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WASHINGTON — February 10 — Today Rep. Waxman and Rep. Maloney ask for hearings on whether political considerations caused the Administration to delay release of findings by the 9/11 Commission about pre-attack warnings. The text of the letter follows:
The Honorable Tom Davis Chairman Committee on Government Reform U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515
Dear Mr. Chairman:
We are writing to request that our Committee hold hearings to investigate two extremely serious (…)

Social Security’s “Sleeper Issue”: Price Indexing Exposed By Kucinich
Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) today brought forth a new case against the Administration’s so-called Social Security reform plan by exposing the precipitous drop in future retiree benefits implicit in the Administration plan to switch from wage indexing to price indexing.
In a speech this morning on the House floor, Kucinich said:
“Social Security benefits have increased over the years because they long have (…)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (Xinhuanet) — US federal aviation authoritieswere warned of possible airline hijackings and suicide operations in dozens of intelligence reports in the months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a previously undisclosed report from the Sept. 11 commission showed.
Federal aviation officials reviewed dozens of intelligence reports that warned about Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, some of which specifically discussed airline hijackings and suicide operations, The New (…)

Real-life events of the more or less recent past, could read like a super-hyped fiction book. The problem? Big-time book publishers are not inclined to tell the factual truth about the murder of JFK and a lot of other happenings.
Why? Simple.. The publishing cartel, made up of just a few handfuls of mega-corporations, like the rest of the oil-soaked, spy-riddled monopoly press, is not inclined to disturb the well-planted fairy tales of our era.
This non-fiction story could begin at the (…)

GEORGE W. BUSH’S budget proposal will impose deep cuts in domestic spending, while showering money on the military and homeland security.
Bush claimed that his principle in deciding on the cuts was that “a taxpayer dollar must be spent wisely, or not at all.” To judge from a budget that will reduce or eliminate funding for some 150 government programs, the administration must think that it’s “unwise” to spend anything on helping the poor or vulnerable in U.S. society.
“A cut of this (…)

Manufacturing “democracy”
THE NEW York Times reported that the U.S. government was touting the elections as a success. “United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout,” read the Times story, despite a “terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting.”
Those words could have come from any Times article about Iraq’s elections on January 30. In fact, they were written in 1967, after a presidential vote in South Vietnam, where the U.S. was at war against the (…)

Fraud And Corruption: Forget The UN. The US Occupation Regime Helped Itself To $8.8b Of Mostly Iraqi Money In Just 14 Months George Monbiot Tuesday February 8, 2005
The Republican senators who have devoted their careers to mauling the United Nations are seldom accused of shyness. But they went strangely quiet on Thursday. Henry Hyde became Henry Jekyll. Norm Coleman’s mustard turned to honey. Convinced that the UN is a conspiracy against the sovereignty of the United States, they had (…)

WASHINGTON — February 9 — U.S. Representative Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma) today called for the House International Relations Committee to have hearings on her resolution, H.Con.Res. 35, for President Bush to begin the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Rep. Woolsey led 27
Members of Congress in sponsoring the resolution. Earlier this month, Woolsey led 15 Members of Congress in sending a letter to President Bush requesting the return of U.S. troops from Iraq.
Rep. Woolsey’s (…)

NEW YORK "It’s just as important a story after the election, and they’ve dropped it," says freelance writer David Lindorff, referring to the alleged bulge under President Bush’s suit jacket during the first presidential debate late fall. Lindorff’s take on how, and why, The New York Times killed a story on the controversy just before the November election gained wide attention this week after it was published in Extra!, a magazine produced by the media watchdog group Fairness & Accuracy (…)

The head of CNN’s news division, Eason Jordan, ignited an Internet firestorm last week when he told a panel at a World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, Switzerland, that the American military had targeted journalists during operations in Iraq.
Mr. Jordan, speaking in a panel discussion titled "Will Democracy Survive the Media?" said "he knew of about 12 journalists who had not only been killed by American troops, but had been targeted as a matter of policy," said Rep. Barney Frank, a (…)