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Bush Puts Demands of Far-Right Above Interests of Americans with Nomination of Alito
Bush Puts Demands of Far-Right Above Interests of Americans with High Court Nomination of Right-Wing Activist Alito...
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 6:37am PST
Green Hoosiers: Forging a New Democracy in the Heartland
By STEVEN HIGGS...
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 11:48pm PDT
Beginning of the End? Watergate 2005? Gotterdammerung for the Bushies?
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR...
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 6:51pm PDT
Harriet Miers Withdraws Supreme Court Nomination
Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination Thursday to be a Supreme Court justice. She had come under intense criticism from the Christian Right and many Republican senators. We have a roundtable discussion on Miers’ withdrawal and the political implications, and what may lie ahead in the next nomination....
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 8:55am PDT
U.S. and Key Allies Facilitated Profiteering in Oil For Food Program
On Thursday, the independent inquiry investigating the United Nations Oil for Food program in Iraq issued its fifth and final report, charging the Hussein regime with collecting billions of dollars in kickbacks from oil sales to over 2,000 companies. We speak with Denis Halliday, former head of the UN Humanitarian Program in Iraq, about the details of the case and questions about U.S. complicity in illicit sales....
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 8:53am PDT
Iraq war is the real “underlying crime” in the Libby indictment
The indictment in the CIA leak investigation of Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, has deepened the political crisis of the Bush administration, while further exposing the methods of criminality and conspiracy that extend from the White House on down....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 11:59pm PDT
White House under fire: A crisis of legitimacy?
Months ago it was apparent that the Bush administration was losing its initiative and momentum. Bush didn’t walk with the same old swagger and his much-vaunted political capital had lost much of its value.
Tensions and fissures were evident in the Republican Party — not an open rebellion by any means, but substantial enough that the single-mindedness that had been the signature of the Bush administration and Republican Party was less evident.
At the same time, the resistance to the admi...
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 6:26am PDT
O'Connor Must Stay On
Send a letter to Sandra Day O'Connor urging her to postpone her retirement and stay on the Court. NOW will hand deliver every letter to the Supreme Court....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 10:12pm PDT
Collapse of the Miers nomination: Bush administration bows to the ultra-right
The withdrawal of the nomination of White House Counsel Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court is a powerful demonstration of the Bush administration’s extraordinary dependence on ultra-right and Christian fundamentalist elements, who enjoy effective veto power over key government decisions....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 9:55pm PDT
“Snowstorm” Planned to Highlight Support for Access TV.
In a defiant gesture intended to highlight the danger three Bills now in Washington pose to access TV, the Alliance for Community Media (ACM) has called for a nationwide access TV “snowstorm”....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 7:13pm PDT
Miers Withdrawal Shows Extremist Control of White House
NEWS from the Human Rights Campaign...
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 10:03am PDT
Bush names another “free market” ally of Wall Street to succeed Greenspan at the Fed
President Bush on Monday named Ben S. Bernanke to succeed Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, who will step down January 31 after serving as the Fed chief since 1987....
Posted: Wed, Oct 26, 2005 6:39am PDT
Cheney's Role in CIA Leak Exposed: NYT Says Cheney Gave Valerie Plame's Name to Libby
We speak to former CIA analyst Melvin Goodman on the latest development in the CIA leak case. The New York Times is reporting today that Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff Lewis Scooter Libby first learned the identity of the CIA operative from his boss – Dick Cheney....
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2005 7:21am PDT
Malik Rahim Demands Inquiry into Hurricane Katrina Deaths and Amnesty for “Looters”
This past weekend, activists, scholars and survivors testified at a people’s inquiry set up to present evidence and assess whether President Bush and his administration have committed crimes against humanity. Malik Rahim traveled to New York to testify....
Posted: Mon, Oct 24, 2005 7:31am PDT
George Bush Visits the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California (audio/mpeg 4.5MB)
Among the people gathered to protest Bush, was Tim, John and Aaron, three members of Iraq Veterans Against the War. I had the chance to speak with Tim, John and Aaron as well as David, Sue and Rachel. Listen to the interviews to hear all of them call for an end to the War in Iraq, and much more.
The first interview is with Tim, John and Aaron of Iraq Veterans Against the War. (9:47 minutes)...
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 8:58pm PDT
Chickens Come Home to Roost on Cheney
Indictments are expected to come down shortly as special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald completes the investigation originally precipitated by the outing of a C.I.A. officer under deep cover. In 21-plus months of digging and interviewing, Fitzpatrick and his able staff have been able to negotiate the intelligence/policy/politics labyrinth with considerable sophistication. In the process, they seem to have learned considerably more than they had bargained for. The investigation has long since m...
Posted: Thu, Oct 20, 2005 7:58pm PDT
DIVERSE VOICES SPEAK OUT IN FAVOR OF "CLEAN MONEY" BILL
Elected officials from California, labor, public interest organizations,
and elected official from Arizona testify in support of full public funding
of state election campaigns...
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 11:35am PDT
Should The New York Times Fire Judith Miller and Apologize to Readers?
On Sunday, Miller revealed that she spoke with Scooter Libby about undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame weeks before her name appeared in the press, but Miller claims she can't remember who leaked the name. Meanwhile it has been revealed Miller had a special Pentagon security clearance and was removed from covering Iraq and WMD stories by her editors. This weekend, The New York Times published its long awaited account of Judith Miller's involvement in the Valarie Plame affair. Miller, a New Yor...
Posted: Mon, Oct 17, 2005 7:29am PDT
Which Will Harriet Miers Put First The Constitution or President Bush?
By BRENDAN SMITH and JEREMY BRECHER...
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 3:12pm PDT