Wednesday, February 11, 2004

testing...



...concluded
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Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Here is CURSOR's content for today:

    10 February 2004

    Media Patrol


    Michael Massing offers a devastating critique of pre-war reporting -- especially by the New York Times -- on Iraq's alleged WMD: "Despite abundant evidence of the administration's brazen misuse of intelligence in this matter, the press repeatedly let officials get away with it. As journalists rush to chronicle the administration's failings on Iraq, they should pay some attention to their own."

    The Washington Post reports -- on page A17 -- that not only did President Bush and his top advisers ignore many of the caveats and qualifiers included in the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, "In fact, they made some of their most unequivocal assertions" about Iraq's unconventional
    weapons before the report was completed.

    Under fire for claiming that Iraq posed an imminent threat, President Bush said during his "Meet the Press" interview, that he must deal with threats "before they become imminent."

    The Center for American Progress annotates the interview transcript and takes issue with 17 assertions that Bush made, in a "Claim vs. Fact" analysis. Plus: Numbers counts for "terror" and "terrorist" and "war" and "peace."

    Peggy Noonan says Bush's performance was "not impressive" because he "cannot remember talking points." Calpundit rounds up reaction to the interview by other conservative commentators, one of whom observes that "If he loses this year, this will be the day he lost it"

    Calpundit also looks into Bush's military service records, solving one mystery and uncovering a new one involving Bush's possible transfer to a "paper unit" in Denver for disciplinary reasons.

    Slate's William Saletan writes that "The joke is that Bush accomplished exactly what he set out to do in this interview: He showed you how his mind works."

    Joshua Claybourn says Bush was being "deceptive and false" when he claimed that discretionary spending has declined steadily under his administration. Introducing Claybourn's analysis, Andrew Sullivan writes that on the budget, Bush is either "frighteningly unaware" or "lying."

    In a brief history of 'Bush family values,' Kevin Phillips says that while "They know what they're in politics for," their problem is that "The American people are also starting to find out." Plus: Paul Krugman reviews Phillips' "American Dynasty" and Ron Suskind's "The Price of Loyalty."

    The Revision Thing On the same day that Bush told Tim Russert that Saddam "had the ability to make weapons at the very minimum," Vice President Cheney told a group of Republican donors that Saddam "had the intent to arm his regime with weapons of mass destruction."

    That's the Ticket? Jim Lobe on the day that Cheney 'was rocked to the core,' and Newsweek examines 'A problem in the bunker.'

    Cheney's Bubble "Whatever one might say about the rarefied air of the World Economic Forum," writes Orville Schell, "no one in the Davos bubble is in an individual bubble as well -- or at least that was true until Vice President Dick Cheney descended on Davos." Earlier: Davos presenter puts America on the couch. The prognosis?

    The Observer reports that Great Britain helped the U.S. spy on other U.N. Security Council members prior to Secretary of State Powell's U.N. presentation.

    Brendan O'Neill asks "what if Iraq did have WMD? What if the coalition does discover some old but potentially lethal stockpiles of mustard gas, carefully hidden away? What if it had been true that Saddam was building a nuclear bomb?... Would the war have been justified then?"

    The Independent reports that Iraq Body Count's high-end estimate of civilian deaths has surpassed 10,000, a milestone that is getting little play in the U.S.A.

    Defense Secretary Rumsfeld blames "shocking" media coverage for harming America's image in the world, and blames Al-Jazeera for "causing Iraqi people to be killed."

    Clips Clipped? Senior Pentagon managers are said to have repeatedly ordered the department's clipping service to exclude articles critical of the military and Rumsfeld.

    Stars and Stripes reports that the Pentagon has ordered an investigation after almost 90 reports of sexual assault among troops in Kuwait and Iraq.

    The New York Times reports on white collar killings in Iraq, where government officials estimate that hundreds of intellectuals and midlevel administrators have been assassinated since May in a "widening campaign" against the country's professional class.

    An AP article on the hunt for Saddam's money, notes that while the U.S. may have found $300 million that he hid in banks, the amount is nowhere his estimated stash of $40 billion.
    Officials cite "weak U.S. intelligence and slow-moving investigators" for allowing "insurgents time to empty accounts and transfer funds."

    The Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat, says that Al-Qaeda has possessed suitcase-sized tactical nuclear weapons since 1998.

