Home > Keywords > International > USA

USA

  • Impeaching President Bush: A Game Of Ambiguity
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    “im-peach . . . 2. to call in question” —Oxford American Dictionary
    Rules matter. Only Congress has authority to impeach a sitting president in the political sense; but the private citizen has the ability to impeach a president by calling into question the president’s words and deeds. What follows is one American’s “impeachment” of President George W. Bush. You, dear reader, may be the jury - or you may join the growing popularity of this game and make your own “impeachment” list.
    In (…)

  • MR. NOUR AND POLITICAL REFORM IN EGYPT
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Fisher
    The U.S. Government, foreign policy experts, newspaper editorial writers and human rights advocates were virtually unanimous in condemning the sentencing last week of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s chief political opponent to a five-year prison term, but divided on what can be done about it.
    The White House and the State Department issued statements saying they were “deeply troubled” by the conviction and sentencing of Ayman Nour, the runner-up in Egypt’s 2005 (…)

  • The Best of 2005
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    This past year, my weekly column has opined on key issues affecting the American people. Heroes have been lauded, hypocrites exposed and crucial gay issues brought to the fore. Here is a snapshot of the tantalizing topics discussed in 2005:
    Adultery in the Military: It is time the military bring back adults who care more about winning wars than declaring a self-righteous war on adultery. We might be doing better in Iraq if the Pentagon started paying more attention to the (…)

  • Who Made America Right?
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    3 comments

    by Monica Benderman
    War — Guns, tanks, chemical weapons, killing, devastation, inhumanity.
    Why do we go to war? Why does anyone pursue another to the point of war?
    Forget who instigated it. At war - both sides kill. Soldiers are told their side is right - they are given guns and ordered to kill as many on the other side as possible because the “other side” is wrong.
    WHO exactly tells us we are right?
    Who is it that has decided that our side is right?
    Some blame a president. (…)

  • Pinter’s Provocation: Self Love in America
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    « Just think of me as your new guidance counselor ... Or just think Mr. Jefferson’s Answer to The Friend of Peace (1816) »
    By Greg Moses
    In homage to the Nobel Prize for Literature, Harold Pinter’s acceptance speech testifies to gifts of inspiration; hints of realms apart within; callings to craft that expose writers to tempestuous solitudes where lines between truth and unreality are not marked out in advance, where things press against each other in duality, both untrue and real at the (…)

  • A right to due process and presumption of innocence until proven guilty...
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mary MacElveen
    When I read Howard Kurtz’s article: Bush Presses Editors on Security it reminded me of a CBS movie "Hitler: The Rise of Evil." You may be asking why this movie came to mind. There are many Americans and those around the globe who have compared Bush with Adolph Hitler.
    One has only to look at the Patriot Act to know this to be true.
    When Hitler came to power, he pushed for an Enabling Act which, as I have stated before, is strikingly similar and during his reign (…)

  • Optimism Brings Victory
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Optimism Brings Victory By Large Signs
    By Peter Fredson
    December 28, 2005
    George and Dick don’t really need any more victories, any more assaults on Iraqi civilians and their homes, any more “advisors”, mercenaries, proselytizers, or even any more troops to declare victory. Victory is declared by George Bush with big smiles, strutting, swaggering, staring intently into the cameras, bobbing his head, making stiff gestures with his hands to show the world that he is winning whatever war (…)

  • Maher Arar: Timeline
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen born in Syria in 1970, came to Canada in 1987. After earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer engineering, Arar worked in Ottawa as a telecommunications engineer.
    On a stopover in New York as he was returning to Canada from a vacation in Tunisia in September 2002, U.S. officials detained Arar, claiming he has links to al-Qaeda, and deported him to Syria, even though he was carrying a Canadian passport.
    When Arar returned to Canada more than a (…)

  • New Orleans Police have "No Choice", Shoot to Kill Man with Knife
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    NEW ORLEANS - The city’s embattled police department will have another internal investigation to face after a swarm of converging officers gunned down a man brandishing a knife.
    A police spokesman said the officers who fired on the man Monday will be reassigned pending the outcome of the probe, but he defended their response, saying at least one officer’s life was in danger just prior to the barrage of gunfire.
    "You have a subject who’s lunging at them with a knife... swinging wildly at (…)

  • What I heard about Iraq in 2005
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    by Eliot Weinberger
    In 2005 I heard that Coalition forces were camped in the ruins of Babylon. I heard that bulldozers had dug trenches through the site and cleared areas for helicopter landing pads and parking lots, that thousands of sandbags had been filled with dirt and archaeological fragments, that a 2600-year-old brick pavement had been crushed by tanks, and that the moulded bricks of dragons had been gouged out from the Ishtar Gate by soldiers collecting souvenirs. I heard that the (…)