The Most Successful American President: George W. Bush, Part 2: The Constitution by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH

by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH
Featured Writer
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crossposted on TPJmagazine
March 24, 2009
Continuing this series, this column focuses on what was the centerpiece of the Bush/Cheney (or Presidency: the destruction of our treasured Constitutional Democracy that (for the most part) has served our nation so well for the 218 years of its existence.
To start, let’s review the [...]

Prosecuting the Bush Administration’s Torturers by Andy Worthington

by Andy Worthington
Featured Writer
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www.andyworthington.co.uk
Originally posted at the Future of Freedom Foundation
March 23, 2009
It’s a sign of how much the Bush administration skewed America’s moral compass that we are currently facing the possibility that the only way to bring the torturers to account is through a “Nonpartisan Commission Of Inquiry” — essentially, a toothless truth [...]

What Can Bush Teach Us? by Ralph Nader

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
3.20.09
George W. Bush is hitting the lecture circuit. Represented by the Washington Speakers Bureau, Mr. Bush for a fee of at least $150,000 flew up to Calgary, Canada and spoke to a conservative business audience amidst street protests.
He also has signed a book contract with Crown Publishers tentatively titled “Decision [...]

White House And Pentagon: Change, Continuity And Escalation by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
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Stop NATO
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato/message/38022
March 19, 2009
Few of his contemporaries and far fewer since knew of the nineteenth century French journalist and novelist Alphonse Karr, but most everyone is familiar with some variant of his quip plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: The more it changes the more it’s [...]

Shoe Throwing Journalist Gets 3 Year Sentence

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VOTERSTHINKdotORG
http://cspanjunkie.org/
March 12, 2009 BBC

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Iraqi journalist jailed for Bush shoe attack – 12 Mar 09
AlJazeeraEnglish
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at George Bush, the former US president, has been sentenced to three years in jail.

Countdown: Hersh’s mention of Cheney “Hit Squads” + How HIGH Is Ari Fleischer?

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Countdown-Jonathan Alter briefly discusses Sy Hersh’s mention of Cheney “Hit Squads”

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How HIGH Is Ari Fleischer!

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh describes ‘executive assassination ring’ By Eric Black

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By Eric Black
MinnPost
Wed, Mar 11 2009 11:17 am
At a “Great Conversations” event at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by talking about new alleged instances of domestic spying by the CIA, and about an ongoing covert military operation that [...]

Ray McGovern: Holding Our Leaders Accountable (must-see)

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This is good, please watch the entire video.   Don’t get discouraged, continue to speak out loudly.  ~ DS
talkingsticktv
Talk by Ray McGovern, 27-year Veteran of the CIA and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) speaking at the Veterans for Peace Northwest Regional Conference March 8, 2009 in Kirkland, WA.

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