By Ray McGovern ICH 02/10/08
After one spends 45 years in Washington, high farce does not normally throw one off balance. I found the past few days, however, an acid test of my equilibrium. (more…)
February 2008
Monthly Archive
Sun 10 Feb 2008
Waterboarding for God and Country
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Sun 10 Feb 2008
Why the US has really gone broke
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By Chalmers Johnson Le Monde Diplomatique February 2008
Global confidence in the US economy has reached zero, as was proved by last month’s stock market meltdown. But there is an enormous anomaly in the US economy above and beyond the subprime mortgage crisis, the housing bubble and the prospect of recession: 60 years of misallocation of resources, and borrowings, to the establishment and maintenance of a military-industrial complex as the basis of the nation’s economic life (more…)
Sat 9 Feb 2008
Dr. Dhafir’s appeals brief was filed yesterday
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Dr. Dhafir’s appeals brief was filed yestreday and it will be available on this website very soon.
Fri 8 Feb 2008
Kevin Zeese OpEdNews.com 2/8/08
Former Presidential Candidate Who Advocated Peace and Impeachment Facing Well-Financed Challenge at Home (more…)
Fri 8 Feb 2008
“It’s All Downhill From Here, Folks”
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The Bush Bust of ’08
By Mike Whitney Information Clearing House 2/7/08
“I just saw a picture Bernanke stripped to the waist in the boiler-room shoveling greenbacks into the furnace.” Rob Dawg, Calculated Risk blog-site
On January 14, 2008 the FDIC web site began posting the rules for reimbursing depositors in the event of a bank failure. (more…)
Thu 7 Feb 2008
Secrecy plea ties up torture flights case
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Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer 2/6/08
A lawsuit accusing a San Jose flight-planning company of helping the CIA transport prisoners to overseas torture chambers must be dismissed because it would risk exposing state secrets, a Bush administration lawyer argued Tuesday to a federal judge, who seemed to reluctantly agree. (more…)
Thu 7 Feb 2008
IS THE IRAQ WAR ILLEGAL?
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ROCHESTER DECLARATION OF PEACE
TOWN HALL MEETING
MARCH 6, 2008, 7:00 PM
FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH, 220 WINTON RD. SOUTH (more…)
Wed 6 Feb 2008
My Roommate
By VIJAY PRASHAD Counterpunch 2/6/08
I first saw him at an event for new graduate students. The Indian-looking people in the room gravitated to each other. It turned out that three of us lived in the same building, across from the Midway, on the borderlands between the university (the most policed space I have ever lived in) and the ghetto. (more…)