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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
Democrats Chant “Shame” in Congress After Bills Pass Benefiting Big Businesses In the weeks after Hurricane Katrina, legislation in the Senate and House has been criticized as beneficial to corporations while sidelining the victims of the disaster. Recently, House Republican leaders pushed through a bill to make it easier for oil companies to build new domestic refineries....
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 7:49am PDT
Liberia’s First Election Since the Civil War: High Turnout and High Hopes Liberia holds its first elections since the end of the 14-year civil war two years ago, drawing 1.3 million voters. The first official results show former soccer player George Weah and former World Bank economist Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as the leading figures in the race. We speak with Liberian Emira Woods, of the Institute for Policy Studies, about voters' hopes for the country's future and challenges stemming from the past....
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 7:44am PDT
How Dick Cheney's Top Aide 'Scooter' Libby Misled Federal Prosecutors in the CIA Leak Case As speculation grows that Libby and Karl Rove could be indicted, we speak with Waas on his new expose that Libby never told prosecutors that in June 2003 he spoke with New York Times reporter Judith Miller about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her husband Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a critic of the Iraq war. Miller will testify once again today about their conversations....
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 7:28am PDT
Tipping the Scales: Conservative Appointments Threaten Supreme Court's Balance New Supreme Court appointments will pose challenges to more than just individual and civil liberties; it will also directly impact key federal issues that eked by on 5-4 rulings, where O’Connor’s vote determined the outcome. The results of some of these key cases are outlined below....
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 5:44pm PDT
Legislation in Washington Attacks Public Access TV Three Bills now in the House and Senate could end public access TV in America....
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 1:18pm PDT
Bush White House crisis deepens: The contradictions of the Miers nomination The intensifying conflict within the Republican Party over the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court has put on display the weakness and instability of the Bush administration, and the isolated and unpopular character of the right-wing elements who now dominate in official Washington. There is more than a little resemblance to a battle of scorpions in a bottle—both in terms of the narrow confines within which this conflict takes place, and in the intellectual and moral stature of t...
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 7:32am PDT
Pentagon Analyst Pleads Guilty in AIPAC-Israeli Spy Case Larry Franklin, a top Pentagon analyst, plead guilty to handing over highly classified intelligence to members of the pro-Israeli lobbying group the American Israel Public Affairs Committee or AIPAC. Franklin also admitted for the first time that he handed over top-secret information on Iran directly to an Israeli government official in Washington. We speak with investigative reporter, Robert Dreyfuss....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 6:57am PDT
ELBaradei Wins Nobel Peace Prize Months After U.S. Tries To Force Him From Job The International Atomic Energy Agency and its chief Mohamed ElBaradei have won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. We speak with Phyllis Bennis of the Institute of Policy Studies....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 6:56am PDT
The K Street Project: The Silent Coup The Media Forgot In what amounts to a silent coup, an unholy alliance of corporate power brokers and conservative Republicans have spent the last five years attempting to hi-jack democracy and move the seat of governance from Pennsylvania Avenue to K Street....
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2005 3:16pm PDT
Media overlooked Dobson's "confidential" information on Miers In reporting Focus on the Family founder and chairman James C. Dobson's announced support for Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, various media outlets -- including the Associated Press and The Washington Post -- overlooked Dobson's October 5 statement that his support for the nomination was due, at least in part, to "confidential" information that he had been "privy to." The reports omitted Dobson's comments despite mentioning concerns from many other prominent conservat...
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2005 3:07pm PDT
BTL:Indictment of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Adds to... ...Growing Cloud of Corruption Charges Hanging Over GOP ~ Interview with Alex Knott, of the Center for Public Integrity, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2005 6:32am PDT
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