Monday
Analysts Behind Iraq Intelligence Were Rewarded: "Two Army analysts whose work has been cited as part of a key intelligence failure on Iraq -- the claim that aluminum tubes sought by the Baghdad government were most likely meant for a nuclear weapons program rather than for rockets -- have received job performance awards in each of the past three years, officials said."
Sunday
Scandal rocks Ohio GOP insider / He can't account for millions state put in his rare coin fund: "Noe's lawyers said as much as $13 million of the state's $50 million investment in his funds cannot be accounted for. Noe, meanwhile, has become the focus of at least six investigations or audits involving either his handling of the coin investments or his campaign fund raising. Federal investigators are also looking into his contributions to President Bush in 2004, when he was a 'pioneer' for Bush, raising more than $100,000.
And suddenly, Republicans who once stood staunchly at Noe's side, and at his fund-raising parties, can't seem to run away fast enough from him. "
And suddenly, Republicans who once stood staunchly at Noe's side, and at his fund-raising parties, can't seem to run away fast enough from him. "
Friday
Assault On the Media: "Today's conservative activists have become the new postmodernists. They shift attention away from the truth or falsity of specific facts and allegations -- and move the discussion to the motives of the journalists and media organizations putting them forward. Just a modest number of failures can be used to discredit an entire enterprise."
Thursday
New York's Premier Alternative Newspaper. Arts, Music, Food, Movies and Opinion: "It's funny. The only time anyone thinks to blast the use of 'unnamed sources' is when the mistake occurs in that rarest of phenomena in mainstream journalism: the dissenting piece of investigative journalism.
The reality is that unnamed sources are used about 10,000 times a day by the more patriotic and upstanding members of our working press, only they're not used to wonder about the goings-on at places like Guantanamo Bay. Instead, they're used to kiss ass and make icons out of morons�to turn George Bush into Winston Churchill, Dick Gephardt into Eugene Debs, Tom Clancy into Tolstoy."
The reality is that unnamed sources are used about 10,000 times a day by the more patriotic and upstanding members of our working press, only they're not used to wonder about the goings-on at places like Guantanamo Bay. Instead, they're used to kiss ass and make icons out of morons�to turn George Bush into Winston Churchill, Dick Gephardt into Eugene Debs, Tom Clancy into Tolstoy."
Wednesday
Tuesday
World Bank, IMF Requirements Stifling Poor Countries' Health Spending - Report - Yahoo! News: "the requirements of the IMF appear to mean that countries must include the value of all new donor funding received for initiatives such as scaling-up delivery of antiretroviral treatment''... In other words, ''if a sector receives any new [privately donated] funds that were not initially budgeted for, it forfeits a similar amount from the government coffers.'"
Sunday
News: "Rats fed on a diet rich in genetically modified corn developed abnormalities to internal organs and changes to their blood, raising fears that human health could be affected by eating GM food."
Prewar Findings Worried Analysts: "it appears that even before the war many senior intelligence officials in the government had doubts about the case being trumpeted in public by the president and his senior advisers."
Saturday
Guardian | Tarnished image abroad fails to register with Americans at home: "the latest in a string of episodes which started soon after President George Bush launched his so-called war on terror."
Friday
New indictment revises conspiracy charge in phone jamming case At the time, Tobin was a high ranking official of the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, whose job was to elect Republicans to the Senate. The 2002 race between Republican John E. Sununu and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, won by Sununu, was considered one of the closest in the country.
The committee was run by Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee, now Senate majority leader.
In 2004, Tobin was regional chairman of Bush´s re-election campaign.
The committee was run by Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee, now Senate majority leader.
In 2004, Tobin was regional chairman of Bush´s re-election campaign.
Thursday
Daily Times - Site Edition: "If Newsweek has apologised for the Quran desecration story which had no sound basis, the Bush administration also owes an apology to the American people for the Iraq war "
Wednesday
Mr Galloway goes to Washington - Comment - Times Online: "For the silent majority (the ones who did not vote for Bush), Mr Galloway's visit provided a brief respite from the depressing day-to-day life in this military-industrial complex that cannot exist without being at war with the rest of the world."
Tuesday
Editorial: Newsweek/It doesn't deserve the diatribes: "For Newsweek and other media that come in for this treatment, we have one word: Resist."
Galloway vs. The US Senate: Transcript of Statement I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction.
I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda.
I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001.
I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning.
Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.
I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda.
I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001.
I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning.
Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies.
Robert Jensen and Pat Youngblood: Pinning the Blame on Newsweek: "why the focus on the Newsweek story? It's part of the tried-and-true strategy of demonize, disguise, and divert. Demonize the news media to disguise the real causes of the resistance to occupation and divert attention from failed U.S. policies."
