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Tuesday, Jun 23
Podcast: Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo on Democracy Now!
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Nick at Nite has a new take on an old classic: Leave It to Uyghurs. I thought that was pretty good. AMY GOODMAN: President Obama also joked about the refusal of other countries to resettle prisoners at Guantanamo.
Monday, Jun 22
Iran Falls to US PSYOPS By Paul Craig Roberts
There was more objective evidence that George W. Bush stole his two elections than there is at this time of election theft in Iran. But there was no orchestrated media campaign to discredit the US government. see CIA, Iran and the Election Riots
Tuesday, Jun 16
Facing the Bushes’ Iranian whirlwind by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman + Shots fired on an angry crowd
In the US in 2000 and 2004, the corporate/religious right put George W. Bush in the White House—and then kept him there—with a sophisticated election theft machine built around elimination of voter registrations, manipulation of the vote count, and a wide array of supporting tactics. Th...
Sunday, Jun 7
George Galloway: We Have To Break That Siege
By George Galloway June 07, 2009 “ Information Clearing House – ICH“ George Galloway is the Respect Party Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow. see Viva Palestinia: A Lifeline From The United States To Gaza by George Galloway
Friday, May 29
Do Americans Have a Moral Conscience? By Paul Craig Roberts
If the Obama regime does not hold the Bush regime accountable for violating US and international law, then the Obama regime is complicit in the Bush regime’s crimes. If the American people permit Obama to look the other way in order “to move on,” the American people are also complicit in the...
Sunday, May 24
Obama orders Gates to update plan for Iran strike
WASHINGTON – Technical or offensive move? US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Friday that President Barack Obama had asked him to update the plans for the use of military force against Iran which were prepared during former President George W. Bush’s term.
Kucinich: Bring Cheney before Congress to Testify Under Oath
Congressman Dennis Kucinich D-OH, who led opposition to the war in Iraq and introduced legislation to impeach both Vice President Dick Cheney and President George Bush, made the following statement in response to an address by Mr. Cheney at the American Enterprise Institute today:
Saturday, May 23
Slouching Towards Balkanization By Pepe Escobar
It was hardly stunning that Bush’s pet Afghan hound Zalmay Khalilzad, a US citizen born in Afghanistan and former envoy to both Afghanistan and Iraq, would now be angling – via his pal President Hamid Karzai, who tried to get President Barack Obama on board – to become the unelected CEO of A...
Tuesday, May 19
Splitting the Sky vs Bush: Civil Resistance in the 21st Century
It is a documentary concerning the visit by former U.S. President and accused war criminal George W. Bush to Calgary, Alberta, on March 17th, 2009, about efforts by citizen groups to have Bush either barred or arrested for his alleged crimes, and the one man who attempted to arrest Bush, and t...
Thursday, May 7
Obama Returns To Bush Era On Guantánamo by Andy Worthington
However, on Saturday, after speaking to Obama administration officials, the New York Times reported that, despite declaring that, as President, he would “reject the Military Commissions Act,” and stating that, “by any measure our system of trying detainees has been an enormous fail...
Monday, May 4
“The United States does not torture,” Crapaganda by William Blum
Okay, at least some things are settled. When George W. Bush said “The United States does not torture”, everyone now knows it was crapaganda. And when Barack Obama, a month into his presidency, said “The United States does not torture”1, it likewise had all the credibility of a 19th century tr...
Saturday, May 2
Children as Unlamented Victims of Bush’s War Crimes By Michael Haas
Michael Haas’s book George W. Bush, War Criminal? - The Bush Administration’s Liability for 269 War Crimes is available here. see CIA Torture Began In Afghanistan Eight Months before Justice Department Approval by Andy Worthington
Monday, Apr 13
Obama Administration Endorses Continued Spying on Americans by Tom Burghardt
Since fatuously declaring his to be a “change” administration, President Barack Obama has quickly donned the blood-spattered mantle of state secrecy and executive privilege worn by the Bush regime. As Wired reported back in January, “NSA whistleblower Russell Tice” revealed “that t...
Sunday, Apr 12
The Most Successful American President: George W. Bush, Part 4: The Bush Legacy By Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
The Most Successful American President: George W. Bush, Part 1 By Steven Jonas, MD, MPH The Most Successful American President: George W. Bush, Part 2: The Constitution by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH The Most Successful American President: George W. Bush, Part 3: Goals and Successes By Steven...
