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By James D. Squires
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By Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac
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According to leaked secret memos, top advisors to the British leader gave him explicit warnings three years ago that the U.S. had “No leadership, no strategy, no coordination, no structure and [was] inaccessible to ordinary Iraqis.”
Not that this kind of thing shocks us anymore, but still it’s eye-opening when it’s confirmed by a staunch ally.
Daily Kos tees off on this.
Posted on Mar 14, 2006
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From nationalneographic.com
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A French nun inflicted with Parkinson’s disease is suddenly cured--after fellow nuns pray to the dead pope.
The Associated Press ran this story without a hint of irony or skepticism.
Check out Truthdig’s Sam Harris for a little perspective.
Posted on Mar 13, 2006
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The president asserts that many of the roadside bombs in Iraq--which have proved so deadly to U.S. forces--originate in Iran.
This is part and parcel of Bush & Co.’s efforts to portray Tehran as the next big boogeyman.
Check out Truthdig’s Juan Cole on Bush’s campaign to frame Iran.
Posted on Mar 13, 2006
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Question: Why does Bush always sound like he’s talking to 5-year-olds?
Answer: “That’s the way these issues were explained to him.” --Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter
Posted on Mar 12, 2006
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The elite of the nation’s political reporters gather at the 121-year-old club to poke fun at administration figures. Bush headlines the event, which focuses on Cheney’s hunting accident.
Call us crazy, but we’ve always felt uneasy about the press yukking it up with their sources like this. It’s hard to be a watchdog when you’re cozying up with the people you’re supposed to be watching.
Posted on Mar 12, 2006
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On a day when car bombs killed at least 62 people in Baghdad, reinforcing fears of an all-out civil war, John Burns, the N.Y. Times’ Baghdad bureau chief, tells Editor & Publisher that this struggle has, in fact, always been a civil war and, worse, that America will “probably” fail in Iraq.
Posted on Mar 12, 2006
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Unlike the president, who gets to bed around 10 p.m. and has spent a record amount of time on vacation, Bush’s staffers are apparently exhausted beyond belief--which may account for oversights like the botched Dubai Ports deal.
Posted on Mar 12, 2006
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A prominent Slovenian-born atheist, surveying the violence done in the name of Islam, argues in the N.Y. Times that we should submit Islam, along with all other religions, to a “respectful, but for that reason no less ruthless, critical analysis. This, and only this, is the way to show a true respect for Muslims: to treat them as serious adults responsible for their beliefs.”
Posted on Mar 12, 2006
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Amid China’s explosive market-driven growth over the past decade, it’s sometimes hard to remember that it is technically a communist country. A dispute over property rights has brought the issue to the fore.
Truthdig’s Orville Schell examined this schism here.
Posted on Mar 12, 2006
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A role model for Hillary--Chile’s new leader is a political trailblazer.
Posted on Mar 12, 2006
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The president’s former top domestic policy aide allegedly tried to swindle Target and Hecht’s stores out of more than $5,000. He resigned last month, claiming he wanted to spend more time with his family. (In some parts of the world, that’s called a lie.)
This is the guy LA Weekly called “a notorious homophobe, a ferocious enemy of abortion and an opponent of safe-sex education.”
Posted on Mar 12, 2006
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From The New York Times
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The photo of him in a hood, arms outspread and with electrical wires trailing from his body became the definitive image of the prison abuse scandal.
He is now heading up a prisoners’ rights organization.
Posted on Mar 11, 2006
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From westernjustice.org
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“It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings,” former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor told a Georgetown audience, according to an NPR report. (Hat tip: Huff Po)
Posted on Mar 10, 2006
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A nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank concludes: “the tax cuts have not paid for themselves, recent economic growth and revenue growth have not been particularly strong, and revenues remain lower than had been predicted before the tax cuts were enacted.”
Posted on Mar 10, 2006
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From Crooks and Liars
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Stephen Colbert continues to gain ground on Jon Stewart with his blistering satires of U.S. policy. This time he riffs on a new name that the Pentagon is using for the war on terror.
Posted on Mar 10, 2006
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From PoliticsTV
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A new TV-heavy Internet site dedicated to politics launches with AMERICAblog founder John Avarosis. Looks pretty spiffy.
Posted on Mar 10, 2006
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The money is funneled through (surprise, surprise) Jack Abramoff and Grover Norquist. This scandal couldn’t happen to any two nicer two guys.
Posted on Mar 10, 2006
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The UAE-owned company dropped its bid to control six major U.S. ports. A United States-owned company will instead take possession.
Posted on Mar 9, 2006
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The state’s top newspaper refuses to run any editorial on abortion--despite the recent statewide abortion ban that may go to the Supreme Court.
“Rather than change anyone’s mind, we would create another controversy,” says an editor.
Posted on Mar 9, 2006
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Fact Check: Palin’s Dishonest Speech
