103 QuickLinks
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Think Japan was the main reason for two nukes?, think again.
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Keep in mind that Avrell Harriman of Brown Brothers and Harriman was a close friend and business partner of Prescott Bush.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
END THE WAR IN IRAQ.COM
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In hopes that someone is listening.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Iraqi orphans' ordeal: Who's to blame?
Al Qaeda didn't do this. The US did. How much longer are Americans going to keep doing this sort of thing>
Friday, June 15, 2007
Putin's Censored Press Conference
The speech the US press went out of it's way to ignore. Liberal press? Sure.
Friday, February 16, 2007
Beware of the Bandwagon
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Did anyone actually think the Pelosi crew was going to do anything about election fraud?
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Oil Lobby Offers $10,000 Payments to Global Warming Deniers to Push Back on Climate Study
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There is no depth to which these people won't stoop.
Friday, December 29, 2006
DOOMSDAY CODE
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THIS is the purpose of America in Israel, and Bush as well.
Thursday, December 28, 2006
The GOP's $3 Billion Propaganda Organ
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Republican Party receives money from cults as well.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Moon, North Korea & the Bushes
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The Rev. Sun Myung Moon's business empire, which includes the right-wing Washington Times, paid millions of dollars to North Korea's communist leaders in the early 1990s
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
New Orleans - Still Under Water
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BuzzFlash interviews Greg Palast, author of "Armed Madhouse", and reveals his new, shocking documentary about the Bush Administration's complicity in the deaths of Katrina victims entitled, "Big Easy to Big Empty."
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
End of the neo-con dream
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End of a sick dream
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Razzle Dazzle Time in the U.S.
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Business and bickering as usual. No plans, no direction. The Dems should have arrived on scene prepared.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Does Bush Think War with Iran Is Preordained?
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Could the George et al believe if the US can't have it all, then no one will? The Christian right sees an apocalyptic nuclear war with Iran as a vision set forth in the Bible. Bush himself may be a believer, too
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Teacher placed on leave
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and yet, these same perverts claim the human body was made by god. Where'd they get the penises and vaginas from if they're so evil.
The works of art are from centuries old artists. Before texas went to the rats, i mean republicans.
Monday, September 25, 2006
Strategy of tension
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Think The "Club of Rome, Bilderburg Group, and the Bohemian Club" are just Saturday afternoon Boy's Clubs? Think Again.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
IRAQ: U.S. Resorting to 'Collective Punishment'
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Americans ARE THE TERRORISTS
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Neoconservative ideas to transform the U.S. into a "dominant force" do not come out of nowhere!
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There appears to be perhaps a multiplicity of reasons for the Bush debacle. Some, weren't part of the original scheme, but came on board as opportunities were realized.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
In Iraq rebuilding effort, loyalty to Bush administration was paramount
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Ties to GOP trumped skill on Iraq team.
Friday, September 15, 2006
CIA Expanding Terror Battle under Guise of Charter Flights
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Does ANYBODY control the CIA? Or is it a Rogue organization.
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Executive Excess 2006
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The unabated shameless oppulence of American CEOs as they reap billions from this damnable war is sickening.
Sunday, September 3, 2006
Surplus from Gulf oil cash 'will bring investment boom'
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it isn't the supply of crude that's short, it's refining capacity. The US closed and demolished 50 refineries in the '90s. Narry a one has been built since. Each one takes between 2 and 4 years to complete. No shortage of crude, just a shortage of refined products.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Federal Minimum Wage Remains Unchanged for Ninth Straight Year, Falls to Lowest Level in More than Half a Century
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Can we be taxed out of existence to pay for the life and times of the rich and famous?
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Profiting from Disaster
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It isn't just the rich grubs feeding off other people's misery. Remember the hotel and motel owners around the major airports that gouged the guts out of stranded airline passengers following the grounding on 911? Americans, good god
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Schieffer on Katrina: Hezbollah more efficient than Bush admin
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Listen to Bob Schieffer on this anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Real Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity
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Only part of the real picture. People need to look for economic figures that DO NOT include outsourced companies.
Monday, August 28, 2006
Bush's Disdainful Presidency
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At last, factual proof of the alleged characature of George Walker Bush.
