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  • Republican Senator Says U.S. Needs Iraq Exit Strategy Now
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Republican Senator Says U.S. Needs Iraq Exit Strategy Now The war has destabilized the Mideast and created a potential Vietnam, Nebraska’s Chuck Hagel says. Other lawmakers express frustration.
    By Josh Meyer, Times Staff Writer
    WASHINGTON - As President Bush prepared to hit the road this week to bolster public support for his policies in Iraq, a senior Republican senator said Sunday that the United States needed to craft an exit strategy because its continued presence had created a (…)

  • The New "Left" in Germany Jumps Another Hurdle
    21 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Victor Grossman, Berlin
    One big hurdle has been overcome; the election officials in all 16 German states have ruled that the new party "The Left" (or the "Left.PDS") is entitled to a place on the ballot in the key September 16th election. Some opponents of the new party had raised constitutional objections and even plan to go to court if necessary - but their chances are now much slimmer.
    The new party is a temporary sort of alliance - "sort of" because electoral alliances of two (…)

  • Like Old Times: U.S. Warns Latin Americans Against Leftists
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By DAVID S. CLOUD
    LIMA, Peru, - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s visit this week to South America had the throwback feel of a mission during the cold war, when American officials saw their main job as bolstering the hemisphere’s governments against leftist insurgencies and Communist infiltration.
    During stops in Paraguay and Peru, Mr. Rumsfeld and his aides warned of what they consider to be troublemaking by President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Washington’s old cold war foe, (…)

  • Newt’s Resurrection
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    It is never easy being the second smartest person in the class. To be number two means that you get seductively close to the prize, before you inevitably plummet. This is what happened to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who consistently got outfoxed by President Bill Clinton.
    In 1995, for example, Gingrich forced an unpopular government shutdown, which played right into Clinton’s hands. Frustrated by the cunning of his wily nemesis, a petulant Gingrich threw a defining (…)

  • The Emperor is Naked! The Empire is a Lie!
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cindy Sheehan has been able to demonstrate just how naked the Emperor is, and thus demonstrate the lie of Empire.
    No one else could, because everyone else was afraid. Howard Dean said "we broke it, we own it." John Kerry supported it and couldn’t back away from it.
    This is how Democrats felt forced to respond, because they’d been stuck into a political wilderness for a generation by Vietnam. They were afraid to equate Iraq with Vietnam, fearing that political wilderness, and its chains, (…)

  • No Paper Trail Left Behind: The Theft of the 2004 Presidential Election
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Dennis Loo, Ph.D. Cal Poly Pomona
    ddloo@csupomona.edu
    "Alice laughed: "There’s no use trying," she said; "one can’t believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven’t had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." (Through the Looking Glass)
    In order to believe that George Bush won the November 2, 2004 presidential election, you must also believe all of (…)

  • Lula’s Sorry for Corruption Scandal, Promises Sanctions
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has asked for forgiveness from the Brazilian people for a scandal that has engulfed his government and promised that the guilty ones will be punished.
    In asking for apologies in a TV address to the nation, he insisted he knows nothing about the alleged corruption, including a cash-for-votes scheme in the Brazilian Congress, in which key members of his Workers’ Party (PT) are said to be involved.
    He also called for reform to the (…)

  • Smearing Cindy Sheehan
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Conservatives are attacking her as a dupe of the left who’s exploiting her dead son. Some relatives have piled on too. But the grieving mother says her well-timed Crawford visit is "my idea, my mission, my vision."
    By Farhad Manjoo
    Aug. 13, 2005 | August was supposed to have been a quiet month for George W. Bush. Last year, the president cut short his customary weekslong vacation in order to campaign for reelection, so this year, unencumbered, he’d planned to spend more than a month in (…)

  • Germany’s new left upsets the applecart
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Helmut Scholz is up for a fight - and the political establishment is running scared
    by Simon Tisdall
    Helmut Scholz is up for a fight - and the political establishment is running scared. The German left, he says, won’t be fooled again.
    Speaking in Berlin this week, the international coordinator of Germany’s insurrectionary new electoral phenomenon, the Linkspartei (Left party), said the country was in crisis and the main parties had no solutions.
    "We want to reattract people who have (…)

  • Don’t Believe the Hype : Howard Dean and the PDA
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JOSHUA FRANK
    After all they have been through, they still don’t get it. The Democrats are as inept a political opposition as George W. Bush is at running his daddy’s oil companies. DNC Chairman Howard Dean has just finished a long 30-state trip across the country, during which he met with thousands of enthusiastic Democrats looking for some way to challenge the Republican Party.
    "There are Democrats everywhere," Dean exclaimed in Vermont on August 8 at the finale of his barn-storming (…)