Home > Keywords > Politics > Parties

Parties

  • France’s presidential elections: Much ado about nothing in Guadeloupe
    13 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    By Danik Ibraheem Zandwonis Caribbean Net News Guadeloupe Correspondent
    POINT A PITRE, Guadeloupe: The campaign for France’s presidential elections, which has been just completed in Guadeloupe, has not caught the attention of the voters. In spite of the visits of presidential candidates and of an important media group, the inhabitants of Guadeloupe seemed rather indifferent to the different programmes.
    Surveys and abstention.
    What is new this year? The surveys by Qualistat Institute in (…)

  • God’s Dupes
    19 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
    5 comments

    PETE STARK, a California Democrat, appears to be the first congressman in U.S. history to acknowledge that he doesn’t believe in God. In a country in which 83% of the population thinks that the Bible is the literal or "inspired" word of the creator of the universe, this took political courage.
    Of course, one can imagine that Cicero’s handlers in the 1st century BC lost some sleep when he likened the traditional accounts of the Greco-Roman gods to the "dreams of madmen" and to the "insane (…)

  • Mike Palecek interviewed by Jason Miller
    17 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jason Miller
    “I just look around and see people mowing their lawns on the same day we start to bomb Iraq and it drives me wild.” Mike Palecek
    Having read and thoroughly enjoyed three of Mike Palecek’s novels, I felt particularly fortunate that he agreed to engage in a cyber-interview with me. His irreverent satirization of the myriad of ills plaguing the United States is unparalleled amongst current authors of sociopolitical fiction. Palecek may hyperbolize, but his fertile (…)

  • Panderers and Philanderers
    17 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Wayne Besen
    Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential candidate, is the king of crass, the maven of craven and the show pony of phony. He switches positions quicker than a porn star and is more slippery than an okra plate dipped in country butter. I never thought the religious right would be gullible enough to buy Romney’s eleventh hour conversion, but apparently he can buy theirs. According to an article in Sunday’s New York Times, the ultra-wealthy (…)

  • "Revolution is the Solution": Joel Hirschhorn interviewed by Jason Miller
    17 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
    5 comments

    by Jason Miller
    For several days I had been bedeviled by the recurring memory of a jingle from an out-dated television commercial. My recollection of the product they were promoting lay tantalizingly close to the edge of my consciousness, but remained stubbornly out of my reach.
    So my “mind’s ear” was left listening to, “It’s time for a new beginning…” ad nauseam with no tangible context. (If I had had that, I would at least have known which company to despise for etching such an inane (…)

  • THE FAMILY LEADER JAMES DOBSON DISTORTED HIS RESEARCH
    7 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    TRUTH WINS OUT RELEASES YOUTUBE VIDEO OF YALE PROFESSOR ASSERTING FOCUS ON THE FAMILY LEADER JAMES DOBSON DISTORTED HIS RESEARCH
    In New Trend, Researchers Speak Out To Stop Manipulation of Science For Political Gain
    Sixth Researcher in One-Year Says That Dobson Misrepresented Work, Establishing A Disturbing Pattern
    Miami Beach, FLA. – Truth Wins Out unveiled a new video today on YouTube featuring a Yale professor who claims Focus on the Family leader James Dobson “cherry picked” his (…)

  • Will Nancy Pelosi Remember Her Populist Roots?
    6 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
    3 comments

    “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” (1)
    Baltimore, MD - One of six children, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi (nee D’Alesandro), age 66, grew up in this city’s charming “Little Italy” area. Her modest family home at the corner of Albemarle and Fawn Streets is surrounded by about ten blocks of even smaller homes and a cluster of restaurants. It is also just a short hop to the R.C. parish school and church, St. Leo’s, she once attended. Pelosi was back (…)

  • Kucinich says Kerry should have listened to him in 2004
    29 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich said he became good friends with Senator John Kerry when both ran for president two years ago, but he says that if Kerry would have listened to his ideas about Iraq he could be president today.
    “I made it clear how I thought Democrats could win,” Kucinich said in an interview with the Globe. “Senator Kerry had another way of looking at it. I like John Kerry, and he would have been a far better president than George Bush will ever be. But I do wish he (…)

  • “Human beings and hard work” - the secret of Europe’s most successful left party.
    20 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    On November 22nd, the Socialist Party of the Netherlands won 1.6 million votes for its combattive, radical left programme. This was more than ten times what it won 12 years ago, and three times the total for 2003. How was this achieved?
    Europe’s most successful party of the left gathered last weekend in Utrecht for its first major event since the extraordinary night of November 22nd, when it almost tripled its representation to become the third biggest group in the national parliament and (…)

  • Dennis Kucinich’s Showdown With the Democratic Leadership
    8 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    Editor’s note: In an interview with Truthdig research editor Joshua Scheer*, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) criticizes the leadership of his own party for announcing Tuesday that it would support a massive increase in spending for the Iraq war.
    Truthdig: What was the upshot of [Tuesday’s] Democratic caucus meeting?
    Kucinich: At this point the Democratic leadership-the speaker and the majority leader and Rahm Emanuel-are all recommending that the Democrats support the appropriation that is (…)