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  • Bush "How do you know his life would have been good?"
    21 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By: Mary MacElveen
    A while ago, I had discussions with a number of people through emails where they have suggested that I back down in my criticisms of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton since she voted for the war and perhaps will be the Democratic candidate come 2008. But, if I want to remain truthful with my readers and have credibility, I simply have to stay the course. As an American that has been against this war from the start, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s vote for this war was (…)

  • Molly Ivins: Not. backing. Hillary
    21 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Molly Ivins
    AUSTIN, Texas (Creators Syndicate) — I’d like to make it clear to the people who run the Democratic Party that I will not support Hillary Clinton for president.
    Enough. Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation. Enough clever straddling, enough not offending anyone This is not a Dick Morris election. Sen. Clinton is apparently incapable of taking a clear stand on the war in Iraq, and that alone is enough to disqualify her. Her failure to speak out on Terri (…)

  • Dr. Michelle Bachelet victor in Chilean election
    19 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Brian Mcafee
    Michelle Bachelet, a pediatrician and former health and defense minister, soundly defeated her opponent; billionaire tycoon Sebastian Pinera in Chile’s presidential run-off Sunday. Bachelet’s 53.5 percent to Pinera’s 46.5 percent marked a trend throughout Latin America of leftist electoral victories. Leftists now run Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, and Venezuela, with the inclusion of Chile, the political sentiment of the region is unmistakable.
    The U.S. response to (…)

  • Bush Wants Abramoff Photos Back
    9 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President denies he knows big donor
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 01/08/06 — Jack Abramoff who according to several accounts including his own has collected more than $120,000 on behalf of George W. Bush and was once considered a ’pioneer’ for the Bush/Cheney election/re-election machine. Today, he’s persona-non-grata-at least at the White House.
    TIME magazine reports that aides to Bush are trying to determine whether or not there are any photos of the President and the fallen (…)

  • Powerful Government Accountability Office Report confirms Key 2004 Stolen Election Findings
    5 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman October 26, 2005
    As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove inner circle, a shocking government report shows the floor under the legitimacy of their alleged election to the White House is crumbling.
    The latest critical confirmation of key indicators that the election of 2004 was stolen comes in an extremely powerful, penetrating report from the Government Accountability Office that has gotten virtually no mainstream media (…)

  • The Most Valuable Progressives of 2005
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by John Nichols
    It is hard to complain about a year that began with George Bush bragging about spending the "political capital" he felt he had earned with his dubious reelection and ended with the president drowning in the Nixonian depths of public disapproval.
    But the circumstance didn’t just get better.
    A handful of elected officials, activist groups and courageous citizens bent the arc of history toward justice.
    Here are this one columnist’s picks for the Most Valuable (…)

  • Predictions for 2006
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Alec Baldwin
    My prediction for 2006 is a multiple, all connected politically. I predict that another barrage of fierce storms and hurricanes will so disturb the American people, that the Democrats will take the Senate in the ’06 election and whittle away at the House in those races as well. Whether those storms can be attributed to global warming conditions or more normal meterological cycles will not matter. Americans typically arrive, albeit slowly at times, at the sensible conclusion (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Iraq’s election result: a divided nation
    23 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Patrick Cockburn
    Iraq is disintegrating. The first results from the parliamentary election last week show the country is dividing between Shia, Sunni and Kurdish regions.
    Religious fundamentalists now have the upper hand. The secular and nationalist candidate backed by the US and Britain was humiliatingly defeated.
    The Shia religious coalition has won a total victory in Baghdad and the south of Iraq. The Sunni Arab parties who openly or covertly support armed resistance to the US (…)

  • Major demonstrations protest Iraq elections
    23 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BAGHDAD, Iraq - Large demonstrations broke out across the country Friday to denounce parliamentary elections that protesters called rigged in favor of the main religious Shiite coalition.
    Meanwhile, a lawyer for Saddam Hussein said he saw evidence his client had been beaten.
    Several hundred thousand people demonstrated after noon prayers in southern Baghdad Friday, many carrying banners decrying last week’s elections. Many Iraqis outside the religious Shiite coalition allege that the (…)