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Oil's promise is still a dream for most in Chad
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Exxon Mobil in Chad. Lot's of promises, very little action as you might expect from a US Corportation.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
John Bolton vs. Democracy
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Bolton apparently was involved in the fraud election in 2000. That this facially dysmorphic halfwit was sneaked into the UN by usual republican chicanery, during a recess is causing misery worldwide
Friday, July 28, 2006
'Everything In My Life Is Destroyed, So I Will Fight Them'
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Jamail has a long history of being deeply inside the hearts and minds of the Arab population and an uncanny ability to empathize with them. He has a relationship with them unlike most others, almost like family. This article demonstrates this phenomenon once again. The bitter hatred of the 'Zionists' or Americans and anyone who helps the terrorist Israeli government as told by an unnamed Hezbollah fighter.
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Exxon profits top $10bn
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Thursday, July 27, 2006
Chavez seeks $3 bln Russian arms deal
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Sadly, once again the George's canard about evolving world peace takes a gut buster. With Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez purchasing military hardware from the Russian Federation, who already doen't much care for the George, the world will be once again reduced on the "safe" and "peaceful" scale by a significant amount. It'll take more than cocaine and a bottle of warm JD to pull George's loose kiester out of this fire!!
Thursday, July 27, 2006
11th-hour try to block US F-16 sale to Pakistan
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It seems that the Bush crew can't help but screw up. Promising these aircraft to Pakistan, an enemy of India, and a known harbor of terrorism, is an act of aiding and abetting terrorism. But then, so is trading nuclear technology that can produce weapons grade material with the Indians. One can only wonder if any of the Bush crew has ever been let outside in their lives with this sort of stupidity.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Child porn ring transmitted acts live on Web: US
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U.S. and Canadian authorities said on Wednesday they had cracked an international child pornography network that in some cases transmitted molestations live over the Internet.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
WHITE HOUSE SMEARS TO COVER INCOMPETENCE LEADING TO US TROOP DEATHS
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This is truly despicable. Yesterday in his speech at George Washington University, President Bush offered the latest chapter in the GOP's ongoing blame-the-press-for-Iraq narrative. Speaking of something called the Joint IED Neutralizer, which is meant to counter roadside bombs...Bush didn't name the newspaper. But his aides subsequently leaked confirmation to the press that he was talking about the Los Angeles Times. And guess what: It turns out that Bush left out a small detail about the offending article in question. Turns out it was about the fact that some military officials were angry that this potentially life saving technology still hasn't been shipped to Iraq, ten months after Pentagon officials recommended investing in research and sending prototypes to Iraq for testing.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Janet's Breast -- FCC: CBS facing $3.6M fine for indecency
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A government crackdown on indecent programming resulted in a proposed fine of $3.6 million against dozens of CBS stations and affiliates on Wednesday -- a record penalty from the Federal Communications Commission.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
The Power of Fusion Politics
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Fusion is powerful. Voting in the Working Families column is no wasted gesture--every ballot counts. It sidesteps the Nader Effect, since voters can show their support for a progressive party agenda without spoiling the chances of a candidate--usually a Democrat--who has a shot at winning.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
PEW: Bush Approval Falls to 33%
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In the aftermath of the Dubai ports deal, President Bush's approval rating has hit a new low and his image for honesty and effectiveness has been damaged. Yet the public uncharacteristically has good things to say about the role that Congress played in this high-profile Washington controversy.
Most Americans (58%) believe Congress acted appropriately in strenuously opposing the deal, while just 24% say lawmakers made too much of the situation. While there is broad support for the way Congress handled the dispute, more Americans think Democratic leaders showed good judgment on the ports issue than say the same about GOP leaders (by 30%-20%).
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
The Beginners' Guide to the WaPo
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Here's the latest instance where the second-most important paper in America has misled its readers in ways that politically benefit the Republican Party
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Sources: Bush urged to bulk up inner circle
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Friends suggest changes needed to counter missteps -- so that's what they're calling them now...??
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
FDA works to streamline drug approval
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They will be the death of us yet...
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
National Debt = $8.281 Trillion
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Killing US with incompetence - Bush, Neocons, and the GOP Congress
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Ambien users report short-term memory loss, uncontrollable binge eating
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Strange behavior by insomniacs taking prescription drugs, ranging from binge eating to having sex while asleep, have raised safety questions about anti-insomnia medications such as Sanofi-Aventis’ Ambien.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Lying Rice: U.S. ‘pleased to stand down’ in Iraq -- But sends 700 more US troops & more bases
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Send her back to Katie Couric for more in-depth exercise videos
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
New York charges H&R Block with fraud
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Attorney General: Tax firm steered clients into loss-making IRAs
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Enron whistleblower tells of 'crooked company'
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Sherron Watkins, the former Enron vice president who warned higher-ups the company was a house of cards ready to fall, testified Wednesday she discussed her concerns with founder Kenneth Lay only to learn months later that her job was threatened for speaking up.
