"As imagined these last months, withdrawal turns out to be a very partial affair that will leave sizeable numbers of American occupation forces in Iraq for a long period. If anything, the latest versions of 'withdrawal' have been used as cudgels to beat upon real withdrawal types," writes Tom Engelhardt for TomDispatch.com.
Noam N. Levey and Alexandra Zavis of The Los Angeles Times report, "As the Bush administration struggles to convince lawmakers that its Iraq war strategy is working, it has stopped reporting to Congress a key quality-of-life indicator in Baghdad: how long the power stays on."
"In the Iraq war, citizenship is being used as a recruiting tool aimed specifically at young immigrants, who are told that by enlisting, they will be able to quickly get citizenship for themselves (sometimes true, depending on what the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) branch of the Department of Homeland Security finds) and their entire families (not true; each family member has to go through a separate application process). Nevertheless, with the political pressures on Latino families growing daily under this administration, many young Latinos are unable to resist the offer, which immigrants' rights activists see as blatant exploitation of a vulnerable population," reports Deborah Davis for In These Times.
"In theory, President Bush is sworn to faithfully execute the laws of the United States. In reality, he has treated federal law as a menu from which he picks and chooses those laws he likes, while ignoring those that do not suit his taste," writes Jay Bookman for the editorial board of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
"We're hard upon the dog days of August," writes Joseph L. Galloway of McClatchy Newspapers. "Members of the US Congress and the Iraqi parliament will soon slither away to the shade of cooler rocks, and President Bush will no doubt head off to Crawford to take his frustrations out on some brush with a chainsaw. Meanwhile, in Iraq, the 60,000 American combat troops who daily patrol the most dangerous streets and roads in the world will carry on fighting, dying and bleeding in the broiling sun where temperatures nudge the 130-degree mark and 40 pounds of body armor and Kevlar helmet plus weapon and ammunition weigh more with every step an Infantryman takes."
Jim Lobe of Inter Press Service reports: "Acting in major part on a recent report by Amnesty International and Native American activists, the US Congress is moving to provide additional funding to protect Native American women who suffer disproportionate levels of rape and other sexual abuse ... Amnesty, which published a 113-page report on the problem in April, praised the House action but called for more steps to address the problem."
Carrie Budoff reports for Politico, "Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) plans to review the Senate testimony of US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel A. Alito to determine if their reversal of several long-standing opinions conflicts with promises they made to senators to win confirmation."
"'It's do-or-die time for the separation of powers,' Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office said. 'Congress is facing a historic moment when it can fight for its rightful place in our Constitution or accept the president's continued and sweeping claims of supremacy,'" reports United Press International.
"Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman's forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player's death amounted to a crime," reports the Associated Press.
A SCHOOL is being backed by hundreds of parents after it urged them to oppose plans to erect a mobile phone mast on nearby land.
Mobile communications company Hutchinson 3G UK wants to install a mast in Park Road, Lexden, Colchester, close to a number of schools - including Colchester County high School for Girls.
In a commencement speech he gave at Georgetown Law School last year, the newly confirmed Chief Justice John Roberts asserted that one of his primary goals was to create more unanimity on the Supreme Court. … After a truncated first term in which there were more unanimous opinions than usual, this seemed very possible to some observers of the Court. … For these scholars, the second Roberts term must have been highly sobering. Not only did the new appointments, Roberts and Alito, turn out to be the doctrinaire conservatives everything about their records (as opposed to the vague banalities of their confirmation hearing rhetoric) suggested they would be, a far higher than usual number of cases were decided by a 5-4 margin...
It appears this nonsense is working — at least a little. According to ‘recent opinion polls, the president has had some recent success in making a case to voters for continuing the war in Iraq. He has insisted both that success is possible and that failure would be catastrophic, in part because Al Qaeda in Iraq might then turn its attentions elsewhere,’ for instance a day care in Killdeer, North Dakota...