    The AP reports that on the day a ricin scare closed Senate offices, President Bush asked Congress to end a research program on how to get toxins out of buildings.

    TV news execs respond to their incessant showing of Howard Dean's "scream" clip, which the political newsletter Hotline says was aired on cable and broadcast news networks 633 times in four days, even though an ABC report showed that the "scream" was barely audible to Dean's live audience.

    A Globe and Mail columnist speculates on why the 'media disappeared Dean.'

    A soccer crowd in Mexico chanted "Osama! Osama! Osama!" as the U.S. team left the field after defeating Canada.

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Friday, February 06, 2004

Ted Rall

STUPIDITY IS ALL AROUND

2/3/04
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LAWeekly!

... reports, among other things:

The Torture Files: BEN EHRENREICH examines Iraqi detainees’ claims of abuse and mistreatment, and the reluctance of U.S. officials to examine them.

February 5, 2004
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Thursday, February 05, 2004

Check out the Village Voice!'s handy Iraq Occupation section!
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Wednesday, February 04, 2004



How did we get it so wrong?

With inquiries under way on both sides of the Atlantic, the failure of western intelligence over Iraq is coming under intense scrutiny. Yes, the spies got it wrong, admits former CIA analyst Kenneth Pollack, but the politicians also moulded the evidence to fit the case for war

US secretary of state Colin Powell

Powell doubts over invasion
'Absence of stockpile changes the answer'.
Testimony that triggered inquiries
MP: Israel knew Iraq had no WMD
How did we get it so wrong?
Special report: Iraq

Wednesday February 4, 2004

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    Subject: A very British tragedy
    From: "openDemocracy"
    Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 20:24:59 -0000
    To: "achtung almanac"

    A very British tragedy

    A week is a long time in politics. The Hutton report is no longer a simple victory for Tony Blair and defeat for the BBC: it has become a crisis for the British public realm. As the prime minister follows George Bush in announcing an inquiry into pre-Iraq war intelligence on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, http://www.openDemocracy.net presents the leading political historian and commentator David Marquand's crisp, devastating diagnosis of an unfolding drama:

    * Hutton is not a whitewash - it's worse than that. There is a malaise at the very heart of British political culture

    * Andrew Gilligan, the BBC journalist who accused the government of 'sexing up' intelligence information, and Alastair Campbell, Blair's former head of communications are "symptoms of the same sickness": contempt for the public in government and media

    * 'Scoop hunting', like the political spin it mirrors, "is not an ornament of a free press…It is a cancer gnawing at its entrails"

    * Tony Blair has in the end lost. "His credibility in shreds"

    * Blair's "American ally. . . has hung him out to dry"

    Read Marquand exclusively at www.openDemocracy.net
    http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-8-92-1709.jsp

    Also on www.openDemocracy.net on the aftermath of Hutton:

    David Elstein on lessons for the BBC,
    http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-8-92-1700.jsp

    Douglas Murray on the wrong inquiry,
    http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-8-92-1699.jsp

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Tuesday, February 03, 2004

I'm actually shocked...

    features



    A Bush Covert Operative Takes Over Al Sharpton's Campaign
    Sleeping With the GOP
    by Wayne Barrett, February 5th, 2004 8:20 AM



    (illustration: Bill Mayer)
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Here's the latest from the gang at Anybody but Bush:

    Subject: Anybody But Bush Update: Bush's Guard Service In Question
    From: xxxxxxx@xxx.xxx Add to Address Book
    Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 04:53:38 -0800


    ((((((( Anybody But Bush Update: Bush's Guard Service In Question )))))))

    February 03, 2004


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    http://www.anybodybutbush.info/archives/000201.html

    The Washington Post discusses Bush being AWOL (Absent without leave) during Vietnam.


