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  • Bush, Congress Turn a Cold Shoulder To America’s Poor This Winter
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Brian McAfee
    President Bush and Congress nixed winter heating aid for poor families 3 months after subsidizing oil companies. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said "this is not something I would be in favor of (using some of the oil profits to help the nations poor). That would be the equivalent of windfall profits tax" Bodman went on to say that any transfer of oil profits to programs to help the poor with heating this winter is not even under consideration.
    Some Democrats in (…)

  • Watergate-style money laundering indictments stoke Ohio’s stolen election fires
    2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
    As federal probes rack Team Bush in Washington, three huge indictments for money laundering and other pro-Bush election crimes involving Ohio "Coingate" lynchpin Tom Noe have stoked powerful new Watergate-style financial fires under Ohio’s stolen 2004 election scandal.
    A close associate of key Republicans from George H.W. Bush to George W. Bush to Ohio Senator George Voinovich to Ohio Governor Robert Taft and many, many more, Noe has long been known (…)

  • Mapping Out Catastrophe
    2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Remi Kanazi
    Does anyone remember that quirky little document called "the roadmap," the proposed path to peace initiated by the Quartet-the United States, the European Union, the United Nations, and Russia-involving the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians?
    If you remember it and its contents, you can recall that Israelis and Palestinians should be in phase two (of three) of the plan by now: the creation of a quasi Palestinian state with "provisional borders" and the markings of (…)

  • Talking Points on House Resolution 505
    2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by David Swanson
    This piece of legislation is the clearest way for Congress to demand a serious investigation of the Plame leak and the war lies that preceded it.
    This privileged Resolution of Inquiry, introduced by Dennis Kucinich, has a lifespan of 14 legislative days, ending on or about November 9 with a vote in the House International Relations Committee. It is crucial that we build support before that date through a long list of cosponsors.
    H Res 505 would require the White House (…)

  • Chavez Restyles Venezuela With ’21st-Century Socialism’
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JUAN FORERO
    CARACAS, Venezuela - Firmly in power and his revolution now in overdrive, President Hugo Chavez is moving fast to transform Venezuela’s economy by bucking free-market planning with what he calls 21st-century socialism: founding state companies, seizing abandoned private factories and establishing thousands of cooperatives and worker-run businesses.
    The populist government is reorganizing the country’s colossal oil industry, taking a bigger share from private (…)

  • Bush Puts Demands of Far-Right Above Interests of Americans with High Court Nomination of Right-Wing Activist Alito
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    PFAW will wage massive national effort to defeat nominee who would dramatically shift balance of Court WASHINGTON - October 31 - President Bush put the demands of his far-right political base above Americans’ constitutional rights and legal protections by nominating federal appeals court Judge Samuel Alito to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, said People For the American Way President Ralph G. Neas. “Right-wing leaders vetoed Miers because she failed their (…)

  • Bush Planned Iraq before he became President
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    15 September 2002: A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure ’regime change’ even before he took power in January 2001. The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a ’global Pax Americana’ was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice- president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld’s deputy), George W Bush’s younger brother Jeb and Lewis Libby (…)

  • Bush’s Mental State Raises Serious Questions
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Diana Lee
    October 31, 2005
    George W. Bush With his job-approval ratings drastically dropping for handling domestic woes and the increasingly unpopular Iraq war, President Bush nevertheless persists on “staying the course” - disconnected from reality. Mr. Bush’s display of inconsistencies, indifference, and denial to the deteriorating circumstances of America - domestically and internationally - raises serious questions about his mental state and his abilities to continue as a (…)

  • AOL Hires Cheney Daughter
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Yuki Noguchi
    America Online Inc. hired Mary Cheney, the 36-year-old daughter of Vice President Cheney, to offer advice on building up Web site businesses, a company spokesman said yesterday.
    Cheney starts the job later this year and will work primarily with longtime AOL executive Ted Leonsis, who as president of AOL’s Audience Business focuses on increasing viewership of its Web sites, said Nicholas Graham, a spokesman for the Dulles-based company. He declined to disclose additional (…)

  • MOUNTAIN VIEWS: FORCED INOCULATIONS BEGINNING OF BUSH’S BAD BIRD FLU PLAN
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Hanchette
    OLEAN — Last week’s column warned of imminent federal legislation that would toss powerful pharmaceutical companies billions of dollars and complete protection from liability suits in case untested and experimental bird flu vaccines damage American recipients. It drew heavy response.
    The bill (S. 1873) — a big congressional wet kiss to the drug industry — is dressed up in a noble-sounding title: "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act."
    In essence, (…)