The re-election of George Bush as president of the United States is a serious setback for the spirit of American democracy.

The claim of "spreading democracy" seems to be a cover for aggression and domination.

Bush, who has imposed an anachronistic theocratic absolutism in the United States, should not forget Lord Acton’s phrase: "absolute power absolutely corrupts."

US history of the labor movement and democratic struggles provide some answers for the "what to do now" questions we all have since November 2.

Analysis of polls show that evangelical Christians had no new impact on the election nor did so-called moral values. Racism, as is argued here, played a deciive role in the outcome.

From Ohio to Ukraine to Pakistan election fraud is rampant in today's "democratic" world. Here Bush's hypocrisy is exposed.

Right-wing columnist David Brooks thinks Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson are bozos, but he likes Anglican evangelical homophobic bigot Jon Stott? Who is he?

George W Bush has been re-elected president of the United States, and he has increased his margin of support in both houses of the Congress. What happens now – in the United States, in the world? We have to start any analysis with an appraisal of Bush. Bush is by far the most right-wing president the US has had since the Great Depression.

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The state of Texas is scheduled to execute Frances Newton on Dec. 1 for the April 1987 murders of her husband, Adrian Newton and children Alton and Farah Newton in Harris County. If executed, Newton would be the first African-American woman Texas has put to death since the state resumed executions in 1982.

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The election of George Bush for a second term in the White House is a big setback for democratic forces, not alone in the United States itself but right across the globe. George Bush is nothing more than a puppet for the most bellicose forces centred around the giant corporations in what is known as the military-industrial complex.

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Eduardo Porter, writing in the Sunday (11/21/04) New York Times, seeks to explain the theory that religion is so popular in the US due to supply-side economics. Just like any commodity competition the commodity of religion is so wide spread due to the competition between its suppliers. This is a new view, Porter says, replacing the older view that the more educated the more secular a country becomes.

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Although hopes to wrest the House and Senate from right-wing Republican control were not realized on Nov. 2, the Bush administration may find some stumbling blocks in pushing their agenda through Congress. The stage is set for major battles, given majority public opinion in opposition to privatization of Social Security, tax breaks for the wealthy, the war on Iraq, and appointment of extremist judges.

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Political Affairs contributing editor Norman Markowitz corresponds with the New York Times, the major ruling class newspaper in the country and, even though they advertise that they publish "all the news that’s fit to print" they never see fit to print his letters. These are some recent letters on topics that PA readers may find interesting.

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Did George W. Bush actually mean the comparatively encouraging comments he recently made about a possible Israeli-Palestinian peace deal — when Bush said he wanted to use his political "capital" to create a democratic Palestinian state during his second four-year term — or had only said this to help out his buddy, Tony Blair.

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As Bush prepares to send his nomination of Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General to the Senate, let’s recall who Gonzales is and what his enduring imprint on history may be. Gonzales authored the infamous August 2002 torture memo that provided arguments for discarding the Geneva Conventions. This appointment affirms Bush’s rejection of international oversight of human rights and signals a dramatic right wing shift.

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The reelection of the President of the United States, George W. Bush, goes against humankind’s perspectives and the hopes of millions of men and women that long for justice and peace in the world, both impossible in a scenario characterized by the prevalence of an aggressive policy of a superpower that views ruling the planet as its raison d’etre.

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Several months ago most pollsters predicted that the margin of difference between Kerry and Bush would be razor thin. I can’t recall anyone projecting a landslide for either candidate, let alone a major political realignment nationwide. Guess what? They were more right than wrong.

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Many liberals think that a new "Red Menace" is facing America – not that there ever was an old one. Waking up Wednesday morning (Nov. 3) and seeing the map of the red versus the blue states was pretty depressing. If there were any election the Democrats should have swept to victory in it was the 2004 election.

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GEORGE W Bush’s re-election to the White House spells trouble not only for working people in the US but for the rest of the world. His triumph represents victory not only for the unwholesome alliance of queer-bashers and misogynists that makes up the Christian right but also for the military-industrial complex, including the oil lobby.

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Never before has the divide between our nation’s richest and poorest been so large. Never before has corporate corruption and welfare been so flagrant. Therefore, we watch with rapt attention and desperation the unfolding of the American Dream on so-called reality TV, distracted from the fact that the Dream’s rewards are more fiction than fact nowadays.