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  • Does DLC stand for Dick’s Legal Counsel ?
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Never has a group of conspirator’s had the good fortune to be blessed by the presence of such a cowardly , tepid " opposition." The fact that the Democratic Leadership in Congress refuses to broach the subject of impeaching the Bush - Cheney administration is proof positive that the Loyal Oppostion are Vichy-Dems , collaborationists who under no circumstance will fulfill their obligation to hold this administration accountable.
    We have an administration that brags about lauching an (…)

  • PUZZLED TO DEATH
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Puzzled to Death
    By Peter Fredson
    January 16, 2006
    I’m puzzled. Perhaps I’m confused and do not see things clearly. I’m not a lawyer, nor do I play one anywhere. But the legality of the Bush administration actions really puzzles me.
    For instance, if the President sends people out to destroy a village because he suspects one person in that village has bad intentions toward him, is that okay? I
    f he does not succeed in killing any terrorist, but instead “accidentally” kills several (…)

  • Cut to the Chase or Risk Irrelevance: The Plain and Simple Truth of 9/11
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Les Jamieson
    As a full time activist and researcher, it is obvious, from my perspective, that we as a movement still have serious work to do to inform millions of people. The government, media and so-called progressive organizations have resisted even seriously considering the overwhelming evidence of official lies. We still must find a way to break through the silence—and we cannot fail.
    The obvious task is to distill the analysis down to simple, powerful messages. Then we must (…)

  • WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: US Activists Study Bolivarian Revolution
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Katherine Stapp
    NEW YORK, Jan 12 (IPS) - U.S. activists are heading to the Sixth World Social Forum (WSF) with a renewed sense of optimism and international solidarity, despite Washington’s animosity toward the hemisphere’s growing slate of leftist governments.
    Up to 100,000 visitors are expected in Caracas, Venezuela from Jan. 24-29, while parallel forums will take place in Bamako, Mali from Jan. 19-23, and Karachi, Pakistan in March.
    The WSF was founded in 2001 to counter the (…)

  • GM, the Delphi Concessions, and North American Workers: Round Two?
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Sam Gindin
    It is important to recall that, until the 1970s, collective bargaining in the United States and Canada was largely about workers demanding improvements from their employers. But a new era in collective bargaining erupted at the end of the 1970s that was soon dubbed "concessionary bargaining." Corporations were now the ones making the demands. Tensions had been building through the decade, with corporations increasingly asserting that they could no longer both maintain profit (…)

  • Black Commentator vs. The Wall Street Journal
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By BC Associate Editor Bruce Dixon
    In their quest for absolute political hegemony in the United States, some elements of the Right now dare to claim to share with blacks - if not common cause - common conclusions about the state of race relations in America. In a January 8, 2006 piece weighted with the full freight of centuries of white supremacist delusions, Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto claimed that BC’s January 5, 2006 Cover Story, "Katrina Study: Black Consensus, White (…)

  • Pants on Fire: the Liars of the Bush Administration will take the world down in flames if we let them
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Daniel Patrick Welch
    Sam Alito is merely the latest liar on the block for Bush’s full spectrum dominance agenda. But the show-trial hearings on whether this proto-fascist ideologue should be allowed to shape US social and political development for a generation provide some nuggets of insight into how the corrupt junta’s pathological liars actually work.
    The first order of amazement is that the process can actually take place. Shouldn’t precedence be given to hearings on impeaching and (…)

  • Old, blind, crippled - and fit for execution
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Schwarzenegger accused of ’affront to human dignity’ as he rejects clemency plea
    By Andrew Gumbel
    California’s Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has denied clemency to the oldest prisoner on California’s Death Row, saying a murderer’s life should not be spared because he is old and ill. Although Clarence Ray Allen still has an appeal pending before the Supreme Court, the decision increases the likelihood that he will be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, a day after he turns 76. (…)

  • Bush rebuffs Merkel on Guantanamo
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    US President George W Bush has rejected criticism over the Guantanamo Bay camp raised by German Chancellor Angela Merkel during talks in Washington.
    President Bush said it was a necessary part of protecting the American people.
    But the two leaders presented a united front over Iran resuming its nuclear programme, and commentators said they appeared to have got on well.
    It is her first official US visit since her election which, Mr Bush joked, much like his own, was not a landslide win. (…)

  • Watch CSPAN Monday noon January 16th - Al Gore to Warn of President’s Threat to Constitution
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Monday, January 16, 2006
    Al Gore to Warn of President’s Threat to Constitution
    WATCH LIVE ON C-SPAN Schedule date: Monday, January 16, 2006 12:00 PM EST 1:00 (est.) LIVE peech Civil Liberties American Constitution Society Albert Gore Jr., United States The beginning and end of this live program may be earlier or later than
    the scheduled times.
    – http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:80...
    – http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetR...
    Al Gore to Warn of President’s Threat to Constitution (…)