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  • Kucinich wants Iraqi vote on withdrawal
    11 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) — Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, wants the Iraqis to decide whether the United States military should be withdrawn from Iraq.
    "Congressman Kucinich believes that Iraq, as a free nation and a blossoming democracy, should have the right of self determination," said his spokesman Doug Gordon.
    Kucinich is working on a resolution to be introduced on the floor of Congress "soon" that would make it the sense of Congress that the United States would support an Iraqi (…)

  • Britain ’trying to stall $1.3bn theft inquiry that could hurt Allawi’s election chances’
    9 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
    The British government is trying to stall an investigation into the theft of more than $1.3bn (£740m) from the Iraqi Ministry of Defence, senior Iraqi officials say.
    The government wants to postpone the investigation to help its favoured candidate Iyad Allawi, the former prime minister, in the election on 15 December. The money disappeared during his administration.
    The UK’s enthusiasm for Mr Allawi may have led it into promoting a cover-up of how the (…)

  • Venezuela’s true patriots ... unlike the cowards who stayed home and griped!
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    With the outcome of the Venezuelan elections now decided President Chavez’ MVR party now holds a convincing majority. No matter what the fevered opposition says, it is still a majority since those who did in fact go to the polls in torrential rains decided which direction Venezuela must democratically take.
    MVR won 114 out of the 167 seats and this boils down to 68% ... it must mean that Chavez is doing something right if he gained such a majority to push through (…)

  • Dr. Michelle Bachelet likely Victor In Chile’s Dec. 11 Presidential Election
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Brian McAfee
    Chile’s Socialist party’s presidential candidate, Dr Michelle Bachelet, stands poised to be the next president of Chile. She has a significant lead in the polls, and if there is a run-off election she is expected to still be the victor. Her closest opponent, Joaquin Lavin, a conservative, trails well behind her.
    Dr Bachelet endured numerous personal tragedies in the years of Pinochet’s coup. Her father, Alberto Bachelet, an airforce general loyal to president Salvador (…)

  • Chavez’s Party Wins 68% of Seats in Venezuela’s Parliament
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Gregory Wilpert
    Caracas, Venezuela, December 4, 2005-Chavez’s party, the Movement for the Fifth Republic (MVR), won 114 or 68% of the 167 seats in the new National Assembly, according to preliminary results that MVR deputy William Lara announced this evening. Pro-Chavez parties won all 167 seats in the new National Assembly.
    The President of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE), Jorge Rodriguez, said that with 79% of the voting center results examined, voter turnout so far was (…)

  • Latin America: A Native Speaker
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The campaign of Bolivian indigenous leader Evo Morales is lending hope to the region’s poor but increasingly assertive underclass.
    By Jimmy Langman
    Dec. 12, 2005 issue - On the ballot, he is listed as Sixto Jumpiri, one more candidate in the Bolivian national elections later this month. But to the Aymara and Quechua Indians of the Bolivian highlands, he is better known as Apu Mallku, or Supreme Leader. Not long ago, that millennial honorific might have sounded quaint. Today, traditional (…)

  • Justice Staff Saw Texas Districting As Illegal
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Voting Rights Finding On Map Pushed by DeLay Was Overruled
    By Dan Eggen
    Justice Department lawyers concluded that the landmark Texas congressional redistricting plan spearheaded by Rep. Tom DeLay (R) violated the Voting Rights Act, according to a previously undisclosed memo obtained by The Washington Post. But senior officials overruled them and approved the plan.
    The memo, unanimously endorsed by six lawyers and two analysts in the department’s voting section, said the redistricting (…)

  • Georgia’s Fraudulent Anti-Fraud Legislation
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Julian Bond
    WASHINGTON (NNPA) - What is it with some people?
    Why do they persist in believing racial minorities are inveterate cheaters at the polls? What kind of racist criminal profiling takes place in their minds?
    Now comes Georgia State Rep. Sue Burmesiter (R-Augusta) telling the United States Department of Justice that if Black people in her district "are not paid to vote, they don’t go to the polls."
    She predicted that if a restrictive law she proposed was adopted, fewer (…)

  • Venezuela’s Disloyal Opposition Serves the Bush Administration’s Narrow Ideological Interests ...
    1 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Venezuela’s Disloyal Opposition Serves the Bush Administration’s Narrow Ideological Interests, but Hardly Those of its Own Nation
    In an arrant display of rank political opportunism, Venezuela’s faltering middle-class opposition parties have announced that they would boycott the December 4 legislative elections. Far from a principled and high minded move, this tawdry tactic represents a cynical decision on the part of the opposition to spare itself the inconvenience of once again having to (…)

  • Crude Designs: The Rip-Off of Iraq’s Oil Wealth
    30 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    While the Iraqi people struggle to define their future amid political chaos and violence, the fate of their most valuable economic asset, oil, is being decided behind closed doors.
    This report reveals how an oil policy with origins in the US State Department is on course to be adopted in Iraq, soon after the December elections, with no public debate and at enormous potential cost. The policy allocates the majority[1] of Iraq’s oilfields — accounting for at least 64% of the country’s oil (…)