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  • Bush Administration Seeks to Squelch State of the Union Protest at Capitol on January 31
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Administration Seeks to Squelch State of the Union Protest at Capitol on January 31 January 22, 2006
    World Can’t Wait Capitol Hill Office: 511 ‘C’ St. NE Washington DC 20002, Stanton Square DC PRESS CONTACT: Don Spark, 202-536-4310, donspark@worldcantwait.org
    Press Conference: Monday, January 23, 9:30 a.m. National Press Club, Edward R. Murrow Room 529 14th Street, NW Washington DC
    The Bush administration has expanded the special security zone around the Capitol, effectively (…)

  • Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez Frias did not fire off missiles at innocent women and children
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    It is so typical of the United States media to sound the alarm as they just did in an editorial: Halt Chavez arms buildup as if the sky is falling. Meanwhile, under this Bush administration, and as reported in a previous article, they allow Russia to rebuild the arms race ... which is far more devastating to the human race.
    Easy does it, my fellow Americans, you have nothing to fear from President Hugo Chavez ... but you do from Bush. Come to think of it, so does the (…)

  • WHO SAYS GOVERNMENT CAN’T HUSTLE?
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    Since Hurricane Katrina smashed into the Mississippi Gulf Coast last December, the U.S. Government has come under scathing criticism for being slow to respond.
    But the Administration of President George W. Bush has recently showed it is more than capable of hustling on issues it considers top priorities.
    Little more than a month after the Senate voted to ban appeals to the Supreme Court by suspected terrorists detained by the U.S., the Department of Justice (DOJ) (…)

  • Democrats Hold Hearing on Illegal Spying
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Congressman John Conyers Jr.
    There can be no doubt that today we are in a constitutional crisis that threatens the system of checks and balances that has preserved our fundamental freedoms for more than 200 years. There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation’s laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of US citizens.
    The Bush Administration offers two arguments to justify their actions. (…)

  • The Right to Vote
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jesse Jackson Jr.
    "The vote" is a human right. It is seen as an American right. In a democracy there is nothing more fundamental than having the right to vote.
    And yet the right to vote is not a fundamental right in our Constitution. Some liberals argue that the fundamental right to vote for every American citizen is implied in the Constitution, based on Supreme Court precedent. Yet when I ask them about the denial of voting representation in Congress to District of Columbia citizens, (…)

  • Torture flights: what No 10 knew and tried to cover up
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Leaked memo reveals strategy to deny knowledge of detention centres
    by Richard Norton-Taylor
    The government is secretly trying to stifle attempts by MPs to find out what it knows about CIA "torture flights" and privately admits that people captured by British forces could have been sent illegally to interrogation centres. A hidden strategy aimed at suppressing a debate about rendition - the US practice of transporting detainees to secret centres where they are at risk of being tortured - (…)

  • The Stolen Election of 2004 : Democracy RIP
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I well remember Novembre 2, 2004. The exit polls , they are actually two separate exit polls , showed Democrat John Kerry was headed for a popular vote victory of between 2% - 4%. It wasn’t just the early exits but the third and fourth waves of exit polls that seemed to bode such an ill wind for Team Bush. My hopes soared until are I started monitoring the blog at National Review , the redoubt for bed-wetting chickenhawks who want YOU to die to sate Israel’s grand imperial (…)

  • Call is out to impeach Bush
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — A Democratic congressman, a prominent legal scholar and a self-described target of government surveillance urged Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on Friday to consider impeaching President George W. Bush for his domestic surveillance program.
    The recommendation by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., law scholar Jonathan Turley and Florida-based political activist Richard Hersh emerged at an unofficial Judiciary Committee hearing staged entirely by Democrats.
    The (…)

  • "I want to be absolutely clear, what the president ordered in this case was a crime"
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Legal experts, privacy advocates and Democratic lawmakers on Friday called for congressional and independent investigations into whether the Bush administration broke the law by authorizing a secret program to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens without a court order.
    Seven Democrats held an unofficial hearing in the basement of a House office building to examine revelations that Bush ordered the National Security Agency to conduct warrantless wiretaps.
    "I want to be absolutely clear, what the (…)

  • "If the president commits a criminal act, you are obligated to hold impeachment hearings"
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Washington — House Democrats warned President Bush, top leaders of his administration and officials of the National Security Agency on Friday that if the political climate changes they could face criminal prosecution for ordering and carrying out warrantless domestic eavesdropping.
    "These are clearly crimes and the statute of limitations extends beyond this president’s term,’’ which will end in January 2009, said Rep. Jerry Nadler D-N.Y., at an ad hoc hearing called by House Judiciary (…)