[Ed. note: Blackwater is a subsidiary of Halliburton, on whose Board Lynne Cheney sits, through whom the Vice President still profits from stock holdings and to whom he will probably return after his term in office] Blackwater security firm banned from Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iraq’s Interior Ministry has revoked the license of Blackwater…
The local Minneapolis Fox affiliate provided a balance report on both the 9/11 memorial event at the Lake Harriet bandshell and the “9/11: Press for Truth” showing attended by a full house of 700 people at The Heights movie theatre in Columbia Heights just north of Minneapolis. Our experience with the local affiliate is that…
therawstory Mike Aivaz and Nick Juliano Consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who mounted failed bids for the White House in 2000 and 2004, excoriated the Bush administration for its post-9/11 policies that critics say trample on civil liberties and for its pursuit of war in Iraq, which he said distracts from fighting Osama bin Laden. The…
By Paul Kiel, TPM Muckraker Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the man who will preside over Michael Mukasey’s confirmation hearing, signals hard that Mukasey‘s not going anywhere until the committee gets the information it’s been seeking on the U.S. attorney firings and the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. A statement just out: “The Judiciary Committee…