Taking the stand at the fraud and conspiracy trial of Lay and former Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling, Watkins said she met with Lay after taking to heart his encouragement to Enron employees that they could bring any problems directly to him.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Israeli attack on Jericho jail sparks uprising in Gaza and West Bank
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Six Palestinian prisoners, including a militant accused of the murder of an Israeli government minister in 2001, surrendered last night after a nine-hour armed siege that began when British monitors abandoned the jail where the men were being held.
The siege had triggered a wave of protest attacks and abductions directed against foreigners across Gaza and the West Bank and there were heavy exchanges of fire outside the Jericho jail which claimed the lives of two Palestinians.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Global Economic Hegemony: A New Kind of Warfare?
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In the year 2000, Iraq had decided that it was no longer going to accept dollars for oil being sold under the UN’s Oil For-Food Program and decided to switch to the Euro as Iraq’s oil export currency. The result was a military strike by the U.S. and it’s allies and subsequently in ample time the dollar was restored as Iraq’s oil export currency
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Mass grave find fuels sectarian tension in Iraq
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Iraq moved closer to sectarian civil war as police found the bodies of 87 men killed in Baghdad, many of them showing signs of torture. The dead appear to be Sunni Muslims killed in retaliation for the bombs that slaughtered 58 people and wounded 200 when they exploded in crowded markets in the strongly Shia area of Sadr City.
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Saddam feared own army as US invaded: report
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Saddam Hussein's fear of internal rebellion led him to distrust his military commanders even after U.S. forces began their invasion in 2003, crippling the country's defenses, the New York Times reported in Sunday editions.
Citing a classified U.S. military report as well other documents and interviews, the Times also said that top Iraqi commanders were shocked when Saddam told them three months before the war that he had no weapons of mass destruction. [This is the man Bush and Neocons have spent over $300 billion to finance and have killed or wounded over 300,000 on both sides.]
Sunday, March 12, 2006
CIVIL WAR IN IRAQ: Blasts rock Baghdad after night of violence
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A series of blasts rocked Baghdad on Sunday morning, killing at least 10 people, after a night of violence in the capital in which a major hospital reported 20 people killed in separate incidents.
Officials at Yarmouk Hospital, one of Baghdad's biggest, said they had received at least 20 bodies overnight, all victims of violence. Most had been shot.
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Spike Lee to Condi: Stop Smoking That Crack!!!!
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Firebrand director Spike Lee has found an unlikely new target for his latest spray: the secretary of state.
Says Lee: "I dislike Condoleezza Rice more than [President] Bush. The thing about it is that she's gotten a free ride from black people."
Oh no, he didn't.
"People say, 'She's so successful' and 'Look at her position as a black woman.' She is a black woman who grew up in Birmingham, Ala., and said that she never experienced a day of racism in her life," Lee tells the April issue of Stuff magazine.
"Condi, stop smoking that crack!"
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Support for Bush fades in 5 Southern states
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A majority of adults in five Southern states that President Bush won in the 2004 election now disapproves of his job performance and says the Iraq war was not worth fighting, a poll has found. All five of the states polled -- Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida -- went to Bush in the 2004 presidential election by margins ranging from 58 percent in South Carolina and Georgia to 52 percent in Florida. Less than 18 months later, Bush isn't even close to majority approval in any of those states.
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Bush and the bomb
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Last-ditch nuclear talks between Iran and the European Union's big three did not go well yesterday, breaking up shortly after they began in Vienna. That was not surprising since there had been an impasse in negotiations for weeks now. But it was more than just an unfortunate coincidence that the session was held a day after George Bush, visiting New Delhi, struck a landmark deal allowing India to develop peaceful nuclear energy while staying outside the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT), the world's most important legal barrier to the spread of nuclear weapons. This smacks of double standards that will make it hard to hold the line on this issue and gives some substance to the charge, voiced by an angry President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that opposition to Iran's nuclear ambitions - which he claims are peaceful - is politically motivated. Next week this potentially disastrous confrontation is likely to move to the UN security council.
