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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Obama's Support for the New Graham-Lieberman Secrecy Law
The Obama White House is supporting a new bill (sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Graham & Joe Lieberman) whose sole purpose is allowing the government to suppress any "photograph taken between September 11, 2001 and January 22, 2009" relating to the treatment of detainees in the "War on Terror." In other words, Obama wants Congress to change the FOIA so that the courts can't compel release of any more torture photos.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
The world crisis of capitalism and the prospects for socialism
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Part 2 of an erudite WSWS series on the developing global financial crisis, exposing its basic Ponzi-scheme nature, & its reliance on debt without risk assessment.
Friday, November 9, 2007
Blair 'knew Iraq had no WMD' (Times of London)
TONY BLAIR privately conceded two weeks before the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein did not have any usable weapons of mass destruction, Robin Cook, the former foreign secretary, reveals today.
John Scarlett, chairman of the joint intelligence committee (JIC), also "assented" that Saddam had no such weapons, says Cook.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Bush's War on the Republic, by Robert Parry
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An unusually clear-sighted analysis of the danger Bush poses to the continued existence of the Republic