Among her critics, Clinton is known for a mother-knows-best domestic policy that relies on overbearing interference from Washington to remake the landscape to her specifications. The flip side is a mother-knows-best foreign policy that relies on overbearing interference from Washington to remake the landscape to her specifications. Democrats hope that when it comes to international affairs, Clinton would represent a big change from George W. Bush. Republicans harbor that fear. In truth, this is one realm where the two are more alike than different...
According to the neocon party line, if you don’t support the war, the ’surge,’ and Our Glorious Leader, then you don’t support the troops — and yet, when one of these heroes writes a true account of what it’s like out in the field, the devotees of their cult on the home front are suddenly contemptuous of ‘the troops’ — or, at least, this particular soldier, who is now being demonized as little short of a traitor — if not a Stephen Glass-in-fatigues — by all right-thinking neocon clones. It’s pathetic, really, to see how quickly these strutting little militarists turn on the military, when one of them fails to live up to the mythic image so carefully nurtured by the War Party...
Ever since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, the terrorist threat to the West and to Americans in particular has been the subject of contentious debate. Is there a grave and urgent danger, or is it vastly exaggerated by the media and by politicians out to take advantage of popular fears? Does the real danger, as many civil libertarians argue, lie in the temptation to restrict liberties in response to this threat? Do we, in other words, have nothing to fear but fear itself?
As anyone familiar with the Ron Paul campaign knows, official fundraising figures tell only a small part of the story. This campaign is a genuine grassroots movement, driven primarily by the independent efforts of Dr. Paul’s enthusiastic supporters — a wide-ranging constituency that includes disenfranchised anti-war Democrats, traditional conservatives, Constitutionalists, anti-corporatists, free traders, libertarians, Christians, Hindus, atheists, druids, hobbits, wizards, and a host of others. Although a seemingly disparate group, these people share a genuine concern about America’s ongoing slide toward authoritarianism, empire, and bankruptcy...
We’ve known about the Bush administration’s Fortress of Folly for a while. It’s one of Iraq’s endless occupation-bred, American-made scandals: the $600 million American ‘embassy compound’ redrawing Baghdad’s skyline along the Tigris River — and American designs on the Middle East. But like every scandal with this administration — from sleeping at the wheel of 9/11 to nonexistent WMDs to Abu Ghraib to the most corrupt Justice Department in history thanks to torture-apologist Alberto Gonzales — the embassy folly continues to evade the din of accountability. A new Congressional Research Service report shows just what the major media are missing, and how illustrative of American imperiousness the compound is becoming...
Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman’s forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player’s death amounted to a crime, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. ‘The medical evidence did not match up with the, with the scenario as described,’ a doctor who examined Tillman’s body after he was killed on the battlefield in Afghanistan in 2004 told investigators...
A day after President Bush sought to present evidence showing that Iraq is now the main battlefront against Al Qaeda, the chief US intelligence analyst for international terrorism told Congress that the network’s growing ranks in Pakistan and Afghanistan pose a more immediate threat to the United States. In rare testimony before two House committees, Edward Gistaro, the national intelligence officer for transnational threats, said that Al Qaeda terrorists operating in South Asia are better equipped to attack the United States than the network’s followers in Iraq are. Asked which arm of Al Qaeda concerned him the most, Gistaro told a joint session of the House armed services and intelligence panels that it was South Asia...
Another shock to the pro-globalization elite is the overwhelming passage (362-63 on July 24, 2007) of the Duncan Hunter Amendment (H.R. 3074) to the Transportation Appropriations Act, “prohibiting the use of federal funds for participation in working groups under the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), including the creation of the NAFTA Super Highway.”.......
The New York Stock Exchange said it has applied trading curbs on Thursday, a measure taken by the exchange to prevent big moves in the market from clogging its system. Stock prices were tumbling amid concerns about credit markets and surging crude oil prices.
The FBI wants to pay the major telecommunications companies to retain their customers' Internet and phone call information for at least two years for the agency's use in counterterrorism investigations and is asking Congress for $5 million a year to defray the cost.
