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  • Stephen Colbert smacks Bush down hard at White House Correspondent’s dinner
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner was televised on C-Span Saturday evening. Featured entertainer Stephen Colbert delivered a biting rebuke of George W. Bush and the lily-livered press corps. He did it to Bush’s face, unflinching and unbowed by the audience’s muted, humorless response. Democratic Underground members commented in real time (here, here, and here).<script language="JavaScript" (…)

  • PM, Bush to discuss convergence in May
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Aluf Benn
    Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet in Washington with U.S. President George Bush on May 23. The two will focus on Olmert’s convergence plan, the Hamas-led government in the Palestinian Authority, and the Iranian nuclear threat.
    Olmert’s first trip abroad as prime minister will be devoted entirely to meetings with U.S. administration and Congressional leaders in Washington, and he will not travel to other destinations.
    Advisers Dov Weissglas and Shalom Turjeman (…)

  • Say Uncle, Rummy
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MAUREEN DOWD
    Even some State Department officials thought it was like watching a cranky, eccentric uncle with an efficient, energetic niece.
    Rummy was ordered to go to Iraq by the president, but he clearly has no stomach for nation-building, or letting Condi run the show. He seemed under the weather after a rough overnight ride on a C-17 transport plane from Washington into Baghdad. And Condi’s aides were rolling their eyes at the less than respectful way the DefSec treated the (…)

  • Going to War with the Morons you have Mike Whitney
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    April 28, 2006
    "As you know, you go to war with the Army you have. They’re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time." — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld,
    Bad news continues to pile up around Don Rumsfeld like garbage at a land fill. The latest blast came from an unlikely source, The Army Times, which conducted a poll showing that 64% of enlisted men think Rumsfeld should tender his resignation immediately.
    It would be impossible to find a more conservative (…)

  • MANHATTAN : Tens of Thousands in New York March Against the War in Iraq
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Desmond Butler The Associated Press
    Sunday 30 April 2006
    New York - Tens of thousands of antiwar protesters marched yesterday through Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq just hours after an American soldier died in a roadside explosion in Baghdad - the 70th US fighter killed in that country this month.
    "End this war, bring the troops home," read one of the many signs held by protesters during the march more than three years after the war in (…)

  • IRAN : House votes 397-21 for “Iran Freedom Support Act”
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    House votes 397-21 for “Iran Freedom Support Act” Ben Frank April 27, 2006
    As if Iraq isn’t a big enough mess, the House of Representatives has just voted to ’hold Iran accountable and support a transition to democracy’. Sound Familiar? Only this time Iran is a democracy. They just held an election where their president was actually elected by the people. How refreshing.
    After everything that has been exposed...the lies, the profiteering, the long list of war crimes, 397 (…)

  • LATIN AMERICA : Bolivia joins Cuba, Venezuela in rejecting U.S.-backed trade
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Posted on Sun, Apr. 30, 2006
    Bolivia joins Cuba, Venezuela in rejecting U.S.-backed trade
    By Anita Snow Associated Press
    HAVANA - Bolivia’s new left-leaning president signed a pact with Cuba and Venezuela on Saturday rejecting U.S.-backed free trade and promising a socialist version of regional cooperation.
    Cuban authorities did not release copies of the so-called Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas signed by Bolivia’s Evo Morales, so its contents were unclear.
    Local media (…)

  • Stephen Colbert Speaks Truth to Power at the White House Correspondent’s dinner
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Before I begin, I’ve been asked to make an announcement. Whoever parked 14 black bullet proof S.U.V.’S out front, could you please move them. They are blocking in 14 other black bulletproof S.U.V.’S and they need to get out.
    Wow, wow, what an honor. The White House correspondents’ dinner. To just sit here, at the same table with my hero, George W. Bush, to be this close to the man. I feel like I’m dreaming. Somebody pinch me. You know what; I’m a pretty (…)

  • COLOMBIA : Washington’s Other Oil War
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Duroyan Fertl
    Green Left Review
    After almost five years, and countless thousands of people dead and disappeared, the US$7.5 billion initiative known as "Plan Colombia" has failed — politically and militarily — to bring an end to the crisis that characterises the violence-ridden South American country of Colombia.
    Begun in 2000, Plan Colombia was ostensibly designed to take the "war on drugs" to the drug producers. The US argued these were primarily "narco-terrorists" — the Marxist (…)

  • Meet Bush’s Latest Enemy in the War on Iraq: The Raging Grannies of Tucson, Arizona ’Peace grannies
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by the Guardian/UK Meet Bush’s Latest Enemy in the War on Iraq: The Raging Grannies of Tucson, Arizona ’Peace grannies’ part of growing anti-war network Elderly women tried to enlist in place of young
    by Oliver Burkeman and Emma Brockes in New York
    Three years after the start of the Iraq war, one thing New York police do not lack is experience in dealing with protesters - so when they were called to a disturbance at the military recruitment (…)