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  • Pentagon Analyst Pleads Guilty to giving classified info to Israeli official
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A top Pentagon analyst with expertise in the Middle East pleaded guilty Wednesday to giving classified information to an Israeli embassy official and members of a pro- Israel lobbying group.
    Lawrence A. Franklin, 58, said during a plea hearing that he was frustrated with the government and that he had hoped the two members of the lobbying group could use their connections at the National Security Council to influence U.S. policy.
    He also admitted giving classified (…)

  • Is the Dollar Still Falling?
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    October 6, 2005
    The Latest Twists in Global Neoliberalism Is the Dollar Still Falling? By ROBERT POLLIN
    In his classic work, The General Theory, published in the depths of the 1930s Depression, John Maynard Keynes famously observed that "Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a (…)

  • During War Speech, Bush Calls Himself a ’Tyrant’ and a ’Radical’
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bob Cesca 10.06.2005 During War Speech, Bush Calls Himself a ’Tyrant’ and a ’Radical’
    Bush’s speech today at the National Endowment for Democracy was loaded with what author Mark Crispin Miller has observed as Bush’s pathological tendency for "projectivity."
    "Projectors are those people who consistently attack others for the things they hate most in themselves. When Bush talks about Saddam Hussein, he’s talking about himself . . . What’s significant about Bush’s projectivity is that (…)

  • Press Silence on Impeachment
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Text of Radio BC audio commentary
    October 6 2005
    Press Silence on Impeachment
    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 (…)

  • Republicans G.A.S. Act Exploits Katrina For Gas & Oil Industry
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Numerous environmental and public service groups have issued warnings on the upcoming G.A.S. Act, HR 3893, scheduled for a vote in the House on Friday. Donald J. Borut, executive director of the National League of Cities has bluntly said that "the goal of this draft legislation seems to be to pass every provision that didn’t make it into the recently-enacted energy bill."
    The National Environmental Trust has said that the bill “channels taxpayer dollars to oil companies, virtually ignores (…)

  • George Bush: ’God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq’
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President told Palestinians God also talked to him about Middle East peace
    Ewen MacAskill Friday October 7, 2005 The Guardian
    George Bush believes he is on a mission from God, according to the politician Nabil Shaath. Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP
    George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian politician in an interview to be broadcast by the BBC later this month. Mr Bush revealed the (…)

  • THE PRO-TORTURE NINE
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Worth reminding people who their names are:
    Allard (R-CO)
    Bond (R-MO)
    Coburn (R-OK)
    Cochran (R-MS)
    Cornyn (R-TX)
    Inhofe (R-OK)
    Roberts (R-KS)
    Sessions (R-AL)
    Stevens (R-AK)
    Keep this list. And tell your children and grandchildren.
    http://www.andrewsullivan.com/index...

  • The Possible Impeachment of George W. Bush
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE POSSIBLE IMPEACHMENT OF GEORGE W. BUSH
    by Mark Kato
    Not a single day passes without some writer calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush. Although this writer heartily agrees with and endorses this sentiment, it is not likely to happen, at least not in the next fifteen months. Not until the mid-term elections of 2006 produce a Democratic majority in the House and a two-thirds Democratic majority in the Senate will there be the sine qua non for a successful impeachment and (…)

  • BUSH EXPLOITS DISASTER
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BUSH THE GREAT EXPLOITER
    By Peter Fredson
    October 6, 2005
    George W. Bush has learned the art of exploitation well. He knows how to take unfair advantage of a person or group, or some accidental circumstance, for his own benefit or advancement, in an organized, deliberate or systematic way. He does this by linking his name to some occurrence or symbol, then strongly suggests that he has done something heroic or beneficial which should be rewarded with votes, support, cash and accolades. (…)

  • Dear George, GET LOST!
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This is an open letter to George W. Bush, who thinks he’s the President of the United States of America. It may be somewhat of a rant, but I think it’s time people started speaking their minds about this impostor.
    Dear George,
    First off, I am not going to address you as Mr. President because I believe you stole the elections in 2000 and especially in 2004. Your goons, your political operatives and whatever computer hackers were working for you made sure that the 2004 vote went in your (…)