Daily Archives: July 30, 2008 »
Nancy Pelosi Hasn’t Been Paying Attention
The Progressive | There she was on The View on Monday, and Joy Behar, a good progressive, actually asked her a decent question on why she wasn’t pursuing impeachment. Pelosi’s response was unbelievable: “If
Read More »Leave it in the ground!
Earth First | A new open cast coal mine site is about to get under way in beautiful Derbyshire unless we stop it. Lodge House site which is east of the village of Smalley and
Read More »British NASA hacker to face U.S. trial
LONDON (Reuters) – A British computer expert faces up to 70 years in jail after losing his fight on Wednesday against extradition to the United States, where he is accused of “the biggest military
Read More »BP hits a record but warns of Russia risk
BP reported the biggest-ever quarterly profit for a British company but warned of the risks of doing business in Russia and promised to fight to defend its interests there. Soaring oil and gas prices helped
Read More »Inspector questions Blackwater contracts
By Joseph Neff | A high-stakes dispute that flared Monday between Blackwater and the federal government boils down to a definition: Are the hundreds of Blackwater guards protecting diplomats in Iraq and Afghanistan employees
Read More »Al-Qaeda expert re-killed by CIA
legitgov.org | It’s ‘Groundhog Day’ at the CIA! Abu Khabab al-Masri ‘died’ in January 2006 and again on Monday. Once again, the ‘mainstream’ media announces the re-killing of another ‘key al-Qaeda operative’ by a
Read More »Afghan air war grows in intensity
By David Wood | WASHINGTON – Daily airstrikes by U.S. and allied fighter-bombers in Afghanistan have almost doubled since last summer, according to U.S. Air Force data, a trend that reflects increased insurgent attacks
Read More »Strike on Iran still possible, U.S. tells Israel
LA Times | WASHINGTON — Bush administration officials reassured Israel’s defense minister this week that the United States has not abandoned all possibility of a military attack on Iran, despite widespread Israeli concern that Washington
Read More »Reversing mass imprisonment
Bruce Western | The British sociologist T.H. Marshall described citizenship as the “basic human equality associated with full membership in a community.” By this measure, thirty years of prison growth concentrated among the poorest in
Read More »‘All Citizens Must Be Equal’
Guardian | “When we’re inside Sadaka Reut, I believe that everyone is good to each other,” said Lena, describing her Arab-Israeli summer camp. “But then we go out on to the street, and it’s [a
Read More »Bush Reveals True Reason for War in Push for Iraqi Agreement
Huffington 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
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