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Miscreants, Murderers, and Malefactors: Imperial Conquest, Torture, and a Little Matter of Genocide
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Acting with impunity and wielding the moral authority of pedophiles, Bush and his fellow Neocons have decimated what was left of America's good name while severely crippling our nation’s capacity for advancing and protecting human rights. Setting a sanguineous course in their reckless pursuit of wealth and power, they have afflicted humankind with their perverse agenda. With alarming consistency, these sociopaths have demonstrated their utter disregard for humanity and the well-being of our planet.
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Al-Qaeda, al Zawahri ,deputy leader criticizes West for insulting prophet in new tape
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In the video broadcast on the satellite network, Al-Zawahri also offered his support to Hamas, the militant Islamic group that is forming a new Palestinian government after sweeping legislative elections.
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Condi Caught in New Hamas Lie: "I don't know anyone who wasn't caught off guard by its very strong showing"
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A State Department-commissioned poll taken days before January's Palestinian elections warned U.S. policymakers that the militant Islamic group Hamas was in a position to win.
Nevertheless, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said after the election that they had no advance indication of a major Hamas triumph.
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Al-Jazeera Says Will Air al-Zawahri Tape
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His last video came on Jan. 30, in which he threatened a new attack against the United States. In that video, al-Zawahri lashed out at President Bush for an American airstrike in Pakistan he claimed killed 18 civilians and threatened a new attack against the United States.
Bin Laden and al-Zawahri are believed to be hiding along the rugged Pakistan-Afghan border several hundred miles from where Bush visits today.
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Army to Launch Probe Into Tillman Death
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The Army said Saturday it will launch a criminal investigation into the April 2004 death of Pat Tillman, the former professional football player who was shot to death by fellow soldiers in what previous Army reviews had concluded was an accidental shooting by members of his own unit.
Col. Joseph Curtin, an Army spokesman, said the Defense Department office of inspector general had reviewed the matter at the Army's request and concluded that a criminal probe was warranted.
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Details of Some Guantanamo Hearings
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Details from transcripts of ``enemy combatant'' hearings involving Guantanamo detainees.
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Democrats insist Congress must decide on ports
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Democrats on Saturday kept up the drumbeat of criticism of the Bush administration for approving a state-owned Arab company's plan to manage U.S. ports, saying Congress must decide whether the deal should go through.
Saturday, March 4, 2006
"DC GOSSIP"
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What Tom DeLay's Office Calls Republican Corruption Scandal...
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Many Defendants' Cases Kept Secret
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Despite the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of public trials, nearly all records are being kept secret for more than 5,000 defendants who completed their journey through the federal courts over the last three years.
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Dozens die in Iraq sectarian attack
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SUSPECTED Sunni militants stormed a small town near Baghdad and executed at least 25 people, including a six-year-old girl, with a single bullet each to the forehead, police said yesterday as a curfew was re-instated in the Iraqi capital.
Most of the victims were poor Shiite labourers at a brick factory in the town of Nahrawan. At least nine others were killed during a gun battle that erupted around Nahrawan power station, which also came under mortar fire.
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Pressure on al-Jaafari to step down increases
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Jalal Talabani, Iraq's president, has stepped up pressure on Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the prime minister, saying opposing his nomination for a second term is a matter of national unity.
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Algeria releases jailed insurgents
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Scores of Algerian prisoners held over terrorist offences in an armed Muslim insurgency have become free men, walking out of the capital's central prison to be welcomed by their families.
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Venezuela aims for biggest military reserve in Americas
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Around 500,000 Venezuelans will start a four-month military training programme today to turn them into members of the country's territorial guard. They are the first group of a total of 2m Venezuelan civilians who have so far signed up to become armed reservists.
By the summer of 2007, Venezuela is likely to have the largest military reserve in the Americas, which is expected to be almost double the size of that in the United States.
Saturday, March 4, 2006
New diplomatic priorities offer snapshot of changing world order
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· US moves resources from Europe to Asian giants
· Global context changed, says Foreign Office
Saturday, March 4, 2006
U.S. Cast a Wide Net in Terror War
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CATCHES FEW GOLDEN RINGS...New documents on the Guantanamo detainees suggest the Bush administration has cast a wide net in its war on terror. But the U.S. has often come up empty as American troops picked up suspects with descriptions as varied as a Kazakh apple seller and a Pakistani millionaire.