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Monday, February 02, 2004

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Friday, January 30, 2004

Well looky here:


    news
    The Great Race: Life after New Hampshire: It’s shaping up to be one
    wild ride to the White House. HAROLD MEYERSON, in from the cold,
    analyzes the volatile race facing John Kerry.
    Also from New Hampshire, DAVID CORN sizes up Howard Dean’s strategy, and JOSHUAH BEARMAN takes in the rallies and parties. MARC COOPER gives failing marks to the left. And DOUG IRELAND goes in search of the real John Edwards.
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This arrived in my Inbox... from OpenDemocracy:



    CASE CLOSED? THE BBC, BLAIR AND IRAQ

    This week, http://www.openDemocracy.net illuminates the fallout of a crisis sparked by the death of a weapons scientist, and now convulsing Britain's politics and media. Anthony Barnett traces its roots in government duplicity over the Iraq war; David Elstein endorses a new report's forensic criticism of the BBC, but sees in its wreckage an opportunity to change; and Douglas Murray reads a press blinded to truth by corrosive cynicism.

    Plus: Osman Bah's calmly chilling account of his childhood amidst Liberia's civil war; America Vera-Zavala and Meenakshi Shedde on women's space, Nordic hunks and used condoms at the World Social Forum; and Candida Clark hitches an enchanted ride to Cold Mountain.

    Tomorrow: Caspar Henderson's Globolog returns from the World Social Forum in India reflecting on history's shame and a century's challenge

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    THE WEEK'S TOP FIVE

    EDITOR'S NOTE: A MOMENT OF TRUTH
    Hutton blames the BBC and clears Tony Blair. But it misses the larger truth of the Iraq weapons affair, writes ANTHONY BARNETT: British
    government's system of command and control

    http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-8-92-1704.jsp

    WHAT NOW FOR THE BBC?
    The Hutton report is hopelessly skewed, but it offers the BBC a precious opportunity to reform, says DAVID ELSTEIN

    http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-8-92-1700.jsp

    "I WAS A CHILD SOLDIER"
    A child brutalised by Liberia's civil war, OSMAN BAH found refuge in London. Between confession and redemption, he tells his terrible story

    http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-10-1685.jsp

    FROM THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN: THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
    The global elite's Davos conference pulsates with brilliant people and ideas. So why is SIMON ZADEK frustrated? Read his passionate, engaged, daily reports

    http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-6-28-1698.jsp

    KODAK MOMENTS AT THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM
    Seeing Nordic hunks and Indian tribals exchange email addresses, MEENAKSHI SHEDDE knew that the Mumbai jamboree was a window on a new world

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    OUR ELECTION YEAR: THE GREATER POWER
    As President Bush goes fundamental, TODD GITLIN looks at the Democratic race and does the New Hampshire math

    http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-3-1697.jsp

    BREAD & CIRCUSES: BACK TO THE FUTURE
    Want to know the top five stories of 2004? Get on board DOMINIC HILTON'S time machine

    http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-1-1696.jsp

    GLOBAL SECURITY: CHANGING THE SCRIPT
    The US and Britain, failing to find WMD in Iraq, invoke a human rights justification for war. PAUL ROGERS is sceptical

    http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-2-1702.jsp

    WORLD DIARY: LIBYA, OH LIBYA!
    Gaddafi the "statesman", Iraq the "market economy", DICK CHENEY the "evil genius" - and Neo-con fashion! Dominic Hilton gets serious

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Thursday, January 29, 2004

LET THEIR PEOPLE GO
Why Stop With Iraq?
Ted Rall, 1/27/04

"...During his State of the Union address, George W. Bush exalted the liberation of the peoples of Afghanistan and Iraq from the tyranny of brutal and corrupt regimes. Bush recognizes that a lot of work remains to be done. "As long as the Middle East remains a place of tyranny, despair and anger," Bush said, "it will continue to produce men and movements that threaten the safety of America and our friends."

He's right. If we really want to win the war on terrorism, we've got to stop sitting around the Sunni triangle picking rose petals off our Kevlar jackets. If we're serious about liberation as a tool of terror prevention, we've got to invade every dictatorship, topple every autocracy and occupy every patch of soil where evil tyrants oppress their people, especially in the Muslim world..."
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Censored 2004: The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2002-2003
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004

    Subject: Anybody But Bush Update: Bush Admits Misleading on WMD
    From: xxxxxxx@xxx.xxx
    Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:23:49 -0800

    (((((((( Anybody But Bush Update: Bush Admits Misleading on WMD ))))))))

    January 27, 2004
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    http://www.anybodybutbush.info/archives/000199.html
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    January 27, 2004 | Daily Mislead Archive

    Less than a year after declaring there was "no doubt the Iraqi regime continues to possess the most lethal weapons ever devised," President Bush and the White House began to openly "back away from its WMD assertions today." The New York Times reported, "White House officials are no longer asserting that stockpiles of banned weapons would eventually be found" after their weapons inspector, David Kay said he "doesn't think [WMD] existed" after the 1991 Gulf War.

