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  • CHENEY WAS DRINKING AND WITH ANOTHER WOMAN
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cheney’s Chappaquiddick II: The Real Story Emerges
    by RJ Eskow
    The real story is already emerging, if you’re willing to do a little digging. Cheney and Whittington went hunting with two women (not their wives), there was some drinking, and Whittington wound up shot. Armstrong didn’t see the incident but claimed she had, Cheney refused to be questioned by the Sheriff until the next morning, and a born-again evangelical physician has been downplaying Whittington’s injuries since they (…)

  • Report: U.S. Is Abusing Captives
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    # A U.N. inquiry says the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay at times amounts to torture and violates international law.
    By Maggie Farley, Times Staff Writer
    NEW YORK - A draft United Nations report on the detainees at Guantanamo Bay concludes that the U.S. treatment of them violates their rights to physical and mental health and, in some cases, constitutes torture.
    It also urges the United States to close the military prison in Cuba and bring the captives to trial on U.S. (…)

  • Misunderstanding Muslims
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by James Carroll
    When the Koran was said to have been denigrated by American guards at Guantanamo last year, Muslims reacted with rage, but most observers in the West misunderstood why.
    It was easy for Christians and Jews — the other ’’people of the Book" — to think that such an insult to the Koran was like an insult to the Bible. That would be sacrilege enough, but it was worse than that.
    Drawing analogies between religions can mislead, but the Koran stands in Islamic belief more as (…)

  • The Permanent Energy Crisis
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael T. Klare President Bush’s State of the Union comment that the United States is "addicted to oil" can be read as pure political opportunism. With ever more Americans expressing anxiety about high oil prices, freakish weather patterns, and abiding American ties to unsavory foreign oil potentates, it is hardly surprising that Bush sought to portray himself as an advocate of the development of alternative energy systems. But there is another, more ominous way to read his comments: (…)

  • The Cost of Prisons
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Tom Montgomery-Fate
    The remarkable thing about Renny Golden’s writing is that it provides a bridge of understanding between a silenced, disenfranchised community and those who need to hear what that community is trying to say. Via her books, Golden, a professor of criminal justice, sociology, and social work at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, has constructed these bridges by deftly balancing social analysis with her deep concern for the voices of the analyzed. Whether (…)

  • Democrats Can’t Hackett
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Paul Hackett Photo
    Maybe Dick Cheney can’t shoot straight, but at least he didn’t shoot himself in the face. Sadly, you can’t say the same for the leadership of the Democratic party.
    Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid and Rahm Emanuel have not only strong-armed Iraq War vet Paul Hackett out of the Ohio senate race, but out of politics altogether.
    And for what? To give Eagle Scout Sherrod Brown a clear shot at the Senate?!
    Yes. OK. A messy primary is less than ideal as a precursor to a (…)

  • Labor movement gets a face-lift
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jane M. Von Bergen
    "Awesome night," said Stephani Passaro, 21, shivering as she ducked into a minivan after a cold night knocking on doors this week in Bensalem’s suburban cul-de-sacs to talk about issues affecting working families.
    It was awesome. No dogs chased Passaro and her nine fellow canvassers. Hardly anyone slammed doors on them, and they signed up 275 members to Working America, a 1.2-million-member grassroots affiliate of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest federation of (…)

  • John Fund Again?
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s not your imagination-the Sunday shows really do lean right.
    By Paul Waldman
    If you’re up early on Sunday mornings in Washington, you can observe a weekly ritual. Around 9am, a string of chauffeured town cars and SUVs pulls up outside the NBC studio on Nebraska Avenue in Northwest Washington where "Meet the Press" is recorded, and out tumble government officials and politicians, reporters, and pundits. They scan the weekend papers over coffee in the green room, catch up with the (…)

  • Lobbyist Aims to Show Labor Groups to be ’Duplicitous’
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Full-Page Ads Launch Anti-Union Drive
    By Amy Joyce
    The full-page newspaper ads that ran yesterday showed a "Closed" sign over a padlocked gate, declaring the sign "The New Union Label. . . . Brought to you by the union ’leaders’ who helped bankrupt steel, auto, and airline companies.
    The advertisements in The Washington Post, New York Times and Wall Street Journal, introduced the Center for Union Facts and its Web site, UnionFacts.com. The group was created by Richard Berman, a (…)

  • Cheney’s Response A Concern In GOP Public Statement On Shooting Urged
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jim VandeHei and Peter Baker
    Vice President Cheney’s slow and unapologetic public response to the accidental shooting of a 78-year-old Texas lawyer is turning the quail-hunting mishap into a political liability for the Bush administration and is prompting senior White House officials to press Cheney to publicly address the issue as early as today, several prominent Republicans said yesterday.
    The Republicans said Cheney should have immediately disclosed the shooting Saturday night to (…)