"We must have a foreign policy that is both strong and smart. Yes, the Republicans have been strong, but they haven't been smart. And the policy is one big mess, everyone knows it."
- Senator Chuck Schumer
View Article  Where Will Joe Go?
Journalist Lawrence O'Donnell in the Huffington Post today predicts that ex-Democrat and still Senator for now Joe Lieberman will drop out of his self imposed contest against the Democratic Party's standard bearer, Ned Lamont, in this November's U.S. Senate race in Connecticut.
 
If it comes true, O'Donnell's prediction will be good news for Democrats, for Connecticut, for the likely balance in the U.S. Senate after 2006, and for the whole country. What I find interesting is to speculate on where Joe will go after he's dropped out.
 
It's no secret that Joe Lieberman coveted Secretary of Defense Don ...   more »
View Article  Help Prisoners Help Themselves ...
 
PRESS RELEASE: Dr. Leo Casino to Dedicate Prison Library
 
Pittsburgh, PA. February 12, 2006.
 
Dr. Leo Casino, saxophonist, composer, writer and political activist, whose documentary film "Return to the Hill" is a glimpse back at his native Pittsburgh after years of evolving away from his own roots of struggle -- will be the guest speaker a the Allegheny County Jail's Government Equivalency Diploma (G.E.D.) graduation ceremony honoring the jail's prisoners on Wednesday, February 22, 2006, at 9 AM.
 
Dr. Casino will cite the prisoners for their accomplishments in educationally helping themselves, and will dedicate the library at the county jail in Pittsburgh.  
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View Article  Do this CONSERVATIVE SURVEY and pass it on
Date: January 30, 2006

SUBJECT: New survey of GOP donors and activists

You may recall that I sent you a memo last fall inviting you to participate in a poll to gauge your opinion about the performance of President Bush and GOP Congressional leaders.

In light of Thursday’s vote in which the GOP Congress will elect new leaders, I have decided to re-issue this poll in an attempt to learn whether those views have changed.   more »
View Article  LETTER FROM LONDON: Blair Threatens Press Over Bush's Plan to Bomb Al-Jazeera
Dale Reynolds in London for RadioLeft.com
 
The Times of London, owned by conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch, leads media reports on the Blair administration's efforts to muzzle The Times and other British newspapers on reporting an alleged phone call between Prime Minister Blair and George W. Bush, in which Blair dissuaded Bush from bombing Al-Jazeera, the free Arab-Muslim news service based in Doha, Qatar. For the full story please go to this link:
 
 
 
The report on the alleged Bush plan to bomb Al-Jazeera was first published on November 22nd by The Daily Mail, another conservative newspaper which many media ...   more »
View Article  LETTER FROM LONDON: Tony Blair's former Ambassador to US scathing on Iraq
Many people here are talking about Sir Christopher Meyer's collection of memoirs, DC CONFIDENTIAL, serialised in The Guardian. This is an account of the Blair administration's dealings with the Bush people during Meyer's tenure as Britian's Ambassador to the USA. He is scathing of Blair and Bush, as an excerpt (below) from the memoirs suggests.
 
 
Dale Reynolds
London
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View Article  BLAIR DEFEATED ON TERRORIST MEASURE
Dale Reynolds
for Radio Left
London, England
9 November 2005
 
The Labour government's has suffered its first defeat in eight years in a House of Commons vote. A proposed amendment to the Terror Bill, to extend police authority to hold a terrorist suspect without charge, from the current 14 days to 90 days, was defeated by a vote of 322 to 291 -- a 31-vote majority for those against the proposal (with about 50 MPs absent).
 
The Conservative Party, who if in power would probably insist on an even harsher elimination of the freedom and rights of terrorist suspects, voted en masse against the government amendment. Their leader, Michael Howard ...   more »
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