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  • Bolivia’s charge to the left
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Mark Engler and Nadia Martinez
    NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON - With presidential elections in Bolivia on Sunday, Washington is buzzing with talk that another Latin American country may be "lost."
    Evo Morales, a former president of Bolivia’s coca-growers’ union and the leader of the Movement Toward Socialism party, is the current front-runner, according to the latest polls. If he wins the election, Mr. Morales will be the latest head of state to join the ranks of the region’s burgeoning New (…)

  • Feingold Beats Bush In Patriot Act Fight
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by John Nichols
    Four years ago, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold distinguished himself as the Senate’s premier defender of the Constitution, when he cast the chamber’s sole vote against enactment of the Patriot Act. As a time when every other senator - even liberal Democrats with long records of championing the Bill of Rights — joined the post-September 11 rush to curtail basic liberties, Feingold stood alone in defense of the principle that it was possible to combat terrorism and protect the (…)

  • No elections will be credible while occupation continues
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq’s current political process will not solve the crisis. Only a US and British pullout and a UN sponsored poll can do that
    by Harith al-Dari
    Iraq has a long history of civilisation that has contributed both knowledge and wisdom to humanity. For many centuries, Islam also immunised Iraq against religious or sectarian strife and protected its population from the oppression that peoples of the ancient world had been subjected to. Generation after generation of Iraqis succeeded in (…)

  • Female, Agnostic and the Next Presidente? Heavy Favorite in Chilean Vote Cuts Against Grain
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Monte Reel
    SANTIAGO, Chile — Everyone in the audience was dressed in dark blue or black. Some wore clerical collars, and most had heavy silver crosses dangling around their necks. But Michelle Bachelet wore an electric pink jacket that sent a clear message: She was a candidate for president, not sainthood.
    "I’m agnostic. . . . I believe in the state," Bachelet told several groups of evangelical ministers last week. "I believe the state has an important role in guaranteeing the (…)

  • The Limits of Power
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by John Nichols
    Sometime in the mid-1990s, after it had become quite clear that Bill Clinton’s presidency would deliver rather less than had been hoped, and when it was becoming clear that Newt Gingrich’s control of the House would deliver rather more than had been feared, I penned a review of a then-recently published collection of former Sen, Eugene McCarthy’s poems. In it, I lamented the lack of poetry in the politics of the moment and suggested that America would be far better served (…)

  • Time To Say No
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Bacon
    It’s time to say no.
    Every new Republican proposal for immigration reform in Congress makes the prospect for winning legal status for the nation’s 12 million undocumented residents more remote. At the same time, Congress appears ready to pass measures that will increase border deaths, lead to wholesale violations of workers’ rights, and give the country’s largest corporations a huge new bracero program.
    Supporters of immigrant and workers’ rights face a moment of truth. (…)

  • Bush Is Consistent
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    G.W.B’s Consistency
    By Peter Fredson
    December 21, 2005
    Say what you will about George W. Bush, he is remarkably consistent. Of course he is remarkably wrong, but that does not affect his dogmatism. His indoctrination into dogma by American fundamentalists probably is responsible for his determination to “stick to a course” even if it is wrong.
    He has a simplistic view of reality, confined to dull and hazy black and white tones, good vs. evil mentality imparted to him by people who (…)

  • Democracy: Hacked Votes, Torture, Internal Spying and Corruption.
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jason Galde
    We need to ask ourselves one essential question. Are we really living in a Democracy that is deserving of that noble title?
    When machines are devised by corporations and used by our government that can be purposefully hacked without a trace to alter the Democratic process, are we living in a true Democracy? The Diebold Corporation doesn’t make mistakes like that by accident. Let us not forget that they are the ones who make the ATM machines that you get your pocket (…)

  • Our Dirty President
    20 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Fredson
    December 20, 2005
    As we come to the end of 2005, I looked back at the G.W.Bush record to see if it reflected glory or shame. I am forced to the conclusion that he is a dirty President. I don’t mean anything connected necessarily with soap and water, but with morals, ethics, “clean” politics, upstanding behavior, model citizenship, fair play, upholding the laws and respecting the Constitution.
    I find his conduct to be less than meritorious. GWB prefers to shroud his (…)

  • Leftist Morales Claims Victory in Bolivia
    20 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By FIONA SMITH
    COCHABAMBA, Bolivia - The Socialist firebrand who claimed victory in Bolivia’s presidential race repeated his promise to end a U.S.-backed crusade against coca plants, but said Monday his government would respect private property.
    Unofficial results showed Evo Morales - himself a coca farmer - with a decisive lead over seven opponents that would make him the first Indian president in the 180-year history of independent Bolivia and solidify a continental leftward shift. (…)