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December 2004  

Oh, What a Year it Was

Shopping for War

History Will Show U.S. Lusted after Oil

War Crimes

Sen. Feinstein wants end to Electoral College; Senator says she'll seek constitutional amendment

How Uncle Santa Diddles Dems from Ukraine to Venezuela

FBI E-Mail Refers to Presidential Order Authorizing Inhumane Interrogation Techniques

Neocon Christmas List

Nation Doesn't Need an AG Who Cleared Path for Torture

Rumsfeld's Fig Leaf Falling

Torture begins at the top

The Oil-For-Food 'Scandal' is a Cynical Smokescreen

Secret Intelligence and the 'War on Terror'

Shafting Kansas

Hyping Terror For Fun, Profit - And Power

Ten preliminary reasons why the Bush vote does not compute, and why Congress must investigate rather than certify the Electoral College (Part One of Two).

Officer Alleges CIA Retaliation - Lawsuit Says Agency Urged False Reporting on Iraqi Arms

If Bush Really Wants a Legacy

2 C.I.A. Reports Offer Warnings on Iraq's Path

Dollar slides to a new euro low

Borrow, Speculate and Hope

Inventing a Crisis

Little Big Man

Tenet Signals that the Bush Cartel May be Ready to Start Imposing Censorship on the Internet in the Name of National Security

CIA Was Wary of U.S. Interrogation Methods in Iraq

Would Jesus Ban This Ad?

 

November 2004

 

British Embassy sounds alarm over growing dangers in Iraq

Fallujah Napalmed

Red Cross Finds Detainee Abuse in Guantánamo

Quietly released Pentagon report contains major criticisms of administration. 'They hate our policies, not our freedom'

Witnesses say US forces killed unarmed civilians, seized hospitals, in Fallujah

Mr. Smith Goes Under the Gavel

GOP leaders give themselves unlimited access to any American's tax records

A few political developments

Notes from the underworld

Congress Helps Providers Refuse Abortions

Was it Hacked?

47 State Exit Poll Analysis Confirms Swing Anomaly

Iraq War Topping $5.8 Billion A Month 11/20

Fallujah in Photos - Not for the Squeamish

Afghan Poppy Growing Reaches Record Level, U.N. Says

'Stinking Evidence' of Possible Election Fraud Found in Florida

Revolution In Reverse - In solidifying its power, the GOP is loosening its ethics.

Bush's Echo Chamber

Police scoff at Ashcroft speech

Lingering Suspicions of a Stolen Election

The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy

 

Die, then vote. This is Falluja

The Peter Principle and the Neocon Coup

A Plague of Toadies

The Role of Boycotts in the Fight for Peace

Lingering Suspicions of a Stolen Election

CIA 'Purge'? What is This, the USSR?

Iraq: The Unthinkable Becomes Normal

I Smell a Rat 

A Legitimate Recount Effort in Ohio

The Quaint Mr. Gonzales

Gonzales Is a Disastrous Choice

The Nomination of Gonzales: A Grave Injustice

Worst Voter Error Is Apathy Toward Irregularities

U.N. Report Slams Use of Torture to Beat Terror

Former Chief of CIA's Bin Laden Unit Leaves

Our Not-So-Free Press

Worse Than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral Disaster

Rocket the Vote: Election Weapons

Bush will now celebrate by putting Falluja to the torch

Suicide by Ballot

Another Rigged Election? The Elephant in the Voting Booth

The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy

Ohio Whitewash - Basic report from Columbus

The Red Zone

Election 2004: Shoplifting the Presidency?

An Election Spoiled Rotten

Black Box Voting

October 2004 

Days of Shame

Promises to Keep

Explosives were looted after Iraq invasion; UN nuclear official cites security lapse

New Florida vote
scandal feared

I Need a President - Again

The Man Behind the Oval Office Curtain; It's Cheney's Administration, and It's a Shame

380 tons of explosives missing in Iraq; Pentagon official says Al-Qaqaa explosives were intact in the immediate aftermath of the March 2003 invasion

The War Bin Laden Wanted

This Election is as Much About the Past as the Future

Comparing Bush and Kerry on Civil Rights

Army Faces Probe on No-Bid Deals With KBR

Why Iran Wants Four More Years

Fighting Terror with Terror?:"Morally, Politically and Legally Wrong"

Three of Four Bush Supporters Still Believe in Iraqi WMD, al Qaeda Ties

The World According to a Bush Voter

Feeling the Draft

A War Without Reason

Block the Vote

Checking the Facts, in Advance

Bush special envoy embroiled in controversy over Iraq debt

100 Mistakes for the President to Choose From

Webs of Illusion

Scorched-Earth Strategy 

The Scary Little Man

Orwell Goes to War

Ignorance Isn't Strength

U.S. 'Almost All Wrong' on Weapons - Report on Iraq Contradicts Bush Administration Claims

More than 180 Former U.S. Ambassadors from Republican and Democratic Administrations Endorse Kerry

War's Rationales Are Undermined One More Time

U.S. 'Almost All Wrong' on Weapons - Report on Iraq Contradicts Bush Administration Claims

Cheney's Avalanche of Lies

The New Right and Old Wrongs: The Quagmire, A to Z

Reality Check

CIA review finds no evidence Saddam had ties to Islamic terrorists

Bush and Reality

This new database charts conservatives' dishonesty and compares it with the truth. Each conservative quote will be matched against well-documented facts, so users can get a more accurate picture of the issues.

