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by Sheila Suess Kennedy
Remember high school government class and the textbook explanation of how a bill becomes law? Congress drafts legislation, which it sends to the president. If the president vetoes it, it fails, unless Congress has enough votes to override the veto. If the president signs the legislation, he issues a press release, hands out commemorative pens and the bill becomes law.
Or maybe not.
As the media often note, President Bush has never used his veto. As it turns (…)

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In Martin Luther King Day address, Gore compares wiretapping of Americans to surveillance of King 01/16/2006 @ 12:08 pm Filed by RAW STORY
In an address delivered in Washington to multiple standing ovations, Vice President Al Gore repeatedly attacked the Bush Administration for the expansion of executive power — the ability of the government to wiretap its own citizens without legal authority and kidnap Americans abroad.
His (…)

GORE CALLS FOR SPECIAL PROSECUTOR OVER WIRETAPS: CONSTITUTION IN GRAVE DANGER
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In Martin Luther King Day address, Gore compares wiretapping of Americans to surveillance of King 01/16/2006 @ 12:08 pm Filed by RAW STORY
In an address delivered in Washington to multiple standing ovations, Vice President Al Gore repeatedly attacked the Bush Administration for the expansion of executive power — the ability of the government to (…)

This is a re post of an article from Aljazeerah and brought to my attention by a friend. The Author, Dr. Tamimi has recently authored a plea for the release of four peace activists captured by the Sword of Rightesnous in Iraq. The captives are Baptists.
The hope of peace transcends the realities of war.
Collapsing behind a wall by Dr Assam Tamimi Thursday 30 October 2003 7:20 AM GMT
Dr Azzam Tamimi
The founding fathers of Zionism would, if revived today, not recognise Israel as (…)

Never has a group of conspirator’s had the good fortune to be blessed by the presence of such a cowardly , tepid " opposition." The fact that the Democratic Leadership in Congress refuses to broach the subject of impeaching the Bush - Cheney administration is proof positive that the Loyal Oppostion are Vichy-Dems , collaborationists who under no circumstance will fulfill their obligation to hold this administration accountable.
We have an administration that brags about lauching an (…)

Puzzled to Death
By Peter Fredson
January 16, 2006
I’m puzzled. Perhaps I’m confused and do not see things clearly. I’m not a lawyer, nor do I play one anywhere. But the legality of the Bush administration actions really puzzles me.
For instance, if the President sends people out to destroy a village because he suspects one person in that village has bad intentions toward him, is that okay? I
f he does not succeed in killing any terrorist, but instead “accidentally” kills several (…)

by Les Jamieson
As a full time activist and researcher, it is obvious, from my perspective, that we as a movement still have serious work to do to inform millions of people. The government, media and so-called progressive organizations have resisted even seriously considering the overwhelming evidence of official lies. We still must find a way to break through the silence—and we cannot fail.
The obvious task is to distill the analysis down to simple, powerful messages. Then we must (…)

Los locos de adentro y la locura de afuera
Por Erasmo Magoulas*
Canadá, el país bajo una “democracia aséptica”, casi de laboratorio, (porque el pueblo no la ha tocado por muchos años) va a elecciones federales en la cuarta semana de enero. Pongamos en perspectiva a este país de la “eterna democracia” del cual raramente se lee una noticia en las agencias internacionales de prensa.
Trabajo en un refugio para “personas sin techo” (eufemismo canadiense-anglosajón para decir indigentes) en (…)

by Katherine Stapp
NEW YORK, Jan 12 (IPS) - U.S. activists are heading to the Sixth World Social Forum (WSF) with a renewed sense of optimism and international solidarity, despite Washington’s animosity toward the hemisphere’s growing slate of leftist governments.
Up to 100,000 visitors are expected in Caracas, Venezuela from Jan. 24-29, while parallel forums will take place in Bamako, Mali from Jan. 19-23, and Karachi, Pakistan in March.
The WSF was founded in 2001 to counter the (…)

by Sam Gindin
It is important to recall that, until the 1970s, collective bargaining in the United States and Canada was largely about workers demanding improvements from their employers. But a new era in collective bargaining erupted at the end of the 1970s that was soon dubbed "concessionary bargaining." Corporations were now the ones making the demands. Tensions had been building through the decade, with corporations increasingly asserting that they could no longer both maintain profit (…)