Wednesday, Feb 18
Action Alert: Prosecuting the Bush Administration’s War Crimes, Crimes of State and Crimes against Humanity
OPR investigators determined that Yoo blurred the lines between an attorney charged with providing independent legal advice to the White House and a policy advocate who was working to advance the administration’s goals, said the sources who spoke on condition of anonymity because th...
Friday, Feb 13
When Will We March Against Obama? by Margaret Kimberley
In just three weeks, the Barack Obama administration has demonstrated its determination to hold on to the same presidential prerogatives claimed by George W. Bush. Bush’s successor evidently wants the same prerogatives and he wants to get them through by the same means. Obama supporters...
Thursday, Feb 12
Toothless: The Watchdog Press That Became the Government’s Lapdog by Walter Brasch
When the Bush-Cheney Administration laid out lies that Saddam Hussein was tied into 9/11, that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and then launched an invasion of a sovereign nation, the media saluted and reported what they were told.
Wednesday, Feb 11
Obama, like Bush, is Throwing Public Money into a Black Hole by Rodrigue Tremblay
“The [financial] crisis was not a failure of the free market system and the answer is not to try to reinvent that system. …Government intervention is not a cure-all.” - President George W. Bush, Thursday November 13, 2008 He is the author of the book ‘The New American Empire’.
Monday, Feb 2
Obama preserves rendition two days after taking office
Rendition/CIA Secret Prisons Posted in Dandelion Salad Posts News Politics and-or Videos 2, Executive Privilege, Obama-Barack, Politics, Rendition, Torture, Torture on Dandelion Salad Tagged: Barack Obama on Dandelion Salad Dandelion Salad Jeremy Gantz The Raw Story Feb...
Tuesday, Jan 27
Should Obama prosecute Bush and Cheney?
“Had Richard Nixon gone to prison, had we gotten monthly reports of his redemption, of his regrets over a period of decades we never would have had a President George W. Bush and essentially a President Dick Cheney committing the sorts of crimes they committed,” he said.
Monday, Jan 26
In America, Speaking the Truth Is a Career-ending Event, By Paul Craig Roberts
These are the words of Manfred Nowak, the UN official appointed by the Commission on Human Rights to examine cases of torture. Nowak has concluded that President Obama is legally obligated to prosecute former President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Saturday, Jan 24
Bill Moyers Journal: Sirota, Frank, Williams & Harris-Lacewell
Your book describes conservatism as “an expression of American business.” Why exclude Democrats? Jimmy Carter triggered the deregulation frenzy. Bill Clinton pushed for NAFTA, signed the Telecommunications Act of l996 which gave the megamedia companies everything they wanted, auc...
Official: UN May Prosecute Bush Administration, Regardless Of US action + Michael Ratner: Prosecute Bush & Cheney
“Judicially speaking, the United States has a clear obligation” to bring proceedings against Bush and Rumsfeld, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak said, in remarks to be broadcast on Germany’s ZDF television Tuesday evening. see
Wednesday, Dec 31
Letter to Bush on Gaza Crisis by Ralph Nader
The least you can do in your remaining days at the White House is adopt a modest profile in courage, and vigorously demand and secure a ceasefire and a solidly based truce. Then your successor, President-elect Obama can inherit something more than the usual self-censoring Washington pup...
Monday, Dec 22
Why did Cheney confess on national television? + Will Bush Pardon Cheney on Christmas Eve?
Will George W. Bush follow his father’s precedent and pardon Dick Cheney and his other criminal co-conspirators this Wednesday on Christmas Eve? Prosecution of those responsible for torture is not optional - it is required by our obligations under the Geneva Conventions.
Saturday, Dec 20
One Leg Raised on the Bush–Cheney Legacy: Deconstructing the Spin and Propaganda by Walter Brasch
“We will . . . continue to stand for . . . strong national security. . . .” “Just as the liberal mainstream media aided the Democrats . . .” see George W. Bush Belongs in Prison by Joel S. Hirschhorn The Failed Presidency of George W. Bush: A Dismal Legacy, Part II by Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay
