"CINDERELLA LIBERTY": IT'S PAST MIDNIGHT, FOLKS...

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Bush Regime Preaches Democracy, Proposes Tyranny


By Paul Craig Roberts

U.S. citizens had best rethink the "war on terror" while
they still have the liberty to do so. For all of President Bush’s
blah-blah talk about bringing democracy to the world,
the Bush administration has proved that it is no friend
of liberty at home. Continue

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“Come And See Our Overflowing Morgues"

By Mike Whitney

Iraq was not only the Cradle of Civilization; it was indeed
the Pillar, the Column, The Spinal Vertebrae, the
Backbone of the Arab world. Now that it has crumbled,
now that it has broken up, the rest will follow...Continue

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Goodbye dollar, hello inflation : The dollar is no longer
the world's reserve currency. This is the statement you
heard twice in one day if you were checking out the news
on Bloomberg over the past 24 hours.

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Pete, Nancy, George and WWIII


By Cindy Sheehan


BushCo has over 14 more months to sew their demented
seeds of destruction all over the planet. We must all join
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh) in his call to remove
them from office not only for their past, but for their
future, illegal wars of aggression, possibly even doing the
unthinkable: using a nuclear weapon. Continue

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Holly Sklar: Billionaires Up, America Down

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Anita F. Hill: Women and the Subprime Crunch

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Fitrakis and Wasserman: Will GOP Election Theft MachineDo It Again in 2008?

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Jack Miles: Endgame for Iraqi Oil?

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The 'Orwellian' Bush administration:

The Bush administration continues to insist that it alone
must decide whether a judge is allowed to hear a case
that might harm national security. When Judge Harry
Pregerson, who serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the 9th Circuit, listened to Deputy Solicitor General
Gregory Garre telling him that, he responded: "The
bottom line here is the government declares something
is a state secret, and that's the end of it. The king can
do no wrong,"

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On Track for U.S. Collapse

By Michael S. Rozeff

Bush and Cheney are steering the U.S. into a collapse.
Only strong public voices by influential people can prevent
the coming disaster. We desperately need for men and
women who are known to the public and have credibility
to speak up in the critical period ahead to avoid catastrophe.
Continue

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The mystery of the missing $2.9 trillion:

In other words, the country is by far the world's biggest
debtor nation. A quarter century ago, the US was the
world's largest creditor nation.

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Truth Matters

By Charles Sullivan

As voracious consumers of media, we must be as careful
about what we admit into our minds, as the food we put
into our bodies. Food can nourish and sustain us, or it can
produce disease and decay. And so it is with media.
Continue

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Hey, Soldiers: Quit Whining!

Troops Suck Up to Bush, Ask for Support

By Ted Rall

Americans on the home front are partying like it's 2009
while their comrades back in Vichy Mesopotamia are
getting blown up. Continue

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Ann Coulter: Nuke Them!

By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

She colorfully compared Guantanamo Bay to ‘freshman dorms’
where one eats well and gains 20 pounds, not foregoing the
damning reports from the neutral Swiss-based Red Cross,
and as her hatred of Muslims spewed out, she exclaimed: “
“they are savage, and I want to kill them.” Continue

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Cruising the Wall Street Journal’s Op-ed Page

By Mike Whitney

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page is the ideological
headwaters for far-right fanaticism in the US. It is less
of a forum for open debate than it is a breeding ground
for noxious ideas that undermine democratic institutions.
Every weekday, there’s a whole new slate of extremist
opinion pieces defending one absurdity or another. Continue

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Torture, Then And Now

By Rev. Fred Morris

In the fall of 1974, I was being tortured by members
of the Brazilian army in Recife, Brazil, led by officers
who bragged about having been trained at the School
of the Americas (then in Panama). Continue

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King Abdullah Flies In To Lecture Us On Terrorism

