When the history of this era is finally written, based on the Tai Chi Principle, Osama bin Laden and his scattering of followers may be credited for goading the fundamentalist leaders of the United States into using the power in their grasp so – not to put a fine point on it – stupidly and…
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Bush: ‘I Was Aware’ of Harsh Tactics
President Bush says he knew his top national security advisors discussed and approved specific details about how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to an exclusive interview with ABC News Friday. BY JAN CRAWFORD GREENBERG, HOWARD L. ROSENBERG AND ARIANE DE VOGUE ABC News/Truthout ALTERNATIVE READER Posted by…
Why I Believe Bush Must Go
Nixon Was Bad. These Guys Are Worse. The nation would be much more secure and productive under a Nixon presidency than with Bush. Indeed, has any administration in our national history been so damaging as the Bush-Cheney era? How could a once-admired, great nation fall into such a quagmire of killing, immorality and lawlessness? BY…
Bush and the Law
By Le Monde Editorial Posted by Bulatlat.com Defenders of human rights in the United States and elsewhere may rejoice over the speech George Bush pronounced Wednesday, September 6. The American president acknowledged the existence of “secret prisons,” in which the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) locked up proven or presumed terrorists outside the United States, in…
9/11: Katrina Started at Ground Zero
By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz Posted by Bulatlat.com Nothing else worked that day. The President was flying haplessly around the country looking distinctly unpresidential; the Vice President was in a bunkered panic. The military couldn’t scramble armed jets and anything else that could go wrong did. But one thing worked, and it worked splendidly…
Bush’s Plan Allows Coerced Evidence
By Maura Reynolds, Richard B. Schmitt and David G. Savage The Los Angeles Times Posted by Bulatlat Convictions could also be based on material unseen by the accused. The Senate may object. Washington — President Bush asked Congress Wednesday to approve a new system of military-style justice for terrorism suspects that would, for the first…
The Liquid Bomb Hoax: The Larger Implications
The criminal frame-up of young Muslim-South Asian British citizens by the British security officials was specifically designed to cover up for the failed Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and the Anglo-American backing for Israel’s destructive but failed invasion of Lebanon. By James Petras Posted by Bulatlat.com The charges leveled by the British, U.S. and Pakistani regimes…