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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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Dispute Prompts Scrutiny of Bush's Daily Reading
questions arise concerning Bush's limited, flawed and distorted intelligence
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Kerry wins support from ex-rival
Wesley Clark endorses Kerry; Bush campaign video attacks Kerry as being "unprincipated" and Kerry denies intern rumor that has rightwing Internet and TV chatternauts aflutter
BBC NEWS | Americas | Kerry wins support from ex-rival
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Op-Ed Columnist: The Real Man
Krugman dissects Bush cult of personality covering over budget lies; actually a deconstruction of the text shows Bush linked with lies and a failed budget
Op-Ed Columnist: The Real Man
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Thursday, February 12, 2004
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DRUDGE REPORT 2004® "OUT OF AFRICA: KERRY PREPARES RESPONSE TO MEDIA PROBE OF RELATIONSHIP
it now appears that the despicable Matt Drudge is fudging on his Kerry scandal report; I am just posting these reports to track what the rightwing is doing to attack Democratic party candidates; if it turns out that Drudge is just circulating dreck and lies he should be severely attacked for his disinformation
DRUDGE REPORT 2004®: "
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DRUDGE REPORT 2004® Kerry Shocker
Not surprisingly, the Drudge Report and rightwing is setting up to take out Kerry, allegedly on an infidelty that seems from insinuations below to be an intern; this will be the dirtiest presidential race ever; Drudge is frantically promoting this story but so far only a couple of Brit tabloids and rightwing commentators have bought it
DRUDGE REPORT 2004®
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Albion Monitor (frames): Bush Appoints Right-Wing Activist To Co-Chair Iraq Intel Commission
one of Bush's appointees to the Iraq commission is under attack today by Democratic senators for being too rightwing and partisan; here's a more detailed look at Lawrence Silberman's right activist past
Albion Monitor (frames)
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washingtonpost.com: Mature Human Embryos Cloned
Apparently, there has been a breakthrough in embryonic cloning in Korea that could lead to therpeutic cloning advances and, as its critics fear, human cloning; there is worry that Bush administration will ban all embryonic cloning, thus blocking possible medical breakthrough research
washingtonpost.com: Mature Human Embryos Cloned
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Wednesday, February 11, 2004
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The Harvard Crimson Online :: News: Old Crimson Interview Reveals A More Radical John Kerry
here's an example of what the Bush gang will use against Kerry [which makes him look better to us on the left....]
The Harvard Crimson Online :: News
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Tuesday, February 10, 2004
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Politics | This war is not yet over
Iraq is still a time bomb for Bush and Blair that could blow up in their faces and blow their careers [actually, it has already]
Politics | This war is not yet over
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Op-Ed Columnist: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
the election may be won or lost on public perception of whether Bush is or is not producing jobs; he's currently bragging about how strong the economy is, how well people are doing, and how many jobs he's creating and this could backfire on him if his false promises don't pay off
Op-Ed Columnist: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
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Monday, February 09, 2004
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You Can Make It With Plato
Saletan is far too generous with Bush describing him at "Platonic" after his interview with Fat Tim Russert: a better description would be mendacious, banal, out of touch with reality and living in a subjective world of self-certainty and delusion. Bush's interview also revealed what C. Wright Mills called "crackpot realism," where claims that one has a realistic view of the world veils extremist ideology. Hopefully, Bush's delusions and lies will be increasingly transparent and he can go to Crawford Texas for retirement
http://slate.msn.com/id/2095160/
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Saturday, February 07, 2004
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Bush rattled by surge for Kerry as re-election hopes take a dive
Bush polls are down and Kerry is looking good
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"The terrible human cost of Bush and Blair's military adventure: 10,000 civilian deaths"
Blood on Bush and Blair's hands: how can Iraq invasion be defended if it has already cost over 10,000 civilian deaths and who knows how many military ones?
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"It comes down to this: What did Blair know?"
