AltWeeklies Wire
Frist Not the Last of GOP Insiders
Recent indictments and investigations of GOP lawmakers, lobbyists and associates are only the tip of the iceberg, according to longtime observers, including current and former true believers in the GOP cause.
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Paul Rosenberg |
10-21-2005 |
Politics
Media at a Crossroads: 25 Years After Reagan’s Triumph
By a twist of political fate, the Oct. 28 deadline for special
counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to take action on the Plamegate matter is
exactly 25 years after the only debate of the presidential race between
Ronald Reagan and incumbent Jimmy Carter.
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Norman Solomon |
10-21-2005 |
Commentary
What's Happening Out of Camera Range?
By now, millions of TV viewers have seen the video numerous times on
television: Two police officers are beating a man on the pavement. It's
big news -- because a camera was there.
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Norman Solomon |
10-18-2005 |
Commentary
Five Cent Problem, Three Dollar Solution
Thousands will light a candle in solidarity with Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, and ask a question many American voters wish that John Kerry asked last November.
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By James Preston Allen, Publisher |
08-18-2005 |
Commentary
Dissent from the Ranks
It's not really surprising that the most striking criticisms of Bush's Iraq debacle have come from an Iraq War Veteran and from a gold star mother.
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Paul Rosenberg |
08-18-2005 |
Politics
The Real Scandal -- Karl Rove and the White House Lies
The uproar over outing a CIA agent leads directly back to lies about the Iraq war, WMDs and President Bush's cooked intellegence.
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Paul Rosenberg |
07-20-2005 |
Politics
Tags: confidential, source
Support for Bush and War Fades
As the Downing Street memo reprinted here shows, the media continues to cover up the lies George W. Bush told to lead the United States into war.
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Paul Rosenberg |
07-12-2005 |
Politics
True Lies
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has raised community college fees 44 percent, while refusing to raise taxes on millionaires by a single penny -- a microcosm of his reverse Robin-Hood politics. Now many claim he is lying to cover up budget shortfalls.
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Paul Rosenberg |
06-22-2005 |
Politics
Burning Liberty to Save the Flag
The Constitutional admendment to ban flag burning is a smoke screen for other issues.
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James Preston Allen |
06-22-2005 |
Commentary
Win by a Thousand Cuts
In Ohio, laws were broken to elect George Bush. Should the election be thrown out?
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Paul Rosenberg |
11-29-2004 |
Politics
Election Frauds and Fictions
Various voting abuses may have helped George W. Bush win the election, particularly in Florida and Ohio.
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Paul Rosenberg |
11-08-2004 |
Politics
Tags: election postmortem, Ohio vote
Down to the Wire: Voter Suppression Is Alive In the Heartland
It could be Florida, 2000 all over again -- or it could be worse. If the 2004 Presidential Election really is as close as most believe, the margin of victory may well depend on the suppression of votes, a practice that reached its peak in the Jim Crow South, but that has always cast a shadow on America’s aspirations to full democracy. Second of two parts
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Paul Rosenberg |
10-23-2004 |
Politics
Tags: suppression, voter
Polls, Politics and God
People commonly look at political polling with an instinctual skepticism. How, they ask, can you get an accurate sample of how voters are actually going to vote by questioning 1,000 likely voters nationwide out of the millions who actually will vote November 2?
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James Preston Allen |
10-15-2004 |
Commentary
Cheated at the Ballot Box: Voter Suppression and the 2004 Election
New reports present an increasing number of allegations that some GOP workers are throwing out Democratic voter registration forms and using other tactics to suppress voter turnout in battleground states. First of two parts
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Paul Rosenberg |
10-15-2004 |
Politics
Those Who Invoke International Law Must Submit to It
Is the Iraq war legal? Does it matter? The UN Charter and the words of Kofi Annan reveal how wrong Bush is in his preemptive war policy.
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Jim Stanbery |
10-02-2004 |
Commentary
