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  • The Champ Meets the Chump
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dave Zirin
    The presidency of George W. Bush is collapsing under the weight of its own incompetence. The polls speak for themselves—only 35 percent of us approve of his job performance. Fifty-six percent—including one in four Republicans—say the war in Iraq was not worth fighting, and more than half believe Bush intentionally misled the country to bring the United States into war. The response from the White House has been grimly predictable: Admit no mistakes and spin, slash or burn (…)

  • Woodward joins a decadent dance
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Tim Rutten
    Whatever impact the scandal surrounding the leak of former CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity ultimately has on the Bush administration, it continues to spread through the Washington press corps like a toxic plume.
    As it does, it discredits not only individual reporters and damages their news organizations but also an entire style of reporting that has come to dominate the way Americans are informed - or misinformed - concerning their government’s conduct.
    This week’s (…)

  • Kucinich Calls For Congressional Hearings On Vice President Cheney’s False Statements On The War
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - November 21 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich sent the following letter to Tom Davis, Chairman of the House Government Reform Committee:
    Dear Chairman Davis:
    I am requesting that the Government Reform Committee hold a hearing on the war in Iraq and specifically the role that Vice President Richard Cheney, and his staff, played in leading this nation to war.
    We now know that the Vice President, and his aides, were at the forefront of the Administration planning and execution (…)

  • Murtha Speaks Truth To Bush’s Lies
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Murtha Speaks Truth To Bush’s Lies By Bill Gallagher November 22, 2005 Detroit - Privately, President George W. Bush is having a political panic attack as he retreats to his cocoon, seeking comfort from his nannies. Babs, his mommy, wife Laura, Condi Rice and Karen Hughes serve as his ladies in waiting, assuring our courageous leader that the boo-boos he gets on his head will get better and those bad boys criticizing his war are just meanies who don’t like him. Vice President Dick (…)

  • Hugo Chavez and the Crawford Madman
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hugo Chavez seems to take great pleasure in tweaking George Bush’s nose. He’s repeatedly called Bush a "terrorist" and disparaged the US as a "terrorist state". Just last week, Chavez fired off another broadside saying, "The planet’s most serious danger is the government of the United States...The people of the United States are being governed by a killer, a genocidal murderer, and a madman."
    He got that right.
    For liberals and leftists Chavez’s fiery salvos have been a welcome respite (…)

  • Incumbents Out
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Next year, we should all go to the polls and vote against every single incumbent running for re-election, regardless of his or her party or so-called philosophy.
    Can you understand what a shock it would be if all 435 members of the U.S. House and the third of the Senate that will be running were defeated? Washington would never be the same again, and that, on its face, would be a good thing.
    I know most folks feel about their congressional representative or senator the way most parents (…)

  • UW-Madison News Release—Globalization Forum
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/21/05
    CONTACT: Thomas W. Smith, (608) 263-7426, twsmith@wisc.edu
    INDUSTRY FORUM TO EXPLORE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON ENGINEERING
    MADISON - Increasingly, U.S. companies are looking overseas for the deployment and development of engineering resources. The globalization of the engineering enterprise affects all aspects of engineering, from information systems through product design, manufacturing and plant and facilities.
    Sales support and service functions are (…)

  • As rural economies collapse, communities across America are being deserted
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Population 1: the town that’s been reclaimed by the prairie
    As rural economies collapse, communities across America are being deserted, as Paul Harris discovers in Monowi, Nebraska
    Sunday November 20, 2005 The Observer
    The entire population of Monowi, Nebraska, is sitting in a bar. Her name is Elsie Eiler, 72.
    Monowi, founded by Czech immigrants seeking a slice of the American dream, is on its last legs. Only Eiler is left, surrounded by the ruins of homes that once boasted families, (…)

  • The failing of small towns across America is a canary in the coal mine.
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Jobs are disappearing everywhere across the country. We can no longer sit silent while Washington denudes the U.S. of its farms, ranches, factories, defenses, and wealth. Make no mistake - this country is being gutted like a corporate takeover. The people are being left with nothing.
    Our military is being wasted in Iraq to enrich defense contractors. Oil is just a small part of that picture.
    And when there are no factories left to manufacture a defense, when we are importing everything, (…)

  • Iraq fraud arrests expose criminality of US occupation
    21 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The arrest this week of a private contractor and a former US government official in connection with a multimillion-dollar contract-rigging and bribery scandal has exposed a piece of the corruption and criminality that is pervasive in America’s continuing military occupation of Iraq. It has likewise offered a glimpse of the layer of con men and profiteers who have flooded into the country in the name of reconstruction and democracy.
    Formally charged on Thursday were Philip H. Bloom, a US (…)