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  • Hizballah: A Primer
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    byLara Deeb
    (Lara Deeb, a cultural anthropologist, is assistant professor of women’s studies at the University of California-Irvine. She is author of An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi‘i Lebanon.)
    Hizballah, the Lebanese Shi‘i movement whose militia is fighting the Israeli army in south Lebanon, has been cast misleadingly in much media coverage of the ongoing war. Much more than a militia, the movement is also a political party that is a powerful actor in Lebanese (…)

  • Report On Prewar Intelligence Lagging. Info Democrats Want Might Not Come Out Until After Elections
    31 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Report On Prewar Intelligence Lagging Information Democrats Want Most Might Not Come Out Until After Election By Dafna Linzer, The Washington Post Updated: 12:03 a.m. ET July 30, 2006 When angry Democrats briefly shut down the Senate last year to protest the slow pace of a congressional investigation into prewar intelligence on Iraq, Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) claimed a rare victory.
    Republicans called it a stunt but promised to quickly wrap up the inquiry. Sen. Pat (…)

  • Conyers, Boxer show their hand
    30 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Democrats of America- I have this simple question- why are these Dems, supposedly the most progressive Representatives in DC, playing along with the charade.
    John Conyers, the ’hero’ of the stolen election movement, smiling big while George signs the Voting Rights Act- why isn’t Conyers raising hell about the dirty tricks and stolen election? Why is he pretending that George cares about voting rights?
    Barbara Boxer campaigning for Lieberman. Lieberman is "Bush’s favorite Democrat", (…)

  • Stop the Bleeding
    29 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Slogans for Dems:
    Stop the Bleeding. Start the Healing. Vote Democratic.
    Restore Sanity. Vote Democratic.
    Now all you condescending, cynical naysayers don’t have to waste your breath by saying how the Dems are no different, blah, blah. What I want to see used by Dems is language that is effective. It may already be too late but I’ll try anyway.
    johnnybgood

  • REPORT: Oman Trade Pact Permits Foreign Ownership Of US Nat’l Security Assets
    20 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    REPORT: Oman Trade Pact Permits Foreign Ownership Of US Nat’l Security Assets By David Sirota 7.18.06 In an explosive report tonight, top House Democrats discovered provisions in the controversial Oman Free Trade Agreement that would permit foreign ownership of U.S. ports and other key national security assets. Three Democrats and one Republican held an emergency press conference today to expose the provisions just before the House is scheduled to vote on the Oman pact on Thursday. As (…)

  • The Stolen Election Of 2004. The Numbers Simply Do Not Add Up
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Stolen Election Of 2004 The Numbers Simply Do Not Add Up By Michael Parenti July 13, 2006 The 2004 presidential contest between Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry and the Republican incumbent, President Bush Jr., amounted to another stolen election. This has been well documented by such investigators as Rep. John Conyers, Mark Crispin Miller, Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman, Bev Harris, and others. Here is an overview of what they have reported, along with observations of my own. (…)

  • Lieberman’s Real Problem
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Harold Meyerson
    I am about to become a traitor to my class. Among my estimable colleagues in the Washington commentariat, the idea that Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman is facing a serious challenge from a fellow Democrat over Lieberman’s support for the Iraq war seems to evoke incredulity and exasperation. On the op-ed pages of leading newspapers, we read that Lieberman is "the most kind-hearted and well-intentioned of men" (that’s from the New York Times’ David Brooks), a judgment that (…)

  • Reclaiming The Issues: "Why Is Bush Spying On Democrats?!?"
    12 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Reclaiming The Issues: "Why Is Bush Spying On Democrats?!?" By Thom Hartmann July 11, 2006 Every time Democrats and progressives speak out about George W. Bush’s spying on Americans without mentioning that he may also be spying on Democrats, they’re playing into Karl Rove’s "National Security Frame" and actually strengthening Republican electoral chances in November. To short-circuit this, Democrats need to invoke the ghost of Richard Nixon.
    If they don’t, even Pete Hoekstra’s new (…)

  • DEMOCRACY, MEXICAN STYLE -PART II
    10 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Democracy, Mexican Style - Part II - by Stephen Lendman
    There’s much happening in Mexico in the aftermath of the nation’s most contentious election ever, but it began many months before the first vote was cast. The popularity of leftist opposition candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) scared the ruling National Action Party (PAN) enough to get them to try to deny him the right to run for president in the election just concluded. In April, (…)

  • Republicans and the "Rule of Law"
    9 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Have you ever noticed the rank hypocrisy of the Republican Party when they drag out their old standard "We must have respect for the Rule of Law"?
    What respect? What are they talking about?
    To wit:
    They love putting criminals to death (Bush did it 131 times) without seriously considering the possibility of innocence.
    Many of their followers bomb or burn abortion clinics or murder doctors in the name of "life", despite the gross illegality of such actions. And the GOP says nothing! (…)