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  • Up in the Air: Where Is the Iraq War Headed Next?
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
    In recent weeks, there has been widespread speculation that President George W. Bush, confronted by diminishing approval ratings and dissent within his own party, will begin pulling American troops out of Iraq next year. The Administration’s best-case scenario is that the parliamentary election scheduled for December 15th will produce a coalition government that will join the Administration in calling for a withdrawal to begin in the spring. By then, the White House (…)

  • Help Keep the Pressure on Congress
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by United for Peace and Justice
    The week before the Thanksgiving break events in Congress were dazzling! For the first time since the war in Iraq began, major divisions in Congress have come to the surface - and that means significant new opportunities for our work. Below is a quick re-cap of what happened. While none of the initiatives totally articulates our position, they are all important developments. Now, more than ever before, there are openings in the Congressional work. We are (…)

  • The Challenge and the Fear of Becoming Enlightened
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Pierre Tristam
    Since Sept. 11, we’ve been living under a "clash of civilizations" doctrine that can be summed up this way: Over there, dogma, orthodoxy, Islam; over here, democracy, pluralism, Constitution. Over there, dark continents, dark ages, terrorism; over here, enlightened West, enlightenment, freedom.
    The doctrine has been used to justify two wars (so far) and a wholesale shift in the way the United States deploys its aims abroad and projects them at home. The doctrine draws (…)

  • Work Stoppages Spike - Look Who Noticed
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Hirsch
    The Wall Street Journal, which maddeningly restricts nearly all its on-line content to print-edition subscribers, is two-faced. It’s pro-corporate editorial/opinion section carries the same primal sensibility that Jack London ascribed to leaders of America’s business classes when he called them "cavemen in evening dress." The predictable, hard-right opinion pages are a Fox News with semi-colons, combining slavering respect for all-things Bushie with a loathing for unions (…)

  • The Press: The Enemy Within
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Michael Massing
    The past few months have witnessed a striking change in the fortunes of two well-known journalists: Anderson Cooper and Judith Miller. CNN’s Cooper, the one-time host of the entertainment show The Mole, who was known mostly for his pin-up good looks, hip outfits, and showy sentimentality, suddenly emerged during Hurricane Katrina as a tribune for the dispossessed and a scourge of do-nothing officials. He sought out poor blacks who were stranded in New Orleans, expressed (…)

  • 9/11: Possible Motives Of The Bush Administration
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    9/11: Possible Motives Of The Bush Administration by Dr. David Ray Griffin December 2, 2005 911Truth.org
    The 9/11 Commission understood that its mandate, as we have seen, was to provide "the fullest possible account" of the "facts and circumstances" surrounding 9/11. Included in those facts and circumstances are ones that, according to some critics of the official account of 9/11, provide evidence that the Bush administration intentionally allowed the attacks of 9/11. Some critics have (…)

  • Georgia’s Fraudulent Anti-Fraud Legislation
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Julian Bond
    WASHINGTON (NNPA) - What is it with some people?
    Why do they persist in believing racial minorities are inveterate cheaters at the polls? What kind of racist criminal profiling takes place in their minds?
    Now comes Georgia State Rep. Sue Burmesiter (R-Augusta) telling the United States Department of Justice that if Black people in her district "are not paid to vote, they don’t go to the polls."
    She predicted that if a restrictive law she proposed was adopted, fewer (…)

  • The masking of a conservative
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    PRIDE MUST go before he falls. This is why Samuel Alito hopped to liberal burrows on Capitol Hill to proclaim the burial of his conservative ideology. In his 1985 application to a senior post in the Reagan administration, Alito wrote:
    ’’I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an (…)

  • The Lies and theTruth About the U.S. War on Iraq
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Facing growing criticism about the Iraq war from high-level politicians as well as from the public (a just-released Zogby poll found that 53 percent of people surveyed favored impeachment if Bush lied about the reasons for going to war with Iraq), the Bush regime has been snarling back. Vice President Cheney said that the charge that the Bush administration "purposely misled the American people on prewar intelligence is one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired in this (…)

  • Three Who See the War Clearly Reps. McKinney, Serrano and Wexler
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By BC Co-Publishers Glen Ford and Peter Gamble
    Only three Democrats voted on the issue of the Iraq war, last Friday. The rest followed Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s directives, a continuation of her "strategy" of insulating the pro-war wing of the party, centered in the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), from the wrath of the party’s base, which is now overwhelmingly anti-war. For the DLC’s sake, Pelosi smothers the party’s progressive wing - of which she was once a proud member. Thus, (…)