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icWales 
THE UK Government is set to miss its target of halving the number of children living in poverty by around one million, MPs warn today.
The Commons Work and Pensions Committee said that it was still possible to turn the situation around before the target date of 2010 – but only if ministers were prepared to […]

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The US President condemns leaders who ’sit down at the table’ with ‘tyrants’ and ‘have pictures taken’ for adopting double standards.
“What’s lost by embracing a tyrant who puts his people in prison because of their political beliefs? What’s lost is it will send the wrong message,” said President George W. Bush during a Thursday […]

Paul Abrams
John McCain tells us that he is not a very good economist. It brings to mind the old joke that the definition of an economist is someone who is good with numbers but did not have the personality to be an accountant.
Prepare for a campaign during which McCain will prove to everyone that, as […]

Jeremy Scahill
A senior foreign policy adviser to leading Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told me that if elected Obama will not “rule out” using private security companies like Blackwater Worldwide in Iraq. The adviser also said that Obama does not plan to sign on to legislation that seeks to ban the use of these […]

By DAVID STOUT and BRIAN KNOWLTON
Using some of his toughest language in weeks, President Bush prodded Congress on Thursday to pass his preferred version of surveillance legislation, asserting that every day of delay could put the country in danger.
Mr. Bush said again that renewing the surveillance legislation is “a very urgent priority,” and that it […]

The 72-year-old congressman Ron Paul has solemnly vowed to continue his current campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
There has been confusion in recent weeks since the Texan gave the impression that he was withdrawing from the presidential campaign to refocus his political efforts on a well-funded House primary challenge.
“I will stay in as long […]

Harry’s Place 
Almost everybody hates paying taxes. I certainly do. But as hard as it might be to part with a wadge of one’s hard-earned cash, one still grudgingly admits that it is necessary to maintain the smooth running of our society, to provide public works and goods, to fund our common health service, and to […]

by Jason Leopold 
It’s been nearly five years since former White House political adviser Karl Rove sent an incriminating email to then Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley indicating that Rove had a candid conversation with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper about covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, and her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, a critic […]

James Bovard
Amongst all the media teeth-gnashing over the question of whether McCain did special favors for his blondie lobbyist,  his wife’s sweetheart deal for massive narcotics theft in the 1990s has been forgotten.
If a poor black woman from Anacostia had committed the crimes that Cindy McCain committed, the black woman might have been sent to […]

Judge setting date, testimony to include ex-president, senator
While Hillary Clinton battles Barack Obama on the campaign trail, a judge in Los Angeles is quietly preparing to set a trial date in a $17 million fraud suit that aims to expose an alleged culture of widespread corruption by the Clintons and the Democratic Party.
At the conclusion […]

By Kerry Sheridan in Washington
US President George W. Bush plans to veto legislation passed by the Senate to bar the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods including waterboarding.
“The President will veto that Bill,” White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.
“The United States needs the ability to interrogate effectively, within the law, captured al-Qaeda terrorists.”
“Bush doesn’t favour torture”
The […]

Dr. Joe Harrop: Open government and politics: Who gets what, when, how
Dr. Joe Harrop
There is always a tension between the need for transparency in government and the reality of making deals; that tension is compounded by the need for informed voters, who, if presented with accurate information, will make good decisions. The market model presumes […]