Headline Says It - New Yorkers most affected by Sept. 11 least likely to support war This war is being fought largely in the...
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March 27, 2003
More Conservative Crackup - Now Grover Norquist is being denounced by the "War Without End" conservatives. Norquist's sin was defending a Bush official who...
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More Spoils of War - Congress is getting ready to mandate US-based cell phone technology in Iraq, aceing out European cell phone companies. The idiocy...
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Dick Morris Promotes War Crimes - Well Dick Morris is at least willing to state his evil plainly- terror bomb civilian targets to root out enemy...
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Jon Stewart is God- Part 100 - Speaking of the Haliburton contract in Iraq: On the bright side, I won my office pool. On the other hand,...
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BBC on Why the Lack of Cheers - Unless Wolfowitz is right that the cheers of the Iraqi people are being restrained by still-present fear of Saddam, the...
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Al Jazeera in English - No live broadcasts but text stories from Al Jazeera with headlines such as US remembers Geneva Convention....
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March 24, 2003
Conservative Crackup on Iraq? - The fissures have been there, but the "endless enemies" gunsights of the Bush conservatives are now turned on dissident rightwingers...
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Where are the Cheering Crowds? - I am honestly surprised that there are not more Iraqi crowds cheering the entry of the troops, especially into southern...
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Iraq: It's Not Just About the Oil - Antiwar protesters who insist Iraq is just about oil are being simplistic. Pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the...
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Indonesia: Convene General Assembly - A declaration from the Indonesian President that US actions violate international law: "Indonesia regrets that the multilateral process through the...
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Blogging from Iraq - Where is Raed, is a blogger from inside Iraq as he claims. Now that the war has started, promoting democracy...
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NYC- Converge on Times Square 5pm - [Those in other cities, check your local activist lists or the main UFPJ site.] United for Peace and Justice NYChttp://www.unitedforpeace.org/nyc...
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March 19, 2003
Can I Sell 240,000 Albums Protesting War? - Boy, those rightwingers boycotting the Dixie Chicks have devastated them. Apparently they sold only 240,000 albums last week. Maybe they'll...
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Antiwar Updates- Google Link - Hi folks-- most of you hopefully know about Google News but to get an up-to-the-minute list of news stores about...
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Bush the Fuckup- Education - Having achieved a diplomatic failure of epic proportions on the foreign policy front, it's worth emphasizing how much his incompetence...
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Bulldozer has Killed Before - The bulldozer that killed Rachel Corey killed a pregnant woman just weeks ago: The Israeli bulldozer that ran over and...
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Israelis Murder Palestinian Baby - While an American death should focus US attention on Israel's murderous incursions into Palestinian towns, here is a reminder of...
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March 16, 2003
Israelis Murder American - R.I.P. So do we start bombing Jerusalem? Here we have a non-violent protester murdered by government forces: "An American woman...
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We Are Going To Die - Yes I hate Bush. Because of him, people I know will die. That is becoming clearer by the day, as...
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Unintended Consequences - Apparently, we will be invading and withdraw aid to Turkey, leaving it to the economic chaos of its failing economy....
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Boycott of US Products? - On top of falling consumer confidence, unstable oil prices and the costs of war, the invasion of Iraq may lead...
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Charities for Poor in Trouble - Just when they are needed most, revenues are plummeting for charities serving the poor and hungry. Donors are poorer, foundation...
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Vote No on Bush for Emperor - Jack Stephens writes in comments: "The reason Nathan Newman outdoes even America's enemies and adversaries in attacking American foreign policy...
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Joke (sort of) - Tony Blair phones George Bush, and asks "What proof do you have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction?" and...
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We Lose India - Well, the US officially lost India: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Wednesday strongly opposed US plans to effect a...
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Abolish Filibuster/Abolish Senate - The GOP is railing against the "undemocratic" use of filibusters by Senate Democrats to block Estrada's nomination. And they're right....
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Saddamism by Design - And interesting article from The UK Guardian on the original British folks who drew the borders of Iraq after WWI....
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Cost-Benefits of Lost Liberty - Well, some in the White House are finally admitting that stupid "Homeland Security" measures have costs in lost liberty and...
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March 10, 2003
Not a "Trent Lott Moment" - Is this offensive? "If it were not for the strong support of the Cuban community for this embargo with Cuba...
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Kissinger: War Criminal - A blast from the past, or the promise of the future? The Sundance Channel is showing The Trials of Henry...
