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  • Mexicans put us to shame in fighting for a fair election..
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mary MacElveen
    The United States of America always prides herself as being the land of democracy, but when it comes to elections we fail on so many fronts. Either Americans are too apathetic to vote, or worse those that do vote wonder if their vote even counted through the use of computerized voting machines. When many feel that an election has been stolen from the people, we wonder when the people shall rise up in protest.
    As I was looking at these AP photos showing the mass (…)

  • Why Democrats Don’t Count. Lessons from the Un-Gore of Mexico
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Greg Palast
    The Exit polls said he won, but the "official" tally took his victory away. His supporters found they were scrubbed off voter rolls. Violence and intimidation kept even more of his voters away from the polls. Hundreds of thousands of ballots supposedly showed no choice for president — like ballots with hanging chads.
    And the officials in charge of this suspect election refused to re-count those votes in public. Everyone knew full well a fair count would certainly change (…)

  • A REALISTIC SOLUTION TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by John Spritzler
    The right-wing radio talk show hosts make a big deal about the illegality of illegal immigration. They say it’s wrong to let illegal actions go unpunished and specifically it is wrong to let illegal immigrants stay in the United States. Deport them all, is their solution.
    But why is it illegal for people to migrate across the U.S.-Mexican border in the first place? Why not make it legal, for anybody who wants to, to cross the border?
    I have heard three main reasons (…)

  • Why must every country be forced into the United States’ way of thinking?
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mary MacElveen
    A reader responding to my article concerning North Korea wrote me this response: "Your article makes clear that North Korea is the bigger threat if Chavez is even any kind of threat at all. But I’m curious, you made no mention of the Chavez visit to North Korea planned for later this month. Do you think it wise for Chavez to belly up to the beast as it were? You could make the moral equivalence of the US allies that are just as bad as Kim Jung Il, but I’d rather hear of (…)

  • The Little Tramp’s Classic Labor Lesson
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Venezuela’s socialist government is using a 1936 Chaplin film to educate workers about their rights. Employers are not applauding.
    By Chris Kraul, Times Staff Writer
    LOS TEQUES, Venezuela - In his classic 1936 film, "Modern Times," Charlie Chaplin has to work so fast tightening bolts in a steel factory that he finally goes crazy. In a memorable scene that has become a metaphor for labor exploitation, the Little Tramp is run through the factory’s enormous gears.
    For President Hugo (…)

  • DEMOCRACY, MEXICAN STYLE -PART II
    10 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Democracy, Mexican Style - Part II - by Stephen Lendman
    There’s much happening in Mexico in the aftermath of the nation’s most contentious election ever, but it began many months before the first vote was cast. The popularity of leftist opposition candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) scared the ruling National Action Party (PAN) enough to get them to try to deny him the right to run for president in the election just concluded. In April, (…)

  • The UK’s problem with Venezuela’s Chavez Frias is that he’s over there!
    8 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    From: Raymond F. Breakspear admin@intbel.com To: Editor@VHeadline.com Subject: The UK needs a Hugo Chavez
    Here in the UK we used to have a problem with Americans. What was the problem? "They’re over here!"
    Here in the UK we have a problem with Chavez. What is the problem? "He’s over there!"
    (And we still have a problem with Americans being over here corps-wise, if not in person, but more on that anon)
    We need a Hugo Chavez ... desperately. Now. Like yesterday would not be too (…)

  • DEMOCRACY, MEXICAN STYLE
    7 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Democracy, Mexican Style - by Stephen Lendman
    What do these presidential elections all have in common: Mexico, 1988, US, 2000, US, 2004, Colombia and Peru, 2006 and the just concluded Mexican election on July 2? In each case, the outcome was "arranged" and known in advance before voters went to the polls. They’re what economist and media and social critic Edward Herman calls "Demonstration Elections" - the characterization and title he gave his 1980s book analyzing and documenting sham (…)

  • Bush Urged To Intervene After Castro’s Death
    4 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush Urged To Intervene After Castro’s Death By David Usborne in New York Published: 03 July 2006 A new high-level report due for publication later this week urges the United States government to begin preparations to intervene in Cuba in the event President Fidel Castro’s death. The goal is to help spawn a speedy transition on the island towards "democracy and political freedom".
    The recommendations, which include the creation of an $80m (£43m) fund to promote democracy in Cuba, are (…)

  • Banning Books On Cuba Is Idiotic
    3 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Banning Books On Cuba Is Idiotic By Leonard Pitts 7/1/2006
    The other day, I gave two teachers I know $300,000 apiece. Hypothetical money, that is. If $300,000 fell out of the sky, I said, and you could use it to improve your school, how would you spend it? Mary Ann, who works at an elementary school in Los Angeles, wanted to hire classroom aides to work one-on-one with "troublesome students who have not been properly diagnosed so they can be educated and not just written off."
    Sonya, (…)