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  • CIA Intelligence Reports Seven Months Before 9/11 said Iraq Posed No Threat to U.S., Containment Was Working
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    CIA Director George Tenet testified before Congress in February 2001 that Iraq posed no immediate threat to the United States or to other countries in the Middle East.
    But immediately after the terrorist attacks on 9-11, which the Bush administration has said Iraq is partially responsible for, the President and his advisers were already making a case for war against Iraq without so much as providing a shred of evidence to back up their allegations that Iraq and its (…)

  • Today in DC: Commandos in the Streets?
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by William M. Arkin
    Today, somewhere in the DC metropolitan area, the military is conducting a highly classified Granite Shadow "demonstration."
    Granite Shadow is yet another new Top Secret and compartmented operation related to the military’s extra-legal powers regarding weapons of mass destruction. It allows for emergency military operations in the United States without civilian supervision or control.
    A spokesman at the Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region (JFHQ-NCR) (…)

  • More Blood, Less Oil : The Failed U.S. Mission to Capture Iraqi Petroleum
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael T. Klare
    It has long been an article of faith among America’s senior policymakers — Democrats and Republicans alike — that military force is an effective tool for ensuring control over foreign sources of oil. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to embrace this view, in February 1945, when he promised King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia that the United States would establish a military protectorate over his country in return for privileged access to Saudi oil — a (…)

  • KATRINA RELIEF AND FEDERAL SPENDING AND DEFICITS
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jim Horney, Robert Greenstein, and Richard Kogan
    Some conservative lawmakers and pundits are arguing that while the funding for relief and recovery efforts from the hurricane may be money that the nation has to spend, the costs will swell federal spending to dangerous and unprecedented levels. This claim is being used both to advance calls for sharp cuts in other domestic programs - in order to offset the costs of relief and recovery efforts - and to reject any suggestion that the tax (…)

  • Saving America’s Soul Kitchen
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    How to bring this country together? Listen to the message of New Orleans
    By WYNTON MARSALIS
    Now the levee breach has been fixed. The people have been evacuated. Army Corps of Engineers magicians will pump the city dry, and the slow (but quicker than we think) job of rebuilding will begin. Then there will be no 24-hour news coverage. The spin doctors’ narrative will create a wall of illusion thicker than the new levees. The job of turning our national disaster into sound-bite-size (…)

  • Scandal Visits the White House
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dan Froomkin
    The Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal reached into the White House yesterday, picking off President Bush’s top procurement official — who just barely had time to resign before being arrested.
    The federal charges against David Safavian stem from his tenure as chief of staff of the General Services Administration, predating his arrival at the White House a year ago. But his arrest nonetheless draws renewed attention to the ongoing corruption and influence-peddling inquiry (…)

  • Stop Selling Our Heritage for Crooked Oil: Save Arctic Wildlife Refuge!
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Arctic Folly By Jimmy Carter www.washingtonpost.com
    Congress is about to make one of those big decisions that marks an era. Unless wiser heads prevail, it may do it badly — making the wrong decision in the wrong way and about the wrong place. At stake is America’s greatest wildlife sanctuary, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. To dissuade Congress from this environmental tragedy, Americans must rally, and quickly.
    Congress had its Pyrrhic energy victory this summer, with a new energy (…)

  • BUSH ARROGANCE AND BARBARISM
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Fredson
    We wonder by what right American soldiers are walking around in Iraq with weapons in hand, far from Brooklyn or Crawford, Texas, shooting at the inhabitants of Iraq, destroying their homes, knocking down their businesses, destroying their infrastructure, lobbing grenades into rooms, pointing automatic weapons ceaselessly at people? We know they didn’t go to Iraq as tourists to look at one of the earliest civilizations in the world.
    We know they were commanded, as (…)

  • Plamegate: The John Bolton Connection
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Arianna Huffington
    I’m now hearing that the investigation may be inching closer to never-confirmed UN Ambassador John Bolton.
    According to two sources, Bolton’s former chief of staff, Fred Fleitz, was at least one of the sources of the classified information about Valerie Plame that flowed through the Bush administration and eventually made its way into Bob Novak’s now infamous column.
    After delving into Fleitz, I can safely report that he is, at a minimum, a very interesting (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan Takes on the Democrats, Hillary Clinton
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cindy Sheehan Takes on the Democrats, Hillary Clinton The anti-war activist has plenty to say-and it’s not all about Bush
    by Kristen Lombardi Cindy Sheehan, the rising star of the anti-war movement, remembers when people used to think of her as one of those crazy activists, speaking out for a cause, inconveniencing all who stumbled onto her path. She remembers, from her days camped outside President Bush’s ranch in Texas, how some drivers would shout out at her, “Get a job!”
    Her (…)