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  • The Bush Beat
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ward Harkavy
    Taking the U.N. by storm, a successful oilman from Venezuela berates an unsuccessful one from Texas
    Hugo Chávez, speaking at the U.N. Thursday, showed George W. Bush how to use a bully pulpit. Following Bush by a day, the Venezuelan president generated the loudest applause at the biggest gathering of world leaders in Planet Earth’s 4.55-billion-year-history.
    He did it blasting the U.S. for being a bully - and for even using a pulpit to do it. Here’s how the (…)

  • A Reality Check on Bush’s Speech to the UN World Summit
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Yifat Susskind
    On September 14, George W. Bush addressed a gathering of over 170 world leaders at the UN World Summit. His speech came in the wake of international outrage against the US for its attempts to derail the Summit’s original purpose, which was to make progress on reducing global poverty. Given the disconnect between the President’s words and deeds, we offer the following MADRE reality check on some of Bush’s more egregious comments at the World Summit.
    "Either hope will (…)

  • Bush’s changing tune
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    PRESIDENT BUSH said these things about Hurricane Katrina in his speech to the nation Thursday:
    ’’Millions of lives were changed in a day by a cruel and wasteful storm."
    ’’Federal funds will cover the great majority of the costs of repairing public infrastructure in the disaster zone."
    ’’As all of us saw on television, there is also some deep, persistent poverty in this region as well. And that poverty has roots in a history of racial discrimination, which cut (…)

  • Chavez & Fuel
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The donation of 300,000 barrels of fuel to U.S southern states probably is a political stunt by Pres.
    Chavez Frias but who could blame him, with American christian right leader Pat Robinson urging the U.S govt to ’take him out’ who wouldn’t be worried? Pres.
    Chavez is sending a message to Americans poor & working class that he isn’t their enemy,after all he isn’t sending American manufacturing jobs to China or Mexico neither is he destroying the livelihoods of American farmers or (…)

  • A Bright Spot in Bush World
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Amid the Miserable Failures on the Same Planet
    by Cindy Sheehan
    It has been one month and one week since I sat in a ditch in Crawford, Tx. I can hardly believe it when I think of it myself. So much has happened in that time, and really, so little.
    I got to Camp Casey III in Covington, La today, after getting up at 3am to head for the airport. Now it is 3am the next day and we are driving in a car to try and find a hotel to sleep anywhere around Jackson, Miss. I was prepared to be (…)

  • It’s not so much that the government is not responding in NOLA, they are obsructing the response
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Naomi Archer
    It’s not so much that the government is not responding [with storm relief], they are obstructing the response. They are telling us we can’t bring people the basic necessities of life because that would give them hope. It is a question of oppression vs. mutual aid. That is the revolution. - Jesse, an organizer with MayDay DC volunteering in the Common Ground Wellness Center, Algiers, NOLA
    A MODEL FOR GETTING IT TOGETHER
    The locally-led, mutually based community relief (…)

  • HECK OF A JOB GEORGE
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Fredson
    We are so glad that you recognized that race and poverty are part of your enduring legacy. You certainly deserve a lot of the credit for accelerating them. For a while we were not sure that you recognized that the U.S. actually had homeless people.
    We had the impression that you thought they lived above hot-air grates and around dumpsters by choice. We realize that you may not actually LIKE blacks and bums, but now we know that you are at least aware that they exist and (…)

  • Speech by President Chavez at UN General Assembly, Thursday September 15, 2005
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Your Excellencies, friends, good afternoon:
    The original purpose of this meeting has been completely distorted. The imposed center of debate has been a so-called reform process that overshadows the most urgent issues, what the peoples of the world claim with urgency: the adoption of measures that deal with the real problems that block and sabotage the efforts made by our countries for real development and life. *
    Translated by Néstor Sánchez
    Five years after (…)

  • Bush: Katrina Failure = gimme more power
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by benfrank
    Bush says he may need more power in disasters
    He wants Congress to look into whether presidential authority should be expanded in times of catastrophes like Katrina.
    Props to SpeakSpeak
    Bush wants the power to order the military to arrest people in the US. Currently, the military is barred by the Posse Comitatus Act from arresting people in the US.
    Protests can be declared “emergencies” for soldiers to arrest protestors.
    Taken in the context of 100,000 dead in Iraq on (…)

  • Eternal Vigilance and Patriot III
    16 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Contained in Bush’s speech from the French Quarter last night (9/15/05) is this: Yet the system at every level of government, was not well coordinated and was overwhelmed in the first few days. It is now clear that a challenge on this scale requires greater federal authority and a broader role for the armed forces — the institution of our government most capable of massive logistical operations on a moment’s notice.
    [snip]
    So I have ordered every Cabinet secretary to participate in a (…)