Gingrich's War on 'Secularism'

Seeded on Sun May 20, 2007 8:39 PM EDT (Consortiumnews.com)

"All 43 American presidents – even those who doubted religion – associated themselves with the Christian faith.

politics, political-comeback, christian-faith, fake-victimhood, newt-gingrich, jerry-falwell, pat-robertson

The Sad, Quotable Jerry Falwell

Seeded on Fri May 18, 2007 1:46 PM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)

"You can eulogize. You can mourn and ponder and do a lengthy retrospective, a political analysis, a sociocultural examination of a career and a legacy and a rather remarkable life. When remembering the dead, the journalistic options are legion.

politics, jerry-falwell, homophobe, misogynist, bigot, demagogue, american-nazi, second-coming

The Globalization of Electronic Election Theft

Seeded on Sun May 13, 2007 10:43 PM EDT (The Free Press)

From Ohio and California to Scotland and France, the disputes surrounding electronic voting machines have gone truly global.

politics, bob-fitrakis, harvey-wasserman, electronic-voting-machines, e-vote-rigging, touch-screen-machines, optical-scanners, paper-ballots

Naked Neocons: Perjury and the Big Bad Wolfowitz

Seeded on Wed May 9, 2007 10:17 PM EDT (GregPalast.com)

"George Bush is trying to save Paul Wolfowitz' job as President of the World Bank even after the vulpine neo-con was caught slipping a load of World Bank loot to his love interest, Shaha Ali Riza.

politics, paul-wolfowitz, karl-rove, homeland-security, iraq-oil, sales-pitch, cost-of-invasion, lying-to-congress, cia-oil-ops

Tenet-Bush pre-9/11 'Small Talk'

Seeded on Sun May 6, 2007 3:30 PM EDT (Consortiumnews.com)

In late August 2001, when aggressive presidential action might have changed the course of U.S. history, CIA Director George Tenet made a special trip to Crawford, Texas, to get George W.

politics, george-tenet, george-bush, richard-clarke, condi-rice, administration-lethargy

Ongoing Iraq Intel Fraud

Seeded on Sat May 5, 2007 8:47 PM EDT (Consortiumnews.com)

Almost five years and perhaps half a million deaths too late, it's finally the accepted wisdom in Washington that the intelligence that George W. Bush used to justify invading Iraq was garbage.

politics, iraq-invasion-lies, cherry-picking-intel, manipulated-intel, falsified-intel, oil-grab, mushroom-clouds, media-complicity

Bill Moyers: Forged Intelligence Documents

Seeded on Thu May 3, 2007 10:21 PM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

Airdate: Friday, May 4, 2007 at 9:00 p.m. EDT on PBS. (Check local listings at )

politics, bill-moyers-journal, pbs, yellowcake-uranium, iraq, niger, italy

LAPD at MayDay March: Strike Now, Ask Later

Seeded on Thu May 3, 2007 6:09 PM EDT (FreePress.net)

Until Tuesday, the immigrant-rights movement had been defined by its bouyant, almost jubilant nature. Immigrants and their supporters had marched peacefully by the millions for more than a year in cities and towns across America.

politics, may-day, issues-journalism-campaigns-war, macarthur-park, press-war, immigrants-rights, peaceful-assembly

Impeachment: It's about Reclaiming the Rule of Law

Seeded on Wed May 2, 2007 12:06 PM EDT (Truthdig)

George Bush has shredded, violated or absented America from its obligations under international law.

politics, impeachment, hedges, law, treaties, international-criminal-court, illegal-war

Plan to Plant Gene-modified Rice Alarms Interest Groups

Seeded on Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:37 PM EDT (The New Standard)

A government agency is currently weighing a controversial proposal to allow a biotechnology company to plant up to 3,200 acres of rice genetically modified to treat diarrhea.

politics, usda, biotech, gene-spliced-rice, voluntary-approval-process, public-health, unapproved-ge-rice-varieties, center-for-food-safety

Gonzales is getting Libby'd in Rove's Con

Seeded on Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:47 AM EDT (GregPalast.com)

Before President Bush fired his sorry ass, US Attorney David Iglesias of New Mexico, in a last sad attempt to suck up to his Republican padrones, allowed his chief mouthpiece, Norm Cairns, to speak with me. He shouldn't have.

politics, gonzales-sacrificed, rove-con-operation, 2008-election, voter-fraud, vote-suppression, one-party-state

Pre-war Lies Must Be Investigated

Seeded on Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:16 PM EDT (Information Clearing House)

"Many Americans act as if we're aware the administration deceived us into invading Iraq, while others, including some in Congress, operate as if they fail to see that reality.

politics, pre-war-lies, niger-uranium, aluminum-tubes, smoking-gun-mushroom-clouddefense-intelligence-age

What it Means to be Secure

Seeded on Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:15 PM EDT (The Denver Post)

