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Sunday, February 29, 2004
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Observer | Whistleblower
several more articles on Brit/US spy scandal in British papers today; this article has full background on the uncovering of the UK/US spyoperations against the UN
Observer | Whistleblower
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Saturday, February 28, 2004
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Friday, February 27, 2004
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Hastert, in Reversal, Backs Extension for 9/11 Panel
this is a very bizarre story, as Repub House leadership goes forth and back on extension of 9/11 panel; its report is potentially explosive for the Bush administration and there is obviously a faction of the gang that wants to block and curtail all investigation, yet after saying in no way would there be an extension the house leader now is extending it; wouldn't it be nice to be the fly on the wall on this one?
Hastert, in Reversal, Backs Extension for 9/11 Panel
here's Maureen Dowd commentary on Bush stonewalling on the 9/11 report
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/opinion/29DOWD.html?hp
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Clare Short: Was Attorney General leant on to sanction war?
Clare Short continues her lonely and courageous fight against the corruption of Blair govt on Iraq, a Heroine for our Times; there are many other good stories on this major Bush/Blair scandal in today's London Independent
Independent Argument
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Guardian | Blix: I was a target too
the bugging of the UN by US and UK is major story in Britain and there is tremendous outrage there; while it is getting covered in the US there has been little outrage in the US about the Bush administration role which allegedly instigated the whole process; it is an outrage that there is not outrage here!
Guardian | Blix: I was a target too
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Scalia Took Trip Set Up by Lawyer in Two Cases
scandals circulate around BigTime Hunter Boy and Election Thief Scala for whom conflict of interest, bonded by killing animals, is a way of life
Scalia Took Trip Set Up by Lawyer in Two Cases
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Thursday, February 26, 2004
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Iraq Body Count
here's a useful daily tally of Iraqi body count, attempting to keep track of Iraqi victims of US "preemptive strike"
Iraq Body Count
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Dan Kennedy: 'Dick Cheney's Nigerian nightmare'
Dick Cheney must not sleep well at night knowing that his Halliburton scandals wait in the wings to ambush him
The Smirking Chimp
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Wednesday, February 25, 2004
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Op-Ed Columnist: Stations of the Crass
Maureen Dowd attacks two naive bigots: Mel Gibson and George W. Bush [both of whom have a tenous reality with reality and may have burned out too many brain cells with too much substance abuse]
Op-Ed Columnist: Stations of the Crass
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Whistleblower: Cleared
British govt drops charges against whistleblower who exposed US/UK spy operation at UN before Iraq invasion; BBC suggested that one of the reasons the case was dropped was that it would be highly embarassing for Bush and Blair administration if case proceeded; not only would the case blow open an embarassing spy operation but the dubious legality of the war [an issue in UK but not apparently the US]
Independent News
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www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish breaks with Bush
I've never posted anything by Andrew Sullivan or said anything positive about him as he's been one of the fiercist defenders of the Bush administration; it is heartening, however, to see his ferocious critique of Bush's attack on gay and lesbians, his breaking with Bush, and declaring total war on the Bush administration; if enough conservatives and former supporters break with Bush on this or that issue he's finished; obviously, a lot of people are deeply offended by yesterday's assault on gay and lesbian rights, as they should be, under the guise of blather about the sanctity of marriage and outrageous demand for a constitutional amendment, that most intelligent commentators see as merely a political ploy for a wedge issue, one, however, that could lose Bush a lot of support
www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish
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washingtonpost.com: The Culture War President
Bush declares War on Gays and Lesbians, revealing once again his hardright activism and that "compassionate" conservative is a joke; once again, he is a divider and not a uniter; his promotion of hysteria and war on the issue of gay marriage could provide an election wedge or could seriously offend serious people for whom it is a distraction from the real issues and problems facing the country; Bush is undeniably bold but so were Hitler and Mussolini
washingtonpost.com: The Culture War President
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Tuesday, February 24, 2004
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Daily News Online--McInnis on Iraq
More of Ray's recent postings on Iraq: the Massing article he cites is a sharp critique of news media on Iraq and there is other important material here
Daily News Online
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Daily News Online-- Ray McInnis on Iraq
here are some of Ray's recent postings on Iraq on some stories we missed
Daily News Online
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Monday, February 23, 2004
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Salon.com News | Nader's nadir
accelerating critique of Nader: the mainstream media are showering him with more attention than he's ever received, deflecting valuable energy from critiquing Bush
Salon.com News | Nader's nadir
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Sunday, February 22, 2004
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Op-Ed Contributor: A Wall as a Weapon
I don't remember the NYT ever publishing a Noam Chonsky op-ed before and a hardhitting one against the monstrous Israeli Wall
Op-Ed Contributor: A Wall as a Weapon
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Ignoring Democrats' Pleas, Nader Announces Run for White House
Nader plans to play spoiler again
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Thursday, February 19, 2004
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Blogs Pump Bucks Into Campaigns
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,62325,00.html
Not even his own staff would call Democratic congressional candidate Ben Chandler a nethead.