By Robert Fisk

In what world do these people live? True, there'll be no
public executions outside Buckingham Palace when His
Royal Highness rides in stately formation down The Mall.
We gave up capital punishment about half a century ago.
There won't even be a backhander – or will there? – which
is the Saudi way of doing business. But for King Abdullah
to tell the world, as he did in a BBC interview yesterday,
that Britain is not doing enough to counter "terrorism",
and that most countries are not taking it as seriously as
his country is, is really pushing it. Weren't most of the
11 September 2001 hijackers from – er – Saudi Arabia?
Is this the land that is really going to teach us lessons?
Continue

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Immoral Relativism

By Jon Ponder Mukasey


Won’t Say Waterboarding Is Torture But in 1947 the
U.S. Called It a War Crime, Sentenced Enemy Officer
to 15 Years Hard Labor By Jon Ponder. Continue

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Paul Krugman: Fearing Fear Itself

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Frank Rich: Rudy, the Values Slayer

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A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
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ARE YOU STARTING TO FEEL HUNGER PANGS AS PAYDAY SEEMS FARTHER AND FARTHER AWAY? YOU'RE NOT THE "LONE RANGER" AFTER ALL: YOU'VE GOT LOTS OF COMPANY...!

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Living Paycheck to Paycheck Gets Harder:

The calculus of living paycheck to paycheck in America is getting
harder. What used to last four days might last half that long now.
Pay the gas bill, but skip breakfast. Eat less for lunch so the kids
can have a healthy dinner.

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It’s the Oil

By Jim Holt

Iraq is ‘unwinnable’, a ‘quagmire’, a ‘fiasco’: so goes the received
opinion. But there is good reason to think that, from the Bush-Cheney
perspective, it is none of these things. Indeed, the US may be ‘stuck’
precisely where Bush et al want it to be, which is why there is
no ‘exit strategy’. Continue

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Housing Flameout: California Falls Into The Sea

By Mike Whitney


Is it really fair to blame one man for destroying the US
economy? Continue

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The reality of NSPD-51 is almost as bad as the paranoia.

By Ron Rosenbaum

Call for an emergency joint congressional hearing to end this
farce, give us some transparency about what our government
will do if we suffer another 9/11. Let all branches of government
participate in the attempt to reach some consensus on rational
and effective continuity planning. Something more specific
and sophisticated than the clumsy but dangerously Orwellian
"Continuity Coordination Committee." Continue

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How the State Leads People to Their Own Destruction

By Robert Higgs

Democratic political forms and rituals, such as elections and
formal administrative proceedings, disguise this class
exploitation and trick the masses into the false belief that
the government's operation yields them net benefits. In
the most extreme form of misapprehension, the people at
large become convinced that, owing to democracy, they
themselves "are the government." Continue

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Priests Protesting Torture Jailed

By Bill Quigley

Louis Vitale, 75, a Franciscan priest, and Steve Kelly, 58,
a Jesuit priest, were each sentenced to five months in
federal prison for attempting to deliver a letter opposing
the teaching of torture at Fort Huachuca in Arizona. Both
priests were taken directly into jail from the courtroom
after sentencing. Continue

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Onward, Christian Panderers

By Ted Rall

Here's an offer that an erstwhile front-running shoe-in,
now low on cash, ought not to refuse. Senator McCain:
If you can show me where the Constitution makes us
a Christian nation, I'll donate $10,000 to your campaign.
If you can't, please explain why we should trust your
presidential oath to preserve, protect and defend a
document you haven't read. Continue

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A Lesson in Humility for the Smug West

By William Dalrymple

The West has a strong militaristic tradition of attacking
and invading the countries of those we think of as savages,
and of wiping out the less-developed peoples of four continents
as part of our civilising mission. The list of western genocides
that preceded and set the scene for the Holocaust is a
terrible one. Continue

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Why They're Afraid Of Michael Moore

By John Pilger

In Sicko, Michael Moore's new film, a young Ronald Reagan
is shown appealing to working-class Americans to reject
"socialised medicine" as commie subversion. In the 1940s
and 1950s, Reagan was employed by the American Medical
Association and big business as the amiable mouthpiece of
a neo-fascism bent on persuading ordinary Americans that
their true interests, such as universal health care, were
"anti-American". Continue

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Human All Too Human - Jean Paul Sartre

VideoBBC documentary explores the life and work of the
philosophy and author Jean Paul Sartre. Continue

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Nobel Hypocrisy

By Stephen Lendman

"Al Gore distills in his single person the disrepair of liberalism
in America today, and almost every unalluring feature of
the Democratic Party" that's mostly indistinguishable from
the other side of the aisle in a city where the criminal class
is bipartisan. Continue

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The New York Times: With Democrats Like These ...

