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  • Prosecutor secures indictment in CIA outing case, lawyers say
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jason Leopold
    The prosecutor investigating the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson has secured at least one indictment in the case from a majority of the 23 grand jurors, lawyers and intelligence officials close to the case said Wednesday.
    The final outcome of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s 22-month federal probe is expected to end Friday with indictments of White House officials. The situation remains fluid, however, and several new scenarios have developed (…)

  • From Chaos to Conscience to Peace
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Monica Benderman
    Please visit Sgt. Benderman’s website, www.BendermanTimeline.com for a chronology of events, complete with documentation, leading to his court martial, along with a continuous discussion about Conscientious Objection and veterans’ issues.
    On July 27, 2005, Sgt. Kevin Benderman was found guilty of Missing Movement and sentenced to 15 months confinement, loss of pay and dishonorable discharge. In actuality, Sgt. Benderman’s crime was daring to tell the truth, and daring (…)

  • Welcome To KROVE Radio...
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    ...and I’m your un-friendly host, Karl "The Brain" Rove, and I can dial up an election faster than you can say "federal prosecutor." A lot faster, thanks to our good friends and sponsors, Diebold and Sequoia, and last but not least, E-S and S. Holy computer bits, Turdblossom! Quick, Libby the disk wipe!
    And on that note, it’s time to turn up the corporate media volume before the GAO can talk. Or Fitzi, for that matter! Have you heard the real news? Scari Harri has withdrawn her name from (…)

  • HEY, HARKAVY!
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Sheila Samples
    Remember the "Hey, Mikey" TV commercial with two brothers refusing to eat Quaker Oats’ new Life cereal until their little brother, Mikey, who supposedly "hates everything" tried it first? Well, I’m not saying I get up every morning and yell, "Hey, Harkavy!" to see what’s really happening in the news without all the commercial spin — but I’m not saying I don’t either...
    Either way, there’s no better place to start your morning than with the peerless Ward Harkavy (…)

  • Resolution of Inquiry to demand information on White House Iraq Group(WHIG) to be voted on by Nov 9
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Expose the WHIG
    Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) has introduced a Resolution of Inquiry to demand the White House turn over all white papers, minutes, notes, emails or other communications kept by the White House Iraq Group (WHIG).
    "This group, comprised of the President and Vice President’s top aides, was critical in selling the Administration’s case for war," Kucinich said. "We now know that the Administration hyped intelligence and misled the American public and Congress in their effort (…)

  • IS GEORGE BUSH A DOG OR A TAIL?
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WAGGING THE DOG
    By Peter Fredson
    October 28, 2005
    There is an old refrain about “the tail wagging the dog.” For years it seemed that George Bush was in firm control of his power base. Anything George wanted George got. The entire Republican Congress took any request George made of them, did it with applause, and practically kissed his royal butt. Their incestuous union brought up another refrain about “They must hang together or they will hang separately.”
    The Republican Party itself (…)

  • Exxon Mobil Posts New Record for Profit
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Steve Quinn
    Exxon Mobil Corp. had a quarter for the record books. The world’s largest publicly traded oil company said Thursday high oil and natural-gas prices helped its third-quarter profit surge almost 75 percent to $9.92 billion, the largest quarterly profit for a U.S. company ever, and it was the first to ring up more than $100 billion in quarterly sales.
    Net income ballooned to $9.92 billion, or $1.58 per share, from $5.68 billion, or 88 cents per share, a year ago.
    Excluding (…)

  • Bid for More Home Heating Aid Fails in Senate
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Senate decided yesterday the money was not there for a substantial spending boost for the federal home heating program, deflecting arguments that soaring energy prices could force the poor to choose between heat and food this winter.
    Senators voted 54 to 43 in favor of a proposal to boost the fiscal 2006 budget for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program from $2.2 billion to $5.1 billion. A 60-vote majority was needed to approve new spending not coupled with equivalent spending (…)

  • Open Season On America’s Seniors
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert M. Hayes
    Robert M. Hayes, an attorney, is president of the Medicare Rights Center, the nation’s largest independent source of information and assistance on health care rights and benefits for older and disabled men and women. He led the national and New York Coalitions for the Homeless from 1979 to 1989, and has practiced law with firms in New York and Maine.
    Deer hunting season is just starting up in much of the northern United States.
    But the Bush administration has already (…)

  • "North Country:" Important Lessons
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Laurie Beacham and Amber Hard Today we are appalled by the story told in "North Country," a film that chronicles the first class-action lawsuit brought for sexual harassment. The suit was led by Lois Jenson, a single mother trying to provide for her family, who became one of the first women to work at Minnesota’s Eveleth Mines.
    The sexual harassment she and other women at Eveleth Mines suffered in the 1970s and ’80s was, indeed, appalling. They endured lewd jokes, taunting and (…)