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  • The bad old days are waiting in the wings
    2 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    He’s backed by the bully-boys of big business, by the industrial and financial clout of organised capital, by the mighty corporate unionism flexing its muscles at the big end of town.
    Now that Howard, their hard-hatted, hard-hearted, heavy-hitting henchman, has achieved a closed shop in the Reps and the Senate, black-banning anyone and anything his comrades among the CEOs don’t like, it’s time to strike. Against what’s left of the trade unions; against those millions of Australians (…)

  • Lula’s "Workers’ Regime" : plummets in Stew of Corruption
    2 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lula’s "Workers’ Regime" : plummets in Stew of Corruption
    By JAMES PETRAS
    "Nobody has the moral authority to discuss ethics with me" President Lula da Silva
    Corruption has devastated the Lula regime in Brazil. Every sector of Lula’s "Workers Party"(PT) has been implicated in bribery, fraud, vote buying, theft of public funds, failure to report illicit campaign financing and a host of other felonious behavior, revealed almost daily between May-July 2005. All of Lula’s closest and most (…)

  • Germany : social Justice or Economic Folly?
    2 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The new hard-left grouping in Germany, the Left Party, is sending tremors across the political landscape. But, the party’s economic program has industry groups and economists shaking their heads, and worrying.
    It calls itself the Left Party, die Linkspartei in German, and it’s making an already unusual election campaign even stranger. Made up of the successors to East Germany’s communist party, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), and disaffected left-wingers who split off from the (…)

  • Senate Approves Bill Protecting Gun Businesses
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Senate Approves Bill Protecting Gun Businesses
    By CARL HULSE
    WASHINGTON, July 29 - The Senate agreed to shield gun manufacturers and dealers from liability lawsuits on Friday, as Congress broke for a monthlong recess after sending President Bush energy and transportation bills that had been years in the making.
    Long sought by the gun lobby, the Senate measure - approved 65 to 31 - would prohibit lawsuits against gun makers and distributors for misuse of their products during the (…)

  • Roberts had larger 2000 recount role
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.S. SUPREME COURT Roberts had larger 2000 recount role The role of U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts in the 2000 election aftermath in Florida was larger than has been reported. Roberts helped prepare the Supreme Court case. By MARC CAPUTO mcaputo@herald.com
    TALLAHASSEE - U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts played a broader behind-the-scenes role for the Republican camp in the aftermath of the 2000 election than previously reported — as legal consultant, lawsuit editor and prep (…)

  • Karl "Benedict Arnold" Rove Supports Candidate Who GOP PAID to Run for Lt. Governor of Maryland
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
    Well, the GOP is temporarily succeeding at making treason appear normal and fully acceptable when the national security is damaged by a Republican. Because Republicans are "good people" who betray the country out of divine inspiration, not malice.
    So Karl Rove spent the evening of July 26th at a fundraiser for Michael Steele, the African American Lt. Governor of Maryland, who the GOP is hoping will siphon off enough black votes in the next Governor’s election to (…)

  • Tiny Labor
    27 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tiny Labor
    By Barbara Ehrenreich
    In the fifty years of the AFL-CIO’s existence, Big Labor has shrunk to a third of its former size, but it’s been clinging to its outsized clothes and outmoded habits. While membership dwindles, the AFL-CIO has continued to act like a big shot-doling out tens of millions to the Democratic Party and occupying a palatial spread located within kiss-blowing distance of the White House.
    Nor has it budged from the style of “business unionism” developed by (…)

  • The Party Of Responsibility
    26 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Party Of Responsibility Cenk Uygur July 25, 2005 I’ve been reading a lot lately about what the Democratic Party should stand for. This is a question of framing and a question of principle. There are a great number of policies that I think the Democrats should support in domestic and foreign policy. But that’s not what I’m talking about here. I’m talking about a central idea that resonates with the American people.
    I think this central idea should be - responsibility.
    Personal (…)

  • Republicans speak out against war
    23 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “You can support the troops but not the president” -Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)
    “[The] President...is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation’s armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy.” -Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) (…)

  • Painting Of U.S. In Toilet Raises GOP Hackles. Atty Gen Asked To Remove Work In State-Owned Building
    23 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Painting Of U.S. In Toilet Raises GOP Hackles Attorney General Asked To Remove Work In State-Owned Building Greg Lucas, Chronicle Staff Writer July 20, 2005
    Sacramento — A painting of the United States sinking into a toilet now on display in the cafeteria of the state Department of Justice has raised the ire of the state Republican Party, which is demanding that Attorney General Bill Lockyer remove the image.
    The painting — part of an exhibit of more than 30 works by lawyer artists and (…)