Evidence against the apple seller, for example, showed he had been captured by the Taliban and forced to work as a cook.
In fact, the man told his U.S. military tribunal, he was only a cook's helper, and had never heard of al-Qaida or the Taliban until he was kidnapped and conscripted by Afghanistan's former hardline Islamic regime.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Frank talk needed before Iraq falls apart
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The world must plan for the disintegration of Iraq...Iraq is "teetering on the threshold of wholesale disaster," according to a new and frightening report by the International Crisis Group, a nongovernmental organization that seeks to ameliorate conflicts around the globe. That is, it faces a civil war that could eventually end the tacit international agreement that Iraq's current borders remain intact. The world must confront the possibility of sectarian strife that becomes a contagion, enveloping the Middle East, expanding Iran's power and embroiling Turkey, a NATO ally.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Threat of Iraq civil war escalates with every bomb
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Almost every day brings new attacks and every bloodbath deepens the desire for revenge...The mutual mistrust is also growing in political circles. Trouble was brewing Tuesday after interim Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari paid a surprise visit to Turkey.
President Jalal Talabani admitted that he had not been informed of the visit, while al-Jafari's own Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari conceded that he had only learnt about the trip through media reports.
Every bomb perpetuates the wave of violence and draws Iraq closer to a civil war.
The current disintegration in the country certainly seems to be heading towards that end, bringing with it terrible consequences for the unstable but oil-rich Mideast region.
Neighbouring countries such as Sunni Saudi Arabia, Shiite Iran, or Turkey with its historic claim on northern Iraq's Kurdish region, could be dragged into an inconceivable religious and ethnic war.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Judge Won't Order Ports Deal Investigation
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In a setback for the state of New Jersey, a federal judge Wednesday refused to order an investigation into the deal that would put an Arab company in charge of operations at Newark and other major U.S. ports.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Fox News Channel Ratings in Free-Fall
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The just released February ratings (pdf) for cable news networks tell a tale that is decidedly downbeat for Fox News, the leader in propaganda programming. In a comparison with February 2005, the numbers for every network are up except for Fox.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
THE MEMO: How an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees was thwarted.
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One document, which is marked “secret” but is not classified, is a twenty-two-page memo written by the former general counsel of the United States Navy, Alberto J. Mora. It shows that three years ago Mora tried to halt what he saw as a disastrous and unlawful policy of authorizing cruelty toward terror suspects.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
GOPs King: 45-day Will Be Used to Lobby Congress, Not Investigate Intelligence Gaps
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In the House, Representative Peter T. King, Republican of New York and chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said he would proceed with legislation giving Congress the right to reject the proposed takeover if it was sanctioned by the president after the 45-day review.
Mr. King, who said he had already attracted more than 60 co-sponsors of both parties, said he worried that the administration was viewing the 45 days more as a chance to lobby Congress than to investigate security concerns.
"The administration has to educate itself," he said. "They have to conduct a full and thorough investigation."
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Economy: Government hits national debt ceiling AGAIN
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With the federal government debt about to hit the $8.18 trillion legal limit, the Treasury Department last week suspended sales of special securities bought by state and local governments so that regular auctions of Treasury bills and notes could continue.
More such steps undoubtedly will have to be taken in coming weeks until Congress screws up the courage to increase the debt limit. At some point next month, Treasury will run out of such stop-gap measures and regular securities auctions may have to be postponed. US National Debt Clock at $8.264 trillion Beware President Bush and Congressional Republicans trying to sell you permanent tax cuts!!
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Bush in India: Just Not Welcome
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For Bush's March 2 pit stop in New Delhi, the Indian government tried very hard to have him address our parliament. A not inconsequential number of MPs threatened to heckle him, so Plan One was hastily shelved. Plan Two was to have Bush address the masses from the ramparts of the magnificent Red Fort, where the Indian prime minister traditionally delivers his Independence Day address. But the Red Fort, surrounded as it is by the predominantly Muslim population of Old Delhi, was considered a security nightmare. So now we're into Plan Three: President George Bush speaks from Purana Qila, the Old Fort.
Ironic, isn't it, that the only safe public space for a man who has recently been so enthusiastic about India's modernity should be a crumbling medieval fort?
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
30 Killed As Violence Continues in Iraq
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Bombings in Baghdad killed 26 people, and four others died when mortar rounds slammed into their homes in a nearby town Wednesday, the second day of surging violence after authorities lifted a curfew that briefly calmed sectarian attacks.
