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  • Dumb and Dumber Go To Medical School?
    9 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

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    Dumb and Dumber Go To Medical School? Larry C. Johnson Saturday, 08 July 2006 at 19:12
    I recall fondly the flick, Dumb and Dumber, which was set largely in the post card tableau of Aspen. Are we ready for the sequel? This AP photo is flipping hysterical. Maybe these guys are the final applicants to replace Igor. Two half-wits for the price of one?
    Figure out your own caption.

  • Bush Or Keller? Who Do You Trust?
    9 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Or Keller? Who Do You Trust? By Jack Shafer Posted Thursday, July 6, 2006, at 10:56 PM ET When governments acquire emergency powers during wartime, it’s with the understanding that the crisis is finite and that when the war ends the government will relinquish those powers. But what happens when a government defines its war as neverending, as the Bush administration has its so-called "war on terror"? As long as any jihadist anywhere threatens the West, the administration would have us (…)

  • Cheney Behind Turn Toward Dictatorship
    9 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cheney Behind Turn Toward Dictatorship Andrew Greeley First published: Friday, July 7, 2006 In the winter of 1933, before Franklin Roosevelt’s first inauguration on March 4, there was a clamor in the United States for a military dictatorship. The banks were closing, a quarter of Americans were unemployed, rebellion threatened on the farms. Only drastic reforms, mandated by the president’s power as commander in chief, would save the country. Something like the fascism of Mussolini’s (…)

  • Coalition Cover Up On AWB: Labor
    9 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Coalition Cover Up On AWB: Labor Advertiser Newspapers Pty Limited 08 July 2006 NEWLY released documents showed the Australian Government had colluded with AWB and deliberately lied to the US Senate to hide the grain trader’s kickbacks to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the ALP said today.
    Labor’s public accountability spokesman Kelvin Thomson said documents obtained by his office through Freedom of Information showed the Howard Government had assisted AWB in dodging questions from the US (…)

  • HE WOULD BE KING
    8 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The American values we hold most dear have been placed at serious risk by the unprecedented claims of the Bush Cabal to a truly breathtaking expansion of executive power.
    The evidence now makes it hard to avoid the conclusion that George W. Bush has repeatedly and insistently broken the law and the corrupt Republican Congress has shirked its constitutional duty to hold him accountable.
    I believe a president who breaks the law poses a threat to the very foundation of our democracy. As (…)

  • The UK’s problem with Venezuela’s Chavez Frias is that he’s over there!
    8 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    From: Raymond F. Breakspear admin@intbel.com To: Editor@VHeadline.com Subject: The UK needs a Hugo Chavez
    Here in the UK we used to have a problem with Americans. What was the problem? "They’re over here!"
    Here in the UK we have a problem with Chavez. What is the problem? "He’s over there!"
    (And we still have a problem with Americans being over here corps-wise, if not in person, but more on that anon)
    We need a Hugo Chavez ... desperately. Now. Like yesterday would not be too (…)

  • DEMOCRACY, MEXICAN STYLE
    7 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Democracy, Mexican Style - by Stephen Lendman
    What do these presidential elections all have in common: Mexico, 1988, US, 2000, US, 2004, Colombia and Peru, 2006 and the just concluded Mexican election on July 2? In each case, the outcome was "arranged" and known in advance before voters went to the polls. They’re what economist and media and social critic Edward Herman calls "Demonstration Elections" - the characterization and title he gave his 1980s book analyzing and documenting sham (…)

  • Patriotism & The Fourth of July
    7 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Howard Zinn
    The following essay is an excerpt from Zinn’s forthcoming book, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (City Lights Books, ISBN 0-87286-475-8, www.citylights.com)
    In celebration of the 4th of July there will be many speeches about the young people who “died for their country.” Let’s be honest about war. Those who gave their lives did not die for their country, as they were led to believe but for their government. The distinction between country and government is at the (…)

  • Blair laid bare: the article that may get you arrested
    7 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the guise of fighting terrorism and maintaining public order, Tony Blair’s Government has quietly and systematically taken power from Parliament and the British people. The author charts a nine-year assault on civil liberties that reveals the danger of trading freedom for security - and must have Churchill spinning in his grave
    By Henry Porter
    In the shadow of Winston Churchill’s statue opposite the House of Commons, a rather odd ritual has developed on Sunday afternoons. A small (…)

  • Spreading Cancer: Depleted uranium turns Bush’s lies into high-tech horror
    7 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert C. Koehler
    The unending game of “pretend” that the U.S. media allow George Bush to play on the global stage, so often letting his lying utterances hang suspended, unchallenged, in the middle of the story, as though they were plausible - as though a class of third-graders couldn’t demolish them with a few innocent questions - feels like the journalistic equivalent of waterboarding. Gasp! Some truth, please!
    I suggest the prez has forfeited the right to command a headline, or (…)