The CIA misled British intelligence chiefs over the arrest and treatment of terrorist suspects who were the subjects of rendition to Guantanamo Bay, an Intelligence and Security Committee report to the Prime Minister warned.
You're more than 35 percent more likely to be in the military if you're black than if you're white. But you're 35 percent less likely to become an officer. Ignore the propaganda-the military is a reflection of, rather than a cure for, racism.
"It hasn't been decided yet, it will come up for consideration within the next couple of months, I suspect, but I am fairly confident that we should be able to achieve that position in the second-half of the year," Chief of Defence Staff Jock Stirrup said in an interview on BBC radio.
After one of his personal bodyguards was shot dead by a Blackwater USA security contractor last Christmas Eve, Iraqi Vice President Adil Abdul-Mahdi assured the U.S. ambassador that he was trying to keep the incident out of the public eye.
If America's today is any indication of how America's tomorrow will develop, the past and present must be scrutinized, and understood, for in exploring the sins and errors and tribulations and events of days preceding our own time we can peer directly into, as far as we can go, into America's tomorrow, trying to understand the course our nation is headed towards.
The matter of U.S. bases in Iraq is a prime example of how events on Capitol Hill have scant effects on war machinery in the context of out-of-control presidential power. "The House voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to bar permanent United States military bases in Iraq," the New York Times reports. But the war makers in the nation's capital still hold the whip that keeps lashing the dogs of war.
I attended the MoveOn.org rally on Tuesday night where Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid discussed how they were going to "end the war" and "bring our troops home" with the Levin-Reed Amendment. When I asked if they meant all the troops, I was quickly told to, "shut up" and muscled aside by security.
President Bush has nominated David Palmer to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, but eight former department civil rights employees charged Monday that Palmer undermined the unit's mission of securing the employment rights of women and minorities in the public sector, while defending employers' rights to discriminate based on religion, reports Greg Gordon for McClatchy Newspapers.
Rita Beamish for The Associated Press reports that environmental crime investigators are steadily decreasing below levels ordered by Congress. The EPA's criminal enforcement budget rose 25 percent over three years, but its staff has dropped to 174, below the 200-agent minimum, reports Beamish.
A study recently found that smog is a major factor in the climate-change equation and has been severely overlooked, Agence France-Presse reported. One example is how smog at ground level is damaging the ability of plants to absorb CO2, limiting their ability to act as carbon sinks.
As the Bush administration promotes the idea that Al Qaeda is the enemy in Iraq, Bill Moyers Journal analyzes the facts on the ground to explore who the US is really fighting.
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency refused on Thursday to say whether he knew the Transportation Department was lobbying against a California global warming law, reports Erica Werner for The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Democrats say such intervention was inappropriate and possibly illegal, said Werner.
Four Senate Democrats called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate whether [Attorney General] Gonzales perjured himself before Congress, reports David Stout for The New York Times. In addition, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller said Thursday that the government's surveillance program was the topic of a 2004 hospital room dispute between Gonzales and Ashcroft - a statement that contradicts Gonzales's sworn testimony, reported Laurie Kellman and Lara Jakes Jordan for The Associated Press.
Senator Russ Feingold: Senators Schumer, Feinstein, Feingold, Whitehouse Call on Solicitor General to Appoint Special Counsel to Investigate Potential Perjury By Attorney General
Top White House adviser Karl Rove was issued a subpeona today by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), reports Klaus Marre of The Hill. Rove is being compelled to testify about the firing of several US attorneys.
Today's Americans need to carefully heed the sage counsel of Thomas Jefferson, who said, "Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains." The truth of that statement aptly explains the serious damage that Big Business is currently inflicting upon our liberties.....
