Bill Maher: George W. Bush Collector’s Plates Series
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By Marjorie Cohn, Afterdowningstreet.org When the hideous photographs of torture and abuse emerged from Abu Ghraib in the spring of 2004, they created a public relations disaster for the Bush administration. The White House had painstakingly worked to capitalize on the 9/11 attacks by creating a “war on terror.” Never mind the absurdity of declaring…
Star Tribune, Elmer L. Andersen (Ex-Governor MN) — Throughout my tenure and beyond as the 30th governor of this state, I have been steadfastly aligned — and until recently, proudly so — with the Minnesota Republican Party. … The present Republican president has led us into an unjustified war — based on misguided and blatantly…
The News Tribune The Democratic National Committee sued the Justice Department on Thursday, demanding it turn over any e-mail traffic with the Republican Party on the U.S. attorneys controversy and criminal investigations. Problems involving missing e-mail surfaced in recent weeks at the Republican National Committee and the White House as congressional investigators looked into the…
Dahr Jamail’s Mideast Dispatches Inter Press Service By Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail* BAGHDAD, Feb 8 (IPS) – Now that the smoke has cleared and the rubble settled, residents of a group of bombed Iraqi villages see the raid as really a U.S. loss. Many Iraqis view the attack Jan. 10 by bombers and F-16…
By Marisol Bello, USAÂ TODAY The Justice Department is prosecuting the fewest hate crimes in 10 years as civil rights activists cite noose hangings and other racial incidents to question the government’s commitment to such cases. Some Washington lawmakers and activists are demanding that the Justice Department focus more attention on hate crimes in light of…
CommonDreams.org by Dave Lindorff The dramatic hearing on presidential crimes and abuses of power held on Friday by the House Judiciary Committee was both a staged farce, and at the same time, a powerful demonstration of the power of a grassroots movement in defense of the Constitution. It was at once both testimony to the…