 

September 2004 

Graydon Carter Shows How Bush Makes Lies Seem True, and Just What We've Lost on Bush's Watch

Swagger vs. Substance

Why We Must Not Re-elect President Bush

Prewar Assessment on Iraq Saw Chance of Strong Divisions

Bush Upbeat as Iraq Burns

Annan declares Iraq war illegal and warns of election credibility

Forged Documents; The Story That Didn’t Run

When Fascism Comes to America

The Dunce - His former Harvard Business School professor recalls George W. Bush not just as a terrible student but as spoiled, loutish and a pathological liar.

Far graver than Vietnam

The Terror Index: Terrorism Is Up Under Bush's Watch

Bush Administration Directs Agencies to Ignore Clean Water Act

At Least They're Consistent

Preventive War: A Failed Doctrine

Heads in the Sand

Bush by numbers: Four years of double standards  

The Top Ten Reasons to Boot Bush

Nausea in New York

Censored!

 

 

Bush/Cheney 2004 Campaign Buttons - Legirons in 2004

August 2004 

Bush's War on Democracy

Bush's War on Democracy

Where Is The Shame?

Dole caught blatantly lying for Bush - Kerry TV Ad Pins Veterans' Attack Firmly on Bush

Is the real aim of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth to divert attention from Iraq?

Robert Abele: An Attack on Democracy

Bereuter: War in Iraq not justified

Depleted Uranium: Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets

Depleted Uranium: Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets

F.B.I. Goes Knocking for Political Troublemakers

Suppress the Vote?

Not Scared Yet? Try Connecting These Dots

Indignities Endured by U.S. Military:  How the Bush Cartel Disrespects and Short Sheets Our Soldiers

They Knew... Despite the whitewash, we now know that the Bush administration was warned before the war that its Iraq claims were weak

They Knew... Despite the whitewash, we now know that the Bush administration was warned before the war that its Iraq claims were weak

Fabricating Terror

Report Proves Bush Knew He Was Lying About Iraq

Reports That Led to Terror Alert Were Years Old

Article III, Section 2 and the Wobbly Wall Between Church and State

America's Disease is Greed 

The Bush administration's public statements on Iraq

July 2004 

Abu Ghraib, Whitewashed

The Scaife Strategy: Smother Teresa

Jesus, Jihadis, and the Red-State Blues

Bush Using Drugs to Control Depression, Erratic Behavior

Abu Ghraib, Whitewashed

Spinning Our Safety

The 9/11 Report Misses the Point

A Radical Assault on the Constitution

The 9/11 Report: Bad News for Bush

Accounting and Accountability - By PAUL KRUGMAN

The Pakistan connection - There is evidence of foreign intelligence backing for the 9/11 hijackers. Why is the US government so keen to cover it up?

They’re Back: Neocons Revive the Committee on the Present Danger, This Time Against Terrorism

The Arabian Candidate - By PAUL KRUGMAN

The Case Against George W. Bush - By Ron Reagan

Editorial: Not-so-Curious George (Bush)

Bush Cartel's New Saddam: ‘Allawi said they deserved worse than death … then he started shooting them’

Senate and House Democratic Leaders Call for Pre-Election Investigation:  Members Cite Concerns about Hidden Threats to the Integrity of the November Election

Only Cowards Cancel Elections

Fury over Pentagon cell that briefed White House on Iraq's 'imaginary' al-Qaeda links

Let Them Eat Wedding Cake

C.I.A. Warned White House That Links Between Iraq and Qaeda Were 'Murky'

Free speech? Critics clobbered

9/11 Commission Faults Cheney's Claims

Cheney Cat's Paw, Porter Goss, as CIA Director?

Bye-Bye, Bush Boom

A King George quiz for July 4th

June 2004 

Asking Anonymous - Book by CIA’s "Anonymous" Reflects Analyst Outrage - by Ray McGovern

Hey, you! The snarl in the suit! Yeah, you, Dick Cheney: Go **** yourself!

Reaffirming the Rule of Law

Asking Anonymous - Book by CIA’s "Anonymous" Reflects Analyst Outrage - by Ray McGovern

Are They Losing It?