Blair continues to be under fierce attack for his Iraq poodling
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Guardian | Britain spied on UN allies over war vote
Britain joined US in criminal act of spying on allies in UN concerning Iraq vote; hopefully, heads will roll on one side of the Atlantic and there may be embarassment on the other that the Dems can exploit
Guardian | Britain spied on UN allies over war vote
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Friday, February 06, 2004
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Thursday, February 05, 2004
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Scalia Was Cheney Hunt Trip Guest; Ethics Concern Grows
More on Cheney's hunting trip with Scalia: Dig that taxpayer dollars pay for all of these planes and copters so that these boys can shoot ducks and conspire to carry out a rightwing agenda; they are without shame
Scalia Was Cheney Hunt Trip Guest; Ethics Concern Grows
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Op-Ed Columnist: Purity of the Powells; and DK on obscenity
The hypocritical Powells are in the news this week and Maureen is after them. Powell Jr. is making noises about the obscenity of Janet Jackson showing her breast during the Superbowl halftime, while Powell Daddy is defending Iraq despite the lack of WMD, using moral reasons. Both are immoral hypocrites, Jr. for enabling mass media deregulation and Sr. for enabling a monstrous Iraq war. Interestingly, Monday I got a call from King Productions, that I think works for Fox, asking me about my opinion as a media and cultural critic of Janet Jackson baring her breast. "Weren't you surprised?" I was asked. I answered, "No, the logic of the spectacle is such that entertainment will constantly go over the edge to get eyeballs and publicity, that Janet Jackson needed the publicity, that MTV likes to go over the edge, so this was totally understandable. "But," the media dude stammered, "wasn't this obscene." Maybe, I answered but not as obscene as Michael Powell's media deregulation while accepting trips and goodies from the media industry and certainly not as obscene as Dick Cheney and Halliburton. This was not the answer they were looking for so I lost my chance to do a moralistic denunciation of Janet Jackson, MTV, and CBS. Sorry, but there are much bigger fish to fry and targets to denounce
Op-Ed Columnist: Purity of the Powells
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Wednesday, February 04, 2004
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Guardian | Kerry seeks 'third way' abroad
Brits equate Kerry with Clintonist Third Way; it remains to be seen if he'll need to go left to get the democratic party base energized as some of it was for Dean
Guardian | Kerry seeks 'third way' abroad
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Tuesday, February 03, 2004
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Bush Presses U.N. to Mediate Iraqi Clash on Rule
the bush administration is in effect admitting that Iraq is out of control and that they are incapable of imposing a viable solution and are asking the UN to bail them out
Bush Presses U.N. to Mediate Iraqi Clash on Rule
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Army Study of Iraq War Details a 'Morass' of Supply Shortages
Under Bush, everything is disfunctional
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Monday, February 02, 2004
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Bush's credibility problem
Even Bob Novak sees Bush has a "credibility problem"
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Giving in to the uproar over bad intelligence, Bush agrees to independent commission on Iraq invasion
Dana Milbank
… Bush will announce this week that he is creating, by executive order, a bipartisan independent panel of at least nine members that will make a report in 2005, the White House confirmed yesterday. But those close to the president say he is doing so while continuing to avoid any explicit public acknowledgment that the intelligence was wrong. Why the reluctance to state what appears increasingly obvious as Kay spent the past 10 days dashing prospects that significant weapons stockpiles would be found in Iraq? Although the tactic may appear to be obtuse, there is a real strategy behind the Bush response -- and one that has been used before, to great effect….
David Sanger
… The draft of the executive order specifically orders the commission to compare intelligence about Iraq with what was found on the ground there. But it is not clear whether the commission will decide to delve into issues beyond how the intelligence was gathered, and specifically how it was used. In the case of Iraq, that could put the commission into the midst of the politically charged question of whether the most dire-sounding possibilities were de-emphasized by Bush administration officials to build a national and international consensus on the need to take military action. The White House has denied any such effort to filter the intelligence….
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Sunday, February 01, 2004
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"Polls show backlash against Blair after 'whitewash' report"
although Hutton report whitewashed Blair he's rightfully taking the hit on public opinion as informed people know that the Iraq war was wrong and the Blair and Bush administrations lied
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Intelligence services to be blamed for WMD failures
the intelligence services are going to take the hit on Iraq, but its really the Bush and Blair administrations that wanted and choose the war
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NewsBombs kill 18, injure 50 in the war without end
good account of bloody week in Iraq by on the scene reporter Patrick CockburnNews
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washingtonpost.com: Bush to Back Probe of Iraq Data, Officials Say
BUsh is forced to accept an IRaq WMD probe; how many probes can the Bush gang manage and coverup? [9/11 probe, Cheney energy policy probe, probes into budget and deficits, etc. The Bush Empire is a house of cards that could go down fast
washingtonpost.com: Bush to Back Probe of Iraq Data, Officials Say
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Finally, we have the prospect of an independent commission to investigate intelligence leading up to iraq invasion
Associated Press: The White House is considering endorsing the creation of an independent commission that would investigate whether the United States used faulty intelligence information when it decided to go to war in Iraq, government sources said Saturday....
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