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  • It’s The Money, Stupid!: Over $1 Billion Raised for Prez Race!
    31 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.” - Will Rogers
    Back in the late 50s, I was an aide-de-camp to the Hon. Michael J. “Iron Mike” McHale, 6th District City Councilman in Baltimore City. Around that time, there was a hotly contested citywide municipal election going on. McHale, now deceased, went to a meeting with the then leader of his South Baltimore organization, Julian “Fats” Carrick. They met in a downtown office, with Philip H. (…)

  • Communist Nepal : A party by any other name
    30 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Interview with Baburam Bhattarai in "Janadesh", 21 October.
    By KIRAN PANDAY
    Source: "Nepali Times"
    Janadesh:
    During your visit to the US, you mentioned that the party was thinking of changing its name to simply CPN. This has stirred a controversy.
    Baburam Bhattarai:
    I don’t understand why they are trying to make a storm in a teacup. The media exaggerated it as they were short of news during festival time. In fact, this issue had been a topic of discussion within the party for a (…)

  • PM-India Flagrantly Violates His Own Assurances
    29 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    People’s Democracy (Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) No. 38 September 28 , 2008 Editorial
    THE prime minister has left on his ten-day tour of the USA and Europe (France). Apart from addressing the UN General Assembly, he is slated to meet president Bush on September 25. On the basis of official leakages, this meeting is being projected as one that will clinch the India-US nuclear deal. The prime minister, we are told, is to make a `triumphal’ return to India.
    The (…)

  • The Dems Are Going the Way of the Whig Party
    17 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “The Dems...are weaklings who blow where the wind takes them while frittering away our...lifeblood.” - Cindy Sheehan
    It’s painful for me to watch the Dems, the political party of my youth, self-destruct. I’m sure this is how members of the Whig Party must have felt as they witnessed their organization fade from the national scene. The Whigs were the heirs of the Federalist Party, originally led by George Washington. A split over the issue of Slavery, however, just before the Civil War, (…)

  • Oh, No! Not Joe Biden!
    27 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “The next six months are going to tell the story.” - Sen. Joe Biden pontificating on the illegal Iraq War on 12/18/05.
    The Democratic Party has a death wish! There is no other rational explanation for hapless Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) ending up as Sen. Barack Obama’s VP running mate. For starters, the presidential election is about getting a majority of the electoral votes. Delaware “only” has three electoral votes! And, Biden isn’t a sure thing to carry even them for Obama. He’s a motor (…)

  • The Dog And Pony Show Of Death And Fear
    21 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Raw Story: " Expert: FISA bill is ’frightening’ "
    Expert: FISA bill is ’frightening’ ACLU and Ron Paul team up to protest FISA in effort called ’Strange Bedfellows.’
    At the rate things are going, a viable alternative to the "major" parties is desperately needed, and effective communications with the public even more so. The Longhouse Coalition, the Green Party, and the Libertarian Party are all available to a public that never hears much about any of them.
    Thanks largely to a (…)

  • Is Obama Turning (Further) Right? By Greg Kafoury (CounterPunch)
    28 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    May 27, 2008
    From AIPAC to the Cuban Exiles
    This week, Senator Barak Obama traveled to Florida and spoke to Jewish and Cuban-American audiences. In those speeches, he embraced the right-wing policy positions of the American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC) and the hard-line program of the most reactionary elements of the Cuban exile community.
    Source: bitsblog.florack.us
    Senator Obama was for many years considered pro-Palestinian, but a year ago when he spoke (…)

  • NADER : Close Election Will Be Decided By Political Parties (video, 8mn)
    17 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    During a press conference in Los Angeles on May 10, 2008, I ask presidential candidate Ralph Nader if the upcoming election will turn out any different than in 2004 (stolen by the Republicans) and 2000 (decided by the Supreme Court).
    Photo: J.Pénochet Sept. 2004
    video:
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-19642547.html

  • Policy Talks/Google : Ralph Nader on May 12, 2008 (vidéo, 54’38)
    16 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ralph Nader visits Google’s Mountain View, CA, headquarters as part of the Policy
    Photo: Joëlle Pénochet, Sept. 2004
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-19623226.html

  • UK : Power Can’t Shape Truth Forever : New Labour is Dead
    7 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    New Labour has suffered a crushing defeat. The Blair project of promoting and implementing right-wing policies in the knowledge that traditional working class voters would remain solid died on 1 May 2008. Labour’s vote in the local elections in dropped to 24 percent, a point below the Liberal Democrats and twenty points less than the Conservatives (44 percent). Gioven the scale of the catstrophe, It seems unlikely that Gordon Brown can win the next general election
    Awestruck by Margaret (…)