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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008(IPS) | The administration of President George W. Bush continues to expand government secrecy across a broad array of agencies and actions -- and at greatly increased cost to taxpayers, according to a coalition of groups that promote greater transparency. Dr. Patrice McDermott, director of Open the Government, a watchdog group, told IPS, "The federal government under the Bush administration has shown its commitment to secrecy by where it has put ...
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Conference To Shape Plans For Obtaining Prosecutions Of High-Level U.S. War Criminals
Sunday, September 14th, 2008Visit the Conference Web Site http://war-crimes.info A conference on plans to bring high-level American war criminals to justice will be streamed live from Andover, Mass., September 13-14. The conference has attracted eminent national and international legal authorities who will speak about the legal grounds for seeking prosecution of top administration officials, including George Bush, who appear to be guilty of war crimes. The URL address to view the conference live or to ...
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Bush Secretly Approved Orders Allowing Raids in Pakistan
Friday, September 12th, 2008By ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTI | President Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government, according to senior American officials. The classified orders ...
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Historians: Stop Bush/Cheney From Destroying Presidential Records
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Thirty-two of the nation’s leading historians have sent letters to congressional leaders calling on them to stregthen the Presidential Records Act (PRA). The effort, led by the Center for American Progress Action Fund and joined by the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the National Coalition for History, notes that while the PRA requires the administration to preserve presidential records, “it fails to ...
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The deconstruction of a Bush speech-writer
Sunday, September 7th, 2008By Dr. Steve Best, Ph.D. | In 2002, arch-conservative Matthew Scully wrote a book called, Dominion: The Power of Man, The Suffering of Animals, and The Call to Mercy, that was universally and uncritically acclaimed by the animal advocacy movement. Because this movement is overwhelmingly single-issue in its focus, and in most cases doesn’t care about a person’s views or politics except how they ...
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Obama might pursue criminal charges against Bush administration
Thursday, September 4th, 2008By Elana Schor in Washington | Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said earlier this week that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November. Biden's comments, first reported by ABC news, attracted little notice on a day dominated by the drama surrounding his Republican counterpart, Alaska governor Sarah Palin. But his statements represent the Democrats' ...
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Bush’s Proposed Terror Legacy: A Legal Basis for Perpetual War
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008By Andy Worthington | Just when you think that there can be no more outrageous proposals from the current lame duck government, and that it's down to a straight race between Barack Obama, a man with respect for the rule of law, and John McCain, who, I fear, may allow the malign spirits of Dick Cheney and David Addington to maintain a presence in the corridors of power, George W. ...
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Bush Seeks to Affirm a Continuing War on Terror
Saturday, August 30th, 2008By ERIC LICHTBLAU | WASHINGTON — Tucked deep into a recent proposal from the Bush administration is a provision that has received almost no public attention, yet in many ways captures one of President Bush’s defining legacies: an affirmation that the United States is still at war with Al Qaeda. Seven years after the Sept. 11 ...
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A New Rush to Spy
Monday, August 25th, 2008NY Times | There is apparently no limit to the Bush administration’s desire to invade Americans’ privacy in the name of national security. According to members of Congress, Attorney General Michael Mukasey is preparing to give the F.B.I. broad new authority to investigate Americans — without any clear basis for suspicion that they are committing a crime. Opening the door to sweeping investigations of this kind would be an invitation ...
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Bush Covered up Musharraf Ties with Qaeda, Khan
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008(IPS) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's resignation Monday brings to an end an extraordinarily close relationship between Musharraf and the George W. Bush administration, in which Musharraf was lavished with political and economic benefits from the United States despite policies that were in sharp conflict with U.S. security interests. It is well known that Bush repeatedly praised Musharraf as the most loyal ally of the United States against terrorism, even ...
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Bush Is the Worst Commander in Chief Ever
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008By Matthew Rothschild | Here’s the news flash from Wednesday’s New York Times: “Al Qaeda is more capable of attacking inside the United States than it was last year.” That’s not my conclusion. Or the conclusion of a Bush critic like Richard Clarke. No, that’s the conclusion of the Bush Administration’s senior terrorism analyst, Ted Gistaro. What a damning indictment! Not only has Bush failed, for seven years now, to get Osama bin Laden. He’s ...
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Bush administration proposes major cut to endangered species protections
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008By Naomi Spencer | With an eye to the approaching elections, the Bush administration has drafted proposed changes to the enforcement of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that would take effect within 30 days and would not require the approval of Congress. Once enacted, the new rules would essentially cut out the role of government scientists at the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service in reviewing ...
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Hypocrite Bush: “Unacceptable in the 21st Century”
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008By Matthew Rothschild | Just back from mugging for the cameras with the bikini-clad U.S. Olympic volleyball team, Bush put his serious face on in Washington and denounced Russia’s incursion into Georgia. Bush called it “unacceptable in the 21st century.” He’s right, but who is he to talk? Let’s see. If invading a sovereign country that posed no threat to you is “unacceptable in the 21st century,” then Bush himself has acted in ...
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Memo to the President
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008It's basically what you would expect: Appoint a national cyber security advisor, invest in math and science education, establish standards for critical infrastructure, spend money on enforcement, establish national standards for securing personal data and data-breach disclosure, and work with industry and academia to develop a bunch of needed technologies. I could comment on the plan, but with security the devil is always in the details -- and, of ...
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Bush escalates confrontation with Russia over Georgia
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008By Barry Grey | In a provocative statement delivered from the White House Rose Garden on Monday, President George W. Bush escalated the confrontation between the United States and Russia over the current fighting in Georgia. Bush denounced what he called Russia’s “dramatic and brutal” military escalation and demanded that Moscow agree to an immediate cease-fire and the withdrawal of its troops from the Caucasian country on its border. He ...
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