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  • How Reliable Is Brown’s Resume?
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A TIME investigation reveals discrepancies in the FEMA chief’s official biographies
    By DAREN FONDA AND RITA HEALY
    When President Bush nominated Michael Brown to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 2003, Brown’s boss at the time, Joe Allbaugh, declared, "the President couldn’t have chosen a better man to help...prepare and protect the nation." But how well was he prepared for the job? Since Hurricane Katrina, the FEMA director has come under heavy criticism for his (…)

  • The Bush Beat
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ward Harkavy
    Taking the U.N. by storm, a successful oilman from Venezuela berates an unsuccessful one from Texas
    Hugo Chávez, speaking at the U.N. Thursday, showed George W. Bush how to use a bully pulpit. Following Bush by a day, the Venezuelan president generated the loudest applause at the biggest gathering of world leaders in Planet Earth’s 4.55-billion-year-history.
    He did it blasting the U.S. for being a bully - and for even using a pulpit to do it. Here’s how the (…)

  • A Reality Check on Bush’s Speech to the UN World Summit
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Yifat Susskind
    On September 14, George W. Bush addressed a gathering of over 170 world leaders at the UN World Summit. His speech came in the wake of international outrage against the US for its attempts to derail the Summit’s original purpose, which was to make progress on reducing global poverty. Given the disconnect between the President’s words and deeds, we offer the following MADRE reality check on some of Bush’s more egregious comments at the World Summit.
    "Either hope will (…)

  • Truth Is Casualty of Katrina’s Aftermath
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JOHN SOLOMON
    WASHINGTON (AP) - One of the bigger casualties of Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath has been the truth itself. From federal emergency managers to Democrats, much fingerpointing - and even the promises not to engage in it - have fallen short of the facts.
    For instance, the levees that broke weren’t ones waiting for Army Corps of Engineer repairs as Democrats have implied. They were ones that had already been fortified, and still failed.
    And, yes, some in government did (…)

  • Galloway’s frankness invigorates, shocks Americans
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Nichols
    Americans who are familiar only with the almost always empty words - and often empty heads - of this country’s political leaders can be a little shocked by George Galloway’s pronouncements.
    The British parliamentarian, who came of age in the brawling political landscape of his native Scotland, where a quick wit and a savage debating style are prerequisites for electoral success, does not mince words in the manner that most American pols do.
    Consider Galloway’s statement (…)

  • Bush’s changing tune
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    PRESIDENT BUSH said these things about Hurricane Katrina in his speech to the nation Thursday:
    ’’Millions of lives were changed in a day by a cruel and wasteful storm."
    ’’Federal funds will cover the great majority of the costs of repairing public infrastructure in the disaster zone."
    ’’As all of us saw on television, there is also some deep, persistent poverty in this region as well. And that poverty has roots in a history of racial discrimination, which cut (…)

  • The AFL-CIO has lost another member, shrinking its numbers even more.
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Harold Meyerson
    UNITE-HERE has left the AFL-CIO, and what I want to know is whether the name of the union is being changed to UNITE-THERE. On Tuesday, the executive board of the 450,000-member union — the product of a merger last year between UNITE (formerly the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees) and HERE (the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union) — voted at a meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota, to leave the federation. UNITE-HERE joins the (…)

  • Wake of the Hurricane : Etan Thomas Rises to the Occasion
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by DAVE ZIRIN
    Sports stars are generally known more for their narcissism than their compassion, but in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, athletes have expressed a tremendous amount of altruism and anguish over the amount of human suffering the storm has caused. That’s not surprising, when you consider that more than 100 professional athletes come from the Gulf Coast, an area whose deep poverty, institutionalized racism and year-round sunshine combine to offer the requisite conditions for (…)

  • Chavez & Fuel
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The donation of 300,000 barrels of fuel to U.S southern states probably is a political stunt by Pres.
    Chavez Frias but who could blame him, with American christian right leader Pat Robinson urging the U.S govt to ’take him out’ who wouldn’t be worried? Pres.
    Chavez is sending a message to Americans poor & working class that he isn’t their enemy,after all he isn’t sending American manufacturing jobs to China or Mexico neither is he destroying the livelihoods of American farmers or (…)

  • Galloway 10 x Hitchens 0
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Well, the long-awaited “Grapple in the Big Apple,” as the Guardian dubbed it, has taken place. Here is the link Hitchens, that "drink-soaked, former Trotskyist popinjay," as MP George Galloway of the Respect Coalition party in Great Britain so memorably put it, apparently was on another planet. The event took place on September 14 in the Mason Hall at the Baruch College performing arts center in the Gramercy Park area of Manhattan. Baruch College is one of ten senior colleges of the (…)