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  • THE BEST SPEECHWRITER BUSH CAN BUY
    24 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BEST SPEECHES MONEY CAN BUY
    By Peter Fredson
    November 24, 2005
    By now everyone knows that all of the Bush speechwriters use Newspeak liberally. This is the fine art of making white appear to be black, war to be peace, incompetence appear to be clever leadership, torture to be simple college pranks, corruption appear to be bookkeeping mistakes, with death and destruction appearing to be joyous preparation for a wonderful eternal world of the future.
    Everyone knows that a loyal (…)

  • Failure of Leadership; Republicans In Charge
    23 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George Bush’s 37% popularity offers an opportunity to highlight the results of Republican failures. Under the leadership of our self-anointed “War President”, our foreign policy has grown increasingly delusional. Republicans in Congress have spent and borrowed trillions, for the benefit of the wealthy, while cutting vital aid to working-class Americans.
    We’re locked in two land wars in a hostile region. Neither war can nor will end without withdrawal, for radical Islamic terrorists pledge (…)

  • BUSH PLOT TO BOMB ALJAZEERA
    23 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    22 November 2005 Madness of war memo By Kevin Maguire And Andy Lines
    PRESIDENT Bush planned to bomb Arab TV station al-Jazeera in friendly Qatar, a "Top Secret" No 10 memo reveals.
    But he was talked out of it at a White House summit by Tony Blair, who said it would provoke a worldwide backlash.
    A source said: "There’s no doubt what Bush wanted, and no doubt Blair didn’t want him to do it." Al-Jazeera is accused by the US of fuelling the Iraqi insurgency.
    The attack would have led to (…)

  • Flashback- Not the First Time Iraqis Ask US to Leave-American Papers Refuse to Print
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraqi Lawmakers Call for Foreign Troops to Withdraw By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, BAGHDAD June 21, 2005
    Iraqi lawmakers from across the political spectrum called for the withdrawal of foreign forces from their country in a letter released to the media June 19.
    The move comes as U.S. President George W. Bush is under increasing domestic pressure to set a timetable for the pullout of American forces in the face of an increasing death toll at the hands of insurgents.
    Eighty-two Shiite, (…)

  • Experts Questioning Iraq Intel Silenced Before War- Never Let Politicians Say They Didn’t Know...
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    From the New Zealand Scoop-This isn’t new news! Posted by The Prissy Patriot http://prissypatriot.blogspot.com White House Silenced Experts Who Questioned Iraq Intel Info Six Months Before War Thursday, 12 June 2003, 11:48 am
    By Jason Leopold
    Six months before the United States was dead-set on invading Iraq to rid the country of its alleged weapons of mass destruction, experts in the field of nuclear science warned officials in the Bush administration that intelligence reports showing (…)

  • Friday Night Congress: What Was That?
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    During the middle of the day on Friday, I spent an hour or two on a conference call with activists and congressional staffers discussing next steps to end the war. We planned, among other things, to organize support for Congressman John Murtha’s bill, H.J.Res. 73, which he introduced on Friday. The bill resolves that:
    "The deployment of United States forces in Iraq, by direction of Congress, is hereby terminated and the forces involved are to be redeployed at the (…)

  • Setting The Record Straight
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Bill Moyers Remarks prepared for the recent 50th anniversary of The Texas Observer, an independent newspaper in Austin, Tx.
    The 50th anniversary of The Texas Observer is a double celebration for me. Your first issue appeared one week before Judith Davidson and I were married in December 1954. We had transferred here to the University of Texas as juniors and were renting a garage apartment that has now totally disappeared along with the block on which it stood. So many landmarks of (…)

  • Symbol of the System
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    What do you get when you cross gutted labor laws with a corporate culture of impunity? Why, Wal-Mart, of course!
    By Christopher Hayes
    There’s a moment in Robert Greenwald’s new documentary, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, that serves as a perfect metaphor for the entire battle between organized labor and the country’s largest private employer.
    Josh Noble, an employee of the Tire and Lube Express division of a Wal-Mart in Loveland, Colorado, is attempting to organize 17 of his (…)

  • Hugo Chavez and the Crawford Madman
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Whitney
    Hugo Chavez seems to take great pleasure in tweaking George Bush’s nose. He’s repeatedly called Bush a “terrorist” and disparaged the US as a “terrorist state”. Just last week, Chavez fired off another broadside saying, “The planet’s most serious danger is the government of the United States...The people of the United States are being governed by a killer, a genocidal murderer, and a madman.”
    He got that right.
    For liberals and leftists Chavez’s fiery salvos have been a (…)

  • Iraqi Leaders Call for Pullout Timetable
    22 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By SALAH NASRAWI
    CAIRO, Egypt - Reaching out to the Sunni Arab community, Iraqi leaders called for a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces and said Iraq’s opposition had a legitimate right’’ of resistance.
    The communique - finalized by Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni leaders Monday - condemned terrorism but was a clear acknowledgment of the Sunni position that insurgents should not be labeled as terrorists if their operations do not target innocent civilians or institutions designed (…)