Home > Keywords > International > USA

USA

  • The Price of Victory
    28 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Price of Victory
    by Wayne Besen
    Relentlessly promoting God in the public square is the centerpiece of the right wing’s dangerous political agenda. They fight to have The 10 Commandments placed in courthouses. Public schools are considered a battlefield for restoring sectarian prayer and teaching creationism. Congress is now an institution that often sounds more like a Pentecostal church than the seat of secular government.
    When defending their actions in the exploitation of Terri (…)

  • Tiny Labor
    27 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    Tiny Labor
    By Barbara Ehrenreich
    In the fifty years of the AFL-CIO’s existence, Big Labor has shrunk to a third of its former size, but it’s been clinging to its outsized clothes and outmoded habits. While membership dwindles, the AFL-CIO has continued to act like a big shot-doling out tens of millions to the Democratic Party and occupying a palatial spread located within kiss-blowing distance of the White House.
    Nor has it budged from the style of “business unionism” developed by (…)

  • Tim Robbins at War : actor enters stage left and takes aim at the lying politicians and their lapdog media
    27 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    Tim Robbins at War : actor enters stage left and takes aim at the lying politicians and their lapdog media
    by Bruce Kirkland NEW YORK — Psychologically, Tim Robbins sits poised somewhere between Hollywood celebrity and American citizenry. It is neither a comfortable nor a safe place.
    On one hand, Robbins is an Oscar-winning movie star known for the complexity of his performances, whether as hero, as victim or just as often as the villain. In Steven Spielberg’s current sci-fi movie War (…)

  • Tuesday WH Briefing: John Roberts and Iran-Contra
    27 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tuesday WH Briefing: John Roberts and Iran-Contra
    By E&P Staff
    Published: July 26, 2005 5:00 PM ET
    NEW YORK Virtually giving up, at last, on getting Press Secretary Scott McClellan to comment on the Plame/CIA leak affair, reporters at today’s White House briefing concentrated on another hot issue, the Democrats’ attempt to get the White House to release more of a paper trail on Supreme Court nominee John Roberts.
    The White House says it will hand over more than enough documents, (…)

  • Why Lance Must Break With Bush
    27 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    3 comments

    Why Lance Must Break With Bush
    By Dave Zirin
    To all the haters that don’t think cycling is a sport, and the Tour De France ranks just below watching an apple turn brown, let’s be clear: Lance Armstrong has earned the love. The cancer-surviving cyclist ended his career with a record seventh straight Tour De France victory. Immediately the accolades rolled in, and he has earned every dollop with an athletic tenacity and compelling personal story that’s touched the lives of millions.
    But (…)

  • AFL-CIO CONVENTION CALLS FOR TROOP WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ
    27 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    AFL-CIO CONVENTION CALLS FOR TROOP WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ
    By David Bacon
    CHICAGO, IL (7/26/05) - On the second day of its convention in Chicago, the AFL-CIO took an historic step, calling for the rapid withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, and an end to the country’s occupation. Public attention has focused largely on the split in US labor, and the decision by two of the federation’s largest unions to leave. Yet the impact of this call will reverberate for years, with as profound effect on (…)

  • U.S.-Israel crisis deepens over defense exports to China
    27 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    U.S.-Israel crisis deepens over defense exports to China
    By Ze’ev Schiff, Haaretz Correspondent
    The U.S. administration has refused to rescind sanctions against Israel until the latter proves it has increased its monitoring of security-related exports, deepening the crisis between the two countries.
    Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, who was about to leave for Washington for talks on the matter, canceled the trip following the increased U.S. demands.
    The crisis erupted over Israel’s sale (…)

  • Witnesses Say Army Dogs Bit Detainees
    27 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Witnesses Say Army Dogs Bit Detainees
    By DAVID DISHNEAU
    FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) - Military dogs bit at least two detainees at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, one severely enough to require stitches, witnesses testified Tuesday at a pretrial hearing for two Army dog handlers.
    The unmuzzled dogs were also used to terrify inmates at the direction of the highest-ranking military intelligence officer at the prison, one witness said.
    The allegations of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and the surfacing (…)

  • Christians against Bush : spreading the truth about September 11th
    27 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    4 comments

    Christians spreading the truth about September 11th
    It was an inside job, and allowed to happen as a pretext to get the people behind the war.
    (San Diego, CA) A book titled, "The Resistance Manifesto" (ISBN: 0967346630) has just been published from a world wide network of Christians exposing the September 11th inside job, government prior knowledge, and the Bush family’s involvement in the attacks. Bold statements, backed by declassified documents, memos, and mainstream news reports, all (…)

  • Mugged by Reality?
    27 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    3 comments

    from the Australian:
    Mark Steyn: Mugged by reality? 25jul05
    WITH hindsight, the defining encounter of the age was not between Mohammed Atta’s jet and the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, but that between Mohammed Atta and Johnelle Bryant a year earlier.
    Bryant is an official with the US Department of Agriculture in Florida, and the late Atta had gone to see her about getting a $US650,000 government loan to convert a plane into the world’s largest crop-duster. A novel idea. (…)