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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
by Peter Dale Scott PacificNews.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. […]
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