is an important, long overdue effort to preserve endangered civil liberties in the United States.
    Although it comes as no surprise that Bush ordered the National Security Agency to spy on Americans, I am nonetheless outraged. It’s heartening to this impeachment supporter that many other Americans oppose such illegal surveillance. According to a Dec. (…)

  • Bush and Wiretaps: Congress, Citizens, This Means War
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In asserting his right to ignore the law, President Bush has slapped Congress right across the face and told them they better like it.
    Congress can now mutter "Yes, sir" and cower in its corner like a whipped dog, as it has for most of the past five years, or it can fight back to defend its institutional authority. Either choice will mark a turning point in U.S. history.
    At immediate issue is the president’s decision four years ago to allow the National Security Agency, an arm of the (…)

  • Note to Mr. Bush: The U.S. is Not a Monarchy
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Our forefathers created a system of government built on checks and balances that they envisioned would protect a free people from abuses of their privacy, their property and their liberty at the hands of anyone, especially anyone in public office.
    They never intended for an imperial presidency to rise above the legislative and judicial branches of government, for they had their fill of kings and emperors who ruled with absolute power in the old world. They knew that absolute power corrupts (…)

  • Will Republican Senators Save the Republic?
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I’ll say this for Vice President Dick Cheney: he puts it right out there, whether it is trying to ensure legal protection for those torturing prisoners, or insisting-as he did on Tuesday-that a wartime president “needs to have his powers unimpaired.”
    Supporters of this view are dredging up quotes from former officials like George H.W. Bush’s attorney general William Barr who, according to the Washington Post, contends:
    “The Constitution’s intent when we’re under attack from outside is to (…)

  • Bush’s Impeachable Offense
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Michelle Goldberg
    Yes, the president committed a federal crime by wiretapping Americans, say constitutional scholars, former intelligence officers and politicians. What’s missing is the political will to impeach him.
    Is spying on US citizens an impeachable offense. US President Bush would rather not talk about it.
    Is spying on US citizens an impeachable offense. US President Bush would rather not talk about it. On Tuesday, Dec. 20, Washington Post polling editor Richard Morin (…)

  • The Bray of Pigs
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Instead of honoring the diversity that has changed baseball forever, Bush played vendetta politics with Cuba’s national baseball team.
    By Dave Zirin
    This March’s "World Series of Baseball" was supposed to celebrate the explosion of diversity that has forever altered the Major Leagues. Teams from the Dominican Republic, Japan, Puerto Rico, and the little seen but highly regarded Cuban national team were going to play the United States in an unprecedented contest to redefine the slogan (…)

  • Misery in the Name of Democracy: The US Works Elections in Iraq, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Haiti
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Yifat Susskind
    The Bush Administration is touting Iraq’s December 15 election as a giant leap forward for freedom guaranteed to ignite fervor for democracy across the entire Middle East. But closer to home, the Administration has discovered that democracy has created a monster and that the monster is democracy. In Latin America and the Caribbean, popular movements are demanding that the United States’ "gift to the world" make good on its promise of majority rule. That would (…)

  • Articles of Impeachment on George W Bush for high crimes and misdemeanours
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Articles of Impeachment Adopted by the Committee on the Judiciary
    Date:______________
    Article 1 Article 2 Article 3
    RESOLVED, That George W. Bush, President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanours, and that the following articles of impeachment to be exhibited to the Senate:
    ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT EXHIBITED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE NAME OF ITSELF AND OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, (…)