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  • Kerry Sponsors Collective Punishment of Palestinians on Behalf of Israel
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0604/S00361.htm
    Kerry Sponsors Palestine’s Collective Punishment Friday, 28 April 2006, 10:51 am Opinion: Genevieve Cora Fraser
    By Genevieve Cora Fraser
    As a former state prosecutor and lieutenant governor whose father was a Foreign Service officer, the former Presidential candidate Senator John Forbes Kerry should know a violation of international law when he sees one. Perhaps he could blame intimidation by the American Israeli PAC organization or a (…)

  • USA An Interview with the First Arab-American Senator by KEVIN ZEESE
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Jim Abourezk on Bush’s "Unparalleled Mendacity" and the "Complete Sell Out" of the Democrats
    An Interview with the First Arab-American Senator
    By KEVIN ZEESE
    James George Abourezk (born February 24, 1931) was a Democratic United States Representative and United States Senator, and was the first Arab-American to serve in the Senate. He represented South Dakota in the U.S. Senate from 1973 until 1979. Abourezk is of Lebanese descent, and was born in Wood, South Dakota and lived in South (…)

  • RALPH NADER : Break Up the Big Oil Cartel
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Republican Rhetoric; Democratic Cluelessness
    Break Up the Big Oil Cartel
    By RALPH NADER
    What a week it has been for the giant oil companies! Billions in record quarterly profits rushing into their coffers. An even bigger round of quarterly profits coming up. Gargantuan executive pay bonanzas. And a pile of "forces beyond our control" excuses to publicize in response to the empty outrage of Washington politicians and the real squeeze on consumers and small businesses.
    Oil man (…)

  • DEMOCRATS AND THE WAR : Zig-Zagging Through the War with John Kerry
    26 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Yet Another About-Face Zig-Zagging Through the War with John Kerry
    By JOSHUA FRANK
    The search is finally over. Sen. John Kerry is believed to have found his heroic voice. He apparently misplaced it back in the early ’70s after standing up to the U.S. war in Vietnam upon his saluted return from battle. Now many antiwar liberals believe Kerry is dissenting yet again.
    "I have come here today to reaffirm that it was right to dissent in 1971 from a war that was wrong. And to affirm that it (…)

  • Mike McCurry & the Hostile Takeover of the Democratic Party
    26 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by David Sirota
    Since my book, Hostile Takeover, is a look at how both parties engage in corruption, people have asked me a lot lately for good examples of exactly who is leading the Hostile Takeover of the Democratic Party on behalf of Big Money interests. While there are certainly a lot of examples, today it seems the best example comes in the form of Mike McCurry.
    The former Clinton press secretary, who appears throughout the media billed as a party strategist, is now using his skills (…)

  • Bush Pioneer withdraws support"I can’t in good conscience write another $25,000 check at this time"
    25 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    First, a little background - I obtained this letter from a first-hand source, and she asked me to spread it as far as I can.
    Jack Overstreet, lifelong Republican, is a Bush Pioneer, having donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bush ’00 and Bush ’04, even contributed to his ’04 Camapign as found here: http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_result.php?first=Ja... (He lives in Colorado and Wyoming respectively), a oil man himself, and everything else, just about the worst Republican you’d (…)

  • The Citizens of Porto Alegre
    24 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    In which Marco borrows bus fare and enters politics
    by Gianpaolo Baiocchi
    Marco is a self-employed handyman in his mid-30s who moved to the city of Porto Alegre from the Brazilian countryside eight years ago. A primary-school-educated son of a farmer, he’d had few opportunities in his small town and had heard about the city’s generous social services. He borrowed money for bus fare and landed in Porto Alegre, where he found construction work. But when his wages wouldn’t cover rent he (…)

  • BRAZIL : The Lula government and the “new ruling class” : the definitive bankruptcy of centrism
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

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    The Lula government and the “new ruling class” The definitive bankruptcy of centrism in Brazil By Hector Benoit 20 April 2006
    When the Workers Party (PT) of Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva began to win mass support among workers, beginning with the big metalworkers’ strikes of 1978-80, many so-called “Marxist” intellectuals maintained that we would finally see a “legitimate” workers’ party.
    Finally, they said, Marxism would break free (…)

  • Will Democrats stop war on Iran?
    18 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Amidst growing expectations of a possible an American military strike against Iranian cities, two Democratic Congressmen sent letters to the U.S. President George W. Bush, who secretly decided in 2003 to go to war in Iraq long before he admitted as much in public, expressing concern that if circulating reports about a possible war on Iran are true, then the president is once again acting unilaterally without first obtaining proper authorization from Congress.
    "Recently, it has been (…)

  • Going ghetto
    17 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Last week, Cynthia McKinney’s big hair collided with racism that never dies.
    by Erin Aubry Kaplan
    I’VE GONE ghetto.
    Don’t be alarmed. This isn’t news. Actually I haven’t gone ghetto; I’ve just realized that I’ve been ghetto all along. I’ve always figured - wrongly - that certain key lines on my resume at a certain point in my life would dispel ghetto for good, such as a couple of degrees, a certain facility with words and language and an inordinate fondness for Greek mythology.
    I’ve (…)