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BOOKS : White House Ordered Forgery
‘Designed to portray a false link between Hussein’s regime and al Qaeda’ By Mike Allen / August 4, 2008 A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten … Continue reading
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Tagged al-Qaida, Books, Bush Lies, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Ron Suskind, Saddam Hussein, Terrorism, The Way of the World
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McCain, Anthrax and the Afghan Blunder
McCain: Let’s see. Bin Laden? Afghanistan? Yes, let’s invade Iraq. See Video of McCain on Letterman in 2001 below. ‘Barely a month after the 9/11 attacks and while the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan was still underway, McCain was already eyeing … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Bin Laden, Campaign Tactics, Iraq, Iraq War, McCain, Presidential Campaign, Terrorism, Video, War on Terror
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Travelers’ Laptops May Be Detained At Border
No suspicion required under Homeland Security policiesBy Ellen Nakashima / August 1, 2008 Federal agents may take a traveler’s laptop computer or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, … Continue reading
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Tagged Border Searches, Civil Liberties, Computers, Homeland Security, Surveillance, Terrorism, War on Terror
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BushCo Is Desperate for Results, Even in Failure
The M.E.K. [the Mujahideen-e-Khalqhas, Iranian dissident group] has been on the State Department’s terrorist list for more than a decade, yet in recent years the group has received arms and intelligence, directly or indirectly, from the United States. Some of … Continue reading
ACLU : ‘Mukasey calls on Congress to subvert Constitution’
Atty. Gen. John Mukasey. Photo by Noah Berger / AP.Under Attorney General’s plan detainees could be held indefinitelyBy Stephen C. Webster / July 21, 2008 Attorney General Michael Mukasey prompted Congress Monday morning, during a speech to the conservative American … Continue reading
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Tagged ACLU, Civil Liberties, Guantanamo, Habeas Corpus, Human Rights, Terrorism, War on Terror
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There’s A Man Going ‘Round Taking Names
ACLU: Million on terrorist watch listby Michael Grabell / July 14, 2008 There won’t be any balloons dropping from the ceiling to mark this milestone. And if there are any bells and whistles, it will only be from the metal … Continue reading
Frank Rich : Scaring Up the Vote
Illustration by Barry Blitt / The New York Times.If Terrorists Rock the Vote in 2008By Frank Rich / June 29, 2008 Don’t fault Charles Black, the John McCain adviser, for publicly stating his honest belief that a domestic terrorist attack … Continue reading
Home of the Brave: We Should All Be Ashamed
Omar KhadrProsecuting Children as Terrorists: Keeping America SafeBy Dave Lindorff President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and the rest of the warmongers and terror-pimps in the White House would have us believe that Omar Khadr is a monster. Khadr is … Continue reading
Supremes Restore Hope : Habeas Corpus Ruling
Boumediene v. Bush: The Supreme Court Takes a Stand By David Van Os / Jun 13, 2008 David Van Os is a Texas attorney and a populist democrat. In the case of Boumediene v. Bush, issued on June 12, 2008, … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Liberties, Criminal Justice, Guantanamo, Habeas Corpus, International Law, Supreme Court, Terrorism, Texas
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Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts
What the Jihadists REALLY Have in MindBy James Retherford / The Rag Blog / May 30, 2008 [An earlier version of this article was published by New York Times Online, October 29, 2004. James Retherford is an Austin activist, graphic … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush, Economy, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Terrorism, The World, U.S. Government
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Rachel Ray in Keffiyeh : Donut Terrorist?
Drivel Dragon Disses Doughnut DivaBy Dark Wraith / May 28, 2008 Global doughnut franchiser Dunkin’ Donuts has removed from broadcast an ad featuring television chef Rachel Ray because Right-wing extremist Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin claimed that, in the ad, … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Capitalism, Dining, Madison Avenue, Media, Terrorism
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