Political observers are predicting massive protests and civil disobedience at the Republican convention in Philadelphia and the Democratic convention in L.A. this summer. Many political analysts believe this new wave of militant...
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24 July 2000
Once again, it's the season of the Republican and Democratic national
conventions, this time choreographed in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Both
events have been underwritten by business patrons; both cities are
notorious for police...
01 April 2000
Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush — the son of former CIA Director George Herbert Walker Bush — found himself in trouble and faltering after his New Hampshire defeat to Senator John McCain. A shadowy, secretive and spooky...
23 February 2000
Just as in Europe, prominent people here are still busy striking moral
attitudes about Joerg Haider, the Austrian head of the Freedom Party now
being treated as the greatest menace to Austrian decorum since the Turks
besieged Vienna in...
16 February 2000
Not the least dismaying aspect of the most recent crisis in Northern
Ireland has been the stampeding of public opinion here in the United States
into denunciation of the IRA, and into sympathy to the political maneuvers
of the British...
19 January 2000
We're in for an orgy of boasting, this campaign year, about the dropping crime rates, with the "get tough" crowd pounding their chests and claiming victory. For the first half of last year, FBI figures showed a 10 percent decline in "...
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