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  • US Senate Candidate Sheeler “Bush lied. People Died. He needs to be tried"
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Providence, RI - U.S. Senate Candidate Carl Sheeler (D-RI) has challenged his Democratic running mates, Sheldon Whitehouse and Matt Brown, by mail and by phone to support his efforts to call on both Congressmen James Langevin and Patrick Kennedy to support US Representative John Conyers (D-MI) in his impeachment proceedings.
    Sheeler, a Marine veteran and self-described 70’s style Democrat, has been tireless since July 2005 in his efforts to call for the withdrawal of our troops in Iraq: (…)

  • My President, RIGHT or wrong!
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is genuinely astonishing...but true. The vast majority of the Republican Congress seem to be saying to the world "He’s our President, right or wrong" !
    Bush lied us into the war (a criminal act), but "He’s our guy"
    Bush ran up the largest budget and trade deficits in history, but "He’s OK"
    Bush has presided over huge oil price increases, seriously harming the public, but "He’s not a bad man"
    Bush has sneaked into the outrageous new budget his Social Security privatization plan (…)

  • This 12-Step Program Can Break U.S. Oil
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Brune
    Our president almost came clean in his State of the Union speech last week when he finally admitted that "America is addicted to oil." That addiction threatens our national security, our environmental health and our way of life.
    It is true that our leaders are exhibiting the classic signs of an addiction denial, aggression, avoidance, blaming others and as a country we are falling far short of reaching our full potential.
    America’s stubborn dependence on oil erodes our (…)

  • Stability of Mentally Ill Shaken By Medicare Drug Plan Problems
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Some Prescription Denials Have Heightened Distress
    By Susan Levine
    Even among the incident reports crossing Craig Knoll’s desk weekly now, this one stood out: A 43-year-old client of Knoll’s mental health agency, a man who suffers from bipolar disorder, had come from his pharmacy frustrated to the point of meltdown. There were snags in his new Medicare drug plan. Of his four medicines, it would fill only two.
    "I’m not going to take any of them anymore," he yelled, according to the (…)

  • NAFTA and Nativism
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Harold Meyerson
    Everybody talks about globalization; nobody ever does anything about it. The world labor market looms over every horizon with its promise of cheaper goods and lower pay. The public is skeptical, rightly, about the benefits of globalization, but the process of harnessing it, of writing enforceable rules that would benefit not just investors but most of our citizens, is hard to even conceive. And so globalization is experienced by many Americans as a loss of control. (…)

  • Lessons Taught by Grammy
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Eugene Robinson
    Was his insolent claim that "George Bush doesn’t care about black people" the reason Kanye West didn’t win the prestigious album of the year and record of the year awards he deserved at the Grammys the other night? That’s just part of the story, I think, and we’ll get back to it after we first survey the Big Picture.
    I’ve always thought the Grammy Awards offered a better, more finely detailed portrait of the American zeitgeist than either the Oscars or the Emmys. The (…)

  • Jose Bove : French Activist Detained at JFK, Deported
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An anti-globalization activist who was sent back to France after arriving at an airport here accused the U.S. government Thursday of conspiring against his cause and trying to protect big business.
    Jose Bove, best known for ransacking a McDonald’s restaurant in France in 1999, arrived Wednesday at John F. Kennedy International Airport, planning to speak at an event sponsored by Cornell University, but was denied entry by customs officials.
    Bove was not eligible to enter the U.S. under a (…)

  • In Search of Solidarity
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Christopher Hayes
    It’s a week before the holidays in New York City and there’s a transit strike. A strike? In 2005? It seems an anachronism, like meat rations or air raid drills. There’s a frisson of excitement in the air mixed with logistical dread and disbelief.
    The morning the strike begins, billionaire mayor Mike Bloomberg accuses the largely black and Latino union of acting "thuggishly" and then proceeds to class-bait the transit workers. "You’ve got people making $50,000 and (…)

  • On the President’s Warrantless Wiretapping Program
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Russ Feingold
    As Prepared for Delivery From the Senate Floor
    Listen to my Statement From the Senate Floor
    Mr. President, last week the President of the United States gave his State of the Union address, where he spoke of America’s leadership in the world, and called on all of us to “lead this world toward freedom.” Again and again, he invoked the principle of freedom, and how it can transform nations, and empower people around the world.
    But, almost in the same breath, the (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan honored here Anti-war activist among 4 hailed at synagogue
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By REGINA MEDINA
    LAST TUESDAY, peace activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested, handcuffed and removed from the U.S. House gallery shortly before President Bush’s State of the Union Address.
    She was wearing a T-shirt alluding to her anti-war sentiments - "2245 Dead. How many more?"
    Yesterday, Sheehan had the same basic message, but wore a long black dress with a large photo of her fallen son, Army Spec. Casey A. Sheehan, hanging from a ribbon around her neck.
    This time, her 250-strong (…)