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Republicans Violate Own Policy By Paying Officials Legal Bills John Solomon August 11, 2005 Despite a zero-tolerance policy on tampering with voters, the Republican Party has quietly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide private defense lawyers for a former Bush campaign official charged with conspiring to keep Democrats from voting in New Hampshire.
James Tobin, the president’s 2004 campaign chairman for New England, is charged in New Hampshire federal court with four (…)

How Can We Stop The Machine? J. Russell Tyldesley August 05, 2005 Mr. Chuckman’s article, "Hitler’s Shadow and the Coming Storm," is broad in scope. The analogies to Hitler’s Germany are insightful and, I believe, are far more numerous than those mentioned. What worries me the most is the inability or unwillingness of the American people to stop the Bush machine in its tracks. This was the fatal mistake of the Germans, although many tried and many saw the coming threat. One of the (…)

"Loyalty" And Other Matters Margie Burns August 09, 2005 Multiple references to George W. Bush’s “loyalty” to his personnel are a symptom of chronic shallow assumptions. Some fundamentals, here: The Chief Executive of the United States owes his loyalty to his country, not to a few insiders. If John Bolton and Stephen Hadley and Condoleezza Rice did wrong in their responses to 9/11 and their war-boosting against Iraq-and they did do wrong, repeatedly-then they should be asked to resign. (…)

DOES GOD NEED BUSH’S HELP?
August 9, 2005
By Peter Fredson
Theodore Roosevelt, he of the “Speak softly, but carry a big stick,” motto, at times rattled sabers, did considerable bullying, and did not hesitate to commit armed forces in dubious circumstances. He also was familiar with ‘yellow’ journalism, exemplified by the Hearst publications and seemed to enjoy the rough-and-tumble tactics of opponents who sought to slander his every move.
He also said: "To announce that there should (…)

By Joseph Kay and Barry Grey
The revelation that a military intelligence unit had identified four September 11 hijackers as Al Qaeda operatives working in the US a year before the 9/11 attacks has sparked a flurry of disclaimers and denials from official sources, while most media outlets have ignored the story altogether.
The fact that the government had long been tracking some of the hijackers, including the putative leader, Mohammad Atta, was revealed in a front page article in the New (…)

By MAUREEN DOWD
W. can’t get no satisfaction on Iraq.
There’s an angry mother of a dead soldier camping outside his Crawford ranch, demanding to see a president who prefers his sympathy to be carefully choreographed.
A new CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll shows that a majority of Americans now think that going to war was a mistake and that the war has made the United States more vulnerable to terrorism. So fighting them there means it’s more likely we’ll have to fight them here?
Donald (…)

Reporter suggests Brynes discovered plan to turn nuke exercise into staged terror attack
by Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
The head of Fort Monroe’s Training and Doctrine Command, four star general Kevin P. Byrnes, was fired Tuesday apparently for sexual misconduct according to official sources.
Other sources however have offered a different explanation for Byrnes’ dismissal which ties in with the Bush administration’s unpopular plan to attack Iran and the staged nuclear attack in (…)

By Peter Symonds
The Bush administration with the support of the so-called EU-3-Britain, France and Germany-has seized on Iran’s decision to restart its uranium conversion facility at Esfahan as the pretext for condemning Tehran and threatening UN economic sanctions. Once again Washington and its allies, with the backing of the international media, are conducting a campaign of provocation and lies that will ultimately lead to open confrontation if Iran does not completely capitulate.
The (…)

It is now official; both Democratic and Republican politicians know that you, the voter, will bend over and spread for them, and they have decided to drive it home. In one of the largest successful bipartisan efforts since the original 9/11 legislation, Congress has created an energy bill that is transparent in its fellation of oil companies, and sodomization of the people it should serve. Sen. John McCain, possibly one of the last honorable politicians alive, rightly dubbed this the "No (…)

by Justin Raimondo
The news that the Rolling Stones are coming out with a song called "Sweet Neocon" that takes the administration to task for its Iraq war policy is ... music to my ears:
"You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite/ You call yourself a patriot. Well, I think your are full of sh*t!... How come you’re so wrong, my sweet neo-con."
Wrong? Neocons? They’ll never admit it, although the whole world knows it.
That’s a defining characteristic of these (…)