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  • First Step to Impeachment
    26 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Next year might be decisive for US President George W. Bush, accused of lying, showing total disregard for US and international laws, Constitution violations, living in a bubble, promoting abuses, torture, indefinite detention of and spying on US citizens and foreigners.
    For similar crimes, former president Richard Nixon -dabbed as Dirty Dick- was impeached almost thirty years ago as a consequence of what is known as the Watergate scandal.
    In the impeachment of Nixon, the argument in its (…)

  • Final Final Word: British Intelligence Inside Operation
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by: Steve Watson
    With the major stories of torture/rendition and spying on US citizens, one important revelation has slipped away virtually unnoticed - the fact that the Blair Government and the British Intelligence services had prior knowledge of the London bombings on July 7th of this year.
    The London Times reported last weekend that MI5 and MI6 had specifically warned Tony Blair before the July 7 suicide bombings that Al-Qaeda was planning a “high priority” attack specifically aimed (…)

  • Impeach Bush over NSA spying order
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear Editor: I would like to express my support for Sen. Russ Feingold’s filibuster against renewal of the Patriot Act. Feingold’s filibuster is an important, long overdue effort to preserve endangered civil liberties in the United States.
    Although it comes as no surprise that Bush ordered the National Security Agency to spy on Americans, I am nonetheless outraged. It’s heartening to this impeachment supporter that many other Americans oppose such illegal surveillance. According to a Dec. (…)

  • Bush and Wiretaps: Congress, Citizens, This Means War
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In asserting his right to ignore the law, President Bush has slapped Congress right across the face and told them they better like it.
    Congress can now mutter "Yes, sir" and cower in its corner like a whipped dog, as it has for most of the past five years, or it can fight back to defend its institutional authority. Either choice will mark a turning point in U.S. history.
    At immediate issue is the president’s decision four years ago to allow the National Security Agency, an arm of the (…)

  • Bush’s Impeachable Offense
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Michelle Goldberg
    Yes, the president committed a federal crime by wiretapping Americans, say constitutional scholars, former intelligence officers and politicians. What’s missing is the political will to impeach him.
    Is spying on US citizens an impeachable offense. US President Bush would rather not talk about it.
    Is spying on US citizens an impeachable offense. US President Bush would rather not talk about it. On Tuesday, Dec. 20, Washington Post polling editor Richard Morin (…)

  • Fixing the Torture Fix
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by JEREMY BRECHER & BRENDAN SMITH
    Congress passed just before Christmas legislation allowing evidence obtained by torture to be used against Guantánamo captives and denying them the right to habeas corpus—the right to make the government justify their captivity before a court. Christopher Anders of the American Civil Liberties Union calls these provisions "horrific precedents" that are "counterproductive and against the rule of law." Michael Ratner, head of the Center for (…)

  • Misery in the Name of Democracy: The US Works Elections in Iraq, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Haiti
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Yifat Susskind
    The Bush Administration is touting Iraq’s December 15 election as a giant leap forward for freedom guaranteed to ignite fervor for democracy across the entire Middle East. But closer to home, the Administration has discovered that democracy has created a monster and that the monster is democracy. In Latin America and the Caribbean, popular movements are demanding that the United States’ "gift to the world" make good on its promise of majority rule. That would (…)

  • Venezuela: Declaration of the Frente Nacional Campesino Ezequiel Zamora
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    FRENTE NACIONAL CAMPESINO EZEQUIEL ZAMORA
    THE ZAMORA AGENDA AGAINST IMPERIALISM AND REFORMISM
    TO THE PEOPLE OF VENEZUELA AND THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD:
    Two great threats are formiing over our nation, over the Venezuelan people, and its Boliviariano Revolution: the U.S. Empire is attempting to truncate the refounding of our nation and to recuperate our soil to serve its own interests and Reformism , represented by a new bureucratic corrupt political caste.
    It is difficult to define (…)

  • Marx and democratic rights
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ann Talbot
    Tony Evans, The Politics of Human Rights: A global perspective, Pluto Press, 2005
    The publication of a new, revised edition of The Politics of Human Rights: A global perspective by Tony Evans reflects the deep-going interest, especially among young people, in the question of rights. It is a book which now occupies a place on the reading lists of many international relations and human rights law courses throughout the English-speaking world. In the United States the book is (…)

  • FBI admits conducting surveillance operations on Catholic Workers,Greenpeace,PETA
    23 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Counterterrorism agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted numerous surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations that involved, at least indirectly, groups active in causes as diverse as the environment, animal cruelty and poverty relief, newly disclosed agency records show.
    President Bush said at a news conference Monday that a "two-minute phone conversation" could lead "to the loss of thousands of lives."
    F.B.I. officials said Monday that their investigators (…)