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Loans and Leadership
by Paul Krugman
When George W. Bush first ran for the White House, political reporters assured us that he came across as a reasonable, moderate guy.Yet those of us who looked at his policy proposals — big tax cuts for the rich and Social Security privatization — had a very different impression. And we were right. | Bush's Iraq war going from bad to worse
by CapitolHillBlue.com
President George W. Bush's failed Iraq war, the same war he recently claimed was "being won," is going from bad to worse as violence increases and deep rifts emerge within the country's fragile coalitions.As violence escalates, Bush and other supporters of the war still claim that the war can be won and that progress is being made. | Taxpayers: Pay Up, Suckers!
by Allison Kilkenny
The Bush administration and its staff of flying monkeys are either unwilling or incapable of providing American citizens with basic services. Their main failures regard regulation, one of the foundational purposes of having a government in the first place. When the government goons DO decide to perform some kind of regulation, it's usually done to strictly benefit wealthy corporations. Free trade advocates claim this is regulation run amuck, but the bailout is merely a continuation of the selling out of America to the corporation. The act simply masquerades as government regulation, but the truth is that cronyism has infested Washington and Wall Street, alike, resulting in the government's desire to protect the wealth instead of the people. | Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Iran
by Margaret Kimberley
It is happening. The plans for the Bush administration to begin mass murder of the Iranian people have been put in motion. The plot was stalled temporarily by the National Intelligence Estimate report released last fall, a report which said that Iran did not have a nuclear weapons program. Bush and Cheney were thrown off their game, but not by much and not for long. They were inconvenienced but ultimately took the small set back in stride because they both knew they had nothing to worry about. | We'll Never Know: The Unprecedented Secrecy of the Bush Administration
by Brian Morton
If you think about it, it's amazing how completely and thoroughly information has been "managed" over the last seven years of the Bush administration. E-mails have been mishandled and then lost, information that regularly was disseminated to Americans about the workings of their government has been cut off, questions that normally were answered have simply been ignored, and no effort is made to ever find out those answers. | NPR News: National Pentagon Radio?
by Norman Solomon
While the Iraqi government continued its large-scale military assault inBasra, the NPR reporter’s voice from Iraq was unequivocal on the morning ofMarch 27: "There is no doubt that this operation needed to happen."Such flat-out statements, uttered with journalistic tones and without | Keep the Republic: Now is the time to start standing tough for fair elections
by Robert C. Koehler
The ground feels a little soft, but we're going to stand it.Premise one: Having a fair election -- all votes counted, all who are eligible and want to vote allowed to vote -- is far, far more important, even in 2008, than who wins.Premise two: Fair elections are not a given. They never have been, but things are worse now than ever before because of a perfect storm, you might say, of factors that have converged in the new millennium: officialdom's seduction by unsafe, high-tech voting systems; the seizure of power by a party of ruthless true believers who feel entitled to rule and will do anything to win; a polite, confused opposition party that won't make a stink about raw injustice; and an arrogantly complacent media embedded in the political and economic status quo. | The press hits rewind on the Clinton scandals
by Eric Boehlert
How dreadful was the news coverage last week surrounding the official release of Hillary Clinton's public White House schedule from her eight years as first lady? So bad that I found myself in rare (unprecedented?) agreement with at least two prominent conservative bloggers who noticed the same thing I did: The Beltway press corps is, at times, a national embarrassment. | Pakistan’s New Leaders Tell US: We Are No Longer Your Killing Field
by Declan Walsh
The Bush administration is scrambling to engage with Pakistan’s new rulers as power flows from its strong ally, President Pervez Musharraf, to a powerful civilian government buoyed by anti-American sentiment.0327 02 1 2 3 4Top diplomats John Negroponte and Richard Boucher travelled to a mountain fortress near the Afghan border yesterday as part of a hastily announced visit that has received a tepid reception. | How Things Work: FTC Chair to Join Procter & Gamble
by Robert Weissman
The chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Deborah Platt Majoras, is leaving her job. She’s going to become vice president and general counsel for Procter & Gamble (P&G).Should it raise eyebrows for the head of the leading U.S. consumer protection agency to leave and take a job with the largest consumer products company? | Hagel: Bush Iraq speech like 'Alice in Wonderland'
by Nick Langewis and David Edwards
Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) suggests to CNN's Wolf Blitzer that there is no cause for optimism towards the situation in Iraq, propagated by arrogance, with an ever-growing cost in lives and money, despite a recent speech by President Bush."I think this is another episode of 'Alice in Wonderland,'" the Senator says. "What's up is down, and what's down is up. What do you mean, 'stability and security?' Baghdad, for example, has been over the last year essentially ethnically divided." | Ordinary Cubans gain access to cell service
by AP
President Raul Castro's government said Friday it is allowing cell phones for ordinary Cubans, a luxury previously reserved for those who worked for foreign firms or held key posts with the communist-run state. It was the first official announcement of the lifting of a major restriction under the 76-year-old Castro, and marked the kind of small freedom many on the island have been hoping he would embrace since succeeding his older brother Fidel as president last month. |
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