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Was the 2004 Election Stolen?: A Debate on Ohio One Year After Bush's Victory
A year later, questions remain over the outcome of the Ohio election and whether George W. Bush fairly won the state and the presidency. We explore some of these questions with a debate between Mark Crispin Miller and Mark Hertsgaard....
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 7:40am PST
Bush signals more death, Argentina celebrates life
People of conscience from all over Latin America are pouring into the Argentinian seaside resort of Mar del Plata to protest the Bush agenda of war, fear mongering and corporate greed....
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 6:47pm PST
Nov. 2, 2005, a Glorious Day to Drive Out the Bush Regime in mid-Pac
A lively day of anti-Bush Regime activities rocked the peaceful mid-Pac paradise of Honolulu yesterday. In the pre-dawn morning, 6 giant & colorful banners--bearing "STOP the WAR," "End the Occupation," & "Drive Out the Bush Regime" were hung over the rush-hour traffic at 3 overpasses on the H-1 freeway & the Pali Hwy. That was just the beginning of a lively & provocative Day of Resistance events......
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 1:30pm PST
BTL:Indictment of Vice President's Former Chief of Staff Prompts Demand to...
...Investigate White House Role in Misrepresenting Rationale for Iraq War ~ Interview with John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 5:22am PST
White House lie machine exposed
THE PRESIDENT’S men were certain that a war to topple Saddam Hussein was necessary to promote U.S. interests. And they were ready to do anything to get it. That’s the real significance behind the indictment of Dick Cheney’s top aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby and the revelations in the White House leak scandal splashed across the front pages of newspapers last week. ALAN MAASS looks at what the leak scandal represents--and what will happen next....
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 9:27pm PST
Cheney Taps Torture Memo Author to Replace Scooter Libby
On Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney appointed his legal counsel, David Addington, to be his new chief of staff following the resignation of Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Addington once wrote the war on terorrism has rendered the Geneva Conventions "obsolete." We speak with investigative reporter Murray Waas and hear former Ambassador Joseph Wilson speak out on the outing of his wife, CIA operative Valerie Plame....
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 12:46pm PST
Bush names favorite of Christian right to Supreme Court
President George W. Bush’s nomination Monday of Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court signals that his administration is responding to its deepening political impasse by shifting even further to the right....
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 7:30am PST
The World Can't Wait - a Call from Malik Rahim to Act on Nov 2nd
A Call for Everyone, and Especially People Dispersed from New Orleans, to Act on Nov 2nd to Drive Out the Bush Regime by Malik Rahim, Common Ground Collective, New Orleans...
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 7:15am PST
USA Today editorial on CIA leak case riddled with false, misleading claims
An October 31 USA Today editorial made false, baseless, and misleading claims about special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into the alleged leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was indicted on October 28 for obstruction of justice, perjury, and false statements in connection with the investigation....
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 7:49pm PST
NPR failed to note contradictory statements from "liberal" Alito supporter
As part of their coverage before and immediately after the October 31 Supreme Court nomination of federal appeals court judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., CNN and National Public Radio (NPR) featured commentary from Lawrence Lustberg, a criminal defense lawyer and acquaintance of Alito who claimed on NPR that Alito "will not overrule precedent lightly" and who on CNN openly supported the nomination. However, neither NPR nor CNN challenged Lustberg with prior statements he has made about Ali...
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 7:30pm PST
Judge Alito is Far Right's Choice
"President Bush chose to placate the far right instead of appealing to
the fair-minded values of the American people," said Human Rights
Campaign President Joe Solmonese....
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 9:50am PST
The World Can't Wait! Drive out the Bush Regime!
World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime has called for nationwide protests and student walkouts on Nov. 2, the first anniversary of Bush's "re-election." At last count people in 67 cities, at 43 colleges and universities, and 90 high schools (at last count) will leave work and school and gather in the city centers to declare No! This Regime Does Not Represent Us! and to launch a movement to drive Bush from power. (www.worldcantwait.org). San Francisco convergence point is Civic ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 8:49am PST
Former CIA Agent Larry Johnson: Bush Should Ask for Karl Rove's Resignation Over CIA Leak
Lewis "Scooter" Libby resigned on Friday after being indicted on five counts of obstruction of justice, perjury to a grand jury and making false statements to FBI agents during the CIA leak investigation. President Bush's chief advisor Karl Rove has so far escaped indictment for his role in the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. We speak with former CIA agent, Larry Johnson....
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 7:38am PST
Bush Picks Conservative Judge Alito Who Endorsed Abortion Restrictions for Supreme Court
President Bush nominated federal appeals judge Samuel Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court Monday, just four days after Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination. The 55-year-old Alito is widely seen as a judicial conservative who has been nicknamed "Scalito" for his philosophical similarities to Justice Antonin Scalia. In 1991, Alito backed a Pennsylvania law that required women to inform their husbands before they sought an abortion. His support came in the form of a dissenting vote in the ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 7:37am PST
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