FINALLY, BUSH ADMITS IT: HE LIED
U.S. Calls Off the Hunt for Weapons in Iraq
"Once again Bush and his top officials are responsible for an outrageous scandal whose monumental scale and grotesquely terrifying implications for our democracy make Watergate look like a fraternity prank. Yet the miscreants are getting away scot-free.
As usual."
by TED RALL, 1/14/04

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U.S. Newspapers Silent on Cheney Investigation
from MoveOn.org

The Buying of the President 2004
Who Bankrolls Bush and his Democratic Rivals?
A look at the presidential race
Center for Public Integrity, January 16, 2004

Iraqi protesters demand election as ayatollah threatens fatwa
Rory McCarthy in Baghdad, The Guardian, Friday January 16, 2004
"Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Basra yesterday to demand a general election, as an aide to Iraq's most senior Shia cleric warned that he may issue a fatwa against the proposed new government."

Global civil society: the politics of a new world
From Porto Alegre to anti-war movements, 2003 was a tumultuous year of political mobilisation. As the 2004 World Social Forum opens in Mumbai, will “global civil society” build an enduring space in support of a more humane form of globalisation?
Marlies Glasius, OpenDemocracy, 15 - 1 - 2004

The Essay
The Dennis Kucinich Polka
What's so funny about peace, love, and the Dems' Great Ignored Candidate?
by Stephen Elliott, The Village Voice, January 14 - 20, 2004

Bush Flees Iraq Mess On The Campaign Express
Last Copter Out of Baghdad
by Rick Perlstein, The Village Voice, January 14 - 20, 2004

Comment
What have the Arabs ever done for us?
Zero, just to begin with, and incalculably more than daytime-TV presenters, writes Derek Brown
in the Guardian, Thursday January 15, 2004

US to begin drawdown in Iraq
In coming weeks, 18,000 troops in northern Iraq will be replaced with a force half that size.
By Dan Murphy | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

White House rethinks Iraq plan
Objections by the Shias' religious leader and the Kurds throw Washington's vital 'smooth transition' plan into confusion
Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington, Wednesday January 14, 2004, The Guardian

The Awful Truth
By Paul Krugman, The New York Times / t r u t h o u t , Tuesday 13 January 2004

"People are saying terrible things about George Bush. They say that his officials weren't sincere about pledges to balance the budget. They say that the planning for an invasion of Iraq began seven months before 9/11, that there was never any good evidence that Iraq was a threat and that the war actually undermined the fight against terrorism."

Iraq: U.S. Demolitions May Violate Laws of War
U.S. military forces in Iraq appear to have violated the laws of war by demolishing the homes of relatives of suspected insurgents or wanted former officals, Human Rights Watch said today.
At Human Rights Watch, January 13, 2004

PIPE DREAMS
An Update on the Real Reason We Invaded Afghanistan
NEW YORK--So where's the pipeline?
by Ted Rall, 1/6/04

Commentary: George W. Bush: Words vs. Deeds
George W. Bush not only lies about what he has done and what he is going to do—he even lies about what his is doing.
By Mick Youther, Intervention Magazine, Posted 12/27/03

...which features a link to: Caught on Film: The Bush Credibility Gap!

...here's The Independent coinciding with The Guardian...

Bush was demanding excuse to invade Iraq in January 2001, says ex-treasury secretary
By Andrew Gumbel, in Los Angeles, 12 January 2004

and

Blair: I don't know if we'll find WMD
By Marie Woolf, 12 January 2004

Blair admits weapons of mass destruction may never be found
· PM shows first doubts on central reason for war
· Asked was he wrong on WMD, he says: 'I don't know'
Sarah Hall, Richard Norton-Taylor and Julian Borger in Washington, Monday January 12, 2004, The Guardian

Reasons to Hope
Bush catalyzes a nascent progressive movement
By Cynthia Moothart | 1.6.04 | In These Times

Bush decided to remove Saddam 'on day one'
Former aide says US president made up his mind to go to war with Iraq long before 9/11, then ordered his staff to find an excuse
Julian Borger in Washington, Monday January 12, 2004, The Guardian

For some reason, no more entries fit in the woreandpiece blog, so I'll continue here. Peace...


Lookout by Naomi Klein
The Year of the Fake
[from the January 26, 2004 issue of The Nation]
"Don't think and drive."


Faux Pax Americana
The lesson from Iraq is that using fewer troops can win a war, but can't keep the peace.
By Phillip Carter, featured in Washington Monthly, June(!) 2003


The Five Hundred
By William Rivers Pitt | t r u t h o u t | Perspective | Thursday 8 January 2004


Ted Rall...

THE TRIAL OF SADDAM HUSSEIN
Selected Highlights From a Future Transcript


WEASELS OF CRASS DECEPTION
All Talk No Pay Makes George a Dull Boy

NO FUTURE
Predictions for a Crucial Year

Missing U.S.-Iraq History
With all the hoopla surrounding the capture of Saddam Hussein—“caught like a rat,� read the Chicago Tribune headline—it is time to take a step back and consider the full story of the Saddam Hussein and his long time relationship with the U.S. government, beginning in 1959, when the CIA put Saddam on its covert operations payroll in a plot to assassinate then Iraqi Prime Minister Gen. Abd al-Karim Qasim.
By Robert Parry | In These Times | 12.16.03