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  • Cheney’s Coup
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sidney Blumenthal
    A three-year-old executive order that vastly expanded his powers illuminates how the vice president and his minions led us into war.
    After shooting Austin lawyer Harry Whittington, Dick Cheney’s immediate impulse was to control the intelligence. Rather than call the president directly, he ordered an aide to inform White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card that there had been an accident but not that Cheney was its cause. Then a host of surrogates attacked the victim for (…)

  • Blogger bares Rumsfeld’s post 9/11 orders
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    by Julian Borger
    Hours after a commercial plane struck the Pentagon on September 11 2001 the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, was issuing rapid orders to his aides to look for evidence of Iraqi involvement, according to notes taken by one of them.
    "Hard to get good case. Need to move swiftly," the notes say. "Near term target needs - go massive - sweep it all up, things related and not."
    The handwritten notes, with some parts blanked out, were declassified this month in response (…)

  • The superhawk’s big flap
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jim Lobe
    WASHINGTON - Love him or hate him, Frank Gaffney is effective.
    The founder and president of the Washington-based Center for Security Policy (CSP), a small think tank funded mainly by US defense contractors, far-right foundations and right-wing Zionists, Gaffney was among the first to seize on the government’s approval of a Dubai company to manage terminals at six major US ports and helped blow it up into a major embarrassment for President George W Bush.
    Indeed, it was (…)

  • The Boy Who Cried Wolf
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    by William Greider
    David Brooks, the high-minded conservative pundit, dismissed the Dubai Ports controversy as an instance of political hysteria that will soon pass. He was commenting on PBS, and I thought I heard a little quaver in his voice when he said this was no big deal. Brooks consulted "the experts," and they assured him there’s no national security risk in a foreign company owned by Middle East Muslims—actually, by an Arab government—managing six major American ports. Cool down, (…)

  • Forget D.C.—the Battle is in the States
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    By Nathan Newman and David Sirota
    Speaking to a packed room of 2,000 state legislators and business lobbyists gathered in Grapevine, Texas, last fall, George W. Bush thanked the crowd for its work on behalf of the conservative agenda. He wasn’t talking about work they’d done on Capitol Hill, but about their collaboration to push the corporate agenda forward in statehouses across the country. The meeting was the 32nd annual gathering of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a (…)

  • The End of Civilization
    12 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The End of Civilization
    Introduction
    I had a mild epiphany the other day: it’s not President Bush who’s living in a fantasy world, it’s most of his critics who are. I’m no apologist for Bush - I neither like nor dislike him. He’s no more significant to me than a fly buzzing around outside my window. So permit me to explain my reasoning.
    People look at Bush’s invasion of Iraq and see a miserable failure. But a failure to do what? Democratize Iraq? Eliminate Iraq’s WMD arsenal? Reduce (…)

  • A Lawless and Incompetent Leadership Bush at the Tipping Point By Ralph Nader
    12 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    03/11/06 "Counterpunch"
    George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, two top outlaws smashing our country’s rule of law and democratic liberties, are testing the American people’s resistance. Every day they are testing. Every day they think by flaunting the words, "war on terror", they can get Americans to concede more and more of what makes the United States a constitutionally-abiding government under the rule of law.
    You know what? With not enough exceptions, they are right. Day by day, we’re (…)

  • Revolution or Tyranny, it’s Time to Choose Again
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    Revolution or Tyranny, it’s Time to Choose Again.
    Almost two-hundred-and-thirty years ago a group of fifty six American colonials signed a Declaration of Independence in which they declared themselves to be finally free from the corrupt, decadent and manifestly unjust rule of the British Crown. In that most sacred declaration its signatories recognized the essential rights of all men and women to live freely, in the pursuit of their happiness.
    And, "whenever any Form of Government (…)

  • There Are Criminals, and Then There Are CRIMINALS by Cindy Sheehan
    12 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There Are Criminals, and Then There Are CRIMINALS Written by Cindy Sheehan Friday, 10 March 2006
    As I lie here in bed recuperating from the injuries that I received from a federal agent and the NYPD in front of the US Mission to the UN (USUN) the other day, I have had time to reflect on the experience, the state of our union and its descent into a fascist state.
    When the four of us. Missy Beattie, Rev. Patricia Ackerman, Medea Benjamin, and I, were arrested the other day, I was (…)

  • The "Expedient Exaggeration" Bush Administration Lies
    12 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bush Administration defends it’s lies.
    THE WAR: We didn’t lie,we just overestated the facts to insure safety for the US people.
    SADDAM/bin LADEN CONNECTION: We didn’t lie. At one time our PNAC folks found out that bin Laden knew a guy who was married to the gardener of the brother-in-law of Saddam’s uncle.
    MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Not a lie by any means.Bush was told that we had "sort of" chased some terrorists away with helicopters, and that the first part of our hundred part (…)