"He uses the Internet almost exclusively for fantasy baseball," said campaign spokesman Jason Sauer, who added that he wasn't sure whether, until recently, Chandler even knew what a blog was.
But that was before Chandler's campaign turned a $2,000 investment in blog advertising into over $80,000 in donations in only two weeks. Chandler -- who won a seat in the House of Representatives Tuesday evening -- definitely knows what a blog is now, Sauer said. "It's that thing that brings in money."
Political blog advertising represents the latest twist on the Internet fund-raising strategy pioneered by the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, which raised millions of grass-roots dollars from its Blog for America website. Chandler's campaign is the first of several that have started advertising on political blogs as a cost-effective way to reach a national audience.
But even as campaigns queue up to place ads on the most popular sites, and political bloggers seem poised to reap an election-year windfall, some warn that politicians should not expect blog ads to translate automatically into dollars.
The key is to make readers feel they have a stake in the race, said Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, publisher of the popular Democratic activists' blog Daily Kos and one of Chandler's most visible online backers. (Moulitsas is married to Wired News staff reporter Elisa Batista.)
"What I fear is that candidates will see blog readers as ATM machines," he said.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2004
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Follow the Network
Conservative David Horowitz is apparently behind a new web project that is posing as a definitive archive of leftist analysis -- exposing the deep conspiratorial nature of the left -- Follow the Network (the search function didn't work for me at the mirror site but everything else did).
What's especially alarming about this future site in progress is that it will have a quasi-wiki functionality of everyone being able to nominate leftists for watching and contributing information -- including people's home address and telephone numbers.
Anyhow, people seem to be having a good laugh about this so far -- about who is listed and who isn't. But it may not be so funny a year from now. We'll see. What do you think?
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Independent NewsUS is trying to overthrow me, says Venezuelan leader
Chavez again accuses US of trying to overthrow his regime
Independent News
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004
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Sunday, February 15, 2004
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Independent News: Tutu tells Blair: Apologise for 'immoral' war
Bush and Blair continue to be fried by the honorable people of the world for their dishonorable and immoral war
Independent News
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Op-Ed Columnist: The Thief of Baghdad
Maureen Dowd has another especially hardhitting commentary on how Iraq crook Ahmad Chalabi conned the Bush neo-cons into thinking that Iraq was a sea of weapons of WMD that would be a cakewalk to take over and easily yield its bountiful oil prizes and contracts for reconstruction; this issue has not received adequate media focus and perhaps Kerry and the Dems should take this up
Op-Ed Columnist: The Thief of Baghdad
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Saturday, February 14, 2004
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washingtonpost.com: He Ought to Know
For once the WP hits Bush spot on: "IT'S HARD TO RECALL a more brazen display of political chutzpah than the Bush campaign's assault on Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.) as a captive of special interests"
washingtonpost.com: He Ought to Know
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washingtonpost.com: 23 Killed, Prisoners Freed in Iraqi Raid
another major blow for US occupation forces; was Howard Dean right when he said that we are no safer after catching Saddam? A Big Mess is and will remain a Big Mess that is the result of a Big Blunder made by an out of control Bush administration
washingtonpost.com: 23 Killed, Prisoners Freed in Iraqi Raid
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Friday, February 13, 2004
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Guardian | American plan for Iraq needs complete overhaul, United Nations envoy warns
UN envoy critiques the utter incompetency of the Bush administration Iraq policy
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