    The backtracking is reverberating throughout the Bush administration. While Secretary of State Colin Powell told the United Nations last year that "our conservative estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agent," he said this weekend that it could actually be "zero tons." Powell told the United Nations in 2003 that Iraq "can produce anthrax," that it might "have produced 25,000 liters" and showed a video of an Iraqi plane that dumping "2,000 liters of simulated anthrax" as proof, but he now says they might have produced no anthrax at all.

    Read the rest
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This is from CounterPunch...

Today's Stories: January 27, 2004

Ritter Was Right: My Exchange with CNN's Aaron Brown
Steve Philion

Leak Against This War: Expose the Lies from the Inside
Daniel Ellsberg

Can George Ever Really be Elected President?
C.G. Estabrook

Hot Coals in Vermont: Dean's Smoke Screens
Josh Frank

Racism 101 All Over Again
Greg Moses

Blood, Soil and Art
Gilad Atzmon

"We're All Lied To": an Interview with Bruce Cockburn in Baghdad
Mike Ferner

General Disorders of the Day
Hammond Guthrie
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TheExperiment has these tidbits to offer:

CBO projects record $477 billion deficit (News|National)

Female GIs Report Rapes in Iraq War (News|International)

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Check out TheExperiment's 101 section for some healthy doses of 411.
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FAIR ACTION ALERT:
Cheney's Iraq Deceptions Leave NPR Speechless
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), January 23, 2004
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t r u t h o u t | 01.28

Kenneth M. Pollack | Bush Guilty of Betrayal
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/012804A.shtml

Three U.S. Soldiers Killed West of Baghdad
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/012804B.shtml

Dave Lieber | Media Owes Howard Dean an Apology
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/012804C.shtml

Kay Testimony Impeaches Bush
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/012804D.shtml

George Soros | U.S. Controlled by Extremists
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/012804E.shtml

Kerry Tops Poll as Voting Begins in New Hampshire
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/012804F.shtml

Glaciers and Sea Ice Endangered by Rising Temperatures
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/012804G.shtml

Le Monde | Iraq: "The Deception"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/012804H.shtml

Daniel Ellsberg | Leak Against This War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/012804I.shtml

The Hartford Courant | Demolishing The WMD Theory
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/012804J.shtml

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Tuesday, January 27, 2004

Salon.com is featuring stories on the Bushes today... check it out.


Former President George H.W. Bush, President George W. Bush and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on a Kennebunkport, Maine, golf course in 2001.

The Bush dynasty's dark magic
One-time Republican hero Kevin Phillips dares to speak up against the Walker-Bush oligarchy that rules the American state through oil, intelligence, big money and the power of the Christian right
By Joan Walsh

"I couldn't stand to support this dynasty of deceit"
Kevin Phillips talks about his big Bush book, all the rumors surrounding George W. (some of them true), and how the Democrats can
stop sabotaging themselves
By Joan Walsh

Rise of a ruling-class family
How generations of high finance and Ivy League breeding led to a presidency handed from father to son. An excerpt from "American Dynasty"

The Lies of George Walker Bush: A Compendium
...featured in "Table Talk"...

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White House retreats from weapons claims
By Terence Hunt
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Monday, January 26, 2004


Photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images
A Thai chicken vendor cooks chicken Sunday at a market in Bangkok.
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Check this out from MoveOn:

Dear MoveOn member,

During this year's Super Bowl, you'll see ads sponsored by beer companies, tobacco companies, and the Bush White House.1 But you won't see the winning ad in MoveOn.org Voter Fund's Bush in 30 Seconds ad contest. CBS refuses to air it.2

Meanwhile, the White House is on the verge of signing into law a deal which Senator John McCain (R-AZ) says is custom-tailored for CBS and Fox,3 allowing the two networks to grow much bigger. CBS lobbied hard for this rule change; MoveOn.org members across the country lobbied against it; and now our ad has been rejected while the White House ad will be played. It looks an awful lot like CBS is playing politics with the right to free speech.

