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Sunday, August 10th, 2008By David Swanson | Former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's new book "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" is not just a particularly good addition to the ten-foot high stack of rants against Bush's crimes and abuses of power. It's also an argument that state and local prosecutors have the necessary jurisdiction to try Bush for murder and for conspiracy to commit murder, at least once he's out of ...
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Who Is Bush to Lecture China?
Thursday, August 7th, 2008By Matthew Rothschild Who is Bush to lecture the Chinese—or anyone, for that matter—on human rights? There he was in Thailand, pressing China to uphold human rights when he has done more than any other President to heap scorn on them. After 9/11, he said, “I don’t care what the international lawyers say. We’re going to kick some ass.” And Cheney said, it was time to go over to the “dark side.” And that’s ...
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Bush scolds China over human rights… then flies in for Games
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Just hours before flying to Beijing for the Olympics on Thursday, US president George Bush used some of his bluntest language yet in publicly pressing China to improve its human rights record. In a speech in Bangkok, when the eyes of the world will be on Beijing, Bush voiced "firm opposition" to China's detention of dissidents, human rights advocates and religious activists. "The US believes the people of China ...
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How Much Do You Want to Bet Bush Issues Pardons of the Crimes You Claim Don’t Exist?
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Dear Congress, Many of you, including both of your nominees for the throne and your Speaker and Minority Leader, claim to believe that George W. Bush and gang have not committed any crimes. To reward your perceptiveness, courage, and integrity, I would like to offer to contribute to your campaigns for reelection (in 2010 or later) if Bush does not issue any pardons for any of the crimes found in ...
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South Korea arrests 167 after anti-Bush protests
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008SEOUL -- South Korean police used water cannon and arrested 167 people to break up protests in the evening and overnight against the visit of US President George W. Bush, officers said Wednesday. A total of 155 people were arrested overnight, a spokesman for the National Police Agency told AFP. Twelve others were held earlier for staging an anti-war rally at a military airport near Seoul, where Air Force One landed Tuesday ...
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S. Koreans fire water cannons at Bush protesters
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008SEOUL, South Korea - Police fired water cannons at thousands of protesters Tuesday as President Bush got a volatile reception in South Korea at the start of his three-nation Asian trip. Dueling demonstrations reflected mixed sentiments in this U.S. ally, where public opinion surveys remain generally positive about America, though many people decry Washington for a variety of issues. Bush will meet Wednesday with President Lee Myung-bak for the third time ...
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Suskind: Bush ordered fake letter linking Iraq to 9/11
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008By David Edwards and Nick Juliano | A blockbuster new book from investigative journalist Ron Suskind adds another revelation to the growing canon demonstrating the lengths to which President Bush and members of his administration lied, misled and deceived the American people to pursue its invasion of Iraq. Bush allegedly ordered the CIA to forge a handwritten letter from the head of Iraq's intelligence service to Saddam Hussein that ...
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Bush must be stopped before starting war with Iran
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008By JOE PARKO | The Bush administration, in rhetoric that is eerily similar to that used to build the case for a war against Iraq, asserts that the Iranian Quds Force is arming anti-U.S. groups in Iraq and providing them with high-tech roadside bombs and sophisticated rockets. It dismisses the National Intelligence Estimate conclusion that Iran suspended its nuclear weapons program. The White House has not provided evidence to back ...
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Bush Orders Revamping Of Intelligence Gathering
Thursday, July 31st, 2008By Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 31, 2008; Page A02 President Bush ordered a major restructuring of the nation's intelligence-gathering community yesterday, approving new guidelines aimed at bolstering the authority of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) as the leader of the nation's 16 spy agencies. The long-awaited overhaul ...
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Bush Reveals True Reason for War in Push for Iraqi Agreement
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008Huffington Post | For five years the Bush administration has played wack-a-mole with the American people as to why we are in Iraq, with a new justification quickly spawning after the hollow core of the prior position was exposed. WMD's was followed by fighting Al Qaeda and ultimately bringing democracy to the Middle East. Last week the proverbial mole may have met his maker and exposed the true reason over ...
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The Bush Admin’s Biowarfare Agenda
Monday, July 28th, 2008By Stephen Lendman - RINF | When it comes to observing US and international laws, treaties and norms, the Bush administration is a serial offender. Since 2001, it's: -- spurned efforts for nuclear disarmament to advance its weapons program and retain current stockpiles; -- renounced the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and asserted the right to develop and test new weapons; -- abandoned the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) because it ...
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GUIDE TO SOME OF BUSH REGIME CRIMES
Monday, July 28th, 2008Coercive interrogation Can any Bush officials be prosecuted for the policies that paved the way for secret imprisonment, rendition to other countries that torture, or American torture of terrorism suspects? These government lawyers and policymakers decimated the Geneva Conventions, defined their way out of compliance with the Convention Against Torture, and also sailed by the War Crimes Act and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. They either approved or allowed for ...
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Bush can hold terrorist suspect indefinitely: US court
Saturday, July 19th, 2008A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that President George W. Bush has the power to keep a terrorist suspect jailed indefinitely, but that the detainee has the right to challenge his detention as an "enemy combatant." The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, took up the case of Ali Al-Marri, the only "war on terror" suspect arrested on US soil, and reversed a June 2007 decision by ...
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Court Backs Bush on Military Detentions
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008By ADAM LIPTAK | President Bush has the legal power to order the indefinite military detentions of civilians captured in the United States, the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled on Tuesday in a fractured 5-to-4 decision. But a second, overlapping 5-to-4 majority of the court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, ruled that ...
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Cotati CA Council Votes to Impeach Bush, Cheney
Monday, July 14th, 2008Press Democrat | The Cotati City Council is the third in Sonoma County to weigh in on impeachment for President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. The council voted 3-2 Wednesday night to approve a resolution calling for impeachment proceedings against the nation’s two top officials. Voting “yes” were Cotati Mayor Pat Gilardi, Councilwoman Janet Orchard and Councilman John Guardino. The “nay” votes were cast by Councilwoman Patty Minnis and ...
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