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  • It’s Bush-Cheney, Not Rove-Libby
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By FRANK RICH
    There hasn’t been anything like it since Martha Stewart fended off questions about her stock-trading scandal by manically chopping cabbage on "The Early Show" on CBS. Last week the setting was "Today" on NBC, where the image of President Bush manically hammering nails at a Habitat for Humanity construction site on the Gulf Coast was juggled with the sight of him trying to duck Matt Lauer’s questions about Karl Rove.
    As with Ms. Stewart, Mr. Bush’s paroxysm of panic was (…)

  • Bush’s flim-flam on faith
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    BY THE TIME our holy-roller-in-chief leaves office, we will really be confused about the role of religion. That is how President Bush wants it, starting with his faith-based initiatives that were merely an excuse for gutting government programs. In recent weeks, this blessed agenda has bumped up against unavoidable hypocrisy.
    The most obvious is the Supreme Court. Bush named John Roberts to the court under a massive smokescreen. In July, White House spokesman Scott (…)

  • Miers expected to be president’s terror ally
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Caroline Daniel and Patti Waldmeir
    US social conservatives have one big objection to Harriet Miers, President George W. Bush’s beleaguerednominee to the Supreme Court:they cannot trust her to shift America’s highest court to the right on the issue of abortion.
    But when it comes to defending the power of the president to wage the war on terror - even if that means making unpopular choices about the civil liberties of Americans and foreigners alike - conservatives think Ms Miers will be (…)

  • Schwarzenegger veto spurs wide opposition
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Rosalio Muñoz
    LOS ANGELES - Latino immigrant rights leaders are responding to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s veto of SB 60 with a joint mobilization to defeat all Schwarzenegger-backed propositions in the Nov. 8 election. The bill would provide driver’s licenses for over 2 million undocumented workers here.
    Shortly after Schwarzenegger vetoed the license measure on Oct. 7, Los Angeles Democratic leaders, state Sen. Gil Cedillo and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez called on immigrant rights (…)

  • Bush And Big Oil May Be Making A Killing This Winter
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Brian McAfee
    Earlier this year President Bush enacted an energy bill into law that gave $85 billion dollars to big oil and gas companies, and this month the Republican controlled House of Representatives gave billions more in tax breaks to the oil industry while doing nothing to lower gas prices.
    Despite this windfall for the already rich stockholders and their friends, President Bush has proposed cutting funds to help the poor heat their homes this winter. The nation’s 37 million (…)

  • If George and Dick come out of this unscathed, Mr. Fitzgerald may as well have stayed in Chicago.
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?
    - Richard M. Nixon
    In a New York Times article published on Sunday, columnist Frank Rich buried the dart right in the center-black. "What matters most in this case," wrote Rich, "is not whether Mr. Rove and Lewis Libby engaged in a petty conspiracy to seek revenge on a whistle-blower, Joseph Wilson, by unmasking his wife, Valerie, a covert C.I.A. officer. What makes Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation compelling, whatever its outcome, is (…)

  • US Hired military killers are in Venezuela to kill Chavez
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US "private military contractors" already in-country to "deal with" Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez Frias...
    Intelligence agencies are revealing that US private military contractors, active in Colombia "under various contract umbrellas, including counter-narcotics and counter-insurgency" are building up to yet another attempted coup d’etat against Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez.
    Carefully described as "private military (…)

  • Cheney May Be Entangled in CIA Leak Investigation, People Say
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A special counsel is focusing on whether Vice President
    by Richard Keil
    Dick Cheney played a role in leaking a covert CIA agent’s name, according to people familiar with the probe that already threatens top White House aides Karl Rove and Lewis Libby.
    The special counsel, Patrick Fitzgerald, has questioned current and former officials of President George W. Bush’s administration about whether Cheney was involved in an effort to discredit the agent’s husband, Iraq war critic and former (…)

  • Bush Political Hacks Buried & Doctored Key Outsourcing Report Before 2004 Election
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Political Appointees Re-Write Commerce Department Report On Offshore Outsourcing; Original Analysis Is Missing From Final Version Richard McCormack October 12, 2005 The Commerce Department has responded to a half-year-old request by Manufacturing and Technology News for the release a long-awaited study on the issue of "offshore outsourcing" of IT service-sector jobs and high-tech industries. But the 12-page document represented by the agency as its final report is not what was written by (…)

  • Press Silence On Impeachment
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Press Silence On Impeachment Text of Radio BC Audio Commentary October 06, 2005 Listen Now -
    The corporate media in the United States can hardly claim to fill a journalistic role, anymore. The first duty of a real newsperson is to ask questions. But the corporate press can’t bring itself to ask even the most obvious questions, including on issues that are important to a high proportion of the public. When we refer to the corporate media, we’re also talking about the major polling (…)