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Paulson’s $100 billion “Bankers Bankruptcy Fund” and the G-7 Fiasco

By Mike Whitney

Friday’s bloodbath on Wall Street proved that the troubles
in the credit markets have not been relieved by the Fed’s
rate cuts. The Dow Jones slipped 367 points on the 20th
anniversary of Black Monday, the stock market’s biggest
one-day loss in history. Since Friday, Asian markets have
plunged; stocks are down sharply in Japan, Australia, Hong
Kong, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan and South Korea.
Continue

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Uncommon Grace: Biology and Economic Theory

By Charles Sullivan

We need to develop a holistic world view in place of that
which was born of hubris and economic self interest. That
view will not be born of capitalism, or any repressive
religious theology. It can only come from healthful
interaction with the organic world, in the big outside.
Continue

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On the Eve of Destruction

By Scott Ritter

God is not on our side, or the side of any single nation or
people. To believe such is the ultimate expression of national
hubris. To invoke such, if one is a true believer, is to
embrace sacrilege and heresy. Continue

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Chalmers Johnson: Intellectual Fallacies of the War on Terror

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Ecuador Wants Military Base in Miami

By Phil Stewart

Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must
let him open a military base in Miami if the United States
wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador's Pacific coast.
Continue

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Time To Choose

By Charley Reese

Most politicians, when they talk about reducing spending,
chatter on about cutting waste and fraud. That's OK, but
it's a mere nick on the federal budget. If you really want
to reduce spending, you must dismantle the overseas
empire. Continue

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Self-righteous Warmongers Phony Patriots

By Greg James

You have to wonder if the whole conservative movement
in the U.S. is living in a weird alternate reality in which
the only thing that matters is what you say, and facts,
consistency and honor mean nothing. Continue

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UAW Sellout at GM and Chrysler

By Stephen Lendman

The September and October United Auto Workers (UAW) GM
and Chrysler agreements are just the latest examples of
union leadership, surrender and betrayal. Continue

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Jim Hightower: The Presidency Is Taking Over the Courts and Congress

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Jed Rubenfeld: Lawbreaker in Chief

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THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON IS A PROUD INSTITUTION BASED ON HERITAGE & MORAL CHARACTER. A REAL INSTITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING IF THERE EVER WAS ONE.

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U.S. Path Towards Fascism

Talk by Naomi Wolf author of "The End of America: Letter of
Warning To A Young Patriot" given October 11, 2007 at Kane Hall
on the University of Washington campus.

Americans expect to have freedom around us just as we expect
to have air to breathe, so we have only limited understanding of
the furnaces of repression that the Founders knew intimately.
Few of us spend much time thinking about how "the system"
they put in place protects our liberties. We spend even less time,
considering how dictators in the past have broken down democracies
or quelled pro-democracy uprisings. Continue

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The “Fix”

By Cindy Sheehan

Barring an electoral revolution of American citizens wanting
to fix the “fix” by voting with our humanity, consciences and
integrity, instead of out of fear that the greater criminal will
win. We will be faced with two choices, depending on ones
perspective: Evil or Less Evil. I will break my voting hand
before I vote for Mr./Ms Lesser of Two Evils, ever again.
Continue

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The Iran Hawks

By Juan Cole

Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton think a tough
line on Tehran will sell politically. They could be right. Continue

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Nancy Pelosi, Public Enemy Number One:

The Democratic Speaker of the House would like to arrest
activists for loitering. Her Quisling like behavior has led protesters
to her front door in San Francisco, but she has only herself
to blame for the inconveniences she and her rich neighbors
now suffer.

