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  • Capitalism Rejected?
    20 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    So I get this note - would I like to write an essay under the heading of ’Capitalism: Rejected’, to which I immediately added the question mark, after all, a host of countries rejected the damn thing throughout the course of the 20th century only to see their labours, their dreams shattered as capitalism launched its successful counter-revolution.
    Nevertheless, what are the chances that we could, once more, reject the beast, at least within our lifetimes? This is, as far as I’m concerned, (…)

  • Causachun coca! Wañuchun yanquis!
    20 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thanks to Pachamama, Mother Earth, thanks for the Coca Plant.
    We, Aymaras and Quechuas, original nations of the Andes, have survived the onslaught of the white man until today thanks to our coca leaf. From the moment the white man came to our land he has tried to control our leaf for his own enrichment. He has abused it here and now he is abusing it everywhere else. Since it has escaped his control he is intent on destroying it.
    He has labeled our sacred plant a drug, to be prohibited (…)

  • Democratic senator says Bush violated law with wiretaps: He is a president, not a king
    19 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    From a release issued to RAW STORY by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) in response to President Bush’s admission Saturday that the president personally authorized wiretaps of individuals who emailed or phoned other countries.
    “Yesterday morning, Republican and Democratic Senators blocked a flawed bill that extended parts of the Patriot Act that are set to expire without fixing the fundamental problems with the law. Nobody wants these parts of the Patriot Act to expire — we want to fix them before (…)

  • Green Party’s Kevin Zeese Has New Approach
    16 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Baltimore, MD - On a brutal night, Dec. 14, 2005, where the temperature hovered around the ultra-freezing 15 degree mark, the Green Party’s candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maryland, Kevin Zeese, was out on the campaign trail delivering his “for the people” message. He spoke at the “All People’s Congress” hall, which is located about a half mile from the now-razed Memorial Stadium, where the sports notables of yesteryear, like John Unitas, Lenny Moore, Brooks and Frank Robinson, once played. (…)

  • A Different Sort of Meaning for ’The Have’s and Have Not’s’.
    14 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I recently obtained a list of ‘people-in-high-places’ and their own particular brand of military sacrifice. Personally, I found it to be ... well ... telling. List as provided by SergeantD, posted on www.huffingtonpost.com, November 13, 2005
    Democrats * Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71 * David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72 * Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72. * Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer (…)

  • Everything Old is New Again...A Declaration of Conscience
    14 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Senator Margaret Chase Smith’s (R-Maine)A Declaration of Conscience
    June 1, 1950, Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine spoke on the Senate floor on behalf of the Declaration of Conscience. The declaration opposed McCarthyism. Smith’s speech is printed here.
    I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition. It is a national feeling of fear and frustration that could result in national suicide and the end of everything that we Americans hold dear. It is a (…)

  • Democrats need a Courage Transplant
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Washington — It’s about time that the "me too" Democrats, particularly those in Congress who vote with the Republicans so often, stand up and be counted.
    Too many Democrats are tiptoeing around the major issues facing our nation, afraid to venture out of the mainstream. This is a big mistake at a time when the nation is begging for true leadership.
    Democrats with the courage to be leaders could have a field day pointing out that millions of Americans lack health insurance and that 37 (…)

  • 100,000 Irish Workers Take To The Streets
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    It is estimated by the police that over 100,000 workers took to the streets of Dublin the Irish capital. While tens of thousand of workers brought the main cities and towns across the country to a complete stand still as they took to the street both in solidarity with the Irish Ferries workers and against the wide spread exploitation of migrant workers. Workers are outraged at the use of migrant workers particularly from Eastern Europe to undermine the wages and conditions of all workers. (…)

  • Shiite, Sunni groups sign pact for US withdrawal timetable
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Baghdad, Dec. 9 (AP): A group of Shiite and Sunni parties has signed a declaration condemning terrorism, urging a timetable for the end of the US military presence, and vowing never to normalise relations with Israel.
    The parties to the "code of honour" included followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the Sunni Iraqi Consensus Front.
    The code also (…)

  • No peace with Sharon
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Gaza withdrawal has been a veil for continued persecution and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
    by Gerald Kaufman
    I know the attractive Israeli seaside resort of Netanya well, having stayed several times at my niece’s flat there. Not long ago I heard on BBC radio a series of interviews with residents of Netanya, which has in the past suffered a number of terrorist attacks. They rejoiced at how much easier the situation had become following the building of the Israeli separation wall, (…)