Die nicht abreißen wollende Diskussion über die Nutzung der Atomenergie und die Laufzeiten der deutschen Atomkraftwerke scheint dem Parlamentarischen Staatssekretär im Bundesumweltministerium, Michael Müller, auf die Nerven zu gehen. Der Politiker erregt sich auch über seines Erachtens "einige besonders merkwürdige Kommentare" in Medien. Dabei lägen "rund 35 Jahre intensiver Debatte über die Nutzung der nuklearen Stromerzeugung hinter uns", so Müller und beklagt eine "ideologische Vergesslichkeit" bezüglich der jahrzehntelang ausgetauschten Argumente. Vor diesem Hintergrund scheint der Staatssekretär das Bedürfnis verspürt zu haben, die nach seiner Auffassung wesentlichen Argumente gegen die Atomenergie noch einmal aufzuzählen.
Kanzleramtschef Thomas de Maizière unterstützt die Pläne von Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble (beide CDU) für Online-Durchsuchungen von Computern. Es gebe Regelungen für die Telefonüberwachung und den Umgang mit dem Postgeheimnis, sagte de Mazière am Donnerstag in MDR Info. Wenn Menschen nun verstärkt über das Internet kommunizierten, müssten die Gesetze angepasst werden, forderte er. Der Kanzleramtschef widersprach gleichzeitig der Kritik, das geplante Gesetz diene zur Bespitzelung der Bürger.
Die Naturschutzorganisation BUND warnt vor "unkalkulierbaren Risiken" infolge des von der Bundesregierung geplanten Gentechnikgesetzes. Der von Landwirtschaftsminister Horst Seehofer (CSU) vorgelegte Entwurf sei eine "massive Verschlechterung" gegenüber dem geltenden Recht, sagte BUND-Gentechnikexpertin Heike Moldenhauer am 26. Juli in Berlin. Wenn die Novelle ohne Änderung von Bundestag und Bundesrat beschlossen werde, könne dies das Ende der gentechnikfreien Landwirtschaft bedeuten.
Truthout's J. Sri Raman writes that President Bush "seems convinced that a new type of 'democracy' - or a new version of military dictatorship - is the need of the hour for a swathe of South Asia. Bush and his band are engaged in a brave new experiment for not only Bangladesh and Pakistan, but also Nepal."
Michael Cieply of The New York Times writes about "a new and perhaps risky willingness in the entertainment business to push even the touchiest debates about post-9/11 security, Iraq and the troops' status from the confines of documentaries into the realm of mainstream political drama."
Scott Thill of Alternet writes: "News flash: The American economy is a hyperreality engineered by PhDs working hand-in-hand with colluding media multinationals, political officials and some of the biggest names in business - and the banks that invest in them. In other news, greed is still good."
"The White House may have killed attempts to revive the much-heralded Iraq Study Group, but the Bush administration will still face a tough, independent evaluation of the progress in Iraq - from one of its own agencies," reports Robin Wright for The Washington Post.
Truthout's Jason Leopold and Matt Renner report, "Previously undisclosed documents detail how Republican operatives, with the knowledge of several White House officials, engaged in an illegal, racially-motivated effort to suppress tens of thousands of votes during the 2004 presidential campaign in a state where George W. Bush was trailing his Democratic challenger, Senator John Kerry."
Die Ulmer Ärzteinitiative weist schon seit Jahren darauf hin, dass in der Umgebung von Atomkraftwerken Kleinkinder vermehrt an Krebs und Missbildungen erkranken. Dies wird jetzt durch eine neue US-studie bestätigt...
„Sage niemand, die Provinz sei harmlos. Einer der einflussreichsten Fürsprecher einer Militarisierung der deutschen und europäischen Außenpolitik ist im westfälischen Gütersloh zuhause. Die Bertelsmann-Stiftung unterstützt im Kampf um den globalen Einfluss den Aufbau der "Supermacht Europa" und deren militärischer Aufrüstung, womöglich auch mit Atomwaffen…“ Artikel von Jörn Hagenloch in telepolis vom 26.07.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25765/1.html
"Exxon could again post the biggest profit in corporate history as lower oil prices, higher gasoline prices fuel refining bonanza .... Exxon (Charts, Fortune 500), which actually refines more barrels of oil than it pumps, could see over $11 billion in earnings, which would be the biggest quarterly profit in corporate history," reports Steve Hargreaves for CNNMoney.com.
Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage joins us to talk about his new book, "Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy." Savage charts the ways the Bush administration has circumvented laws and expanded presidential authority.
"Congress must not capitulate in the White House's attempt to rob it of its constitutional powers," writes The New York Times. "It is not too late for President Bush to spare the country the trauma, and himself the disgrace, of this particular constitutional showdown. There is a simple way out. He should direct Ms. Miers and Mr. Bolten to provide Congress with the information to which it is entitled."
Jason Leopold reports for Truthout on a DOJ memo which emerged on Tuesday during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, revealing comprehensive White House access to multiple areas of the Justice Department's operations and information.
"Documents indicate eight congressional leaders were briefed about the Bush administration's terrorist surveillance program on the eve of its expiration in 2004, contradicting sworn Senate testimony this week by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales," writes Lara Jakes Jordan for The Associated Press.
TOGETHER in protest: West Didsbury residents are furious after Orange erected a phone mast in the village
NEIGHBOURS who created their own picturesque retreat in the heart of West Didsbury were horrified to discover it has been ripped up to make way for a phone mast.
Furious residents have hit out at mobile phone giant Orange after it dug up a Lime Tree and removed a bench next to the grounds of Withington Community Hospital.
Sponsoring-Bericht: Politik bekam 80 Millionen Euro Spenden von Unternehmen
Die 14 Bundesministerien und übrigen obersten Bundesbehörden haben in den vergangenen zwei Jahren über 80 Millionen Euro an Geld- und Sachspenden von Unternehmen angenommen, rund 25 Millionen mehr als in den zwei Jahren zuvor. Das berichtet die "Bild"-Zeitung unter Berufung auf den noch unveröffentlichten, über 80 Seiten starken Sponsoring-Bericht des Bundesinnenministeriums. Am großzügigsten wurde danach das Gesundheitsministerium mit 49,7 Millionen Euro bedacht.
Offenbar haben wir mit der Vorstellung unserer Datenbank “Lobbyisten in den Ministerien” und der Aktion “Lobbyisten in die Sommerpause” einen Nerv getroffen - die Medien berichteten an prominenter Stelle. Bei Spiegel-online gehörte der Beitrag über unsere Datenbank gestern zu den drei von Lesern am häufigsten empfohlenen Artikeln. Die FR wählte das Thema für die Seite Drei als “Thema des Tages”; Süddeutsche (nur Printausgabe), taz und Neues Deutschland berichteten ausführlich. Weitere Berichte gibt es auf heise.de und telepolis.
Auch in Deutschland ist die Debatte um die Mitarbeit von Lobbyisten in den Ministerien noch nicht beendet. Zur Zeit wird ein Vorschlag für eine Richtlinie in der Regierung beraten, allerdings soll die Praxis der Leihbeamten nicht ganz beendet werden. Wir machen weiter Druck, dieser demokratieschädlichen Praxis ganz den Riegel vorzuschieben. Mehr dazu in den nächsten Wochen. Wir halten Sie auf dem Laufenden.