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The Iraqi Genocide

By Paul Craig Roberts

Why has not the Turkish parliament given tit for tat and
passed a resolution condemning the Iraqi Genocide?
Continue

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The Most Dreaded Enemy of Liberty

By James Madison

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most
to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ
of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these
proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes
are the known instruments for bringing the many under
the domination of the few. Continue

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The 545 People Responsible For All Of U.S. Woes

BY Charley Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create
problems and then campaign against them. Continue

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It's Time For The Banks To Face The Hangman

By Mike Whitney

Officials in the Treasury Dept----working with their colleagues
at Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and Bank of America---have
concocted a scheme to rescue the banks from their massive
losses in mortgage-backed securities. The group is planning
to set up a $100 billion emergency fund which will purchase
non-performing assets for short term debt. In truth, the
fund is a bailout which provides the financial giants with an
excuse for not reporting their enormous losses from bad
bets. Continue

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Promised Social Change in Ecuador

By Stephen Lendman


Raphael Correa was elected Ecuador's president last
November and took office January 15 promising social
change. He's the country's eighth president in the
last decade including three previous ones driven
from office by mass street protest opposition against
their misrule and public neglect. Continue

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Chalmers Johnson : America on the brink of destruction
through imperial over-reach?:

Chalmers Johnson parallels the military over-reach of
the United States with the Roman Empire and warns
that financial bankruptcy could herald the breakdown
of constitutional government in America.

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A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (PUN INTENDED): MR. AL GORE, AND HOPEFULLY, THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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John Nichols: Gore Wins the Norwegian Primary

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Frank Rich: The "Good Germans" Among Us

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The New York Times: Spies, Lies and FISA

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Paul Krugman: Sliming Graeme Frost

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Do You Know the Truth About Lockerbie?

By Robert Fisk

I believe there are many dark and sinister corners to
this atrocity. I'm not at all certain that the CIA did not
have a scam drugs heist on board and I am not at all
sure that the diminutive Libyan agent Megrahi – ultimately
convicted on the evidence of the memory of a Maltese
tailor – really arranged to plant the bomb on board Pan
Am Flight 103 in December 1988. Continue

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Guru of Greed: The Cult of Selfishness

By Leonard Doyle

Fifty years after it was first published, Ayn Rand's most
influential book offers a vital clueto why so many Americans
vote against their economic and social interests. Continue

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Reviewing James Petras'

"Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire"

By Stephen Lendman

"The growth of monstrous and rigid class inequalities reflects
the narrow social base of an economy dominated by finance
capital" with the US redistributing far less to its people than
other developed nations like those in Western Europe.
Democrats are as culpable as Republicans with both parties
tied to big monied interests through campaign funding and
the power of lobbies. It makes everyone in the political power
structure unwilling to change things so they don't. The result
is working Americans suffer hugely while those at the top
never had it so good." Continue

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Why Enemies of Liberty Love Lincoln

Lincoln Unmasked: What You’re Not Supposed To Know about
Dishonest Abe

By Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Thomas J. DiLorenzo gave the following Speech at the Future
of Freedom Foundation's conference Restoring the Republic:
Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed
below in six parts. Continue

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A Wife's Battle:

Michelle Turner's husband sits in the recliner with the
shades drawn. He washes down his Zoloft with Mountain
Dew. On the phone in the other room, Michelle is pleading
with the utility company to keep their power on.

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Matthew 7:3 (Look It Up)

By Cindy Sheehan

It is truly touching the way First Lady Laura Bush cares
about the people of Burma and is using her officiousness
(oops…I think that may be the wrong word…or is it?) to
bring attention to the admittedly horrible situation there.
There are very few people in the world that would not
sympathize with or become outraged when monks are
beaten and killed because they protested high gas prices.
Continue

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Dean Baker: Pete Peterson Doesn't NeedHis Social Security

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Robert Weiner and John Larmett: Orwell in 2007

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Paul Krugman: Gore Derangement Syndrome

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The boxer rebellion

USATODAY.com

Two years ago, entertainer and activist Bill Cosby created a
tir in the African-American community by saying blacks should
stop playing the victim — and start taking responsibility for
social problems ranging from high prison rates to poverty. He
depicted a typical, problem-plagued young man as having his
"hat on backwards, pants down around the crack."

