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  • Loving Labor’s Losses: Whoredom is optional
    4 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jason Miller
    Are we not the whores of big business, selling our product for their commercial lust? Arthur Erickson
    When George Bush spoke at a maritime training center in Piney Point, MD on Labor Day, 2006, ostensibly he was a respected leader paying tribute to the hard-working men and women forming the backbone of the nation’s economy.
    In reality, Bush is a pimp for the moneyed interests and corporations who wield most of the wealth and power in the United States. Bush, his (…)

  • Bush Assassination Film is just fictional as was ‘The Path to 9/11’
    4 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mary MacElveen
    At this point, I challenge any station to air the movie that depicts the assassination of George W. Bush. This movie is a piece of fiction as was the ‘Path to 9/11’ But, knowing our corporate controlled media, they will not because they are ‘gun shy’ since the conservative base within this country will have a field day trying to shut down the airing of this movie. I know that was a bad pun to use, but one that is applicable in this case. This conservative base was (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Candidate-veteran attacks Bush on Iraq
    3 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DENNIS CONRAD
    WASHINGTON - An Illinois congressional candidate who lost both her legs during combat in Iraq said Saturday that President Bush has no real strategy for securing the war-ravaged nation, just political talk designed to appeal to voters.
    Duckworth‘s address served as a response to the president‘s weekly radio talk and gave the Democratic Party a chance to showcase one of its strongest candidates as it seeks to regain control of the House in November‘s elections.
    "Well, I (…)

  • Rice Doesn’t Recall Al Qaeda Warning
    3 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AP) Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she cannot recall then-CIA chief George Tenet warning her of an impending al Qaeda attack in the United States, as a new book claims he did two months before the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
    "What I am quite certain of is that I would remember if I was told, as this account apparently says, that there was about to be an attack in the United States, and the idea that I would somehow have ignored that I find incomprehensible," Rice said.
    Rice was (…)