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  • Spying, the Constitution - and the ‘I-word’
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    2006 will offer up Nixon-era nastiness and a chorus of calls to impeach Bush
    WASHINGTON - In the first weeks and months after 9/11, I am told by a very good source, there was a lot of wishing out loud in the White House Situation Room about expanding the National Security Agency’s ability to instantly monitor phone calls and e-mails between American callers and possible terror suspects abroad. “We talked a lot about how useful that would be,” said this source, who was “in the room” in the (…)

  • New Poll: Majority of Americans Support Impeachment
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Flashback from Nov 4
    By a margin of 53% to 42%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
    The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,200 U.S. adults from October 29 through November 2. (…)

  • A TIME TO IMPEACH
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    I wrote the following for the forthcoming issue of L.A. Weekly:
    When the U.S. Senate last Friday refused to renew the liberticidal Patriot Act — with its provisions for spying on Americans’ use of libraries and the Internet, among other Constitution-shredding provisions of that iniquitous law — it was in part because that morning’s New York Times had revealed how Bush and his White House had committed a major crime.
    By ordering the National SecBush_dark_mood_1urity Agency — the N.S.A, so (…)

  • Global Migration Coursing Through Mexico
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Michael Flynn
    President Bush’s “comprehensive strategy” on border security aimed at preventing “people from coming here in the first place,” announced last month, does nothing to address the growing phenomenon of global migration. What’s more, it leaves Mexico to clean up a mess it didn’t make.
    According to the UN’s Global Commission on International Migration, the number of people worldwide living outside their country of birth has doubled in the past 25 years, rising to more than (…)

  • Colombian President Condemns Meeting of Venezuelan Coup Officers
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By: Simone Baribeau
    Caracas, Venezuela, December 19, 2005-In Colombia’s latest move to ease ongoing tensions over the country’s political refugee policy, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe publicly condemned a meeting between Venezuelan dissident generals and Colombian intelligence.
    “Our [military intelligence] has no business meeting with military officers who have left the Venezuelan Army and who now have problems with the Venezuelan government,” said Uribe.
    After Venezuela’s ephemeral (…)

  • BUSH LIED... IMPEACH THE BASTARD!
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    President Bush has admitted that he has authorized the use of surveillance upon American citizens and residents. He has argued that he has the authority to do so, that he has balanced the need to spy on us and our civil liberties. Unfortunately, his claims do not withstand scrutiny.
    Firstly, the spying upon Americans without probable cause, due process and a warrant supported by evidence and sworn before a competent magistrate violates the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th and 14th Amendments of the US (…)

  • From Sir Henry Neville AKA Shakespeare Bush Lies
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    To my kind and gentle reader, please be patient while I conjure the spirit of Shakespeare, to call Bush a liar.
    It was a dark and stormy afternoon as I went to my computer and googled, Shakespeare, in the news option. It was the beginning of November and a new book was just released titled ’The Truth Will Out’ claiming that Shakespeare was Sir Henry Neville . One of the authors is named Rubinstein and a search of his background associates him with the Intelligent design movement. This (…)

  • From "It Was Legal" To "I Am Lazy": The George Bush Domestic Spy Story
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Another day, yet another new and wholly different explanation from the Bush administration about its illegal domestic spying operation.
    In just the last 5 days, we’ve seen 3 separate explanations rolled out from the White House. First they claimed it was legal all along, then when that didn’t fly, they said they had to do it because of a need for speed.
    Now that that has been debunked, they are actually claiming they were just too lazy to do "the paperwork." On top of this, they also (…)

  • Chilean Communist Party May Be Power Broker In January 15 Run-Off Election
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Brian McAfee
    Chile’s Socialist Party candidate, Michelle Bachelet, soundly defeated her right wing opponents in the December 11 presidential vote but failed to obtain the 50% to become president. Chilean law requires a candidate receive at least 50% of the vote to obtain the presidency. The breakdown was Bachelet 45.95%, Sebastian Pinera of the National Renovation party 25.41%, Joaquin Lavin of the Independent Democratic Union party 23.22%, and Tomas Hirsch of the Humanist party and (…)

  • Censure motion introduced in House over Iraq, torture
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Larisa Alexandrovna
    Ranking House Judiciary Democrat Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) has introduced a motion to censure President Bush and Vice President Cheney for providing misleading information to Congress in advance of the Iraq war, failing to respond to written questions and potential violations of international law, RAW STORY has learned.
    The resolutions were quietly introduced Sunday evening along with a third resolution (HR 635) to create a Select Committee to investigate the (…)