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Chavez on the move in the U.S. and Argentina

i've posted twice on this in the past few days, here and here... The plea came in a letter from a group of U.S. senators to nine big oil companies: With huge increases in winter heating bills expected,...

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How NOT to support the troops on Thanksgiving

DON'T serve them a cardboard cut-out turkey...! i spent two thanksgiving and two christmas holidays eating in a mess hall in vietnam... the mess sergeants really tried to make it home-like and festive...

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Bush: A dry-drunk checklist

just as an exercise, try to attach real-world examples that show how and when bush has engaged in these acting-out behaviors common to addictive personalities who have not come to grips with their...

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"Rendition is a vital tool in combating transnational terrorism"

condi just spoke live on cnni prior to her departure for europe to tell 'em to back off their outrage about u.s. torture, rendition, and secret prisons...     "Renditions save lives. [...] The United...

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Cheney takes Hillary's advice - visits Iraq

how very interesting... Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) offered Vice President Dick Cheney a little unsolicited advice yesterday: go take a firsthand look at what's going on in Iraq, the New York Post...

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NYT Ombudsman vs. the NYT

oh, now THIS is gonna be interesting... An internal faceoff at the New York Times is set to go public in Sunday editions when the public editor accuses his bosses of 'stonewalling' him in his attempts...

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Help confirm Alito - MUHAHAHAHAHA!

this is what the "center for individual freedom" is asking people to send to president bush and the 55 republican members of congress in support of the confirmation of samuel alito to the u.s. supreme...

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Cost of Iraq War - $2 TRILLION

(From the diaries -- Plutonium Page. Your tax dollars at work.) IRAQ = $$$$$$$$$$ while not terribly suprising, still much more than anyone could have imagined... The real cost to America of the Iraq...

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How NSA spying is done - Echelon redux

i've posted previously on echelon, here and here... the description of nsa spying activities, provided by tice, the recently-identified nsa whistleblower, fits echelon to a "t..." Russell Tice, a...

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Dems on Alito - the lamest excuses I've ever heard

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] these are enough to gag a maggot... leading up to the hearings, you have plenty of time to educate the public and your constitutents, you have plenty...

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U.S.: "Very desperate" and "very worried"

Informed speculatuon: U.S. will ask middle east counties to send forces to Iraq juan cole offers this interesting and plausible possibility underlying cheney's middle east trip...     Vice President...

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Alito confirmation: Bushco's endgame?

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally and Political Cortex] oh, god, i hope not... my gut tells me that our country is in extremely serious trouble and that, with an alito confirmation, we...

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Accountability in Slovakia, why not the U.S.?

fer god's sake, THIS is how it SHOULD be done... i humbly suggest that everyone who reads this forwards it to 10 others and that we all forward it on to donald rumsfeld... Slovak Defence Minister Juraj...

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Paul Craig Roberts believes we have undergone a coup

[cross-posted at And, Yes, I DO take it personally] this is the first major media figure that i've run across who is saying out loud what i've been saying for three years... there are probably others...

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Bushco decides to brief Congress

[cross-posted on And, yes, I DO take it personally] jesus h. christ on a pogo stick... After weeks of insisting it would not reveal details of its eavesdropping without warrants, the White House...

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Reno Gazette Journal reports that Cheney's shooting foiled attack

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] the reno gazette journal must have a sense of humor... i'm actually only guessing that they have a sense of humor... esteemed son sent it along with...

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Four clear legal arguments for impeachment

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] i'm glad somebody who knows what they're talking about is on the case... [T]he case for the impeachment of President Bush is arguably the strongest...

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Defending Iraq: deja-vu ad nauseam

the ratings for the first speech weren't so hot and now we have to endure endless re-runs... in the corporate world, we used to play what we called "meeting bingo..." we'd each have bingo-type cards...

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Memorial Day: Recalling Vietnam

Welcome to Pleiku The rain was steady, not heavy, but not a drizzle either. The clouds were low and dark. Moisture hung in the air like a living thing. You could almost hear mold and fungus growing and...

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Osama bin-Laden is George Bush's best friend

no doubt about it... it's what you might call a "marriage of convenience..." (robert parry in consortium news...)    On Oct. 29, 2004, just four days before the U.S. presidential election, al-Qaeda...

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Here's a quote to gag a maggot

cross-posted on And, yes, I DO take it personally dan bartlett on the "torture agreement..."    "We proposed a more direct approach to bringing clarification," Dan Bartlett said. "This one is more of...

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bin Laden dead - AGAIN...?

whatever...    The French defense ministry on Saturday called for an internal investigation of the leak of an intelligence document that raises the possibility that Osama bin Laden may have died of...

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The NYT turns (very) shrill

(cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally...) yes, indeed... it is bush's war, and his alone... mccain and lieberman can jump right in there as bush wannabes, but no one can dispute that iraq...

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Another step on the way to an authoritarian military state

(cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally...) WTF...?    Private contractors and other civilians serving with U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan could be subject for the first time to...

