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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
Libby Indictment Reveals State Dept told Libby of Agent's Identity - Bolton Implicated Breaking news and analysis on Plame gate/ Niger gate/War gate...
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 12:00pm PDT
LIBBY INDICTED - obstruction of justice, perjury, LIES Rove remains under investigation but wasn't indicted...
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 10:15am PDT
GOP Fundraiser Tom Noe Indicted For Illegal $$ to Bush Campaign CLEVELAND, OHIO--Charges of public corruption among Republicans in Ohio widened Thursday with a federal grand jury indicting Thomas W. Noe, a former Republican party fundraiser, for allegedly making illegal campaign contributions using conduit contributors....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 7:00am 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
10/29-11/8 Phone Banks & Precinct Walks to Defeat Arnold Props 73-78 (update) We have only 13 days before election day, including just 2 weekends, with thousands of people unaware of this important election, and an urgent need to identify all opponents of Props 73 through 78 so we can push them to the polls during Get Out The Vote Weekend. WE NEED YOU TODAY TO DO PRECINCTS BY PHONE OR ON FOOT....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 5:21am 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
In Bush's mind Nothing can shake the conviction of the US president that everything he has done has been right, writes Amin Howeidi*...
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 2:22pm PDT
White House awaits Plame fallout The White House was yesterday struggling to carry on business as usual amid feverish speculation that top officials were facing criminal charges in a potentially crippling political scandal....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 1:58pm PDT
GAO Study - 2004 Stolen Election As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the
Bush/Cheney/Rove inner circle, a shocking government report
shows the floor under the legitimacy of their alleged
election to the White House is crumbling....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 1:00pm PDT
Miers Withdrawal Shows Extremist Control of White House NEWS from the Human Rights Campaign...
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 10:03am PDT
Harriet Miers Steps Down The Texas lawyer nominated to the US Supreme Court by President George W Bush, Harriet Miers, has withdrawn as a nominee to the court....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 7:31am 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
Is the Creepy Veep's Cabal in its "last throes"? With his chief underling 'Scooter' Libby under the cloud of possible indictment, in addition to numerous financial scandals surrounding his 'old' firm Halliburton, could it be that the slimy Dick's days are finally numbered? Can fair-minded citizens dare to label the Creepy Veep's gang as "dead-enders in their last throes?"...
Posted: Wed, Oct 26, 2005 1:10am PDT
Plamegate Indictments Coming Tomorrow; Targets Received Letters Today Will Karl and Scooter buy the farm?...
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2005 2:22pm 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
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