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  • New left-wing political party forms in Quebec
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A new left-wing party has sprung up in Quebec, and it could cut into the Parti Quebecois’ base of support.
    Quebec Solidaire is being born of a union between two left-wing groups in the province — L’union Des Forces Progressives and Option Citoyenne.
    The two groups say they will provide the true leftist voice in Quebec politics.
    "We bring a new alternative. We bring values like solidarity, ecology, equality between men and women and I think we are the only party that brings that," said (…)

  • A New Black Power
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Walter Mosley
    Most black Americans have been Democrats for at least the fifty-three years that I’ve been alive. What have the Democrats done for us in all that time? We have the lowest average income of any large racial group in the nation. We’re incarcerated at an alarmingly high rate. We are still segregated and profiled, and have a very low representation at the top echelons of the Democratic Party. We are the stalwarts, the bulwark, the Old Faithful of the Democrats, and yet they (…)

  • Is there ONE decent Democrat left in office?
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Still think the Democrats have anything at all to offer us? Read this from the Green Party.
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    Democrats Push Bill That Would Bar Third Parties in Races for Congress
    GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
    Thursday, February 9, 2006
    Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty@greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@greens.org
    Panic and retaliation among progressive Democrats over Green challenges are behind HR 4694, say (…)

  • Ticky Tacky People
    10 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Here is the URL for the music: www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/5863/carbox.mid Politicians on the Hill, yes politicians who are ticky tacky politicians, Mafiosi,politicians all the same. There are rich ones and much richer,the rich PLUS and the filthy rich and they’re all mostly ticky tacky and they all smell just the same. Politicians in the Beltway and they all deal with the lobbyists,who are corrupt like politicos and they all lie just the same. There are staffers and the media and (…)

  • TALE OF A CONNECTICUT DONKEY
    8 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sheila Samples
    "Every senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This chamber reeks of blood...It does not take any courage at all for a congressman, or a senator, or a president to wrap himself in the flag and say we are staying in Vietnam, because it is not our blood that is being shed. But we are responsible for those young men and their lives and their hopes." Senator George McGovern, Sept 1, 1970
    Jim Bob came out of the (…)

  • Back to back, belly to belly at the Zombie Jamboree
    7 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We who are on the left in America are dumbfounded (as, I suppose, are many citizens in other countries), by the indifference and apathy by a healthy percentage of our fellow countrymen when it comes to challenging the destructive politics of the Bush Administration.
    I suppose it is just human nature not to focus on government actions which we feel...often correctly..we cannot change. But there is a tipping point, and I believe we’ve reached it.
    On the one hand we have the zombie hoards, (…)

  • A Boehner in the Henhouse
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by John Nichols
    Newly-selected House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, is getting some remarkably good press, considering his remarkably sordid political pedigree.
    ABC News referred to the grizzled veteran of Capitol Hill, who was elected to the House when George Bush the Dad was president and Democrat Tom Foley was the Speaker of the House, as a "fresh face." The network’s report on the House Republican Caucus vote to select a replacement for the indicted Tom DeLay was headlined: (…)

  • Black Republicans Coming Home?
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ron Walters
    Among the big meetings that are being held in Washington to signal the opening of the new Congress is one planned for mid-January by Black conservatives. The meeting will be led by Conservative Washington, D.C., media personality Armstrong Williams, who was at the dinner for retiring Sen. Strom Thurmond, where Trent Lott made his comments in apparent support of Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist presidential campaign.
    Black Republicans, to their credit, voiced strong (…)

  • Left’s Chorus Grows for Bush Impeachment
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - As President Bush prepared to address Congress, some members of the House began calling for his impeachment - a call that has been growing over the last few months, when only the far fringes of the American left called for his ouster.
    On Tuesday, eight-term California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters said the president should be impeached for authorizing the warrantless surveillance of some Americans through the National Security Agency.
    "If a president’s untruthfulness about (…)

  • Corruption Scandals Cast Shadow on GOP Leadership Race
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jonathan Weisman
    In eight concise paragraphs, two moderate and two conservative House Republicans put into writing last week what they say many of their colleagues quietly fear: the GOP’s plunging poll numbers, rising public support for a Congress controlled by Democrats and the increasing belief among voters that the Republican Party is corrupt.
    House Republicans will gather Thursday to elect a successor to Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) as majority leader, and the perceptions of (…)