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  • The death and torture flights of CIA should be stopped! Bush and his gang should be judged!
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Yildiz Onen Coordinator of the Global Peace and Justice Coalition of Turkey
    As the Global Peace and Justice Coalition we had a press conference in İstanbul on 30 of November about the death and torture flights of CIA and its using Turkish airspace and Sabiha Gökçen airport.
    Last week, there was some news about that CIA has been carrying some people, who had been captured by CIA through secret operations, to the secret prisons which was built in the other countries. In the news it was (…)

  • What is the Opposition Party Opposed to? The Reed and Kerry Show
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ELI STEPHENS
    I wanted to take a look at the "opposition" response to George Bush’s speech and plan today. There is a transcript online, but you have to be a Federal News Service subscriber to see it, and, for a 30-minute news conference by two major Senators, the news coverage has been minimal to say the least (more on right-wing blogs and news sites than in the mainstream media). So I had to make my own transcript from the C-SPAN video (not a direct link, must scroll down). What (…)

  • Is It Madness or Merely More Lying? The Hallucinations of Joe Lieberman
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By KEVIN ZEESE
    In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on November 28, Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) put forward an argument for staying the course in Iraq. Of course, his argument in "Our Troops Must Stay" was filled with false information.
    Lieberman describes "real progress" and "self-securing nationhood." What are the facts? Rep. Murtha laid them out clearly saying the "war in Iraq is not going as advertised" and, more specifically:
    "Oil production and energy production are below (…)

  • The Tempest Cometh Jack Abramoff’s Bipartisan Sleaze
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JOSHUA FRANK
    It is far too early to tell what kind of impact it will ultimately have on the Republican establishment, but the Jack Abramoff scandal could well be the most perilous of all the storms developing around Washington. And the cloud forming on the horizon is a dark one indeed.
    The most enthralling aspect of this whole controversy is the number of people it potentially involves. From elected officials in Congress to top conservative activists, the Abramoff lobbyist sham could (…)

  • It’s the Beginning of the End-For the Empire, Not Just the War
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Kim Scipes
    This past September, I wanted to write something about the juxtaposition of the extremely successful mobilization against the war in Iraq on September 24th with the failed mobilization the following day in support of the war. A phrase kept running in my head from someone progressives do not generally quote: Winston Churchill. After the British defeat of the German Afrika Korps in Egypt in November 1942, during World War II, Churchill stated, "Now this is not the end. It (…)

  • Justice Staff Saw Texas Districting As Illegal
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Voting Rights Finding On Map Pushed by DeLay Was Overruled
    By Dan Eggen
    Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay (R) violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo obtained by The Washington Post. But senior officials overruled them and approved the plan.
    The memo, unanimously endorsed by six lawyers and two analysts in the department’s voting section, said the redistricting (…)

  • Hollywood leads campaign for death row reprieve
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
    Hollywood actors, musicians, church leaders and death penalty opponents staged protests and vigils across the US on behalf of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips street gang who faces execution in less than two weeks unless the California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, can be persuaded to grant him clemency.
    The outpouring of support for "International Save Tookie Day" yesterday underlined the controversy surrounding Williams’s death sentence (…)

  • Alito Sketched Strategy to Overturn Roe in ’85
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Maura Reynolds and Richard B. Schmitt
    WASHINGTON - As a Reagan administration lawyer, Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. argued forcefully against the high court’s landmark decision legalizing abortion and laid out a strategy to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
    In a lengthy 1985 memo, Alito - then an assistant solicitor general - urged the Justice Department to defend states seeking to put restrictions on the procedure, saying that the Supreme Court’s rulings did not mean that abortion (…)

  • Restore Workers’ Freedom to Form Unions
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by AFL-CIO
    As part of International Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, the union movement is mobilizing to demand workers are guaranteed a fundamental human right: The freedom to have a union voice on the job. At rallies, town hall meetings, candlelight vigils and teach-ins across the nation, union members and their allies will highlight the obstacles workers face when seeking to join a union at work and showcase strategies for the overcoming those obstacles.
    Workers taking part in Dec. 10 (…)

  • By God, another awful Bush appointment
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    Washington is a town where the best and the brightest usually coexist with well-connected political hacks. However, the Bush administration has taken promotion of the latter to embarrassing extremes, selecting unqualified people for posts because of their political loyalty and ideological persuasion. The most recent example of this was the appointment of Paul Bonicelli to be deputy director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which is in (…)