Of course, this is bigger than just the MoveOn.org Voter Fund. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) submitted an ad that was also rejected.4 But this isn't even a progressive-vs.-conservative issue. The airwaves are publicly owned, so we have a fundamental right to hear viewpoints from across the ideological spectrum. That's why we need to let CBS know that this practice of arbitrarily turning down ads that may be "controversial" -- especially if they're controversial simply because they take on the President -- just isn't right.

To watch the ad that CBS won't air and sign our petition to CBS, go to:
http://www.moveon.org/cbs/ad/

(If you want to skip the ad and just sign the petition, click here.)

We'll deliver the petition by email directly to CBS headquarters.

You also may want to let your local CBS affiliate know you're unhappy about this decision. We've attached a list of the CBS affiliates in your state at the bottom of this email. Remember, a polite, friendly call will be most effective -- just explain to them why you believe CBS' decision hurts our democracy.

CBS will claim that the ad is too controversial to air. But the message of the ad is a simple statement of fact, supported by the President's own figures. Compared with 2002's White House ad which claimed that drug users are supporting terrorism,5 it hardly even registers.

CBS will also claim that this decision isn't an indication of political bias. But given the facts, that's hard to believe. CBS overwhelmingly favored Republicans in its political giving, and the company spent millions courting the White House to stop FCC reform.6 According to a well-respected study, CBS News was second only to Fox in failing to correct common misconceptions about the Iraq war which benefited the Bush Administration -- for example, the idea that Saddam Hussein was involved with 9/11.7

This is not a partisan issue. It's critical that our media institutions be fair and open to all speakers. CBS is setting a dangerous precedent, and unless we speak up, the pattern may continue. Please call on CBS to air ads which address issues of public importance today.

Sincerely,
--Adam, Carrie, Eli, James, Joan, Laura, Noah, Peter, Wes, and Zack
The MoveOn.org Team
January 23rd, 2003

P.S. Our friends at Free Press have put together a page which explains simply how CBS and the FCC rule change are integrally linked. Check it out at:
http://www.mediareform.net/media/

P.P.S Here are the CBS affiliates in your state:

KCBS-TV, Los Angeles: (323) 460-3000
KFMB-TV, San Diego: (858) 571-8888
KPSP-TV, Thousand Palms: (760) 343-5700
KBAK-TV, Bakersfield: (661) 327-7955
KCOY-TV, Santa Maria: (805) 925-1200
KGPE-TV, Fresno: (559) 222-2411
KION-TV, Salinas: (831) 784-1702
KPIX-TV, San Francisco: (415) 362-5550
KVIQ-TV, Eureka: (707) 443-3061
KOVR-TV, West Sacramento: (916) 374-1313
KHSL-TV, Chico: (530) 342-0141

Footnotes:

1. "Who's Buying What At the Super Bowl," Ad Age, 1/20/04

2. CBS fax to MoveOn.org Voter Fund, 1/14/04

3. "Democrats Fold on 39% TV Cap Fight", Broadcasting and Cable, 1/21/04

4. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

5. "New Media Campaign Stresses Link between Drugs and Terrorism," U.S. Dept. of State

6. "CBS Television Network Soft Money Donations," Opensecrets.org

7. "Misperceptions, the Media and the Iraq War," PIPA/Knowledge Networks Poll
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Check these out courtesy of my t r u t h o u t subscription. You could have one, too!

Cheney's Latest Distortions
By The Center for American Progress, Friday 23 January 2004

WMD pressure builds up for Blair
By BBC, Saturday 24 January 2004

The States of Iowa and the Union Agree: Bush Can Be Beaten
By Harvey Wasserman, The Free Press, Thursday 22 January 2004

'It's Just Wrong What We're Doing'
By Doug Saunders, The Globe and Mail, Saturday 24 January 2004

A Tougher War for the U.S. Is One of Legitimacy
By Robert Kagan, The New York Times, Saturday 24 January 2004

The One-Note Superpower
By Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek, Monday 02 February 2004

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Dennis Kucinich and the Question
By William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
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Friday, January 23, 2004

It's true! the pResident doesn't look somber or determined at all!



...as suggested by...