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"Reverse course" on THESE, George, and then we'll talk

[And, yes, I DO take it personally] the wapo, in traditionally head-in-the-sandup-the-butt fashion, is all flushed with excitement over bush's willingness to "change course..." Bush Shows New...

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Say goodbye to the Poodle

[cross-posted at And, Yes, I DO take it personally] this is coming quick... it sounds like he must be just one step ahead of the law...    British Prime Minister Tony Blair will step down on May 9th,...

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The truth about Iraq's oil law

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] check this from today's nyt...    Iraqi Blocs Opposed to Draft Oil Bill    Kurdish and Sunni Arab officials are concerned over a draft    of a bill...

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DANGER! WaPo op-ed!

Stay back at least 100 ft.! [cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] most of the time, when i read crap like this, i intuitively and unconsciously factor in the spin... i skim through and,...

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A power addiction (or why George wants Wolfie to stay)

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] is it any wonder the white house is still, as of this morning, fighting to keep wolfowitz in his job...? read on... [more after the fold]

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This is my country! Grandest on earth!

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] This is my country! Land of my birth! This is my country! Grandest on earth! I pledge thee my allegiance, America, the bold, For this is my country...

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Section 1076 of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] i guess i'm succumbing to a wee bit of paranoia, but it suddenly occurred to me, do you suppose that the reason behind all of the incredible bush...

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A REAL hero, fighting for the right to vote

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally} talk about bringing the issue of voter fraud suppression down to earth... here you have not only THE definitive picture of what karl rove, scott...

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Memorial Day Memories: Welcome to Vietnam

[cross posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally; complete diary posted at the noise of a marginal life] ON THE WAY The events surrounding my departure for Vietnam are as clear to me now, thirty-nine...

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I'm crossing Al Gore off my list

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] too bad impeachment is so inconvenient, al, you coulda been a contender... You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I...

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Handbook for the politicization of government

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] while reading a jim hightower article reprinted in alternet, i was pointed to a 2001 heritage foundation report that contains these eye-opening...

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Greenspan's big interview tomorrow night-with HIS WIFE

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] let's not forget that tomorrow is the big night where greenspan gets interviewed by none other than HIS WIFE, andrea mitchell, an absurd piece of...

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Lying General creates smokescreen for himself

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] robert parry reports on general ricardo sanchez' october 12 speech...    Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who commanded U.S. forces in Iraq for...

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When the progressive blogosphere doesn't walk its talk

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] A recurrent theme in the progressive blogosphere is the lack of context offered by traditional news outlets in their news reporting. It is...

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Shock? Check. Anger? Check. Rejection? Check. Acceptance? Might as well.

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] i was drawn to this particular paragraph in one of anonymous liberal's guest contributions to glenn greenwald's blog in salon... [more on the flip]

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Dodd defends Constitution. Does anybody care?

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] (note: i just jumped around to a few "liberal," "progressive," and "democratic" weblogs, and the only one i saw that mentioned dodd's speech was...

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Issues that matter: it's the Constitution, stupid

(note: i've been screaming bloody murder about the assault on our constitution for over two years on my own blog, And, yes, I DO take it personally, but my frustration about the relative complacency...

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They're not soldiers any more, they're warriors

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] Piñon Canyon, east of Trinidad, Colorado a friend in southern colorado had tipped me off to the controversy that was brewing over this but couldn't...

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2 views of Obama: one is the truth and the other is Bob Novak

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] let's go with mr. novak first...    Traveling the country the past few months, I have encountered habitual Republican voters so entranced by Barack...

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Live-blogging from Kabul, Afghanistan

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] this nyt article about afghanistan president hamid karzai's speech yesterday gives me the opportunity to say something i've been wanting to say for...

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Afghanistan Independence Day attack - liveblogging from Kabul

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] this is one of those things when i wish i didn't have to say "i was there"... from the bbc...    At least one person has been killed and 11 were hurt...

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More perspectives on Afghanistan

[cross-posted on And, yes, I DO take it personally] i've been posting on various perspectives of kabul and afghanistan... here's another one that captures fairly well the experience of driving around...

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The total evisceration of Michael Chertoff

[cross-posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally] holy crap...! REALLY HARD QUESTIONS about guantánamo, the geneva convention, endless detention, torture, etc., etc...! chertoff can only offer...

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A response to Spiegel and Meteor Blades on Afghanistan

...half of the world has tried to bring a better future and, most of all, peace to this new country, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. As part of the NATO military operation known as the...

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While you natter about teabagging, here's the torture dossier

(cross posted at And, yes, I DO take it personally) <span style="font-style:italic;">i'm not wild about this decision, to say the least, but i might find it a little easier to swallow IF it was...

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Is Barack Obama a Co-dependent?

obama tries to make everybody happy and ends up making nobody happy, a genuine "people-pleaser"... i somehow never applied the term "co-dependent" to obama but the signs have certainly been there all...

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