’Cronyism’ controversy reignited as leaked list of new peers includes Labour’s millionaire friends
By Marie Woolf
Tony Blair is to reward a clutch of millionaire Labour Party donors - including the head of the Priory celebrity rehabilitation clinic - with peerages, The Independent on Sunday has learnt.
In a move that will trigger a fresh row over "cash for honours", Mr Blair is to elevate to the Lords four businessmen who between them have given almost half a million pounds to the (...)
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’Cash for peerages’ row as Blair honours top donors
23 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Stop the madness
22 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentTo the Editor:
Is this for real?
Frist is investigated for the same thing Martha Stewart did time for. Delay is indicted. Now the Bush crime family has nominated a loyalist woman who has never been a judge to the Supreme Court.
Please Republicans, take your party back and stop the madness.
If Clinton had made decisions like this, he would have been brought up for impeachment and the firing squad.
Dan Pike
Rollinsford
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The Bush nemesis
21 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
The Bush nemesis
Rightwingers in the US are still not satisfied by the most conservative president in decades
Sidney Blumenthal Thursday October 20, 2005 The Guardian
President Bush is the most conservative president in modern times. He consciously modelled himself as the opposite of his father. A conservative revolt contributed to defeat of the elder Bush, who was fiercely attacked as a betrayer. In a classic case of reaction formation, George W Bush was determined never to make an (...) -
Italy vote overshadowed by Mafia-style killing
17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
ROME - Primaries to select the centre-left candidate to run against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in next year’s elections were held on Sunday but were marred by a Mafia-style killing of a local politician.
Turnout was high for the first vote of its kind in Italy, almost certain to choose former European Commission President Romano Prodi to head the opposition ticket next spring.
But before the polls closed, police said two masked gunmen shot dead Francesco Fortugno, (...) -
Supporting Hillary
16 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsI would love to support Hillary for President if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don’t think she can speak out against the occupation, because she supports it.
I will not make the mistake of supporting another pro-war Democrat for president again: As I won’t support a pro-war Republican.
This country wants this occupation to end. The world wants the occupation to end. People in Iraq want this occupation to end.
Senator Clinton: taking the peace road would not (...) -
Greens Warn of Growing ’Iraqification’ of New Orleans
12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentWASHINGTON - Green Party leaders urged Congress and all Americans to reject the White House’s intention to turn New Orleans and all disaster areas into zones of military control, weakened human rights protections and oversight of federal agencies, and corporate profiteering similar to occupied Iraq.
"The treatment of New Orleans’ poorest, especially African Americans, has already been widely reported and is now a national shame, as is the ineptitude of Mayor Nagin’s office, FEMA, and (...) -
No Will, No Backbone:Washington’s War Dems
11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
5 commentsby Joshua Frank
These are tremulous times for the Republican establishment. A poll released this past weekend by Ipsos/Associated Press confirms that Bush’s agenda has slid right off the table and into the trash bin. The president’s popularity has plummeted to a meager 39 percent, the lowest of his tenure. At the center of Bush’s nose dive is the Iraq catastrophe, about which two-thirds of those polled strongly criticized Bush’s handling of the invasion and subsequent occupation. The (...) -
The DeLay Defense
8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentThe troubled speaker attacks the prosecutor, then signs up a defense dream team.
by Molly Ivins
Jeez, that was quite a hissy fit Tom DeLay had, calling Ronnie Earle a rogue prosecutor, a partisan fanatic and an unabashed partisan zealot out for personal revenge.
Ronnie Earle? Our very own mild-mannered — well, let’s be honest, bland as toast, eternally unexciting, Mr. Understatement, Old Vanilla — Ronnie Earle? If the rest of Tom DeLay’s defense is as accurate as his description of (...) -
News Analysis: As Norway Goes: Old Europe Tilts to the Left
8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsby CONN HALLINAN
Following Norway’s Sept. 12 elections that saw a green-red coalition turn out a pro-business, anti-immigrant center-right government, the German daily, Die Tageszeitung, mused that “perhaps people in Germany could learn something from this.” It appears they did, and what they learned is likely to be repeated in Italy and France next spring.
While the U.S. press is spinning the German elections as “inconclusive; no clear winner,” as the New York Times put it, the (...) -
MIGRANTS: BERTINOTTI, SHELTERS ARE INHUMAN PLACES
8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
"The publication of the ’diary’ of Fabrizio Gatti in L’Espresso magazine, in which, disguised as a migrant, the reporter spent 8 days in a temporary shelter and underwent a number of outrageous abuses, is further proof of our claims that shelters like the one in Lampedusa should be closed," said Refounded Communists leader Fausto Bertinotti.
"Earlier this year," he added, "our own MEP Giusto Catania reported the abuses which are perpetrated on a daily basis at the temporary shelter in (...)