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  • No Will, No Backbone:Washington’s War Dems
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Joshua Frank
    These are tremulous times for the Republican establishment. A poll released this past weekend by Ipsos/Associated Press confirms that Bush’s agenda has slid right off the table and into the trash bin. The president’s popularity has plummeted to a meager 39 percent, the lowest of his tenure. At the center of Bush’s nose dive is the Iraq catastrophe, about which two-thirds of those polled strongly criticized Bush’s handling of the invasion and subsequent occupation. The (…)

  • Iran: Imperialism’s second strike
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by AIJAZ AHMAD
    U.S. President George W. Bush on the lawns of the White House.
    IRAN has played its diplomatic hand deftly. On the eve of the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on September 24, Iran’s highest authorities let it be known that in case countries which get their oil and gas from Iran vote against it, they might face retaliation. When India did vote with the European Union troika (E.U.-3) that has been fronting for the United States, the Iranian (…)

  • We Can’t Let It Happen Here
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What is beyond the looking glass?
    "And certainly the glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist. In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room."
    Over a year ago, the comfort of my world severely diminished as I took my journey through the looking glass and discerned the ugly truths about the nation of my birth, the United States of America. “Logic and proportion” certainly seemed to have “fallen softly dead” (…)

  • Tell Us Who Fabricated the Iraq Evidence
    10 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Norman Dombey
    President Bush’s principal adviser Karl Rove is to be questioned again over the improper naming of a CIA official. Mohamed ElBaradei, accused by the American right of being insufficiently aggressive, wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his stalwart work at the helm of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Pentagon official Larry Franklin pleads guilty to passing on classified information to Israel. Just a normal week in politics. But there is a thread linking these events and (…)

  • Hollywood Studios must walk the Plank
    10 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The top 6 studios in Hollywood have received a green light from the US Govt. to engage in mob style tactics.
    Engaging in the outright theft of scripts and pitched movies by up and coming artists.
    Then making movies from those ideas without compensating the original artists.
    Then sending the federal agencies after anyone who they deem guilty of lifting $4.00 worth of video/music off the internet of these already pirated works.
    Then determining their own booty to be collected.
    As (…)

  • Bush/Condi Dictatorship
    9 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Condoleezza Rice’s Blueprint for a Repressive State Preamble to Bush’s Speech at the National Endowment for Democracy On 10/6/05: by teresa simon-noble
    “In a world where evil is still very real,democratic principles must also be backed with power in al its forms:Political and economic, cultural and moral, and yes, sometimes military.” Condoleezza Rice, PrincetonUniversity NJ 9/30/05
    What an amazing quote!
    I read it and I said, “that is exactly what Fidel Castro did in Cuba after (…)

  • GOD HAS BUSH TELL THE TRUTH
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A SPEECH BUSH COULD HAVE GIVEN INSTEAD OF THE ONE HE GAVE ON OCTOBER 5, 2005
    By Peter Fredson
    October 8, 2005
    Political Satire for True Believers
    Here is the premise. On the eve of one of his speeches, Bush hears from God, who says, “George you must tell the truth.”
    For Immediate Release Office of the Press Propaganda Secretary
    October 6, 2005
    President Discusses War on Terror at National Endowment for Democracy Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (…)

  • Binding the Hands of Torturers
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When the Senate voted this week to bring America’s chain of military prison camps under the rule of law, President Bush threatened a veto. The White House explained his objections by saying the measure would bind the government’s hands. Yes, exactly. The rules would finally bind military prisons to democratic values and the standards of behavior recognized by every other civilized nation. They would bind the government to a code of conduct that will help protect those in the nation’s (…)

  • Major Business Groups Split With Bush Administration Over Patriot Act
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Sniffen WASHINGTON - Some of the nation’s most powerful business groups are splitting with the Bush administration over whether to restrict the anti-terror USA Patriot Act.
    The business groups complained to Congress on Wednesday that the Patriot Act makes it too easy for the government to get confidential business records. That put them at odds with one of President Bush’s top priorities - the unfettered extension of the law passed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
    In the (…)

  • Congress Seeks to Slash Food Aid for Poor
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By LIBBY QUAID
    Under orders to whittle agriculture spending by $3 billion, Republicans in Congress propose to slash food programs for the poor by $574 million and subsidies and conservation programs by $1 billion each, The Associated Press has learned.
    The plan by Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., would reduce farmers’ payments by 2.5 percent across the board, slashing spending by $1.145 billion over five years. That’s half the 5 percent the Bush (…)