Who's in Charge Here? What the 9-11 Commission Report does not explain is why, on the morning of September 11, 2001, President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and other top officials were essentially missing in action By Gail Sheehy, July 22, 2004

The Oil We Eat Following the food chain back to Iraq Posted on Friday, July 23, 2004. Originally from Harper's Magazine, February 2004. By Richard Manning.

August 29, New York City
The World Says No to the Bush Agenda!

They forgot to mention "Skull and Bones".

[Disavowal] Negative Capability Posted on Thursday, July 15, 2004. The following assertions were collected from public statements made by George W. Bush and his official spokesmen since 1997. Originally from Harper's Magazine, May 2004.

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MotherJones.com / News / dailymojo Notes from the Imperium And from a lost war (or the tunnel at the end of the dark). July 14, 2004By Tom Engelhardt

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The Unhappy Majority Beneath the partisan divide, America is discontented and desperate for change.

Michael Scherer
June 16 , 2004

A Pseudostate Is Born The new Iraq doesn't measure up as a real country. Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com, June 29, 2004

George Rex The multiple-choice madness of King George: A not-so-simple Independence Day quiz. By Stephen R. Shalom, July 5, 2004

“The War President”
Bush photomosaic of Americans who have died in Iraq since the war president entered office.

Features > June 22, 2004 The New and Improved Iraq By Juan Cole

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Word that the Rev. Sun Myung Moon donned a crown in a Senate office building and declared himself the Messiah while members of Congress watched during an awards ceremony in March is now causing a stir in Washington.

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• Wooing the Vatican: George Bush had a bad day in Rome. But wait for the pictures at your neighborhood cathedral to turn things around this fall. BY LOU DUBOSE
• Winning Grandma Millie’s Vote: Taking Enron to court sounds like a good idea any day. But there may be more to Attorney General Bill Lockyer’s lawsuit against the bankrupt energy giant. BY JEFFREY ANDERSON
• Bush’s Condom Wars: New federal rules once and for all gut any hope of HIV-prevention education. BY DOUG IRELAND
• Plus, CHRISTINE PELISEK’s list of key Supreme Court decisions affecting states’ rights.
• Powerlines: Earth to Cheney: Saddam had as much to do with 9/11 as I did. BY HAROLD MEYERSON

JUNE 18 - 24, 2004 The Cheney Connection: Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation into whether Halliburton paid some $180 million in bribes to Nigerian officials. It’s an allegation that the French government has been examining for a year, with the VP among the targets. BY DOUG IRELAND + Open City: Blame John Kerry for the abysmal showing at anti-war protests. BY STEVEN MIKULAN

Sign on to support a powerful new ad apologizing to the Arab world for the torture at Abu Ghraib. Also, call your Senators to reaffirm our opposition to torture.

Dear MoveOn member,

By refusing to hold
senior administration officials accountable, President Bush has failed
to fully repudiate the torture that occurred at Abu Ghraib. Every
passing day brings new photos and new news of how these despicable
techniques were sanctioned at the very top, but Bush won't even condemn
Rush Limbaugh for saying that the tactics were "brilliant" and the
troops were "just blowing off a little steam."

So it's up to us to
try to make things right. Our campaign to hold Donald Rumsfeld
accountable will continue. But today, there are two other ways we can
help -- joining an apology from Americans of faith to the world, and
helping pass a legal re-commitment to the Geneva Conventions and what
they stand for.

First, an important new group called FaithfulAmerica¹
is putting a very moving TV ad on the air in Arab countries. The ad is
a montage of American religious leaders -- Christian, Jewish, and
Muslim -- humbly expressing the regrets so many of us feel for what
happened.

You can watch the ad, sign onto it, and help get it on the air, at:

   http://www.faithfulamerica.org/adclip.htm

At the end of the ad,
FaithfulAmerica will state the number of people who've signed on, so
the more people who endorse the message, the more effective it will be.

Please sign on today.

Second, the Senate has
an opportunity now to reaffirm our opposition to torture and our
commitment to the Geneva Conventions, which ban it. The Senate is
debating a bill authorizing Defense Department actions for this year,
and Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) has offered an amendment repudiating
torture and re-confirming our commitment to uphold international human
rights as specified in the Geneva Conventions.²

A vote on the Durbin amendment is expected early this week. Please call your Senators now, at:

  Senator Dianne Feinstein

  Phone: 202-224-3841

  Senator Barbara Boxer

  Phone: 202-224-3553

Urge them to support
the Durbin amendment to the Defense bill. Then say something about why
it's important to you that we repudiate torture and support the Geneva
Conventions.

Please let us know you're calling, at:

  http://www.moveon.org/callrumsfeld.html?id=2944-3261555-WI_z2iDty5Vgg6rtIQqU5A

Thank you, for all you do.

Sincerely,

--Carrie, Joan, Lee, Noah, Peter, and Wes

  The MoveOn.org Team

  Tuesday, June 15th, 2004

Footnotes:

1. FaithfulAmerica is a new project of the National Council of Churches,
"an online community of people of faith who want to build a more just and compassionate nation."

2. For the full text of the Durbin Amendment, click here.

MotherJones.com | News: "Orwell meets Kafka The U.S. runs a global system of injustice, purposely mounted in the legal and moral dark. May/June 2004 IssueBy Tom Engelhardt"

... and justice for all. Photo «courtesy» of t r u t h o u t.

My apologies to Juan José Millás, but I just gotta let my non-spanish-speaking brethren in on this (courtesy of Altavista's Babel Fish Translation):

An ingenuous one
Juan José Millás
I did not saw to anybody shake the newspaper in the air horrified before the idea that everything was allowed. And nevertheless, the news said that the legal advisers of the White House had elaborated a report that adjusts like a glove to the spiritual measures of Bush, and according to which the torture is just when the president by antonomasia orders. This man, that or had the life of its subjects (and its subjects we are all the inhabitants of the planet) when it came to him in desire, could not nevertheless take the nails to them, empalar them or apply to them current without the danger to face the rigors of the law, which was, obviously, a contradiction. For a year, thanks to that report of high moral seam, have not been having limits in which it talks about the use, to the manipulation or the partition of the bodies of his same types. What disproportion between the amount of being able and the shortage of scruples.
Everything is allowed. I did not saw to anybody running by the streets shaking with horror the leaf of the newspaper. I did not do it either, by fear to perhaps seem ingenuous or to give the impression that she was not of return. But he was not it, that one is the truth, I am not it. How it was going to imagine, after the centuries, that I belong to a culture without moral limitations, I have been months fighting not to accustom to me to Guantánamo, Powell, Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice; making exercises so that the alarms go off to me when I hear call political errors to pure crimes; forcing to me to that the end hairs are put whenever I open the family album and I see England soldier playing the dogs with an Arab... And now it is that all that was written in the Tables of the Law.
Everything is allowed. In fact, days ago, the Pope, that shares with Bush the representation of Dios, SA, in the Earth, received its partner, by that let itself decorate at the end of "cordial" interview. The same Pope that excomulga to violet children whom they dare to abort, accepts medals of the author of a manual which it attributes on the creatures competitions that would put the meat of hen to the very same Creator. I am an ingenuous one, yes, and am terrified, but I do not want that innocence nor the fright take off to me neither.
Published in the Friday 11 June 2004 issue of El País.

If I find some moments I'll make it a bit more reader-friendly. But I hope you get the gist of it. Peace.