How Bush’s Berlin Ambassador Pick Profited from Protective Tariffs against German Companies
by Georg Mascolo and Juergen DahlkampDer Spiegel
Washington’s choice for future US ambassador to Germany has all the makings of a political bombshell. For years, a company owned by the multimillionaire and newly-appointed diplomat William Timken, Jr. has been profiting from anticompetitive tariffs — at the direct expense of German companies.
As Washington’s new ambassador to Germany, [...]
Meet Delegate Tim Timken, Election-Reform Case-Study
by Allison T. HoffmanThe New York Observer
Of the 2,509 delegates filling the floor of Madison Square Garden for the Republican convention, few may fit the archetype of the American heartland industrialist as well as W.R. (Tim) Timken, Jr., a fourth-generation steel-man from Canton, Ohio, whose family company is one of the largest manufacturers of tapered [...]
Now it’s unofficial: Gore did win Florida
by Ed VulliamyThe Observer
As George W. Bush handed further key government posts to hardline Republican right-wingers, an unofficial recount of votes in Florida appeared to confirm that Bush lost the US presidential election.
Despite the decision by the US Supreme Court to halt the Florida recount in the contested counties, American media organisations, including Knight Ridder [...]
Right-wing coup that shames America
Continuing unofficial counts reveal the full extent of Al Gore’s lead and the massive abuses that have put George W. Bush into power
by Will HuttonThe Observer
I never thought I would live to see it. There has been a right-wing coup in the United States. It is now clear beyond any doubt that the winner of the [...]
Miami-Dade Reversal — A Cuban Terrorist Payback To Bush Family?
by Peter Dale ScottPacificNews.org
Strident broadcasts from a violently anti-Castro radio station influenced the Miami-Dade Canvassing Board’s decision to reverse itself and vote to stop recounting ballots. The radio station’s founding was sponsored by the Reagan-Bush administration. PNS correspondent Peter Dale Scott is author of Deep Politics and the Death of JFK and co-author of Cocaine [...]
Miami’s Cuban Americans May Get The Last Word
by Peter Dale ScottPacificNews.org
The Clinton administration willingness to defy Miami’s Cuban-American community in the case of Elian Gonzales was widely seen as a sign that the community had lost its political muscle. But the decision to stop recounting votes in Miami-Dade suggests that it’s the Cuban Americans who are getting the last word. PNS correspondent [...]
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