Maternal amalgam dental fillings as the source of mercury exposure in developing fetus and newborn
Palkovicova L, Ursinyova M, Masanova V, Yu Z, Hertz-Picciotto I. Department of Environmental Medicine, Slovak Medical University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2007 Sep 12
Dental amalgam is a mercury-based filling containing approximately
50% of metallic mercury (Hg(0)). Human placenta does not represent a real barrier to the transport of Hg(0); hence, fetal exposure occurs as a result of maternal exposure to Hg, with possible subsequent neurodevelopmental disabilities in infants. This study represents a substudy of the international NIH-funded project "Early Childhood Development and polychlorinated biphenyls Exposure in Slovakia". The main aim of this analysis was to assess the relationship between maternal dental amalgam fillings and exposure of the developing fetus to Hg. The study subjects were mother-child pairs (N=99). Questionnaires were administered after delivery, and chemical analyses of Hg were performed in the samples of maternal and cord blood using atomic absorption spectrometry with amalgamation technique. The median values of Hg concentrations were 0.63 mug/l (range 0.14-2.9 mug/l) and 0.80 mug/l (range 0.15-2.54 mug/l) for maternal and cord blood, respectively. None of the cord blood Hg concentrations reached the level considered to be hazardous for neurodevelopmental effects in children exposed to Hg in utero (EPA reference dose for Hg of 5.8 mug/l in cord blood). A strong positive correlation between maternal and cord blood Hg levels was found (rho=0.79; P<0.001). Levels of Hg in the cord blood were significantly associated with the number of maternal amalgam fillings (rho=0.46, P<0.001) and with the number of years since the last filling (rho=-0.37, P<0.001); these associations remained significant after adjustment for maternal age and education.
Dental amalgam fillings in girls and women of reproductive age should be used with caution, to avoid increased prenatal Hg exposure.
Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology advance online publication, 12 September 2007; doi:10.1038/sj.jes.7500606.
Nuclear power proponents like to picture a bunch of clean plants humming away like beehives across the landscape. Yet when it comes to the mining of uranium, which mostly takes place on indigenous lands from northern Canada to central Australia, you need to picture fossil-fuel-intensive carbon-emitting vehicles, and lots of them — big disgusting diesel-belching ones. But that’s the least of it. The Navajo are fighting right now to prevent uranium mining from resuming on their land, which was severely contaminated by the postwar uranium boom of the 1940s and 1950s. The miners got lung cancer. The children in the area got birth defects and a 1,500 percent increase in ovarian and testicular cancer. And the slag heaps and contaminated pools that were left behind will be radioactive for millennia...
My brother joined the Army in 1970 along with many of the older brothers and boyfriends in our neighborhood. Many of us too young to go protested the war at the University of Houston campus and Milby Park because we felt that the government lied us into war. We saw firsthand how many of them died and were wounded; we saw our mothers worry if they were the next family to get a visit from the Army guys whose job it was to deliver the worst news a mom can get. We protested even though the same moms and dads supported the war as did everyone’s teachers, coaches and other adults. We were called dirty hippies, told to leave our country of birth, called treasonous and commie pinko trash. Pretty much what I still get called today when we protest yet another senseless war...
So, I was thinking about the fact that the Dems insist there’s nothing they can do without a two-thirds majority. There are two problems with that sort of talk: 1) Even if they can’t over-ride a veto, they could still just refuse to pass a spending bill for Iraq, NSA spying, and other obscenities. And if a few Democrats refused to go along and tried to vote with the Republicans to get a majority on a spending bill, I’m sure that between filibusters and the procedural powers of the House and Senate majority leaders and committee chairs, Reid and Pelosi could find a way to fix this. If they really wanted to, and if they were prepared to take some risks for the sake of the Republic...
What do Rep. John Conyers (D, Michigan), chair of the House Committee on the Judiciary, and President George W. Bush have in common? They both think they can dis Cindy Sheehan and count on gossip columnists like the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank to trivialize an historic moment.I’ll give this to President Bush. He makes no pretence when he disses. He would not meet with Sheehan to define for her the “noble cause” for which her son Casey died or tell her why he had said it was “worth it.”Conyers, on the other hand, was dripping with pretence as he met with Sheehan, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, and me yesterday in his office in the Rayburn building. I have seldom been so disappointed with someone I had previously held in high esteem. And before leaving, I told him so. Throwing salt in our wounds, he had us, and some fifty others in his anteroom arrested and taken out of action as the Capitol Police “processed” us for the next six hours...
Even enormously egotistical Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson expressed regrets for their follies. But “regret” and “remorse” do not seem to be words in the Bush family vocabulary. Their nation and its people are poorer for it...
