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  • White House to withdraw funding for rebuilding Iraq
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Andrew Gumbel
    The US government is not planning to continue funding reconstruction projects in Iraq, in what appears to be a major climbdown from the White House’s one-time pledge to build the best infrastructure in the region.
    According to officials cited in yesterday’s Washington Post, the Bush administration will not be adding construction funds to the $18.4bn (£10.7bn) it has allocated since the 2003 invasion.
    In future it will be up to other foreign donors and the Iraqi (…)

  • George W. Bush : War Terrier
    3 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Could our glorious news media ask President George W. Bush if he has any comment on reports emanating from the Manila Times that Mr. Bush authorised the "rescue" of "treasure hunter" Michael Meiring . Mr. Meiring was under arrest recovering from wounds resulting from an an accidental bombing that took place in his hotel room when agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation , operating under the authority of US National Security Council, whisked his personage away . The Manila (…)

  • THE STATE DEPARTMENT’S MIXED MESSAGES
    2 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    Amidst undenied charges that the Pentagon is paying Iraqi journalists to write “good news” stories about the country’s progress, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has announced a new international exchange program for journalists named for famed broadcaster Edward R. Murrow and emphasizing “the democratic principles that guided Mr. Murrow’s practice of his craft: integrity and ethics and courage and social responsibility”.
    Rice added, “We all know that the bedrock (…)

  • Keepers at the Gate: He Who Controls Television Controls the Masses
    2 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Manuel Valenzuela
    In this age of modernity and technology, where the television monitor has become the center of the average American household, from cradle to grave acting as surrogate parent, teacher, role model and as influencer of human thought, it should come as no surprise that entire populations can be controlled with such facility and efficiency, turning once thinking humans into grazing sheeple. For in today’s day and age, he who controls television controls the masses, and he (…)

  • Vice President lied as White House sought to defuse leak inquiry
    2 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jason Leopold
    Did Vice President Dick Cheney help cover-up the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson in the months after conservative columnist Robert Novak first disclosed her identity?
    That’s one of the questions Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is likely trying to figure out. It’s unclear what Cheney said to investigators back in 2004 when he was questioned-not under oath-about the leak, particularly what he knew and when he knew it.
    The five-count criminal (…)

  • A Gestapo Administration: Bush tactics parallel Hitler’s rise to power
    2 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Caught in gratuitous and illegal spying on American citizens, the Bush administration has defended its illegal activity and set the Justice (sic) Department on the trail of the person or persons who informed the New York Times of Bush’s violation of law.
    Note the astounding paradox: The Bush administration is caught red-handed in blatant illegality and responds by trying to arrest the patriot who exposed the administration’s illegal behavior.
    Bush has actually declared it treasonous to (…)

  • NSA Spying on Americans: Official objected; decision on who to monitor left up to a shift supervisor
    2 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 - A top Justice Department official objected in 2004 to aspects of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program and refused to sign on to its continued use amid concerns about its legality and oversight, according to officials with knowledge of the tense internal debate. The concerns appear to have played a part in the temporary suspension of the secret program.
    The concerns prompted two of President Bush’s most senior aides - Andrew H. Card Jr., his (…)

  • The Most Valuable Progressives of 2005
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by John Nichols
    It is hard to complain about a year that began with George Bush bragging about spending the "political capital" he felt he had earned with his dubious reelection and ended with the president drowning in the Nixonian depths of public disapproval.
    But the circumstance didn’t just get better.
    A handful of elected officials, activist groups and courageous citizens bent the arc of history toward justice.
    Here are this one columnist’s picks for the Most Valuable (…)

  • VIDEO: George Bush Drunk Again
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There have been rumors that Bush has been drinking
    again. Here is actual footage of him talking about
    the Iraq elections in a very inebriated state.
    Leuren
    http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=KmIcYwBkfdM

  • Wayne Madsen Report
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Madsen
    In 2006, Tom DeLay will pay. And so will Bob Ney, and Mark Lay, and Ken Lay. Maybe by May, some people say.
    And when they pay, let it be so. The same for Tom Noe and Texan Ted Poe. And Wally O’Dell and a Miller named Zell and Jodi Rell as well. Oh hell man, along with Ken Mehlman, it wouldn’t be daft to jail Bob Taft
    Let’s hope none of them get off including Jack Abramoff and Michael Chertoff.
    May they have a terrible New Year
    And may we all turn giddy, at the (…)