Janis Karpinski, former military police commander in charge of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq where US solders tortured prisoners, says the unlawful torture of Iraqi prisoners was ordered by Donald Rumsfeld and implemented by General Sanchez. She says she was scapegoated because she is a woman.
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Editor’s note: On Thursday morning, Harriet Miers, President Bush’s nominee to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court, bowed to what had appeared an inevitable defeat. Bush announced that he had accepted the withdrawal of Miers, his chief White House counsel.
Excellent, must-watch presentation by Amy Goodman on independent media in a time of war, exposing our lack of one. Amy raises some interesting questions. If we had State-run media, how would it look any different? Did you know CNN has a different version of the news for the rest of the world, CNN vs. […]
Scott Ritter is a retired U.S. Marine and the former top UN weapons inspector in Iraq. He says they lied. Clinton, Bush, Israel, France, Germany, everybody knew there were no WMD’s in Iraq by 1995. But Saddam remaining in power was a political embarrassment. The video is worth a watch, it gives more info than […]
I had heard about this video but never seen it. George W. Bush flicking off the camera, taken just before the end of his term as Texas governor. I guess what I found more unexpected is how he snickers like a frat boy afterwards. Eww.
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Century of Self is a four part series from the BBC chronicling the progress of marketing, public relations, the idea of self and importance of the individual throughout the last century.
Rawstory.com says both of the original leak sources that were identified during grand jury testimony are now cooperating with the Special Prosecutor. Both are members of Cheney’s staff.
“Late Monday, several sources familiar with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s probe said John Hannah, a key aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and one of the architects […]
The Wall Street Journal reports that in conference call with conservative king-maker Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family and several judges and long-time friends of Miers, both judges confirmed that Miers would definitely vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The day before the president’s announcement of Miers’ nomination, Dobson called Karl Rove for an […]
From Zay N. Smith’s Chicago Sun-Times column today.
Bill McCormick, a Chicago reader, regarding a graphic at the Web site of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, www.fema.gov/about/what.shtm, writes:
“All steps lead to disaster at FEMA. What brain trust thought this was a good graphic?”
Credit where credit is due. You may have stumbled onto the most truthful Web […]
MSNBC.com says
“In addition, with 13 months until the 2006 congressional elections, 48 percent say they prefer a Democratic-controlled Congress, compared with 39 percent who want the Republicans to control Capitol Hill. In fact, that nine-point difference is the largest margin between the parties in the 11 years the NBC/Journal poll has been tracking this […]