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  • Senator Kerry rebuffs claim he said election was stolen
    5 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A spokesman for Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) vehemently denied that the senator had told a popular liberal author and journalist that he believed the 2004 election was "stolen" in response to queries from RAW STORY.
    The author, New York University professor Mark Crispin Miller, told Democracy Now and Air America’s "Morning Sedition" the senator had confided in him at a fundraiser Friday, saying he believed the election was stolen after Miller offered Kerry a copy of his new book. Miller said (…)

  • GOP Leaders to Bush: ’Your Presidency is Effectively Over’
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DOUG THOMPSON
    A growing number of Republican leaders, party strategists and political professional now privately tell President George W. Bush that his presidency "is effectively over" unless he fires embattled White House advisor Karl Rove, apologizes to the American people for misleading the country into war and revamps his administration from top to bottom.
    "The only show of unity we have now in the Republican Party is the belief that the President has failed the party, the (…)

  • Mark Crispin Miller: “Kerry Told Me He Now Thinks the Election Was Stolen”
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New York University professor and author Mark Crispin Miller says in an interview on Democracy Now!: “[Kerry] told me he now thinks the election was stolen.
    He says he doesn’t believe he is the person that can be out in front because of the sour grapes question. But he said he believes it was stolen. He says he argues with his democratic colleagues on the hill.
    He said he had a fight with Christopher Dodd because he said there’s questions about the voting machines and Dodd was angry. (…)

  • Miers Out— Next Chess Move in the SCOTUS Nominee Game
    2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Is the looming "Nuclear Option" a Queen Swap that will hurt the Republicans More than the Democrats? Why the democrats should excercise the filibuster and why the Republicans WON’T exercise the Nuclear Option
    by Rob Kall
    It’s official. The extreme right has torpedoed the nomination of Harriet Miers. She has withdrawn her nomination, as predicted, explaining that she didn’t want Bush to have to weaken is right of executive privilege by releasing papers she’d written for him. The timing is (…)

  • A Dutch activist addresses the new German Left party
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A regional councillor, adviser on employment and social policy to the United Left group of Euro-MPs, and member of the radical left Socialist Party of the Netherlands, this weekend addressed a conference of Germany’s new Left Party (Linkspartei/PDS). This is an edited version of his speech, which covered the experiences of his own highly successful party, the common struggle against the EU’s drive to neo-liberalism, and the role of the trade unions.
    The debate on the social model of Europe (…)

  • Germany’s new opposition
    26 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By STEFAN NICOLA
    KEHL AM RHEIN, Germany — Never was Germany’s opposition at the same time so diversified and so small — it will have the difficult job of playing the parliamentary watchdog while resisting future coalition flirtations.
    It was a sign how unwelcome the new kid on the block really is: When Germany’s Bundestag, the lower house of parliament assembled for the first time earlier this week, most of Germany’s 614 lawmakers refused to accept a left-wing politician as the deputy (…)

  • Kerry Lays Out Draw Down Plan
    26 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Senator Kerry is scheduled to deliver a searing speech on Bush’s Iraq policy while laying out a decisive path for the future of the Iraqi people, our troops and our country. His bold plan calls for the beginning of troop withdrawal, with 20,000 coming home over the holidays and complete disengagement within 12-15 months. “No more shell games, no more false reports of progress, but specific and measurable goals.”
    Kerry doesn’t only target Bush for criticism, he is also clear that the truths (…)

  • Corruption-Lite and The Two Party System That Has Choked the Democracy out of this Country
    25 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Corruption-Lite and The Two Party System That Has Choked the Democracy out of this Country. by Anthony Wade
    opednews
    October 23, 2005
    I see all the time the questions of what is wrong with the Democratic Party. I sense the palpable frustration of well-minded people who fight day in and out against the corruption in the current administration only to be heartbroken at the apparent ineptitude of the opposition party. It hit me today why the Democratic Party seems too inept in dealing (…)

  • They’re still trying to pin something on Galloway
    25 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The MP George Galloway angrily rejected fresh allegations last night from a US senate investigation that he lied under oath about Saddam Hussein’s multimillion-pound oil-for-food programme.
    The inquiry, headed by the Republican Norm Coleman, claimed he had "knowingly made false or misleading statements under oath" when he appeared before a committee hearing in Washington in May.
    The MP for Bethnal Green and Bow won widespread acclaim, especially from anti-Iraq war campaigners, when he (…)

  • Plamegate: The Republican Big Lie
    24 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Plamegate: The Republican Big Lie
    Hinderaker’s Folly
    Special to Crooks and Liars by Larry Johnson If ignorance is bliss, then John Hinderaker is one happy fellow when it comes to talking about Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame. According to Hinderaker, who was appearing on Howard Kurtz’s CNN show about the media, he trots out once again the big lie of Republican talking points by claiming that Joe Wilson lied in his July 2003 op-ed. Hinderaker says that Wilson, "reported to the CIA (…)