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  • Bush’s personal favor for Abramoff: demoted Investigator, halted probe in 2002
    19 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush removal ended Guam investigation US attorney’s demotion halted probe of lobbyist
    By Walter F. Roche Jr., Los Angeles Times | August 8, 2005
    WASHINGTON — A US grand jury in Guam opened an investigation of controversial lobbyist Jack Abramoff more than two years ago, but President Bush removed the supervising federal prosecutor, and the probe ended soon after.
    The previously undisclosed Guam inquiry is separate from a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia that is (…)

  • Why the Democrats should impeach Bush/Cheney today
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Yes, Martha, I understand that US Representative John Conyers (D-NY) has filed an “impeachment resolution” (HR 635), plus two mentions for censure (HR 636 and 637) in the House Judiciary Committee. The impeachment resolution lays the foundation for bipartisan impeachment proceedings, which by the way is my first problem with it. Asking the Republicans to impeach Bush/Cheney is like asking the chickens to swallow a two-headed fox. But it’s more than that . . .
    The editor of Online Journal, (…)

  • post from Aljazeerah
    7 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This is a re post from aljazeerah. The Author (descendant from ancient New Hampshire stock) endorses spreading her story.
    Earth to Hillary and Other Democrats Supportive of Israeli Aggression and American Imperialism
    By Genevieve Cora Fraser
    Al-Jazeerah, January 7, 2006
    Dear Hillary, For years I have been a strong supported of both you and President Clinton - defending both of you within the party when others deserted. I have now left the Democratic Party because of you even though (…)

  • The War on Immigrants. Get ready for a Republican assault their opportunity for election-year demagogy
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Harold Meyerson
    The conventional wisdom is still unpersuaded that the Republican Party is about to mount a full-force attack on American’s undocumented immigrants — of whom, by some counts, there are 11 million. After all, the Republicans are the party of employers — large (agribusiness), medium (construction companies), and small (restaurateurs) — who have long depended on immigrants for cheap labor. The cheap labor sectors of American capitalism are a huge source of donations for the (…)

  • The $4bn industry that is America’s guilty secret
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Rupert Cornwell
    Lobbying is Washington’s grubby secret. Some say lobbying is part of the democratic process. Others claim it is legalised bribery, even corruption. But love it or loathe it, it is the way Washington works.
    Usually you hear little about the quiet meetings, the lavish lunches and junkets that lubricate American politics. But every once in a while something comes along to open the system to what it hates most: daylight. The case of Jack Abramoff, influence-peddler (…)

  • It Wasn’t All Bad
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Katha Pollitt
    All year long it’s been one piece of bad news after another, but now it’s time to put on the rose-colored glasses and list some of the good things that happened in 2005. I had to e-mail about fifty people to come up with these items, but that’s OK. Keeping you cheerful is part of my job. I mean, the war could be wrong, but the Iraqi elections could still be good. So fill that glass half full with whatever and...and...well, just drink it.
    1. The Bush Administration is on (…)

  • Predictions for 2006
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Alec Baldwin
    My prediction for 2006 is a multiple, all connected politically. I predict that another barrage of fierce storms and hurricanes will so disturb the American people, that the Democrats will take the Senate in the ’06 election and whittle away at the House in those races as well. Whether those storms can be attributed to global warming conditions or more normal meterological cycles will not matter. Americans typically arrive, albeit slowly at times, at the sensible conclusion (…)

  • Dems-cowards or on the take?
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Democrats in congress (with a few notable and honorable exceptions) have been acting, for the longest time, as cowards, like the Chamberlains and Weimar Republicans in the 20’s and 30’s. Capitulation is their middle name.
    But upon further thought, maybe most Dems are also beholden to the corporate kings who have been generous funders of the sociopath party and thereby dictate the course of action in the world. Why else would most so-called Democrats be so loath to speak up and out against (…)

  • Left Voices Call for Building a Progressive Majority
    25 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Harry Targ
    Over 100 activists, including 20 speakers on five panels, from the labor, anti-racist, peace, women’s, and socialist movements met to talk about ’Building A Progressive Majority’ on Saturday, December 10 at the SEIU 1199 meeting hall in New York City. The event was sponsored and organized by The Committees of Correspondence Education Fund.
    Although difficult ’how to do it’ questions remain, attendees agreed with Leslie Cagan, United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) coordinator, (…)

  • Another Step Towards Unity: The German Left
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Victor Grossman, Berlin
    There was virtually untroubled joy in September, when the new "Left", consisting of two cooperating parties, received 4.2 million votes, 8.7 percent of the total, enabling it to send the unprecedented number of 54 representatives to the Bundestag. But the road to unity of the two had many bumps to overcome, and the weekend congress of the Left Party-PDS in Dresden aimed at overcoming many of them. The going was not always smooth, but a big step forward was taken (…)