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You would think from the apparently conflicting news reports that there is a deep division in the Blair cabinet as there appears to be in Washington about whether or not to conduct a military strike against Iran. In an interview last Sunday, Blair assured us that British forces would not be involved in such an attack. But questioned in parliament a few days later he gave Bush support for an attack. Giving him support, of course, is not the same thing as involving UK troops. And not involving (…)

FOX NEWS Poll: 33% Bush at New Low/Gloomy Economic Views
Thursday , April 20, 2006, By Dana Blanton
NEW YORK - More Americans disapprove than approve of how George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Congress are doing their jobs, while a majority approves of Condoleezza Rice. President Bush’s approval hits a record low of 33 percent this week, clearly damaged by sinking support among Republicans.
Opinions are sharply divided on whether Rumsfeld should resign as secretary of defense. In (…)

ISR Issue 46, March-April 2006
Hope and challenge in Bolivia Will Evo Morales end neoliberalism?
TOM LEWIS reporting from Bolivia
WINNING THE presidential election in Bolivia last December with an impressive 54 percent of the vote, Evo Morales joined Luis Inácio “Lula” da Silva (Brazil), Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Tabaré Vásquez (Uruguay), Alejandro Toledo (Peru), and Néstor Kirchner (Argentina) as part of Latin America’s electoral backlash against neoliberalism.1 Morales, an Aymara (…)

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The Lula government and the “new ruling class” The definitive bankruptcy of centrism in Brazil By Hector Benoit 20 April 2006
When the Workers Party (PT) of Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva began to win mass support among workers, beginning with the big metalworkers’ strikes of 1978-80, many so-called “Marxist” intellectuals maintained that we would finally see a “legitimate” workers’ party.
Finally, they said, Marxism would break free (…)

US colonel offers Iraq an apology of sorts for devastation of Babylon By Rupert Cornwell in Washington Published: 15 April 2006
In an act of at least partial contrition, an officer in charge of the US military occupation of Babylon in 2003 and 2004 has offered to make a formal apology for the destruction his troops wrought on the ancient site.
Colonel John Coleman, former chief of staff for the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in Iraq, said yesterday that if the head of the Iraqi (…)

The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) was passed on the heels of the Florida 2000 presidential election and its “hanging chad” problem. These ambiguous ballot chads riveted and frustrated the nation for a couple of months in late 2000. However, few thought the solution to the ambiguity of hanging chad evidence of a voter’s intent would be to completely eliminate that evidence.
With the help of nearly $4 billion in federal grants, HAVA eliminates the evidence of voter intent by (…)

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Published on Thursday, April 20, 2006 by the Financial Times Mexican Consumers Plan ‘Great American Boycott’ by Adam Thomson Millions of people throughout Mexico are threatening to turn their backs on US products and businesses on May 1 as part of a protest that is being dubbed “the great American boycott”.
Teachers, telephone operators, housewives and farmers are just a handful of the groups that have decided on the boycott as a way to support Latin Americans living in the US who (…)

Is Karl Rove about to get the hee-ho ? http://www.democrats.com/node/8634 Will he FINNALLY BE INDICTED ?... If indicted , will he prosecuted about trivial matters ? ......... Will the disclosure of of Plame’s CIA identity ever be linked to the real damage incurred to the national security of these United States ?........ I don’t personally give a fig if Rove gave squirrelly testimony to Pat Fitzgerald........... I do care if these leaks lead to the rolling up of a CIA (…)

SHIPPINGPORT, Pa. — Two workers looking for tools set off a security situation at a Beaver County nuclear power plant that drew a response from police and federal investigators, WTAE Channel 4’s Paul Van Osdol reported.
State police said the men drove up to the Beaver Valley Power Station in a tractor-trailer on Tuesday night to pick up two large containers of tools for a contractor for whom they worked.
Security guards stopped the men for a routine inspection, but they drove away, (…)