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Thanks in part to your efforts, the breaking news about Bush's smoking gun Katrina warning is spreading rapidly. However, the media is largely not featuring what is perhaps the most obvious revelation of all: Bush lied....

A government of the people? No - Government of and for the millionaire? yes...

A Veterans Affairs nurse in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was investigated for sedition after she wrote a letter to a local newspaper criticizing the Bush administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war. In her first broadcast interview, we speak with Laura Berg, as well as an attorney with the New Mexico chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union....

He has the gift of facilitating matters. With him formalities and ceremonial go by the board. The conversation is quickly under way with the “General” at his residence in Rabiyé, which was thronged with young people and retired Army officers who remain devoted to him. There, one found those who had remained faithful to him, who had waited patiently for 15 years for his return from exile. I saw myself propelled back 16 years to Baabda Palace, with the same images and sensations. But that was a...

The race for the mayor’s office in storm-ravaged New Orleans may take on a different tone next month, with incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin trying to reach city voters strewn across the country while fighting a challenge from a feisty black minister, Louisiana’s lieutenant governor and a host of other candidates....

Bolivia After the Election of Evo Morales: What Way Next?...

In this exclusive extract from his forthcoming memoirs, Kurt Vonnegut is horrified by the hypocrisy in contemporary US politics (Buy A Man Without a Country at the Guardian bookshop)...

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In a well-ordered world, Gerard Latortue whould now be sitting quietly in a jail in The Hague, preparing to defend himself against charges of treason, terrorism, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution and, possibly, genocide....

And one of the sleezy candidates Steve Wark touted like the cheap and worthless Nevada penny stock pump and dump scams he is now helping to fraudulently promote as victims of 'naked shorting also has a Cheetah Club connection.Lance Malone the defrocked ex- Church of The Latter Day Saints or Momon Church member who was ex-communicated for sleeping out of wedlock and thus creating a scandal that must have sent their Angel Moroni rolling in his grave was also himself a lobbyist for the Cheetah C...