A spokesman for the powerful Association of Muslim Scholars criticized the Shiite-led government for failing to protect Iraqis, and he urged Sunnis to defend their mosques.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
The Commander in Chief Has Lost the Troops
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A unique poll of active-duty troops in Iraq shows a huge disconnect between the commander in chief and the troops in battle. It is evident that the president views the war very differently than the troops on the ground. The loss of the troops may be the final straw in the illegal occupation turned failed war. The foreign policy establishment had already told the president they thought the Iraq war was a mistake. The people have been saying the war was a mistake. All that is left are President Bush and the hawkish leaders of the two parties – only they are calling for staying the course or sending more troops.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Is this war worth the price?
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Look closely at the face of collateral damage in Iraq before you answer
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Lies Exposed on Tape: Bush, Chertoff Warned Before Katrina
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In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage. Bush didn't ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck on Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: "We are fully prepared."
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Iraq: A solution to nothing
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America continues to pretend that we are building something of value in Iraq. And yet, common sense dictates that when one seeks to build on a corrupt foundation, whatever it is that is being constructed is doomed eventually to collapse. Our nation's involvement in Iraq is based on as corrupt a foundation as imaginable says author, Scott Ritter.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Blaming the British
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From cabbies to shahs, most Iranians believe political events can be traced back to English interference, writes Robert Tait
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
UN warns of global crystal meth pandemic
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A dance and sex drug which is more addictive than crack cocaine is becoming a global problem, the United Nations' drug control agency warned today.
The International Narcotics Control Board said it was concerned about rising use of methamphetamine, or crystal meth.
The board called on governments across the world to introduce tougher restrictions on chemicals used in the manufacture of the drug, which is also known in varying forms as "ice", "meth", "Tina" and "Nazi crank".
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Scientists find lost civilisation buried by volcano
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Archaeologists have uncovered remains of an Indonesian civilisation entombed by debris from the largest volcanic eruption in modern history.
Mount Tambora's eruption on April 10 1815 smothered villages on the island of Sumbawa with pumice, ash and rock, and claimed the lives of 90,000 people.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Senate Approves Curbs on Some Patriot Act Powers
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The Senate overwhelmingly approved new curbs on government surveillance powers today, moving the USA Patriot Act closer to renewal but by no means ending the debate over the balance between national security and personal liberties.
By 95 to 4, the Senate agreed to changes meant to clarify the rights of people under surveillance and to further limit the government's ability to scrutinize library records. Some feel measures still did not go far enough...
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
SCHEER Dubai: Great Theater
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DO YOU BUY Dubai? That’s this season’s big hit, a zany farce with pompous officials in the Bush administration and their hysterical courtiers in the mass media asserting positions that are patently absurd but hilarious to watch. Audiences are eating it up.
Great fun — but not for everyone...
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
In Medicare Maze, Some Get Tangled in Two Drug Plans
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Having struggled to fathom Medicare's new drug coverage, tens of thousands of beneficiaries are perplexed to find themselves actively enrolled in two prescription drug plans at the same time -- some paying two premiums even...
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Bush Lacked Iraq Rebuilding Plan
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The Bush administration never drew up a comprehensive plan for rebuilding Iraq after the March 2003 invasion, which contributed to a severe shortage of skilled federal workers in Baghdad and to the mismanagement of the country's oil money, according to a new government report. [Cheney did order some flower vases....]
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Dubai firm's chief tries to assuage concerns
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The head of DP World yesterday sought to assure senators that his Dubai-based company's takeover of terminal operations at six U.S. ports would pose no threat and would even enhance U.S. security.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
The Texas Gerrymander
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The redrawing of election districts in Texas in 2003, which Tom DeLay helped engineer to make the state's Congressional delegation more Republican, lands in the Supreme Court today. Democrats are asking the court to rule that the plan is unconstitutional and violates the Voting Rights Act. The court should strike down the plan. It should also use the case to set limits on this kind of politically motivated drawing of districts by both parties, a practice that is making voters increasingly irrelevant.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Trent Lott to Bush: "I'll Override Your Override" of Port Deal
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President Bush's sagging poll numbers, the administration's handling of the Dubai port deal and lingering bad memories of Harriet Miers' failed Supreme Court nomination have left a broad spectrum of Republicans on Capitol Hill with little good will toward the White House.