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America: exceptional no more?

American exceptionalism – the view that America
is unique among nations – is a treasured creed. That's
why it is so troubling to observe radical changes in
American public life that threaten to make the United
States look like many other countries, including those
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FRED SAWYER AND HUCKABEE FINN

Ann Coulter

Conservatives unhappy with our Republican presidential
candidates seem to be drifting aimlessly toward Fred
Thompson and Mike Huckabee in the misguided belief
that these candidates are more conservative than Rudy
Giuliani and Mitt Romney. This is like breaking up with
Bobby Brown so you can date Phil Spector.

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THE "FELONIOUS FIVE" & THE "SUPREMES" EQUALS "SUPREME JUSTICE"? HARDLY, I'M AFRAID...

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The New York Times: The Angriest Justice

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Frank Rich: Nobody Knows the Lynchings He's Seen

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Paul Krugman: Conservatives Are Such Jokers

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Helen Thomas: The Democrats Who Enable Bush

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Burma's Saffron Revolution: Goodbye, Generals

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Bush’s Torturers Follow Where The Nazis Led

By Andrew Sullivan

I remember that my first response to the reports of abuse
and torture at Guantanamo Bay was to accuse the accusers
of exaggeration or deliberate deception. I didn’t believe
America would ever do those things. I’d also supported
George W Bush in 2000, believed it necessary to give the
president the benefit of the doubt in wartime, and knew
Donald Rumsfeld as a friend. Continue

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Inside France's Secret War

By Johann Hari in Birao, Central African Republic

For 40 years, the French government has been fighting
a secret war in Africa, hidden not only from its people,
but from the world. It has led the French to slaughter
democrats, install dictator after dictator – and to fund
and fuel the most vicious genocide since the Nazis. Today,
this war is so violent that thousands are fleeing across
the border from the Central African Republic into Darfur –
seeking sanctuary in the world's most notorious killing
fields. Continue

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UK 2017: Under Surveillance

By Neil Mackay

IT is a chilling, dystopian account of what Britain will look
like 10 years from now: a world in which Fortress Britain
uses fleets of tiny spy-planes to watch its citizens, of
Minority Report-style pre-emptive justice, of an underclass
trapped in sink-estate ghettos under constant state surveillance,
of worker drones forced to take on the lifestyle and values
of the mega-corporation they work for, and of the super-rich
hiding out in gated communities constantly monitored by
cameras and private security guards. Continue

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So Who’s Afraid of the Israel Lobby?

By Ray McGovern

Virtually everyone: Republican, Democrat—Conservative,
Liberal. The fear factor is non-partisan, you might say,
and palpable. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC) brags that it is the most influential foreign
policy lobbying organization on Capitol Hill, and has
demonstrated that time and again—and not only on
Capitol Hill. Continue

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Murdering Butter with Guns

By David Michael Green

When even a sycophant like Colin Powell can say that
your Army is “broken”, surely it is and worse. When
your own intelligence agencies affirm that your actions
in Mesopotamia are actually creating terrorists with
a vengeance (and with a vengeance), you screwed up
bad, pal. When nobody believes you anymore including
your own public, and you have to pay exorbitant sums
to get people otherwise headed to jail to join your
‘volunteer’ military, it’s no longer clear which is
scarier - your army or theirs. Continue

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Chevron's Pipeline

The Burmese Regime's Lifeline

By Amy Goodman

The barbarous military regime depends on revenue
from the nation’s gas reserves and partners such as
Chevron, a detail ignored by the Bush administration.
Continue

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Imagine Peace

By Cindy Sheehan

First of all, imagine a world with no religion. A world
where sick and evil people could not manipulate
the masses into believing that the set of myths and
beliefs that they profess are more important or
powerful than the other's set of myths or beliefs.
Continue

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Who's the Voice of this Generation?

