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  • The GOP’s Fiscal Policies Turned a Natural Disaster into a Man-Made Catastrophe
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Republicans like to brag that, as a political party, they are more fiscally responsible than their Democratic counterparts. Well, thanks to President Bush’s four years in office that theory can now take up residence in the urban legend department.
    If anything, Bush’s tenure as president proves that the Republican tax cuts (which everyone knows truly benefits the wealthiest one percent), drastically slashing funds in the federal budget for much needed improvements to the (…)

  • Israeli troops say they were given shoot-to-kill order
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv
    Israeli military prosecutors have opened criminal investigations following allegations by soldiers that they carried out illegal shoot-to-kill orders against unarmed Palestinians.
    The 17 separate investigations were prompted by the testimony of dozens of troops collected by Breaking the Silence, a pressure group of former Israeli soldiers committed to exposing human rights abuses by the military in suppressing the Palestinian intifada. The investigations (…)

  • Blair falls into line with Bush view on global warming
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Geoffrey Lean and Christopher Silvester
    Tony Blair has admitted that he is changing his views on combating global warming to mirror those of President Bush - and oppose negotiating international treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol.
    His admission, which has outraged environmentalists on both sides of the Atlantic, flies in the face of his promises made in the past two years and undermines the agreement he masterminded at this summer’s Gleneagles Summit. And it endangers talks that (…)

  • Global warming? You better believe it
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    AS THE MEDIA screams about the one-two punch of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the question becomes how many more times does America need to be knocked to the canvas before we answer the bell on global warming.
    The only talk from our leaders is about rebuilding. In his address to the nation from a ghostly New Orleans, President Bush said, ’’When one resident of this city who lost his home was asked by a reporter if he would relocate, he said, ’Naw, I will rebuild but (…)

  • Country is hurtling towards disintegration, Saudis warn
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ewen MacAskill, diplomatic editor
    The Saudi government yesterday warned that Iraq is hurtling towards disintegration and that an election planned for December is unlikely to make any difference. The government said it was delivering this bleak assessment to both the US and British administrations as a matter of urgency.
    Saudi fears of a break-up were voiced by Prince Saud al-Faisal, the foreign minister, in an interview with Associated Press published yesterday, and at a meeting on (…)

  • Letter to President Hugo Chavez
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mr. Roraima Albornoz Press Attaché VHEADLINE.COM
    Dear Mr. Roraima Albornoz. I would like to send a big thank you to President Hugo Chavez, and the people of Venezuela, for the kindness and good will they have offered the citizens of the US who have suffered so much from Hurricane Katrina. I am from the City of Berkeley in California, known as the only city in the United States with its own foreign policy. We have adopted sister cities all over the world where US imperialism and foreign (…)

  • DO YOU FEEL SAFE NOW?
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    DO YOU FEEL SAFE?
    By Peter Fredson
    September 24, 2005
    George Bush has been running a propaganda scam for years now, basically telling us that he will keep us safe while scaring the Hell out of us. Well, we have spent several billion dollars on airport security and what do we have to show for it: several bushel baskets full of nail clippers, manicure scissors, pocket knives and assorted sharp instruments for practical applications. How many terrorists has Bush caught with all that (…)

  • THE FOX AT THE HENHOUSE
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    Either President Bush just doesn’t get it, or he just doesn’t care, or he thinks the people he serves are all gullible morons.
    He’s appointed his own Homeland Security Advisor, Ms. Frances Townsend, to lead the White House investigation into how the government screwed up with Hurricane Katrina ? and what to do about it.
    Does the president really believe the American people will find such an investigation credible?
    I’m sure Ms. Townsend is a very smart lady. She has (…)

  • The Big Empty &The Big Easy
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    I look out of my window in Brooklyn and see a beam of light soaring skyward from the World Trade Center site. Following the tragedy of 9-11, I found this luminous image greatly inspiring, as it represented America’s steely determination to rebuild the Twin Towers and defeat Al Qaeda.
    Four years later, this grand incandescent spectacle is just as symbolic. This time, however, it highlights George W. Bush’s utter failure to capitalize on the catastrophe to unify America and (…)

  • Public Pressure Mounts for Bush to Curtail Iraq War After Katrina Disaster
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Beth Gorham WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush says he can wage war in Iraq and still pay most of the huge bill for rebuilding the hurricane-lashed Gulf Coast. Most Americans don’t agree with him. And for the first time, Bush is facing a serious revolt in his own party over how to pay for hurricane relief.
    Republicans already edgy about the estimated $200-billion US price tag to clean up after Katrina were bracing for more damage by week’s end as hurricane Rita hurtled toward Texas (…)