"I was offended," Sen. Trent Lott, Mississippi Republican, said of Mr. Bush's threat last week to veto legislation aimed at stopping the transfer of port operations to a company owned by the United Arab Emirates. He said Mr. Bush "threatened me before I even knew the details of what was involved or whether I was going to vote for the bill or not."
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Jeb Bush Asked to Explain Cruise Ship Deal
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A top House Democrat released e-mails Tuesday detailing Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's role in pushing a $236 million federal contract for Carnival Cruise Lines to house Hurricane Katrina victims.
In a letter, Rep. Henry Waxman of California called on Bush to explain his role in the award of the "lucrative contract," which was given to the Florida-based company without a full competitive bid process. The e-mails Waxman released were provided to Congress by Michael Brown, former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Bush Arrives in India Seeking Nuclear Deal
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arrived in India on Wednesday as talks on a landmark U.S.-Indian nuclear pact were down to the wire and tens of thousands of Indians rallied across the country to protest his visit. Protesters in New Delhi chanted "Death to Bush," while Muslims in the southern city of Hyderabad held a mock funeral for the American president.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Intelligence agencies warned about growing local insurgency in late 2003
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U.S. intelligence agencies repeatedly warned the White House beginning more than two years ago that the insurgency in Iraq had deep local roots, was likely to worsen and could lead to civil war, according to former senior intelligence officials who helped craft the reports.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Study Casts Doubt on Glycemic Index
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Diets that distinguish between "good carbs" and "bad carbs," are not an effective way of controlling blood sugar levels, a new study suggests.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
US seeks $100 million in funds to build prisons in Iraq
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State Department Iraq coordinator James Jeffrey told reporters he was asking Congress for $100 million for prisons but no other big building projects were in the pipeline for the department's 2006 supplemental and 2007 budget requests for Iraq, which total just over $4 billion. [No schools, no hospitals, no other infrastructure -- just prisons -- and they've wasted all other monies earmarked for Iraq rebuilding. Do they think they can avert civil war by imprisoning everyone???]
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
House pulls Patriot Act compromise vote; Delays until Tuesday
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The House has pulled from consideration today a "compromise" measure on the Patriot Act which was agreed upon by Senate Republican moderates and the House Judiciary Committee. House aides say that Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has delayed a vote on the compromise measure. A vote on the Sununu provision -- named for Sen. John Sununu (R-NH) who negotiated the compromise, has been yanked from a floor vote in the House today. It has been rescheduled for Tuesday.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
The $80 Billion Medicare Sellout
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But nowhere is the corruption more glaring than in the Medicare Part D disaster passed in the dark of night in November of 2003 after a 3-hour vote—the longest recorded vote in the history of the United States. The bill created a Medicare drug benefit that relied on private companies, and Republicans claimed privatization would give beneficiaries more choices and that competition among private plans would keep program costs down.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
AG Gonzales: Extent of Eavesdropping May Go Beyond NSA Work
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Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales appeared to suggest yesterday that the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance operations may extend beyond the outlines that the president acknowledged in mid-December. [No wonder he wouldn't testify under oath...]
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
GOP Trying to Pass Legislation to Legalize Bush's Eavesdropping
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A group of Republican senators failed to reach an agreement Tuesday on legislation that would write the Bush administration's controversial eavesdropping program into law. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said he formed the "informal working group" to craft legislation that will strengthen its legal basis.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Fair and slanted: Fox executives funnel cash to Santorum, GOP
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Fox News host and commentator Sean Hannity may have been recently singled out, but he isn't the only News Corporation employee padding the re-election coffers of Rick Santorum (R-PA)...A simple search of Federal Election Commission records reveals that many News Corp. employees, including chairman and chief executive officer Rupert Murdoch, have made direct, personal donations to the Senator's re-election campaign, as well as other mostly Republican candidates.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
BREAKING: Patriot Act compromise may be in jeopardy as House pulls compromise off the floor
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House aides say that Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has backed out of agreeing to the compromise measure. A vote on the Sununu provision -- named for Sen. John Sununu (R-NH) who negotiated the compromise, has been yanked from a floor vote in the House today.
Senate offices working on the bill could not immediately be reached for comment.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Dubai Deal Closes Thursday Despite 45-day Review
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DP World said it would hold off taking over the American port terminals even after its $6.8 billion purchase of the British firm P&O Ports closes on Thursday. [So why do a review
