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  • Federal Judge Says Patriot Act Too Vague
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Federal Judge Says Patriot Act Too Vague
    By LINDA DEUTSCH
    LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has ruled that some provisions of the U.S. Patriot Act dealing with foreign terrorist organizations remain too vague to be understood by a person of average intelligence and are therefore unconstitutional.
    U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins found that Congress failed to remedy all the problems she defined in a 2004 ruling that struck down key provisions of the act. Her decision was handed down (…)

  • CAFTA: Democracy Sold Out
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Deborah James
    At 12:03 a.m. on July 28, the House of Representatives approved CAFTA, the Central America-Dominican Republic-United States Free Trade Agreement.
    The bill, which would expand NAFTA to Central America and the Dominican Republic, would devastate farmers, privatize essential public services, and accelerate the race to the bottom on wages in the U.S. and all over Central America.
    At the end of the allotted 15 minutes of voting time, the count was 180 to 175 against CAFTA, (…)

  • Judy Miller: Do We Want To Know Everything or Don’t We?
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    Judy Miller: Do We Want To Know Everything or Don’t We?
    by Arianna Huffington
    Not everyone in the Times building is on the same page when it comes to Judy Miller. The official story the paper is sticking to is that Miller is a heroic martyr, sacrificing her freedom in the name of journalistic integrity.
    But a very different scenario is being floated in the halls. Here it is: It’s July 6, 2003, and Joe Wilson’s now famous op-ed piece appears in the Times, raising the idea that the Bush (…)

  • State Dept. Now Says Bolton Interviewed
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    State Dept. Now Says Bolton Interviewed
    By MARK SHERMAN
    WASHINGTON — John Bolton, President Bush’s nominee for U.N. ambassador, neglected to tell Congress he been interviewed in a government investigation into faulty prewar intelligence that Iraq was seeking nuclear materials in Africa, the State Department said.
    Democratic senators said the admission should forestall Bush from using his authority to give Bolton a temporary appointment to the U.N. post, without Senate confirmation, (…)

  • White House Hints It May Appoint Bolton
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JENNIFER LOVEN
    WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House seemed to inch closer on Friday to going around Congress to install embattled nominee John Bolton as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
    President Bush has the power to fill vacancies without Senate approval while Congress is in recess. Under the Constitution, a recess appointment during the lawmakers’ August break would last until the next session of Congress, which begins in January 2007.
    White House press secretary Scott (…)

  • Judge’s Reagan-Era Work Criticized
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Judge’s Reagan-Era Work Criticized
    Papers Show Roberts’s Conservatism, Liberal Activists Say
    By Michael A. Fletcher
    After sitting mostly silent for more than a week after the Supreme Court nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr., liberal activist groups and their allies in the Senate yesterday expressed growing concern about the conservative positions Roberts advocated while working as a young Justice Department lawyer in the Reagan administration.
    Memos and other documents from (…)

  • Energy Adviser Who Solicited Enron to Help Write Nat’l Energy Policy to Be Named Chair of FERC
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Energy Adviser Who Solicited Enron to Help Write Nat’l Energy Policy to Be Named Chair of FERC
    By Jason Leopold
    The audacity inside the Bush administration never ceases to amaze.
    The latest example of chutzpah from Bush and co. is the announcement that Joseph Kelliher, a former policy adviser with the Department of Energy who currently serves as a commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency that controls the country’s natural gas industry, hydroelectric (…)

  • How the American Right became an enemy of peace and freedom (1964)
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Transformation of the American Right by Murray N. Rothbard
    First published in Continuum, Summer 1964, pp. 220-231.
    In the spate of recent books and articles on the burgeoning conservative movement, little has been said of its governing ideas and its intellectual leadership. Instead, attention has been centered on the mass phenomena of the Right-wing: The Billy James Hargises, the Birchers, the various crusaders for God and country. And yet, the neglect of the ruling ideas of the (…)

  • U.S. WANTS FBI TO INTERROGATE ISRAELI DIPLOMAT IN AIPAC LEAK CASE
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The United States wants the FBI to interrogate the Israeli diplomat who headed the political department at its Washington embassy at the time classified information was allegedly transmitted from a Pentagon employee to Israel through two men who were senior staffers at AIPAC, the American lobby for Israel. According to the Hebrew daily Haaretz and Channel 10 television, FBI agents are traveling to Israel where they intend to question Naor Gilon and perhaps others as well.
    The Israeli (…)

  • Darker Purpose
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last week, we wrote of the Bush Faction’s increasingly successful drive to establish the principle of unlimited presidential authority — beyond the reach of any law or constitutional restriction — as the new foundation of a militarist American state. This relentless push toward autocracy gained even more strength in recent days, in two cases centering on what has emerged as the very core of President George W. Bush’s authoritarian philosophy: torture.
    Vice President Dick Cheney was (…)