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By Anthony Arnove TomDispatch.com 3/18/07

As you read this, we’re four years from the moment the Bush administration launched its shock-and-awe assault on Iraq, beginning 48 months of remarkable, non-stop destruction of that country … and still counting. (more…)

jurist.law.pitt.edu 3/15/07

JURIST Guest Columnist Anthony D’Amato of Northwestern University School of Law says the sweeping Guantanamo “confessions” of al Qaeda leader Khalid Shaikh Mohammed rival the scope of those made in the Stalinist purge trials of the 1930s, and should equally prompt us to question the legal process in which they were made… (more…)

by Anya Kamenetz Tompaine.com 3/15/07

“A Mortgage Crisis Begins to Spiral, and the Casualties Mount,” read the headline in The New York Times last week. I clicked on the link expecting to read about the growing numbers of victims of “exploding” subprime mortgages, suddenly stuck with unaffordable payments (more…)

By Mike Whitney ICH 3/17/07

The stock market is about to crash. The only question is whether it will quickly drop down the elevator shaft or follow the jerky flight-path of a man pushed down a stairwell. Either way, the outcome will be the same; stocks will nose-dive, the dollar will plummet, and the bruised US economy will be splattered on the canvas (more…)

by Jeremy Scahill Commondreams.org 3/16/07

On September 10, 2001, before most Americans had heard of Al Qaeda or imagined the possibility of a “war on terror,” Donald Rumsfeld stepped to the podium at the Pentagon to deliver one of his first major addresses as Defense Secretary under President George W. Bush. (more…)

By Rebecca Solnit TomDispatch.com 3/15/07

Riflemen and Rescuers

On March 5, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama went south to compete for the limelight on the 42nd anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the day in March 1965 when Alabama law enforcement drove Civil Rights demonstrators off the Edmund Pettus Bridge and back into Selma. (more…)

By Paul Craig Roberts ICH 3/16/07

The Bush administration’s greatest success is its ability to escape accountability for its numerous impeachable offenses. (more…)

Walters Engages in Candid Talk With One of Latin America’s Most Influential Leaders

March 15, 2007 – – ABC News’ Barbara Walters sits down with President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela for an interview in which Chavez shares his views on the United States, President Bush and America’s 2008 presidential elections. Available at: ABC News