The resignation of Scott McClellan - Bloggermann - MSNBC.com: "Whenever I hear Scott McClellan talking about 'media credibility,' I strain to remember who it was who admitted Jeff Gannon to the White House press room and called on him all those times. "
Report Says Treasury Missed Iraq Oil Abuses: "The U.S. Treasury Department failed to adequately monitor U.S. companies that violated U.N. sanctions against Iraq"
Monday
The Daytona Beach News-Journal: "It's a very big concern that parents are being coerced to drug their children in a billion-dollar-a-year industry"
Sunday
Telegraph | News | Trigger-happy US troops 'will keep us in Iraq for years': "Trigger-happy US troops 'will keep us in Iraq for years'"
Monday
Winston-Salem Journal | State Department won't reveal papers: "The State Department is refusing to make public internal documents requested by Senate Democrats trying to gain more information about repeated clashes between John R. Bolton and U.S. intelligence agencies"
MercuryNews.com | 04/28/2005 | Indicted Chinese firm to equip Iraqi army: "The U.S. Army has approved the purchase of a more than $29 million worth of weapons for the new Iraqi army from a Chinese company that is under federal indictment in San Francisco in connection with the smuggling of 2,000 AK-47 automatic rifles through the Port of Oakland in 1996."
Saturday
News: "The seemingly pleasant, down-to-earth sensibility of the American Midwest has been upended by a new radicalism"
Thursday
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility: News Releases ENVIRONMENTAL PROMOTION TIED TO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS — Florida DEP Dropped Enforcement Actions After Handpicked Supervisor Promoted
Tuesday
CJR May/June 2005: Stations of the Cross: "Thanks to Christian radio's rapid growth, religious stations now outnumber every other format except country music and news-talk."
Fund-Raising: Take It to the (West) Bank - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com: "Money meant for the inner city went to fight the intifada."
Monday
The Seattle Times: Evangelical Christians dominate Air Force Academy, report says: "There is a clear preference for Christianity at the academy, so that everyone else feels like a second-class citizen."
Sunday
The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Business: "John Rutledge, a Bush administration economist, speculates Americans are starting to tire of their love affair with gas-guzzling vehicles.
'Americans are beginning to understand that one Hummer equals one American soldier in Iraq,' Rutledge told an investment forum in Ormond Beach last month."
'Americans are beginning to understand that one Hummer equals one American soldier in Iraq,' Rutledge told an investment forum in Ormond Beach last month."
Wednesday
Sunday
Wednesday
Yahoo! News - Air Force Cadets See Religious Harassment: "There were people walking up to someone and basically they would get in a conversation and it would end with, `If you don't believe what I believe you are going to hell"
Saturday
Yahoo! News - Bush administration eliminating 19-year-old international terrorism report: "U.S. intelligence officials said Rice's office decided to eliminate 'Patterns of Global Terrorism' when the counterterrorism center declined to use alternative methodology that would have reported fewer significant attacks.
The officials said they interpreted Rice's action as an attempt to avoid releasing statistics that would contradict the administration's claims that it's winning the war against terrorism."
The officials said they interpreted Rice's action as an attempt to avoid releasing statistics that would contradict the administration's claims that it's winning the war against terrorism."
Tuesday
Mike Whitney: Pope TV and the New World Media: "The new game-plan is to sweep Iraq from the collective consciousness and slow the steady erosion of public support for the war."
Wednesday
Tuesday
AlterNet: MediaCulture: Right-wing Radio Religious broadcasters are squeezing community radio right off the FM dial.
The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page: "the future seems all too likely to bring more intimidation in the name of God and more political intervention that undermines the rule of law"
Jeremy Scahill: Sgrena Sets the Record Straight: "With Terri Schiavo and Michael Jackson to cover, it is pretty difficult for most media outlets to find the time to report on any of the more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians killed since the beginning of the invasion 2 years ago."
Sunday
Congress Steps In on Schiavo Case (washingtonpost.com): "In a memo distributed only to Republican senators, the Schiavo case was characterized as 'a great political issue' that could pay dividends with Christian conservatives, whose support is essential in midterm elections such as those coming up in 2006."
AP Wire | 03/19/2005 | Ohio unemployment rate hits highest level since 1993: "The state's unemployment rate is at its highest level since December 1993, in part because people who don't have jobs believe the economy has improved enough for them to try to find work."
Friday
Thursday
Yahoo! News - New on the Wire: AP to Offer Two Leads for Some Stories New! Free! Two scoops of spin for print-edition readers! (scroll down for example)
Tuesday
Saturday
News: "Fresh evidence has come to light suggesting that Tony Blair committed himself to war in Iraq nearly a year before the American and British assault in March 2003."
