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  • 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 (…)

  • New Orleans: Leaving the Poor Behind Again!
    15 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By BILL QUIGLEY
    They are doing it again! My wife and I spent five days and four nights in a hospital in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We saw people floating dead in the water. We watched people die waiting for evacuation to places with food, water, and electricity. We were rescued by boat and waited for an open pickup truck to take us and dozens of others on a rainy drive to the underpass where thousands of others waited for a bus ride to who knows where. You saw the people left (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Levee Breaks, 9-11 Part of Govt. Plot, Farrakhan Implies
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (CNSNews.com) - Forty-eight hours before the Louis Farrakhan-led march of African Americans through the streets of Washington, D.C., the controversial minister Thursday repeated his charge that levees in New Orleans were intentionally blown up on Aug. 29, following Hurricane Katrina. He also implied that the Bush administration may have orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S.
    Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, and his followers on Saturday will commemorate (…)

  • Depleted uranium is WMD
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    de Leuren Moret
    My grandfather, U.S. Army Col. Edwin Joseph McAllister, was born in Battle Creek in 1895. He does not know that his first grandchild is an international expert on depleted uranium. I have worked in two U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories, and in 1991 I became a whistleblower at the Livermore lab. Depleted uranium is very, very, very nasty stuff: Depleted uranium (DU) weaponry meets the definition of weapon of mass destruction in two out of three categories under U.S. Federal (…)

  • 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, (…)

  • Desperate Housewives of the Ivy League?
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Katha Pollitt
    September 20’s prime target for press critics, social scientists and feminists was the New York Times front-page story "Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood," by Louise Story (Yale ’03). Through interviews and a questionnaire e-mailed to freshmen and senior women residents of two Yale colleges (dorms), Story claims to have found that 60 percent of these brainy and energetic young women plan to park their expensive diplomas in the bassinet and become (…)

  • Harold Pinter: Torture and misery in name of freedom
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Harold Pinter who yesterday won the Nobel Prize for Literature
    The great poet Wilfred Owen articulated the tragedy, the horror - and indeed the pity - of war in a way no other poet has. Yet we have learnt nothing. Nearly 100 years after his death the world has become more savage, more brutal, more pitiless.
    But the "free world" we are told, as embodied in the United States and Great Britain, is different to the rest of the world since our actions are dictated and sanctioned by a moral (…)

  • America has 2,000 young offenders serving life terms in jail
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
    Two leading human rights organisations have accused the United States of in effect throwing away the lives of more than 2,000 juvenile offenders sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole - a punishment out of step with international law but one increasingly popular with tough-on-crime US legislators.
    According to a report being published today by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, the United States is the only country to (…)

  • Try and catch the wind
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    Synopsis:
    Once again, an old song acts as muse for Daniel Patrick Welch. Repopularized by a current Volkswagen ad, the Donovan lyric tweaks Welch’s sense of the futility of resistance in the quagmire that is today’s American political landscape. From a personal perspective, the writer describes watching as all his European friends flee one by one, a sort of metaphor for the international rejection of the would-be Pax Americana.
    To understand fully the nature of (…)