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  • Former Agents Criticize Bush Over CIA Leak
    25 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Former Agents Criticize Bush Over CIA Leak
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush’s failure to take action against a top aide involved in the outing of a covert CIA operative sends the wrong message’’ overseas, former U.S. intelligence officials said on Friday.
    At a hearing sponsored by Democrats, the retired agents said U.S. intelligence gathering had been damaged by the leak of Valerie Plame’s name two years ago after her husband, former diplomat Joseph Wilson, criticized the White (…)

  • The Labor Movement: It’s More than We Bargain for
    25 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Labor Movement: It’s More than We Bargain for
    by Kim Fellner
    The battle over labor’s future is heading toward a showdown at the AFL-CIO Convention, beginning Monday July 25th in Chicago. But the confrontation pitting a team of insurgent unions led by the Service Employees International Union against the AFL-CIO establishment is shaping up to be organizationally bloody, but spiritually bloodless. We’re fighting for the heart and soul of the labor movement as though we had neither. (…)

  • Four of Six "Change-to-Win" Unions to Boycott AFL-CIO Convention
    25 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Big Labor Split Now Seems Certain:
    Four of Six "Change-to-Win" Unions to Boycott AFL-CIO Convention
    by Jerry Tucker
    In a meeting held late Sunday afternoon, the leaders and delegates from the rival "Change-to-Win" (CTW) faction of the ALF-CIO announced their intentions with regard to participation in the AFL-CIO Convention, scheduled to convene tomorrow, Monday July 25 in Chicago.
    The presidents of all six CTW unions, SEIU, Unite-HERE, Teamsters, UFCW, Laborers, and UFW participated (…)

  • US union movement ’faces split’
    25 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US union movement ’faces split’
    Four of the largest trade unions in the US are boycotting a convention by their umbrella organisation, in what is seen as a prelude to pulling out.
    The four unions say the umbrella AFL-CIO has not done enough to halt the decline in union membership in the US.
    They are among seven dissident unions representing a third of the AFL-CIO’s 13 million members - and $35m in dues.
    Experts say a split in US labour could hurt the Democratic party, which generally (…)

  • Scary Police State emerges in UK and USA
    25 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The powers that be are taking us down another notch towards a total police state. What should cause public outrage is being swept aside as par for the course in today’s world of terror attacks.
    London police just chased down a man and shot him- after they had him detained and he did NOT appear to be a threat.
    He was pinned down on the floor and shot through the head five times- is that ok with you?!
    If he had a bomb strapped on him, why didn’t the police remove his coat to prove it? (…)

  • Crowds Overflow at Downing Street Memo gatherings, irate citizens chant "Impeach Bush"
    24 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    How the United States Marked the 3rd Anniversary of the Downing Street Memo By David Swanson
    Hundreds of people were turned away today as capacity crowds packed public forums in U.S. cities to discuss the Downing Street Memo and related evidence that President Bush lied about the reasons for war. Halls were filled to capacity and beyond in LA, Oakland, Seattle, Detroit, Northampton, New York, and elsewhere, for events led by Congress Members, including Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee, Jim (…)

  • Democratic Dos and Don’ts
    24 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bush Administration and Republican Congressional leaders have plenty of reason to be worried. Large majorities of Americans believe the country is going in the wrong direction, that Bush doesn’t share their priorities, that the war in Iraq wasn’t worth it, and that the President can’t be trusted. Most people can’t think of anything Congress has done except for intruding in the Terri Schiavo case, and almost everyone disapproved of that. Democrats in Congress, while still not earning high (…)

  • FINALLY: A DEGREE IN PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
    23 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FINALLY: A DEGREE IN PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
    By William Fisher
    As the U.S. faces increasingly negative attitudes around the world, the previously arcane subject of public diplomacy has become a serious issue in the Bush Administration, Congress, universities, think-tanks and with ordinary citizens.
    “Why do they hate us?” is being asked in more places and by more kinds of Americans than ever before.
    As widely reported, repeated polls by reputable opinion organizations such as the Pew (…)

  • Did Karl Rove Lie to the FBI?
    23 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Did Karl Rove Lie to the FBI?
    By Jason Leopold
    Looks like Karl Rove did break the law, the same federal law that got Martha Stewart sentenced to six months in prison.
    It now appears that Rove, President Bush’s chief of staff, may have lied to the FBI in October 2003-a federal crime-when he was questioned by federal agents who were investigating the source responsible for leaking the true identity of an undercover CIA operative to the media.
    During questioning by the FBI about his (…)

  • Zach Vs. Pat
    23 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Zach Vs. Pat
    by Wayne Besen
    In May, 16-year old Zach told his fundamentalist Christian parents that he is gay. Horrified by the news, they vowed to fix him by sending him to an "ex-gay" boot camp in Memphis to be reprogrammed. Like a modern day message in a bottle, Zach used his Internet blog to send an SOS. Miraculously, his desperate plea for help washed up on the shores of sanity and circulated in cyberspace at warp speed.
    "I told my parents I was gay," he wrote. "This didn’t go (…)