Rehnquist, Cambodia & Abu Ghraib

Noonday in the Shade

Saddam/Al Qaeda Link: Bush Team Tries to Brazen It Out

This is the Fight of Our Lives - Bill Moyers

COUP D'ETAT: The Real Reason Tenet and Pavitt Resigned from the
CIA on June 3rd and 4th

Think Again: No Link? Who Knew? - Eric Alterman

The Plain Truth

So Torture Is Legal?

Travesty of Justice

Making Votes Count

Retired Officials Say Bush Must Go - 26 ex-diplomats and military leaders say his foreign policy has harmed national security

An Economic Legend

Legalizing Torture

Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides

No News is Bad News

Epitaph and Epigone

Why Bush Needs a Lawyer

May 2004 

Democracy Itself is in Grave Danger - Al Gore

Chalabi 'Boasted of Iranian Spy Link'

Conspiracy to Commit War Crimes 

The Iranian Spy in the House of Bush

Democracy Itself is in Grave Danger - Al Gore

War Crimes: Was Afghanistan Worse?

Vanishing Votes

The Policy of Abuse

Chickenhawk Groupthink?

Dancing Alone

CNN and the Truth: It's Nothing to Yawn About.

The War is Lost

AP President Proposes Media Lobby to Fight Government Secrecy

More Troops? A March of Folly

Bush Privately Chides Rumsfeld

April 2004 

Mutiny in Iraq

Selective Service Eyes Women's Draft

The Orwellian Olsens

Their Beliefs Are Bonkers, But They Are at the Heart of Power

The gagging of Captain Yee

With God on His Side

A Different Kind of Intelligence Failure

House of Broken Toys

Hear no evil, read no evil, speak drivel

A Scary Performance, and a Signal for Slaughter

A Perfectly Good Train Wreck

An Iraqi intifada: Now the war is being fought in the open, by people defending their home

Bush Told Of Hijack Warning Weeks Before 9/11

Condi Gets A Reality Check

'The Extreme Right Wing in the White House' 

Will the 2004 Election Be Called Off? Why Three Out of Four Experts Predict a Terrorist Attack by November

Into the Shadows

Bush and Blair made secret pact for Iraq war

Roots of Terrorism (and bin Laden) Found in Cold War

Bush's Attack Puppy Nips at the Truth

Charlie McCarthy Hearings

March 2004 

11 Hard Questions For Bush In which our columnist sits down with the prez for some truly tough talk. Can Dubya handle it?

Tag-team testimony from Bush, Cheney will limit divergent answers

Fox News and the Iraq War: Fact vs. Fox-tion

Floor Statement of Sen. Daschle on the Abuse of Government Power

Bush's brand new enemy is the truth

Bush ignored the al-Qa'ida threat before 11 September

Taken for a Ride

Untruth and Consequences

The Empire Backfires

The new Pentagon papers

The new Pentagon papers: A high-ranking military officer reveals how Defense Department extremists suppressed information and twisted the truth to drive the country to war

'Special skills draft' on drawing board

From His First Day in Office, Bush Was Ousting Aristide

Four Wars and a Cloud of Dust

Bush Avoided Attacking Suspected Terrorist Mastermind

The Social Security Promise Not Yet Kept

The Fire This Time in Haiti was US-Fueled; The Bush Administration Appears to have Succeeded in its Long-Time Goal of Toppling Aristide Through Years of Blocking International Aid to this Impoverished Nation

Will The End of Oil Mean The End of America?

February 2004 

The Lie Factory

You Can't Duck This Conflict, Mr. Justice

The Lie Factory

The Way We Were

The Pentagon Sounds The Alarm On Global Warming; Why Isn't President Bush Listening?

Still Smoke and Mirrors

War as an Excuse for Everything

There was no failure of intelligence 

The Lies That Bind Us to Iraq 

Confronting the Theocracy of Evil
by Scott Ritter UN Chief Inspector in Iraq from 1991-1998

January 2004 

Censored 2004: The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2002-2003

Halliburton, Others Accused of Doing Business With Terrorist States

BushCo wants you to know: Caring about the environment is for pinko terrorist idiots

Bush was demanding excuse to invade Iraq in January 2001, says ex-treasury secretary

The US is now in the hands of a group of extremists

From January 2003: Invading Iraq not a new idea for Bush clique

'It's Just Wrong What We're Doing'--repentant Vietnam War architect Robert McNamara says US is making the same mistakes all over again

Two Loud Words: Bush Knew

Arms Issue Seen as Hurting U.S. Credibility Abroad

Risky Business in Iraq

Let Them Eat War

The Year of the Fake 

Paranoid Shift

How Will Bush Deal With the Deficits? Connecting the Dots to Iraq

Quarantining dissent: How the Secret Service protects Bush from free speech (the Bush administration restricts dissenters to "free speech zones - apparently the Bush people forgot that the entire country is supposed to be a free speech zone)

2003 Media Follies!

RNC Plays the Hitler Card

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