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  • Cheney ’Authorized’ Libby to Leak Classified Information
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Murray Waas
    Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, testified to a federal grand jury that he had been "authorized" by Cheney and other White House "superiors" in the summer of 2003 to disclose classified information to journalists to defend the Bush administration’s use of prewar intelligence in making the case to go to war with Iraq, according to attorneys familiar with the matter, and to court records.
    Libby specifically claimed that in one (…)

  • The woman warrior
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ellen Goodman
    WHEN THE news came of Betty Friedan’s death on her 85th birthday, I remembered Aug. 26, 1970, the Women’s Strike for Equality. I remembered Betty Friedan parading down New York’s Fifth Avenue, with tens of thousands of exhilarated women behind her.
    I also remembered the afternoon edition of my paper illustrating that march with two front-page photos. On the left was the pretty, blond, smiling figurehead of some unknown group of Happy Homemakers. On the right was Betty (…)

  • A New Black Power
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Walter Mosley
    Most black Americans have been Democrats for at least the fifty-three years that I’ve been alive. What have the Democrats done for us in all that time? We have the lowest average income of any large racial group in the nation. We’re incarcerated at an alarmingly high rate. We are still segregated and profiled, and have a very low representation at the top echelons of the Democratic Party. We are the stalwarts, the bulwark, the Old Faithful of the Democrats, and yet they (…)

  • A homecoming
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By James Carroll
    AMERICA HAS had a difficult time reckoning with its racist past. Slavery was a defining part of the cultures and economies out of which the nation grew, and for most of its first century the ownership of humans by other humans was taken for granted. A pseudo-Darwinian ranking by ’’race" justified that order, which stood on pillars of skin color and ethnic origin. When that blatant structure of denigration was overthrown by the Civil War, implicit assumptions of white (…)

  • The murder of a half a million children is a price worth paying?
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    In my piece concerning John Edwards which ran this past week, I wrote: "In the November 28, 2005, issue of ’The Nation,’ John Edwards was quoted as saying: "I voted for the resolution ... it was a mistake."
    I have to add that I respect anyone, regardless of what decision they made in the past, when they see that it was wrong. I have deep respect when they come out of the political closet and with humility to state that their vote was a "mistake."
    With that said, I (…)

  • BUSH CREDIBILITY
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Credibility (An Oxymoron)
    By Peter Fredson
    February 11, 2006
    Credibility, trustworthiness, reliability, integrity, are for most humans words which give us a certain feeling that, whatever the occasion, there is a solid basis underlying the fitness of things. They imply that some care and attention will be given to the daily routine, that human relationships can be rewarding, and that ordinarily we can get though the day after depending on other people.
    It is therefore with (…)

  • Is there ONE decent Democrat left in office?
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Still think the Democrats have anything at all to offer us? Read this from the Green Party.
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    Democrats Push Bill That Would Bar Third Parties in Races for Congress
    GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
    Thursday, February 9, 2006
    Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty@greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@greens.org
    Panic and retaliation among progressive Democrats over Green challenges are behind HR 4694, say (…)

  • LIVE FREE OR DIE - Perhaps in New Hampshire
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    UNSCATHED BY THE INSANITY OF OUR TIMES
    By: April Shenandoah We all talk about freedom, but do we really understand what it is? Most of us could at least say what it is not. Freedom is not: telling Mothers and Fathers how to raise their children - or educate them. Freedom is not: putting American citizens in fear of their own police force (we were told they are our friends). Freedom is not: enforcing rules and regulations that make it almost impossible for good citizens not to break (…)

  • Police blotter: Patriot Act e-mail spying approved
    10 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Police blotter” is a weekly report on the intersection of technology and the law.
    By Declan McCullagh , Staff Writer, CNET News.com
    What: The Justice Department asks a judge to approve Patriot Act e-mail monitoring without any evidence of criminal behavior.
    When: Decided Feb. 2, 2006 by U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan in Washington, D.C.
    Outcome: E-mail surveillance approved.
    What happened: As part of a grand jury investigation that’s still secret, the Justice Department asked a (…)

  • Intel pros say Bush is lying about foiling 2002 terror attack
    10 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By DOUG THOMPSON
    Outraged intelligence professionals say President George W. Bush is "cheapening" and "politicizing" their work with claims the United States foiled a planned terrorist attack against Los Angeles in 2002.
    "The President has cheapened the entire intelligence community by dragging us into his fantasy world," says a longtime field operative of the Central Intelligence Agency. "He is basing this absurd claim on the same discredited informant who told us Al Qaeda would attack (…)