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  • Trust Us: We’re Incompetent Fucks
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Trust Us: We’re Incompetent Fucks Posted By Eddie Tews October 09, 2005 It appears that George Bush was lying when he touted the ten terrorist plots broken up by the "international community" since September 11.
    But it’s often fun, when dealing with the Bush Administration’s lies, to play "What If He Were Telling The Truth?". So, what if Bush wasn’t lying?
    That means that the "international community" has broken up ten terrorist plots — while being unable to foil an increasing and now (…)

  • GOOD AMERICANS — DEMOCRACY’S GRAVEDIGGERS?
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The one thing — the only thing — that George Bush has ever done successfully is campaign. That boy sure loves to play dress-up. He’s in his element strutting around in various costumes, while smirking and blinking before carefully vetted audiences whose members sign loyalty pledges and are conditioned to cheer and wave their flags as he gives the same smoke-’em-out-and-kill-’em-all stump speech over and over. And over again.
    Bush loves to talk about his bold vision and to brag about the (…)

  • Casualties of the Bush Administration
    15 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Nick Turse
    In late August 2005, after twenty years of service in the field of military procurement, Bunnatine ("Bunny") Greenhouse, the top official at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in charge of awarding government contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq, was demoted. For years, Greenhouse received stellar evaluations from superiors — until she raised objections about secret, no-bid contracts awarded to Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) — a subsidiary of Halliburton, the (…)

  • Catch-22 at the New York Times
    15 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s put up or shut up time at the paper of record.
    Now that Judge Hogan has lifted Judy Miller’s contempt citation, there is no reason for the Times to hold back on its promised full accounting of the Miller story.
    Rarely has so much been riding on a single article.
    Especially internally. The frustration I’ve been reporting on since July has now spilled into the MSM with "nearly a dozen Times staffers" venting to Howard Kurtz. The Times newsroom is a powder keg ready to blow.
    But (…)

  • POLLS DON’T IMPEACH PRESIDENTS; PEOPLE DO!
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It don’t mean a thing if their phones don’t ring
    First we give the action link, http://www.millionphonemarch.com/impeach.htm
    Why an action link first? It’s because our words are useless unless they mobilize people to take some immediate action in direct response. Unless the central goal of all progressive punditry is to engage more people to DO something themselves, then what is the point . . . really? And if the modestly patient reader will bear with us for just a couple of paragraphs, (…)

  • Should the U.S. Withdraw? Let the Iraqi People Decide
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Abigail A. Fuller and Neil Wollman
    Give us three minutes and we can find an op-ed piece in a U.S. newspaper calling for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, or arguing that they should stay. The arguments are varied and numerous: If the U.S. leaves, anarchy will ensue. Occupation forces are a target for foreign terrorists. Bush should set a timetable for withdrawal. Setting a timetable would embolden those using violence in Iraq. And so on. What is missing from this picture? Any (…)

  • Vice President’s role in outing of CIA agent under examination, sources close to prosecutor say
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Leopold
    Cheney’s role in CIA outing not known
    Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is trying to determine whether Vice President Dick Cheney had a role in the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame-Wilson, individuals close to Fitzgerald say. Plame’s husband was a vocal critic of prewar intelligence used by President George W. Bush to build support for the Iraq war.
    The investigation into who leaked the officer’s name to reporters has now turned toward a little known (…)

  • Sort of an answer to Mike Malloy’s question on Springer On The Radio this a.m. :
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear Mike,
    You asked what Bush has done to make things better for the majority of the countries citizens. Name even ONE THING you said.
    I think that Bush has, through his cronies at Diebold and ES&S and Sequoia, managed one feat to make it EASIER for the majority of U.S. Citizens.
    He’s made it easier for the 53% of lazy asses that don’t go to the polls to justify screwing off the elections. After all, Karl Rove can just sit in the White House basement and dial up the central (…)

  • Republican Congressman Slams Bush On Militarized Police State Preparation
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Congressman Ron Paul has accused the Bush administration of attempting to set in motion a militarized police state in America by enacting gun confiscation martial law provisions in the event of an avian flu pandemic. Paul also slammed as delusional and dangerous plans to invade Iran, Syria, North Korea and China.
    Ron Paul represents the 14th Congressional district of Texas. He also serves on the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, and the International Relations (…)

  • Abuse, Forced Labor Rampant in New Orleans Justice System
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    When Robert Davis emerged from the temporary detention center in New Orleans, his eye was swollen nearly shut, his face was bruised, and he had a couple of stitches under his left eye. He told The NewStandard that police had beaten him and then charged him with public intoxication and battery, even though he had not had a drink in 25 years and had merely asked a police officer to leave him alone.
    The 64-year-old retired elementary school teacher sat sadly in a chair Sunday morning outside (…)