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  • Let Them Eat Candy: Of War Criminals, Enablers, and the Decreasing Significance of We the People
    4 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jason Miller
    Remember the archaic notion that freedom of speech and peaceable assembly are guaranteed by a document the Bush Regime is rendering as “quaint” as the Geneva Conventions?
    Here is a reminder:
    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
    Since (…)

  • It’s all Bill Clinton’s Fault
    4 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    The world hates the United States as evident as Bush travels abroad, so it must mean that it is all Bill Clinton’s fault.
    We have a growing and dangerous deficit and it must mean that it is all Bill Clinton’s fault.
    Our civil liberties are being trashed and it must mean that it is all Bill Clinton’s fault.
    Bush turned his back on victims of Hurricane Katrina and it must mean that it is all Bill Clinton’s fault.
    Bush and the GOP led government cut funds to many (…)

  • Things Fall Apart
    4 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Paul Krugman The New York Times
    Right after the 2004 election, it seemed as if Thomas Frank had been completely vindicated. In his book "What’s the Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America," Mr. Frank argued that America’s right wing had developed a permanent winning strategy based on the use of "values" issues to mobilize white working-class voters against a largely mythical cultural elite, while actually pursuing policies designed to benefit a small economic (…)

  • Kissinger’s "Salted Peanuts" and the Iraq War
    4 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By John Prados
    It is important to view Kissinger’s advice in his September 10, 1969 memo to Nixon in its appropriate context. The specific circumstances of this advice are these: a first cosmetic withdrawal of 25,000 American troops from South Vietnam had already begun. The Nixon administration faced a decision about further withdrawals, while the president struggled to craft a strategy under which he could coerce North Vietnam into ending the war on Nixon’s terms. Nixon and Kissinger had (…)

  • Lessons Of The Gas Pump
    4 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Klare
    Michael T. Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts and the author of Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum . This piece originally appeared in TomDispatch.
    What the hell is going on here? Just six weeks ago, gasoline prices at the pump were hovering at the $3 per gallon mark; today, they’re inching down toward $2-and some analysts predict even (…)

  • Man Arrested For Telling Cheney “Your Policies In Iraq Are Reprehensible” Files Lawsuit...
    4 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Arrest over Cheney barb triggers lawsuit
    By Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News October 3, 2006
    A Denver-area man filed a lawsuit today against a member of the Secret Service for causing him to be arrested after he approached Vice President Dick Cheney in Beaver Creek this summer and criticized him for his policies concerning Iraq.
    Attorney David Lane said that on June 16, Steve Howards was walking his 7-year-old son to a piano practice, when he saw Cheney surrounded by a group of (…)

  • Lies and Cover-Ups are not ’Being in Denial’
    3 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The right wing of the Republican Party has a problem with the truth. The American press corps has an addiction to euphemisms.
    Bob Woodward called his book "State of Denial." The press around the book raises the question of whether President George W. Bush and his highest officials-Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condi Rice- are unable to face the truth ("in denial").
    Yet the sort of anecdote Woodward tells, and the new information surfacing on Tenet’s briefing of Rice and Hastert’s (…)

  • America the Tyranny
    3 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Taken from www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
    The Road to Authoritarianism
    Behold and bear witness to what has become of America, in this era of uncertainty and bewilderment, in this time of fear and intimidation, that since towers were brought down and demolished has methodically fallen into the viper pit of neocon decadence, becoming, as it stands today, an authoritarian’s heaven and a corporatist’s promised land, its people ignorant, as always, to the barrage of waves systemically (…)

  • Hidden Costs of the Iraqi War Exposed
    3 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government, when it deserves it.” - Mark Twain
    Washington, D.C. If you need a boost to your morale, or better yet something to restore your faith in our fast-fading Republic, then I suggest that you make room on your schedule to attend a hearing of the “Out of Iraq Caucus” (Caucus) of the House of Representatives. This Ad Hoc Committee, founded in June, 2005, is chaired by a wonderful, gutsy lady from California’s 6th congressional district, (…)

  • THE EROSION OF DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM IN AMERICA
    3 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Erosion of Democracy and Freedom in America - by Stephen Lendman
    On December 8, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt addressed the US Congress the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He said that "date....will live in infamy" because of what the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan did. Two and one-half months later on February 19, 1942, FDR himself committed an infamous act signing into law Executive Order 9066 which authorized the internment of 120,000 Japanese (…)