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  • Weaselly Rice tortures facts
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Does secretary of state think anyone is buying her spiel, asks Maureen Dowd
    by Maureen Dowd
    Our secretary of state’s tortuous defence of supposedly non-existent CIA torture chambers in Eastern Europe was an acid flashback to Clintonian parsing.
    Just as Bill Clinton pranced around questions about marijuana use at Oxford during the ’92 campaign by saying he had never broken the laws of his country, so Condoleezza Rice pranced around questions about outsourcing torture by suggesting that (…)

  • Climate campaigners claim greatest ever success at Montreal
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Humiliation for Bush as last-minute twist means an isolated US is forced to sign up for future talks on global warming
    By Andrew Buncombe in Montreal and Geoffrey Lean
    The fight against catastrophic global warming scored its greatest success to date yesterday, when negotiators from more than 180 nations unexpectedly agreed to develop far-reaching measures to combat climate change.
    In the process, the delegates to the climate summit in Montreal dealt a humiliating blow to President (…)

  • ’Never Before!’ Our Amnesiac Torture Debate
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Naomi Klein
    It was the "Mission Accomplished" of George W. Bush’s second term, and an announcement of that magnitude called for a suitably dramatic location. But what was the right backdrop for the infamous "We do not torture" declaration? With characteristic audacity, the Bush team settled on downtown Panama City.
    It was certainly bold. An hour and a half’s drive from where Bush stood, the US military ran the notorious School of the Americas from 1946 to 1984, a sinister educational (…)

  • WHY I AM ON STRIKE
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Michelle Fawcett
    When I moved to NYC to start a Ph.D. program at NYU in 2000, my biggest concern was not the rigors of graduate study or the challenge of moving to another new city alone. It was the fear of being unable to survive economically.
    Sure, I was going to work in addition to being a student: as a graduate assistant, or GA, for my department. GAs work as research assistants (RAs) or teaching assistants (TAs).
    The work of an RA might include co-editing an article with a (…)

  • Katrina Survivors Tell Congress Levees Were Blown On Purpose
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Victim’s anger: Dyan French, who stayed in New Orleans during the hurricane and its aftermath, gives evidence to the congressional committee. She claimed the city’s levees were purposely bombed.
    By Eunice Moscoso, Washington December 8, 2005
    VICTIMS of hurricane Katrina have told a US congressional bipartisan select committee that they were held at gunpoint, treated like criminals and left to sleep next to dead bodies.
    They said the Government at all levels failed to protect them as (…)

  • BUSH CRACKS LIBERTY BELL
    12 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Tolls Liberty Bell at Philadelphia
    By Peter Fredson
    December 12, 2005
    We all know that the Bush propaganda people are good at presenting our tyrannical, impatient, petulant, irresponsible, egomaniacal President as honest, candid, transparent, hard-working, efficient and highly moral.
    We all know this is stage-management, with good background lighting, with sacred or patriotic backdrops, with captive audiences, surrounded by the largest security forces and agents in our history. (…)

  • Flashback: Two Earthquakes on Christmas Day, EXACTLY one year apart- to the hour
    12 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Incredible Coincidence: A massive earthquake in Asia unleashed tsunamis killing thousands, exactly one year to the hour after the Bam, Iran earthquake killed 26,000. What are the odds of two of the most destructive earthquakes in decades occuring exactly one year apart- almost to the minute!
    December 26, 2003 - Bam, Iran, only 6.6 on the richter scale, but quake is centered directly under the city- 26,000 dead.
    December 26, 2004 - Centered off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the (…)

  • NEW ORLEANIANS PLAN RALLY IN WASHINGTON DC Wednesday, December 14
    12 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Frustrated by the slow pace of the federal government’s response, Shawna Doremus and Judith Kaufman, both New Orleanians displaced in Pittsburgh, have planned a rally in the nation’s capital on Wednesday, December 14, 2005.
    ”New Orleans is one of America’s most unique cities, and it is heartbreaking to see the city struggling to get back on it’s feet,” said Doremus. “We are Americans, we are taxpayers, and Judy and I both personally represent small businesses. We are asking Congress to (…)

  • Choking the Internet: How much longer will your favorite sites be on line?
    12 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Internet censorship. It did not happen overnight but slowly came to America’s shores from testing grounds in China and the Middle East.
    Progressive and investigative journalist web site administrators are beginning to talk to each other about it, e-mail users are beginning to understand why their e-mail is being disrupted by it, major search engines appear to be complying with it, and the low to equal signal-to-noise ratio of legitimate e-mail and spam appears to be perpetuated by it.
    In (…)

  • Bush on the Constitution: ’It’s just a goddamned piece of paper’
    12 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act.
    Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell shocked period immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr to oppose renewal.
    GOP leaders told Bush that (…)