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  • The masking of a conservative
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    PRIDE MUST go before he falls. This is why Samuel Alito hopped to liberal burrows on Capitol Hill to proclaim the burial of his conservative ideology. In his 1985 application to a senior post in the Reagan administration, Alito wrote:
    ’’I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an (…)

  • Cheney’s Trouble with Truth
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Scheer
    You’ve got to hand it to Dick Cheney; no other modern politician has come so close to perfecting the theater of the absurd. Even as he protests his innocence of lying about matters of state, he lies about matters of state.
    In speeches Friday and Monday, the vice president, who has long insisted Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda were allies, Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, we would be greeted as liberators in Baghdad, and that the Iraqi insurgency is in its ’’last (…)

  • What If Bush Told the Truth at Annapolis
    2 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What Bush Might Have Said If He Ever Told the Truth
    Satire by Peter Fredson
    December 2, 2005
    Our courageous American hero, George Bush, Lord of Missions Accomplished, gave another of his cloned speeches the other day at Annapolis, to a captive audience of bright and shining cadets, who had no idea what evil genius awaited their service. Some phrases from his speech were taken from the Neocon Strategy for Victory handbook years ago.
    SCENE: George I is sitting in his bedroom having a (…)

  • As many as 60 U.S. Congressmen may be implicated in Bribery scandal
    2 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Abramoff affair: Corruption scandal threatens Republican control of US Congress
    Michael Scanlon, a Republican political operative, publicist and former press spokesman for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, pled guilty November 21 to conspiring with lobbyist Jack Abramoff to bribe a Republican congressman and cheat several American Indian tribes out of tens of millions of dollars.
    Scanlon’s guilty plea-and even more his agreement to cooperate fully with federal prosecutors and testify (…)

  • President Bush’s Flirtation With Fascism
    1 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Bush’s Flirtation With Fascism By Bill Gallagher November 29, 2005 Detroit - The regime has already produced so many ignominious legacies that historians in the near future will be able to feast on the task of measuring the damage from the wretched deeds the Busheviks have wrought.
    Certainly, the unnecessary pre-emptive war in Iraq, sold with lies, will echo for generations as a symbol of America’s failed experiment in empire cloaked as proselytizing democracy. Our actions in (…)

  • Crude Designs: The Rip-Off of Iraq’s Oil Wealth
    30 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    While the Iraqi people struggle to define their future amid political chaos and violence, the fate of their most valuable economic asset, oil, is being decided behind closed doors.
    This report reveals how an oil policy with origins in the US State Department is on course to be adopted in Iraq, soon after the December elections, with no public debate and at enormous potential cost. The policy allocates the majority[1] of Iraq’s oilfields — accounting for at least 64% of the country’s oil (…)

  • The New Evil Empire
    30 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net
    Remember the Red Menace, also known as the Communist threat? Or how about the Third Reich, the creator of which became the chief metaphor for evil in the 20th century?
    Most Americans, certainly those younger than 30, don’t remember either. Hell, they don’t even remember Vietnam or Nixon or The Beatles. The terms and their connotations are totally unfamiliar, unless encountered in history texts. Millions of Americans simply do not remember what America (…)

  • How to Manipulate the Press
    30 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Manipulating the Media
    By Peter Fredson
    November 30, 2005
    A blogger recently asked that in view of my longevity and varied experience I might write something about changes noted.
    Years ago I was a photographer-reporter and attended a Presidential photo-op for a visiting dignitary. The news-people were invited to partake of delicious snacks at a large table. Then the President got up on a dais with his visitor, both made speeches, and left the room. A bodyguard of the President went (…)

  • Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda, according to government records and current and former officials with firsthand knowledge of the matter.
    The (…)

  • WHOSE WAR WAS IT?
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WHOSE WAR WAS IT?
    By Peter Fredson
    November 26, 2005
    Whose war was it really? Was it Bush’s War? Dick Cheney’s War? Karl Rove’s War?
    There is an honest debate among bloggers and reporters about which person in the Bush administration decided that invading Iraq, for whatever reason, was a good idea. All three are neocons immersed in the philosophy of preemption, domination, and aggressivity as means to imperial glory. Any one of the three were certainly capable of putting forth (…)