By Lev Grossman

Hemingway's rose like the sun. Kerouac found his on
the road. So why can't today's young novelists express
the essence of their era?

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WHO RUNS (RULES) THE WORLD (BEHIND CLOSED DOORS)? GOOD QUESTION: TAKE A LOOK....

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Who Runs The World

Why You Need To Know Immediately

By Carolyn Baker

This parallel world remains unseen in the daily struggles
of most of humanity, but, believe me, it is there: a cesspool
of duplicity and lies and double-speak and innuendo and
blackmail and bribery. Continue

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The Rise of the Have-Nots

By Harold Meyerson

The American middle class has toppled into a world
of temporary employment, jobs without benefits, and
retirement without security. Continue

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The Empire Is Over

By Charley Reese

The American government has come to resemble
the characters in The Wizard of Oz. We have the
Cowardly Congress, a president without a brain,
and a foreign-policy establishment without a heart.
Continue

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The Administration’s Plan For Iran.

By Seymour M. Hersh

A Pentagon consultant on counterterrorism told me
that, if the bombing campaign took place, it would
be accompanied by a series of what he called “short,
sharp incursions” by American Special Forces units
into suspected Iranian training sites. He said, “Cheney
is devoted to this, no question.” Continue

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Greenspan's Dark Legacy Unmasked

By Stephen Lendman

Already the top 1% owns 40% of global assets; the
top 10% 85% of them; the top 1% in the US controls
one-third of the nation's wealth; the bottom 80% just
15.3%; and the top 20% 84.7%. In contrast, the
poorest 20% are in debt, owe more than they own,
and it's getting worse. Continue

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Hypocrisy Rules the West

By Paul Craig Roberts

Americans are content with whatever crimes
their government commits as long as the
justification is Americans’ safety. Continue

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The Worst Recession in 25 years? :

From 2001–2004, the Fed kept (real) rates at
the lowest they've been since the late 1970s.
One of the consequences that has already
manifested itself is the housing bubble. But
a more severe liquidation seems unavoidable.
The recent Fed cut may postpone the day of
reckoning, but it will only make the adjustment
that much harsher.

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Q and A For The People Of A Forsaken Republic

Addressing the origins of the Whose-Your-Daddy Nation

By Phil Rockstroh

When a nation manifests a mixture of mass ignorance
and official mendacity, in combination with uncheck
power emanating from an insular and arrogant
elite, a golden age of peace and plenty is as possible as
holding a tea dance in a tsunami. Continue

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Time to Boycott Voting

By Joel S. Hirschhorn

After many years of political disappointment, more
progressives, liberals and conservatives – and certainly
moderates and independents – know in their hearts
that voting for Democrats or Republicans is a waste.
Just imagine if voter turnout was cut to 25 percent or
less! Let the whole world see Americans boycotting a
broken and corrupt political system and rejecting what
has become a delusional democracy. Continue

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At the Heart of Who We Are As a People

By John Frohnmayer

Impeachment of President Bush is necessary to maintain
our government’s separation of powers, our checks and
balances, our Constitution’s integrity. Continue

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Loaded Language and Loaded Guns

The Meaning of Opposites

By Charles Sullivan

One can no longer understand US governmental policy
on the basis of conventional language or traditional
wisdom. Language itself and its long-established meanings
were long ago twisted and distorted in order to deceive
the people. Now war is peace and terror and occupation
is liberation. In order to make sense of what is happening,
it is important to understand everything within the
context of a specific economic philosophy, and the distorted
capitalist system that spawned it. Continue

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Paul Krugman: Enron's Second Coming?

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Robert Kuttner: Alarming Parallels Between 1929 and 2007

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Phony soldiers

BY ANN COULTER

Democrats pretend to be all they can be.

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'Don't speak to evil'

BY TED RALL

The nation is Iran. And the reaction is ridiculous.

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Robert Scheer: The State Department'sMurderous Guardians

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Robert Weissman IMF:No Sex, Still a Scandal

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Leslie Griffith: Thank You, Dan Rather

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Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily

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A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS

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