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  • First Step to Impeachment
    26 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Next year might be decisive for US President George W. Bush, accused of lying, showing total disregard for US and international laws, Constitution violations, living in a bubble, promoting abuses, torture, indefinite detention of and spying on US citizens and foreigners.
    For similar crimes, former president Richard Nixon -dabbed as Dirty Dick- was impeached almost thirty years ago as a consequence of what is known as the Watergate scandal.
    In the impeachment of Nixon, the argument in its (…)

  • High Crimes and Misdemeanors
    26 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Richard Cohen, the finely-calibrated syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, wrote a column on October 28, 2004 which commenced with this straight talk: "I do not write the headlines for my columns. Someone else does. But if I were to write the headline for one, it would be ’Impeach George Bush’."
    Cohen stated the obvious then. Bush and Cheney had plunged the nation into war "under false pretenses." Exploiting the public trust in the Presidency, Bush had persuaded, over the (…)

  • Impeaching Presidents — and Messengers
    26 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    When the U.S. Senate last Friday refused to renew the liberticidal Patriot Act — with its provisions for spying on Americans’ use of libraries and the Internet, among other Constitution- shredding activities — it was in part because that morning’s New York Times had revealed how Bush and his White House had committed a major crime.
    By ordering the National Security Agency (a massive spying shop so secretive that in Washington its initials are said to stand for "No Such Agency") to wiretap (…)

  • On Bush: It’s time to say ’enough’
    26 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As if the lies that took us to Iraq were not enough. As if the knowing use of bad intelligence wasn’t enough. As if the ever- shifting justifications for this war were not enough. As if the use of torture by and at the behest of the United States was not enough. As if the disclosure of classified information to retaliate against a critic of the war policy was not enough. As if the shroud of secrecy that binds this administration was not enough. As if the squandering of hundreds of billions (…)

  • Both sides did what they had to
    25 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Juan Gonzalez
    For three days, their transit strike had paralyzed America’s greatest city, and now it was time to go back to work.
    The 33,700 members of Transport Workers Union Local 100 were exhausted. They had incurred the wrath of millions of transit riders, of Mayor Bloomberg, of Gov. Pataki, of the city’s entire business establishment, even of their own parent union in Washington. For violating the Taylor Law, the local and each individual striker still face huge fines.
    Still, (…)

  • It’s clear Bloomberg just didn’t get it
    25 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Errol Louis
    Mayor Bloomberg yesterday confirmed that he stood by every word of his televised outburst against the Transport Workers Union’s leadership at the height of this week’s strike. He called them "thuggish," "selfish," "frauds" and the like. A host of critics, such as state Sen. Kevin Parker of Brooklyn, now accuse the mayor of being racially divisive.
    "We only need to look back to the day and time when MTA workers first gained the kind of pension and benefits which are now (…)

  • Left Voices Call for Building a Progressive Majority
    25 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Harry Targ
    Over 100 activists, including 20 speakers on five panels, from the labor, anti-racist, peace, women’s, and socialist movements met to talk about ’Building A Progressive Majority’ on Saturday, December 10 at the SEIU 1199 meeting hall in New York City. The event was sponsored and organized by The Committees of Correspondence Education Fund.
    Although difficult ’how to do it’ questions remain, attendees agreed with Leslie Cagan, United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) coordinator, (…)

  • Language of the Heart
    25 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Cindy Sheehan
    I have been in Europe for 2 weeks now. I have been toasted by the Mayor of London, Ken Livingston, and greeted by Foreign Ministers, a Vice President and members of the various Parliaments. Those stories are for another article.
    My highest honor both here in the States and in Europe now is meeting with the families of children murdered in George Bush’s War of Terror against the world.
    No matter if we all speak differently accented English, Spanish, or the heavy (…)

  • Taken for a ride in the ’war on terror’
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Syed Saleem Shahzad
    KARACHI - Since the onset of the "war on terror", the US has detained more than 3,000 people worldwide in a network of secret prisons established by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a number of regions, from Southeast Asia to North Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe.
    Revelations of this policy have drawn a flood of criticism, with allegations that prisoners held in such countries at the CIA’s behest could have been subject to unlawful interrogation.
    US (…)

  • Final Final Word: British Intelligence Inside Operation
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by: Steve Watson
    With the major stories of torture/rendition and spying on US citizens, one important revelation has slipped away virtually unnoticed - the fact that the Blair Government and the British Intelligence services had prior knowledge of the London bombings on July 7th of this year.
    The London Times reported last weekend that MI5 and MI6 had specifically warned Tony Blair before the July 7 suicide bombings that Al-Qaeda was planning a “high priority” attack specifically aimed (…)