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An astonishing message came forth on May 12, 2005 from ABC News political unit’s The Note. I shall quote verbatim from Mark Halperin and his associate editors:“We say with all the genuine apolitical and non-partisan human concern that we can muster that the death and carnage in Iraqis truly staggering. But we are sort of…
With U.S. union membership down to only 8% of the workers in the corporate sector – the lowest in 90 years – a clash of unions is underway within the AFL-CIO over the future direction of organized labor. The unions challenging the leadership of President John J. Sweeney – the Service Employees International Union (SEIU),…
Will just one regular White House reporter let out a scream after yet another managed Bush news conference? Not literally, of course. But substantively to protest this recurrent orchestrated theater between the President, his coaches and the reporters, that results in one giant ditto hour of what Bush has been saying every day on his…
You would think that Bush-Cheney would be sensitive to avoiding the weakening of democracy in our country while going around the world with Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, hectoring other countries about their anti-democratic practices. After all, the moral authority to admonish comes from the power of example. Instead brazen hypocrisy prevails. Bush and Cheney…
Question — have you ever heard of Maurice Hilleman? If your answer is No or Who?, join about 99 percent of the American people. He passed away this month in Philadelphia at the age of 85. Here is what the front page New York Times article said about his medical career: Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman…
The world’s greatest folklore scholar died on March 30 the way he lived— while teaching a graduate seminar in anthropology at Giannini Hall on the campus of the University of California-Berkeley. “To call Alan Dundes a giant in his field is a great understatement, observed George Breslauer, Dean of the Division of Social Sciences, adding…
The on-again-off-again alliances between conservative and liberal groups is on again, but not without its contradictions. Back in the early Eighties, during the Reagan years, conservatives joined with anti-nuclear power groups to end the multi-billion tax dollar boondoggle called the Clinch River Breeder Reactor in Tennessee. Their joint lobbying in Congress overcame the opposition of…
TO: Members of the United States SenateFR: Ralph NaderDT: March 31, 2005RE: AMTRAK The debate over how we spend tax dollars has been made increasingly more difficult because of President Bush’s costly invasion of Iraq and his insistence on providing tax benefits to the wealthy and massive subsidies to other private industries. Now President Bush…
“This is a sad day for the Schindler family and a blot on the history of American jurisprudence,” said Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith, “we extend our deepest sympathies to the entire Schindler family and thank them for their devotion to Terri and their noble defense of her life”. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3/31/05 Consumer…
“This is a sad day for the Schindler family and a blot on the history of American jurisprudence,” said Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith, “we extend our deepest sympathies to the entire Schindler family and thank them for their devotion to Terri and their noble defense of her life”. “As we mourn Terri, we…