Friday
Paul Craig Roberts: Bush's Willing Sycophants: "Journalists who demanded that Clinton be held accountable for a minor sex scandal (Monica Lewinsky) and a minor financial scandal (Whitewater) now serve as apologists and propagandists for the Bush administration's major war scandals."
Tuesday
Sunday
AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: Your Money or Your Life: "between 1981 and 2001, medical-related bankruptcies increased by 2,200 percent"
Saturday
Friday
Bush Team Tried to Suppress Pre-9/11 Report Into al-Qa'ida: "Bush Team Tried to Suppress Pre-9/11 Report Into al-Qa'ida "
Sunday
Privatizing Social Security too risky: "people are expected to take a loan from the government and use it to buy stocks, and if that turns out to have been a mistake -- well, too bad."
Friday
Tuesday
Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | The battle of posters: "The cost of one of those coloured posters is enough to feed a hungry child for days. The cost of the television commercial which portrays the Iraqi premiere as the new strong man of Iraq, could provide food and cloth for a five- person Iraqi family for one year."
Monday
Rumsfeld's power grab from CIA is a threat: "Forty-five years ago, Dwight Eisenhower, in the prescient moment of his presidency, warned about the dangers of the military-industrial complex to American democracy. Bush's proposed military-political-intelligence complex looms as an even greater menace."
Sunday
Tuesday
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: "Let's not miss the big news in today's article in the Times about Dick Cheney. The vice president supports putting over 95% of the employee-side contribution to Social Security into private accounts.
Unfortunately, the authors construct the sentence in a somewhat murky fashion. But the key passage is this one: 'Mr. Cheney is said by associates to favor creating investment accounts into which workers could deposit 4 percent to 6 percent of their earnings that are subject to the Social Security payroll tax.'
In orther words, Cheney supports putting 4 to 6 percentage points of each individual's 6.2% contribution into a private investment account and taking it out of the Social Security system.
(Just for maximum clarity, that means about 97% of the employee's payroll tax contribution, which is 6.2% of their salary up to $90,000. And it's about 48% of the total Social Security money going into the program for the given individual since the employer also kicks in another 6.2%.)"
Unfortunately, the authors construct the sentence in a somewhat murky fashion. But the key passage is this one: 'Mr. Cheney is said by associates to favor creating investment accounts into which workers could deposit 4 percent to 6 percent of their earnings that are subject to the Social Security payroll tax.'
In orther words, Cheney supports putting 4 to 6 percentage points of each individual's 6.2% contribution into a private investment account and taking it out of the Social Security system.
(Just for maximum clarity, that means about 97% of the employee's payroll tax contribution, which is 6.2% of their salary up to $90,000. And it's about 48% of the total Social Security money going into the program for the given individual since the employer also kicks in another 6.2%.)"
Sunday
Transcript of Bush Interview (washingtonpost.com)
"The Post: Why do you think [Osama] bin Laden has not been caught?
THE PRESIDENT: Because he's hiding."
"The Post: Why do you think [Osama] bin Laden has not been caught?
THE PRESIDENT: Because he's hiding."
The Vote on Mr. Gonzales (washingtonpost.com): "At a time when nominees for the Cabinet can be disqualified because of their failure to pay taxes on a nanny's salary, this reluctance to hold Mr. Gonzales accountable is shameful."
Tuesday
Moussaoui Asks Supreme Court to Ban al Qaeda Witnesses (washingtonpost.com) From Cassel's June, 2003 piece on Chertoff: "Next, we can expect the Supreme Court to be closed, can't we?" From this morning's Post: "The Moussaoui brief is classified and was filed with a court security officer yesterday in the basement of the federal courthouse in Alexandria before being sent to the Supreme Court....a redacted copy [will] be released after a security review."
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: The Iceberg Cometh: "It's the standard Bush administration tactic: invent a fake crisis to bully people into doing what you want."
Monday
CJR January/February 2005: Blog-Gate "[T]he coverage of Memogate effectively killed the story of Bush’s Guard years. Those who kept asking questions found themselves counted among the journalistic fringe."
Sunday
Los Angeles Times: Doctor's Orders -- Spill Your Guts: "A medical degree, Tornberg told us, isn't a 'sacramental vow.' When a doctor participates in interrogation, 'he's not functioning as a physician,' and the Hippocratic ideal of fidelity to patients is beside the point."
Saturday
Friday
Why Our Embeds Don't Tell All: "If anyone gets too close to us we fucking waste them,' said the Marine lieutenant. 'It's kind of a shame, because it means we've killed a lot of innocent people."
Hey, It Worked for the Romans: "There's a simple, logical way to reconcile President Bush's foreign and domestic policies: Start demanding tribute from foreign countries."
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