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Mexican Voters Reject Government/War - The party of Vicente Fox, Mexico's current President, lost badly in local elections today. While most issues were local, including...
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My Census Bloc - Following on the advice of CalPundit, I checked out the Census's nifty electronic readout of my neighborhood. At the zipcode...
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30 Years of UN Vetos - As we hear conservatives thundering against French or Russian threats of using their veto, it's worth remembering that the US...
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March 07, 2003
The Non-Union Telecom Meltdown - MCI, Global Crossing, JDS Uniphase and the whole slew of telecom companies that melted down in scandal and corporate corruption...
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Israeli Terrorism - Somehow these stories never make it into American media, except buried in paragraphs far down the page. EU condemns Israeli...
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A Meaner, Leaner AFL-CIO? - For those of us itnerested in the vigor and leadership of the AFL-CIO, this story outlines some big changes in...
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March 06, 2003
Memo Against Iraq War - [This memo says it all- no proven evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, inspections are moving forward, so why...
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Bush LOSES to Dem in New Poll - Well, I've been saying Bush was going to lose since early last summer (Hi Tom, JW- pull out your pocketbooks),...
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Why Judicial Character is Not the Issue - Remember conservative outrage when the character of Clarence Thomas was attacked and Democrats said his personal life was deemed relevant...
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Anti-Union Yale - How anti-union is Yale? Yale University is being rocked by its eighth strike since 1968, and Ron Altieri, an electrician...
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God Bless America - And I mean that. Americans are often surprised at the kinds of speech that are pretty regularly regulated or banned...
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March 03, 2003
Bush: Worst President in History? - From Globe And Mail Veteran White House correspondent and columnist Helen Thomas has called George W. Bush "the worst president...
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Turkish Troop Vote Nullified - Damn, that democracy just keeps getting in the way of Bush's war: Turkey's parliament speaker nullified the legisature's vote Saturday...
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Racism, Poverty & the Candidates - What outrages me about the attacks on Kucinich is that he is leading the charge against Bush's racist assault on...
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China Deal: Perjury by Microsoft - When Microsoft agreed to show its source code to Chinese officials, it showed how empty the company's rhetoric has been...
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Smearing of Kucinich - I'm late to this but the smearing of Kucinich by Josh Marshall and Kos just really is a low attack,...
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Wal-Mart Doing Good for Environment - Seriously. This initiative by Wal-Mart to promote energy-saving light bulbs is a major environmental initiative. "Compact fluorescent" bulbs fit in...
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The Collapse of Tax Cut Politics - You can check out Progressive States rundown of progressive successes in the states on Tuesday, but I want to focus...
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November 08, 2006
A Good Night for Progressives - Let's be clear-- this wasn't just a good night for Democrats. It was a good night for progressives, and no...
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November 01, 2006
Labor Cold War Ends - New International Labor Federation - At the dawn of the Cold War, the international union movement divided up between the ICFTU, dominated by US and Western European unions, and the World Confederation of Labor, largely allied with the Soviet Union. It's taken a decade and a half, but the irrelevancy of that division will end today as the two federations merge-- bringing together 241 labor organizations from 156 countries representing 190 million workers. The new International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) is a good step for a labor movement looking to globalize itself in the taking on global capital power....
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- Valuing Families: State Legislative Models Brought to you by Progressive States and MomsRising What would a policy that really values families look...
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October 09, 2006
Emaciated Models, Labor Regulation - There's a bit of debate in the blogosphere around Spain's new law banning underweight models from the runways in that country. See Jordan, Amanda at Pandagon and Lindsay Beyerstein at Majikthise on whether this is an intrusive regulating violating free expression or something like that and whether OSHA safety regulations are appropriate. Just to throw my two cents in-- any broader OSHA approach would seem cumbersome and bureaucratically intrusive in a deep way. But the original Spanish proposal is brilliant in its high-impact, low-intrusion approach. Regulate only the fashion week type runways, where in a single spotcheck, models can be...
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October 03, 2006
Big loss for Labor-- - The National Labor Relations Board ruled today that a range of professionals are now deemed "supervisors" and thus lose all protections under labor law. That means if they say a positive thing about unions, their bosses are free to fire them at will. The AFL-CIO has more here. To put this denial of labor rights in perspective, 32 million workers or 25% of the workforce already have no right to form a union under federal, state or local law (see this GAO report and this ARAW summary). This includes: Supervisors 16.6 million workers, 8 million new supervisors plus traditional 8.6...
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