Iraq to award oil contracts
Monday, June 30th, 2008Foreign firms set to return after 36 years for developing Iraqi oil fields. The war appears to be a "success" to corporate interests! Read the full story
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Foreign firms set to return after 36 years for developing Iraqi oil fields. The war appears to be a "success" to corporate interests! Read the full story
Big Gains for Iraq Security, but Questions Linger
Saturday, June 21st, 2008Some definite temporary progress. My sense is that paying the Sunni's for peace is probably fueling a future powderkeg. It's not a sustainable strategy.Read the full story
McClellan: Bush, Cheney Wanted Me To Say Libby Wasn’t Involved In CIA Leak Case…
Friday, June 20th, 2008Former presidential spokesman Scott McClellan on Friday said President Bush has lost the public's trust by failing to open up about his administration's mistakes and backtracking on a promise to tell all about the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.Read the full story
Iowa’s raging Cedar River forces 20,000 from homes
Saturday, June 14th, 2008Officials guess it will be four days before the Cedar River drops enough for workers to even begin pumping out water that has submerged more than 400 blocks, threatened the city's drinking supply and forced the evacuation of a downtown hospital. Bush: "I will not resign until every city in ...
Colbert at White House Correspondent’s Dinner 2006
Friday, June 13th, 2008Stephen Colbert's courageous tenacity speaking truth to power at the 2006 White House Correspondents dinner deserves another look. He was mocking McCain as a maverick before the Bush administration had rearranged the deck chairs on the Hindenberg. McClellan and Scalia are there too and some not so subtle jabs at ...
Supreme Court backs Guantanamo detainees
Thursday, June 12th, 2008In its third rebuke of the Bush administration's treatment of prisoners, the court ruled 5-4 that the government is violating the rights of prisoners being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The court's liberal justices were in the majority.Read the full story
Obama blasts Bush over ‘Nazi’ comments
Thursday, May 15th, 2008House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also responded during her weekly press conference, saying, "I think that what the president did in that regard was beneath the dignity of the office of president and unworthy of our representation at that observance in Israel."Read the full story
Michael Moore making ‘9/11′ sequel - Entertainment News, Front Page, Media - Variety
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Michael Moore is making a sequel to "Fahrenheit 9/11" for Paramount Vantage and Overture Films, who will shop the project to international buyers when the Cannes Film Festival and market get under way today.Read the full story
Bush: I Gave Up Golf For The Troops
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008"I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf," he said. "I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends ...
U.S. mulls Guantanamo closure as Bush term nears end
Friday, May 2nd, 2008The Bush administration could announce plans by the end of its term in January to close Guantanamo prison and an upcoming Supreme Court ruling might be the impetus for this, senior U.S. officials and experts say. The government is under international and domestic pressure to close the prison.Read the ...