Month January 2006

Sen. Patty Murray of Seattle who is refusing to return $40,000 in contributions from Indian tribes represented by Jack Abramoff because doing so, she says, would “taint” the tribes.

According to South African intelligence sources, convicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff was a long-time intelligence asset for South Africa’s apartheid era security services. The revelations from South Africa help to explain Abramoff’s connections to white supremacists who use Confederate heritage…

Bolvia’s Evo Morales is the sixth presidential candidate in the last seven years to win an election while campaigning against economic neoliberalism.

Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh has joined Hillary Clinton in foaming at the mouth rhetoric against Iran that is sharply to the right of Dubya’s rantings. Even yellow dog Democrat columnist Molly Ivins has had enough with these non-Democratic Democrats, and…

MSNBC ratchets up attack on Iraq war opponents, compares us all to Bin Laden They weren’t doing this a few short months ago. Back then, the Right was smug, confident. Now the war has gone way wrong, Abramoff fallout may…