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The welfare state is exposed to serious shocks. Working life is essentially changed. the welfare state protects from the injustice of the free market and creates an identity for those who must claim its benefits. Recipients are treated as legal persons and not as petitioners....

Every four years, in two very lucky cities, big money gets thrown around while look-alikes from opposite ends of a closed circle step up to their podiums and spout nonsense. RNC. DNC. Whatever. The point is that once the conventions are over, once November is come and gone, once the inauguration is only an unpleasant memory, people across this stolen land find themselves in pretty much the same place as before: a bad one. And we’d like to offer up a movement- some real, tangible change. Un...

John Howard, known internationally as a Bush lackey, shameless coward, racist and abandoner of Australian citizens in trouble, today levelled a criticism at U.S. Presidential candidate, Barak Obama. The ‘aluminium tubing’ Prime Minister stated that Obama’s Iraq policy would “completely destabilise and destroy Iraq”. Howard seems ‘completely’ oblivious to the FACT that his participation in the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq has ALREADY COMPLETELY DESTABILISED AND DESTROYED Iraq!...

Mr. Vice-Pres, Mrs. Speaker, Distinguished Members of the Congress, the Judiciary, and Armed Forces, Fellow Americans - Democrats and Republicans alike - I come to you tonight as a humble servant of the citizens of the United States to offer a new course for this Nation in accordance with the wishes of our electorate, who spoke with a loud, clear voice last November....

First the sin: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom caught with his pants down with the wife of his campaign manager and best friend. Then the confession on national TV. Finally, the penance as Newsom signs onto an alcohol treatment program in lieu of the usual Hail Marys and Our Fathers. His soul is saved. SF Chronicle’s political gossip columnists Matier and Ross recently provided the script for the morality play. Newsom’s wife Kimberly Guilfoyle had just taken off for the glamorous life of a c...

In a keynote address to the Business Council of Australia (BCA) on February 1, newly appointed Labor leader Kevin Rudd made an unabashed pitch for big business backing at federal elections due later this year....

PARIS — Three months before the first round of the presidential contest, powerful Interior Minister and presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy risked alienate the sizable Muslim minority by defending the publication of cartoons ridiculing Prophet Muhammad....

Can Ralph Nader halt the Democratic pro-war juggernaut?...

Mayor Gavin Newsom announced late Monday that he would be entering an outpatient rehab program at Delancey Street, and we wish him the best in overcoming his alcohol problem. But it was only last week that the mayor's communications director Peter Ragone denied that Newsom had a drinking problem, and those raising this concern were quickly labeled “anti-Newsom” and political opponents of the mayor. Those in the “Newsom is always right” mindset likely contributed to the mayor’s sense of denial...

Can Newsom Survive Ragone and Tourk Scandals?...