"True security in the early 21st century must include security of our borders, security of livelihood, security of energy, security of the environment, and security of health. Understanding security in this light then requires a completely new look at how it is to be achieved.

politics, mutually-assured-destruction, containment, deterrence, unilateral-intervention, national-security, threat-based

Rove to be Investigated by Office of Special Counsel

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:29 PM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

Washington - Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special Counsel confines itself to monitoring the activities of relatively low-level government employees, stepping in with reprimands and other routine administrative actions for such off …

politics, special-counsel, white-house, karl-rove, us-attorney-firings, political-strategery

Rove Tries to Bury White House Secrets

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:15 PM EDT ()

"The House Judiciary Committee just released two emails, dated February 5 and 7, from inside Karl Rove's office, in which the Rove-bots gloat that no US media have picked up the investigations of "that British reporter Greg Palast" found in my book Armed Madhouse.

politics

US Police State Programs Justified by Worker Migrations

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 5:36 PM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

"Threats of terrorism and twelve million "illegal" immigrants are being used to justify new police-state measures in the United States.

politics, homeland-security, immigration-customs-enforcement, peter-phillips, immigration, nafta, worker-displacement, us-police-state, halliburton, concentration-camps

Bill Moyers on Why the Press Bought the Iraq War

Seeded on Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:21 PM EDT (FreePress.net)

'The most powerful indictment of the news media for falling down in its duties in the run-up to the war in Iraq will appear next Wednesday, a 90-minute PBS broadcast called "Buying the War," which marks the return of "Bill Moyers Journal." E&P was sent a preview DVD and …

politics, buying-the-war, bill-moyers, walter-isaacson, phil-donahue, walter-pincus, tim-russert, william-safire

Michael Moore Flick Compares US Health Care to Cuba's

Seeded on Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:21 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)

"Moore's new film, debuting in Cannes this May, tackles the failures of the U.S. health care system, and includes a segment where 9/11 recscue workers visit Cuba for treatment they couldn't get in America.

politics, hmo, big-pharma, an-ill-for-every-pill, health-care, world-health-organization, sicko, michael-moore

Everyone Should Get a Gun!

Seeded on Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:19 AM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)

You know what offers just tremendous amounts of pleasure? Shooting guns.

politics, virginia-tech, second-amendment, wild-west, united-states, white-house

Plunder of Iraq National Museum continues

Seeded on Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:01 PM EDT (wsws.org)

The looting of the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad during the American invasion four years ago was the beginning of a cultural catastrophe for that country.

politics, iraqi-national-museum, hague-conventions, sociocide, organized-looting

Time for PBS to Go?

Seeded on Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:25 PM EDT (ConsortiumNews.com)

PBS is broadcasting what amounts to a neoconservative propaganda series entitled "America at a Crossroads," which has included a full hour info-mercial for George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq written and narrated by Richard Perle, one of the war's architects.

politics, pbs, neocon-war-agenda, richard-perle, case-for-war-of-aggression, journalistic-violation, one-party-control-of-government

Bush/Cheney Dig in to Win

Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:00 PM EDT (ConsortiumNews.com)

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are determined to secure another $100 billion blank check for the Iraq War despite a growing consensus among intelligence and military analysts that the war strategy is in chaos and on course to gravely damage U.S. interests in the Middle East.

politics, funding-iraq-occupation, blank-check, test-of-wills, rubber-stamp-congress, democratic-cave-in, imperial-presidency, botched-war-presidency, strategy-in-chaos

Impeachment: A Duty, not an Option

Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:20 PM EDT (ConsortiumNews.com)

Editor's Note: Washington's "conventional wisdom" holds that the idea of impeaching George W. Bush is a non-starter, a pipe dream, so beyond the possible that it's not worth even discussing.

politics, imperial-presidency, impeachment, bush-cheney, richard-nixon, bill-moyers, magna-carta, rulers-bound-by-law

Is Cheney Right? Will Democrats Cave on Iraq?

Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:09 AM EDT (t r u t h o u t)

On CBS's "Face the Nation" yesterday, Cheney could barely suppress a smirk in expressing confidence that the Democrats in the end will cave in and, as he put it, "not leave America's fighting forces in harm's way without the resources they need to defend themselves." And yes, …

politics, harry-reid, dick-cheney, robert-gates, senate-armed-services-committee-chair-carl-levin, america-israel-public-affairs-committee, national-missile-defense

Making Elections Fair

Seeded on Sun Apr 15, 2007 3:34 PM EDT (The Nation)

The proposal is quite simple: If Congressional candidates raise enough $5 donations to prove they are viable and competitive (that number is 11,500 in Durbin's home state, according to a formula in the bill), they can qualify for public funds in the primary and general election.

fair-elections-now-act, common-cause, mccain-feingold-campaign-finance-reform-act, public-campaign

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