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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
By Bill Wickersham | Bill Wickersham is an adjunct professor of Peace Studies at MU, a member of Veterans for Peace and a member of the national steering committee of Global Action to Prevent War.In June 2004, the Bush Administration issued a statement that detailed its rationale and legal stance for denying terror suspects the protection of international humanitarian law. ...
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Blair recalls despair at Bush’s victory
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Press TV | Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife says they watched in distress as George Bush won the US presidential election in 2000. In an autobiography entitled "Speaking For Myself," which was published Wednesday, Cherie Blair wrote "I think it's fair to say that our hearts sank when the result was finally ratified."
"George is actually a very funny, ...
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Bush warns of Iraq exit terror risk
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
By Elizabeth Stewart | The US president, George Bush, today claimed the Democratic presidential candidates' plans for a quick withdrawal of troops from Iraq could lead to another terrorist attack on America.
In an online interview for the Yahoo News and Politico websites, Bush said a "premature" withdrawal from Iraq would "embolden" extremists throughout the Middle East, which would ...
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Bush backs modified crops
Monday, May 5th, 2008
By Andrew Ward and Daniel Dombey | George W. Bush on Thursday stepped up pressure on the European Union and other governments to lift restrictions on genetically modified crops to help ease the crisis in global food supplies.
The US president said modified crops offered a partial solution to the food crisis gripping some parts of the world because of their high yields and ...
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Secret Bush “Finding” Widens War on Iran
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
By Andrew Cockburn | Six weeks ago, President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that, according to those familiar with its contents, "unprecedented in its scope."
Bush’s secret directive covers actions across a huge geographic area – from Lebanon to Afghanistan – but is also far more sweeping in the ...
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Anti-War T-Shirter Sued for $40B
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
AP - PHOENIX | A Tennessee couple who lost their son in Iraq want an Arizona merchant to pay more than $40 billion in damages to survivors of soldiers whose names are on the anti-war shirts he is selling online.
A complaint seeking class-action status for the lawsuit by Robin and Michael Read says Dan Frazier of Flagstaff has no right to ...
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National “DNA warehouse” bill passes
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
AAPS | Passing the House of Representatives on a voice vote, S. 1858 has been sent to President Bush for signature. The Newborn Genetic Screening bill was passed by the Senate last December. The bill violates the U.S. Constitution and the Nuremberg Code, writes Twila Brase, president of the Citizen’s Council on Health Care (CCHC). “The ...
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What the world thinks of Bush and his war
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
After Downing Street | To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt ten-fold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundred-fold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize and yet when it comes to the greatest crime-waging war on another state-they praise it!
It ...
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Bush Administration Policies Making Work Less Safe
Monday, April 28th, 2008
By Leo W. Gerard | In the heart of Pennsylvania, while the media still relentlessly plagued Senators Obama and Clinton about flag pins and memory lapses just before the primary, a machine at an ArcelorMital plant in Steelton crushed Roger H. Prichard to death. He was 58.
It was April 18, three days before the Pennsylvania primary. It occurred just five ...
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Bush’s disapproval worst of any president in 70 years
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
By Susan Page |
President Bush has set a record he'd presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.
In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69% disapprove. The approval rating matches the low point of his presidency, ...
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Bush Secrecy Policies Transforming U.S. Government
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
By Sherwood Ross |
President George W. Bush has transformed an open federal government in Washington into one of “pervasive secrecy,” a distinguished authority on communications and First Amendment rights says.
Since his inauguration, Bush has overseen changes that suggest “a dramatic growth of government secrecy, far beyond the secrecy occurring during the Clinton Administration,” writes Susan Dente Ross,(no relation) an Associate Professor in ...
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The legal evils of Guantanamo Bay
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Alasdair Palmer reviews Torture Team: Deception, Cruelty and the Compromise of Law by Philippe Sands. Torture Team centres on a single document: a memo, signed by the former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, authorising the use of additional methods of interrogation on those interned at Guantanamo Bay. Taken together, Philippe Sands believes these amount to torture.
He believes that the ...
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U.S. Islamic group argues against warrantless wiretaps
Friday, April 25th, 2008
AP | An Islamic charity group is challenging the Bush administration's record use of the so-called state secrets privilege, dubbed a "killer bullet" to the group's case over warrantless wiretapping.
Lawyers for the Oregon-based U.S. arm of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation on Wednesday urged a federal judge to toss out the government's use of the privilege and let their lawsuit proceed.
The now-defunct foundation ...
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Bush And Sharon Had Secret Deal To Expand West Bank
Friday, April 25th, 2008
By Glenn Kessler |
A letter that President Bush personally delivered to then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon four years ago has emerged as a significant obstacle to the president's efforts to forge a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians during his last year in office.
Ehud Olmert, the current Israeli prime minister, said this week that Bush's letter ...
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Bush Using NAFTA to Eliminate Laws
Monday, April 21st, 2008
By Greg Palast |Psst! George Bush has a secret. While you Democrats are pounding each other to a pulp in Pennsylvania, the President has snuck back down to New Orleans for a meeting of the NAFTA Three: the Prime Minister of Canada and the President of Mexico.
You’re not supposed to know that – for two reasons:
First, the summit planned for the N.O. ...
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