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  • Birth in Europe of the Programmatic Area for a " Society Alternative "
    23 February 2005

    6th CONGRESS OF THE ITALIAN COMMUNIST REFOUNDATION PARTY (PARTITO DELA RIFONDAZIONE COMUNISTA, PRC)_ convened on March 3-6, 2005
    The programmatic area for a " Society Alternative " in Europe, considering our distinctive status of foreign residents, put websites and other forms of medias in network in order to:
    1) make known the real Rifondazione politic, which is too often modified and falsified when reported by medias, but also by some structured groups, who act inside the party and in (…)

  • 6th CONGRESS OF THE ITALIAN COMMUNIST REFOUNDATION PARTY : The Alternative of Society
    23 February 2005

    (Firs signatory: Fausto Bertinotti)
    A new political and social cycle
    The sixth national Conference of our party is taking place in really "extraordinary" times: today in front of us is laid the full challenge of opening up a new political and social cycle, both in Italy and in the rest of Europe. Which means defeating not only the Right, but also the right-wing policies; and coming out, from the Left, from both the crisis of neo-liberal policies and the strategic impotence of left-wing (…)

  • Not In Our Name, Mr. President
    23 February 2005

    Not In Our Name, Mr. President 02-21-2005 An opportunity for productive social outreach looms on the horizon. A day is coming - maybe in weeks, maybe in months or maybe in years - when President Bush’s true-believers hit the wall of credibility. They have been led to believe our “war on terror,” as the president calls it, pits the forces of good vs. the forces of evil. Unfortunately, every report of the United States inhumanely abusing prisoners in its care tarnishes our gold star and (…)

  • Germany : ’If you don’t take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits’
    23 February 2005

    By Clare Chapman
    A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing "sexual services’’ at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.
    Prostitution was legalised in Germany just over two years ago and brothel owners ­ who must pay tax and employee health insurance ­ were granted access to official databases of jobseekers.
    The waitress, an unemployed information technology professional, had said that she was willing to work in (…)

  • Bush Arrives in Germany, KFC Closes
    23 February 2005

    Bush is here. The US president’s seven hour German stopover is being treated with all the pomp of a royal wedding. His visit has forced the shutdown of large parts of Mainz, causing economic hardship for many businesses. Is it worth it? Plus, we offer tips on alternative venues for future Bush visits.
    Where will the President get his KFC?
    Breaking news of the day: It’s getting hard to find American fast food in Mainz on Wednesday. In fact, the entire city center has been shut down, (…)

  • Bush Was Wired for NATO Press Conference
    23 February 2005

    George W. Bush, who is allegedly on a "charm offensive" across Europe, dropped the charm and was simply offensive at his NATO press conference when he once again relied on a hidden earpiece to feed him canned soundbite answers to reporters’ questions.
    As NASA scientist Robert Nelson proved last fall, George W. Bush relied on a wireless earpiece in all three of his debates with John Kerry during the 2004 campaign. While bloggers (including Democrats.com, IsBushWired.com, MysteryBulge, (…)

  • OHIO’S ODD NUMBERS
    23 February 2005

    No conspiracy theorist, and no fan of John Kerry’s, the author nevertheless found the Ohio polling results impossible to swallow: Given what happened in that key state on Election Day 2004, both democracy and common sense cry out for a court-ordered inspection of its new voting machines
    If it were not for Kenyon College, I might have missed, or skipped, the whole controversy. The place is a visiting lecturer’s dream, or the ideal of a campus-movie director in search of a setting. It is (…)

  • Congress not doing its job of protecting whistleblowers nor investigating their claims
    23 February 2005

    WASHINGTON - Congress is not doing its job of protecting government whistleblowers, nor investigating the national security weaknesses those employees have tried to expose, several private watchdog groups said Wednesday.
    They called for hearings into a particular case, that of linguist Sibel Edmonds, fired in 2002 after alleging shoddy work and possible espionage inside the FBI’s translator program.
    "The time has come for Congress to hold hearings and address the concerns raised by Ms. (…)

  • NON TO FRENCH WINE, OUI TO FRENCH AD AGENCY
    22 February 2005

    When France refused to join in the "coalition of the willing," the right-wing propaganda machine rolled out the "Hate-Everything-French" campaign. Conservative media mouthpieces like Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh led the Franco phobic charge, exhorting their benighted minions to boycott everything French. There was even an effort to change French fries to "freedom fries." French bashing could be heard and read, in varying degrees of ferocity, across the nation as the Bush (…)

  • Portugal’s Socialists Win Absolute Majority
    22 February 2005

    Portugal’s opposition Socialists scored their biggest electoral win, giving Prime Minister-elect Jose Socrates an absolute parliamentary majority to implement plans to kick-start growth in Western Europe’s poorest country.
    The Socialists won 120 of the 230 seats in parliament in a general election on Sunday, the first time any party has held an outright majority for a decade, and their victory was endorsed by a large voter turnout.
    Socrates, who ousted center-right Prime Minister Pedro (…)