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  • 36 US House Reps Want Bush Impeachment Probe- John Conyers not pursuing illegal wiretapping
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Publisher’s note: John Conyers introduced this right after the illegal wiretapping revelations
    I think that many more congresspeople would sign on if the impeachment resolution was about the illegal wiretapping only. The case for impeachment over illegal wiretapping is cut and dry. Bush admitted to breaking the law on national TV and has said he will continue to do so.
    When this information came to light, everyone was in an uproar and the momentum was so moving toward immediate (…)

  • Actors and Writers Read Works from Luminaries Censored at the Border
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Actors and Writers Read Works from Luminaries Censored at the Border (4/27/2006)
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: media@aclu.org
    ACLU and PEN Highlight Foreign Scholars Barred from United States
    LEARN MORE > Censorship at the Border
    > An Evening Without... NEW YORK — Prominent authors and actors convene tonight in lower Manhattan to read from the works of writers and scholars who were banned from the United States because of their political opinions.
    Tonight’s event, “An Evening (…)

  • Stephen Colbert Shows President Bush What Shock and Awe is All About
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Stephen Colbert was the celebrity entertainer at the 2006 White House Correspondent’s Dinner. But you wouldn’t know it if you only paid attention to main stream media outlets. That is because the main stream media is proving Stephen Colbert right. Colbert, in his persona as a conservative, flag waving, Bush supporting cable show host, unloaded on the Washington press and the administration in a bit of satirical, comedic genius. But the main stream press has decided to pretend it didn’t (…)

  • Skewering comedy skit angers Bush and aides
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert’s biting routine at the White House Correspondents Association dinner won a rare silent protest from Bush aides and supporters Saturday when several independently left before he finished.
    "Colbert crossed the line," said one top Bush aide, who rushed out of the hotel as soon as Colbert finished. Another said that the president was visibly angered by the sharp lines that kept coming.
    "I’ve been there before, and I can see that he is [angry]," said a (…)

  • Transcript of Stephen Colbert’s monologue at the White House Correspondents Dinner
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Stephen Colbert’s Take at the White House Correspondents Dinner Transcript of Stephen Colbert’s monologue at the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday, April 29, 2006
    Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Before I begin, I’ve been asked to make an announcement. Whoever parked 14 black bulletproof 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’ (…)

  • The War’s Liberal Enablers
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Accountability is no longer creeping, but racing up on the Bush gang. No, not the shuffling of the decks chairs --- the "transfer" of Karl Rove; Scott McClellan’s Snow job replacement; or even Scooter’s spilling the beans on the deliberate misleading of the Plame Grand Jury. Nope. It’s the big brass Rummyache that’s got the roaches scurrying. If Rummy goes, who would make decisions for the Decider-in-chief?
    All this is quite entertaining and offers hope, but it also brings up: where’s the (…)

  • Slapping the Face of Truth...a poem about Bush
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Oh, I have slapped the face of truth, prevaricated and deceived like many ancient kings...
    Upward I’ve climbed with help from Karl Rove and neocons, and done a hundred things the law does not allow.
    Wheeled and dealed and given cushy contracts too,
    High perhaps on drugs or booze,without a care,
    I’ve lied my foolish head off,expanded ego craftily with hot air.
    True,true, my diplomatic moves are few.
    I’ve told a million tales with easy grace, and devastated language without a single (…)

  • HUGE DEMO IN NYC : Protesters Give Bush the Finger By Tom Engelhardt
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Protesters Give Bush the Finger By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com Posted on May 1, 2006, Printed on May 1, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/35663/
    It’s the perfect day for a march. Sunny, crisp, clear, spring-like. The sort of day that just gives you hope for no reason at all, though my own hopes are not high for New York’s latest antiwar demonstration. I haven’t received a single email about it. Many people I know hadn’t realized it was happening. I fear the outreach has been minimal (…)

  • U.S.: More Than 600 Implicated in Detainee Abuse
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Two years ago, revelations about the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq shocked people across the world. In response, U.S. government officials condemned the conduct as illegal and assured the world that perpetrators would be held accountable.
    Two years later, it has become clear that the problem of torture and other abuse by U.S. personnel abroad was far more pervasive than the Abu Ghraib photos revealed-extending to numerous U.S. detention facilities in (…)

  • KATRINA : Don’t come back to New Orleans unless you intend to join the fight for justice!’
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Eight months after Katrina: ’Don’t come back to New Orleans unless you intend to join the fight for justice!’
    by Bill Quigley Six weeks after Katrina, public housing tenants were evicted from several developments, using storm damage as a pretext. Driving out residents from livable homes made HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson’s prediction of a "whiter New Orleans" a self-fulfilling prophecy. Photo: forestparkresist@gmail.com
    On Monday, April 17, 2006, two bodies were found buried beneath (…)