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  • Democrats Fail to Serve as Opposition Party
    28 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    After giving George W. Bush far too easy a ride in his first term, the Democratic leadership in Congress promised that the second term was going to be different. "This is not a dictatorship," announced Senate minority leader Harry Reid. The new head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Illinois Representative Rahm Emanuel, declared, "The President neither has the mandate he thinks he has nor a majority to make policy." But three months of watching the Democrats’ stumbling, (…)

  • Bolivian Leader Evo Morales Denounces Assassination Plot
    23 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Leader of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), Evo Morales, denounced the arrival in Bolivia of a command of Colombian mercenaries hired to assassinate him and other popular leaders, and condemned the involvement of Interior Minister Saul Lara with the plot.
    Morales told the foreign correspondents that he was warned by intelligence officials about the assassination plot as he is at the top of the list, adding that the goal is to extinguish the social movement seeking to nationalize (…)

  • New American Progressive Community Seeks Feedback From the World
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    This is an invitation for progressive people from around the world to help the American left understand what issues are important to you, and help us craft a new alternative to Bush’s War on Terror, my way or the highway approach.
    If you have something to say about America and it relates to you and your country come publish your thoughts at http://www.boomantribune.com .
    Thank you.
    BooMan

  • Teresa Heinz Kerry says US election could have been hacked
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US election could have been hacked, says Kerry wife
    The United States presidential election could have been computer hacked, the wife of Democrat candidate John Kerry has claimed.
    The United States presidential election could have been computer hacked, the wife of Democrat candidate John Kerry has claimed.
    Teresa Heinz Kerry is openly sceptical about George Bush’s victory some four months after the election, questioning the legitimacy of the optical scanners used in some states to (…)

  • GOP Marching Off a Cliff
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    The Achilles heal of the modern GOP is that it is a movement rather than a traditional political party. While this arrangement serves as a campaign advantage because it instills message discipline, it leads to habitual overreaching when the Republican Party assumes the mantle of power. Political pragmatism is a strong check on unfettered power, while movements are designed by nature to simply want more.
    A chest-thumping Republican Party seems intent on following Newt (…)

  • Report by House Democrats Alleges GOP Abuse of Power
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mike Allen
    Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and other revolutionaries used accusations of arrogant and heavy-handed tactics to stir a populist revolt against 40 years of Democratic domination of Congress before the GOP takeover of 1994.
    Now, after 10 years of Republican control, House Democrats are making strikingly similar charges against today’s Republicans.
    House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) plans to lash out at the chamber’s Republican leaders today with a report accusing (…)

  • Pathetic Democratic Leaders are Failing America
    27 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I’m not a real Democrat, I just play one on tv.
    Im really fed up with the pathetic assortment of Democratic Party leaders were subjected to nowadays. Pitiful few can even remember what are party stands for. Goodness gracious, dont mention poverty or homelessness. That makes you a dreaded liberal. Dont say youre against the war in Iraq. That makes you a freedom-hater. Dont whisper that unions might be good for Wal-Mart workers, that means you hate anyone who owns a business. Dont say (…)

  • Birth in Europe of the Programmatic Area for a " Society Alternative "
    23 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    6th CONGRESS OF THE ITALIAN COMMUNIST REFOUNDATION PARTY (PARTITO DELA RIFONDAZIONE COMUNISTA, PRC)_ convened on March 3-6, 2005
    The programmatic area for a " Society Alternative " in Europe, considering our distinctive status of foreign residents, put websites and other forms of medias in network in order to:
    1) make known the real Rifondazione politic, which is too often modified and falsified when reported by medias, but also by some structured groups, who act inside the party and in (…)

  • 6th CONGRESS OF THE ITALIAN COMMUNIST REFOUNDATION PARTY : The Alternative of Society
    23 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (Firs signatory: Fausto Bertinotti)
    A new political and social cycle
    The sixth national Conference of our party is taking place in really "extraordinary" times: today in front of us is laid the full challenge of opening up a new political and social cycle, both in Italy and in the rest of Europe. Which means defeating not only the Right, but also the right-wing policies; and coming out, from the Left, from both the crisis of neo-liberal policies and the strategic impotence of left-wing (…)

  • Portugal’s Socialists Win Absolute Majority
    22 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Portugal’s opposition Socialists scored their biggest electoral win, giving Prime Minister-elect Jose Socrates an absolute parliamentary majority to implement plans to kick-start growth in Western Europe’s poorest country.
    The Socialists won 120 of the 230 seats in parliament in a general election on Sunday, the first time any party has held an outright majority for a decade, and their victory was endorsed by a large voter turnout.
    Socrates, who ousted center-right Prime Minister Pedro (…)