Rep. Don Young is facing criminal investigation, a federal law enforcement official confirmed today, making Young the second member of Alaska’s three-person congressional delegation under scrutiny. Separately, Sen. Ted Stevens has acknowledged he has been told by authorities to preserve records of a house remodeling project involving VECO Corp., the Anchorage-based oil field service company...
The House Judiciary committee on Wednesday voted to recommend that two White House aides be charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoenas issued in connection with an investigation of the firing of nine U.S. prosecutors. White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former legal counselor Harriet Miers were named for declining to appear before the House Judiciary Committee or hand over documents, citing the White House claim to executive privilege...
On Friday, July 27, NOW will ask, "Was there a White House plot to illegally suppress votes in 2004? Is there a similar plan for the upcoming elections?"
Anne Flaherty of The Associated Press writes: "A leading Democratic House Iraq war critic said Wednesday he'll soon push legislation that would order US troop withdrawals to begin in two months and predicted that Republicans will swing behind it this time."
John R. Wilke, The Wall Street Journal, reports: "A senior House Republican has come under criminal investigation in the Justice Department's widening inquiry into alleged influence-peddling and self-dealing in Congress."
The trial of Australian national David Hicks at Guantanamo Bay was a charade that served to corrode the rule of law, Australia's top legal body has said.
In a videotape that CNN characterized as having been "intercepted," excerpts of which appeared on an anti-terrorist Web site last week, a grayer bin Laden appears in fatigues against a mountainous backdrop.
Former CIA counter-terrorism officer and Antiwar.com columnist Philip Giraldi debunks the War Party's claims that Iran backs al Qaeda, explains U.S. support for the terrorist groups Mujahadeen-e-Khalq and Jundullah against Iran, and the two most likely circumstances in which Cheney will use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against them.
"The future security environment is very uncertain, and some trends are not favorable," it said, pointing to North Korea and Iran as countries whose nuclear programs "underscore the importance of US security guarantees."
Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American
The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush's Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.
The secret prison was set up on a secure U.S. Naval base outside the U.S. and so beyond the slightest recourse to legal oversight. It was there that the CIA clandestinely brought its "suspects" to be interrogated, abused, and tortured.
Why we as a nation, have been titrated, which is the gradual increasing of dosage, pressure, and propaganda, till the desired effect - an inured and compliant society - have willingly bequeathed away our autonomy of self-government, embraced the genesis of tyranny, and begin our seemingly inexorable march towards dictatorship.
Bush's "National Continuity Policy, issued May 9, states, in effect, that in the event of a "catastrophic emergency," which might mean a terrorist attack or natural disaster, within "the homeland" or abroad, the President could, as a "unitary executive," seize near dictatorial powers. This means that another hurricane of Katrina size, or a Richter-7 earthquake, or even a massive civil disobedient protest, could trigger the onset of a Bush dictatorship.
The Bush Administration may be preparing to lash out at old ally Pakistan, which Washington now blames for its humiliating failures to crush al-Qaida, capture its elusive leaders, or defeat Taliban resistance forces in Afghanistan. One is immediately reminded of the Vietnam War when the Pentagon, unable to defeat North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong forces, urged invasion of Cambodia.
Neocon officials in the Defense Department call them "low-hanging fruit"--- as though countries were produce ripe for picking and eating. The term refers to nations targeted for regime change that might be achieved with minimal strain, at least when compared with the effort needed to topple the regime in Iran.
Trump and His Allies...
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/21/trump-and-his-allies-are-clear-and-present-danger-american-democracy?utm_source=daily_newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter_op
rudkla - 22. Jun, 05:09
The Republican Party...
https://truthout.org/articles/the-republican-party-is-still-doing-donald-trumps-bidding/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=804d4873-50dd-4c1b-82a5-f465ac3742ce
rudkla - 26. Apr, 05:36
January 6 Committee Says...
https://truthout.org/articles/jan-6-committee-says-trump-engaged-in-criminal-conspiracy-to-undo-election/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=552e5725-9297-4a7c-a214-53c8c51615a3