Tomgram: Words must be credible
"No one can now doubt the word of America"
By Tom Engelhardt
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And of course, does its excellent media recap ... as per usual ... (click the logo, matey)
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Check out t r u t h o u t for more articles analyzing the MISStateMENT of the Union speech...


Paris Le Monde | 01.22.04 | "And I'm the only candidate capable of continuing the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq!" | (Art: Pancho)
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SUFFER THE FRENCH SCHOOLCHILDREN
Hatred Bush Hath Wrought
CARQUEFOU, FRANCE--Why do they hate us? And where do they get their hatred from?
by Ted Rall, 1/20/04
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My city is redeemed!

City of Los Angeles Defies Bush Over Extending Patriot Act
By Agence France-Presse via Yahoo! News via t r u t h o u t, Wednesday 21 January 2004
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Political analysis from California? From Los Angeles, no less! Really!



MoveOn’s Offside Kick
Political group can’t buy Super Bowl airtime for an anti-Bush ad
by Judith Lewis

Watching the Detectives
With Big Brother getting bigger, the nerds battle back
by Steven Kotler

Resurrection of the Two Johns
And Dean’s debacle in Iowa
by Marc Cooper

Powerlines
The Revenge of the Pols
John Kerry and John Edwards are more conventional candidates than Howard Dean and Wesley Clark — and they may be stronger, too
by Harold Meyerson

Under the Iowa Radar
Hanging with the general’s supporters, and the post-caucus party scene
by Joshuah Bearman

Is That All There Is?
Bush runs out of policy and hews to a narrow political attack
by Harold Meyerson

All from the JANUARY 23 - 29, 2004 issue of the LAWeekly!
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Thursday, January 22, 2004

Judge for yourself:
Text of Bush's State of the Union address
By The Associated Press, January 20, 2004
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The Village Voice...

Mondo New Hampshire
Bush Overshadows the Primaries
Pundits Continue Their Attack on Howard Dean
by James Ridgeway, January 20th, 2004 11:00 AM

Mondo Washington
Warnings During Wartime
With Christ's Approval, Bush Calls for Abstinence, Defends the Empire, and Rallies the Rich
by James Ridgeway, January 21st, 2004 10:00 AM
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Have you seen AntiWar.com lately?

Here's a peek:

$40 Billion More for Iraq – After Election

Iraq: Whose Democracy?

US Poses Iraq Catch 22: Security Before Elections

Afghanistan, Iraq Stretching Troops to the Limit

Belligerent Bush Takes Anti-Terror Message to Heartland

Saudi Prince: Govt Drugged, Kidnapped Me to Stop Outing of Corruption

What's Bush Hiding from 9/11 Commission?

Why the US Is Running Scared of Elections in Iraq

Is War Necessary?

Bush's New Middle East

Spring in Palestine

Opposite of Pax Americana is a Good Night's Sleep
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Tuesday, January 20, 2004

Hey, mes frères et soeurs, check out Le Monde diplomatique's January 2004 issue, immédiatement!
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In These Times!

Laboring for Justice in 2004
By Dorian T. Warren | 1.19.04

Organize, Strategize, Revitalize
Unions debate best way to revive labor’s fortunes
By David Moberg | 1.16.04


Organizing: The Future of the American Labor Movement
By Gerald McEntee | 1.16.04
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dubyabot!
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Iraq's Ex-U.N. Envoy: U.S. Sowing Chaos
By RAWYA RAGEH, mYwAY nEWS, Jan 20, 6:08 AM (ET)
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Monday, January 19, 2004

Suicide bomb at US headquarters kills 20 and injures more than 100
Rory McCarthy in Baghdad, Monday January 19, 2004, The Guardian
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Check these out courtesy of t r u t h o u t:

Cheney's Grim Vision: Decades of War
By James Sterngold, The San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday 15 January 2004
Vice president says Bush policy aimed at long-term world threat

The Fortune 500
By John Cory, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, Sunday 18 January 2004
"Yeh, some folks inherit star spangled eyes, ooh, they send you down to war, Lord, And when you ask them, how much should we give, oh, they only answer, more, more, more"
- Fortunate Son by John Fogarty

A Dishonest War
By Edward M. Kennedy, The Washington Post, Sunday 18 January 2004

First Amendment Treats for the Rich
By Nat Hentoff, VillageVoice.com, Thursday 15 January 2004
The Media Blew This One Big-Time.
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