Bush Junta News Archive for 2005

From the archive: We've Been Had 11/8/04 (the audio report on Kerry as a 5th column Bushevik is also worth a listen - can you say "Skull and Bones?" Sure, I knew you could)

Cheney's Tangled Chain of Command 11/2

Democrats Fiddling as the World Burns 11/1

Paul Krugman: Ending the Fraudulence 11/1

Bush Resigns 11/30

Europe in Uproar Over CIA Operations 11/28

Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity 11/27

Even Supporters Doubt President as Issues Pile Up 11/26

Iraq War Critics Are the Real Friends of Freedom, Democracy & America's Troops 11/25

Director of Torture 11/24

Doubts grow over US Afghan strategy 11/24

Secrecy gag prompted by fear of new Blair-Bush revelations 11/24

Behind the phosphorus clouds are war crimes within war crimes 11/23

Hugo Chavez to start selling discounted heating oil to poor U.S. communities 11/22

Powell aide: Torture 'guidance' from VP 11/21

The Rendon Group: Proof The Administration Manipulated Intelligence 11/20

Corruption Inquiry Threatens to Ensnare Lawmakers 11/20

Uproar in House as Parties Clash on Iraq Pullout 11/19

Lawmakers at Impasse On Patriot Act Renewal 11/19

Clinton: The big mistake of the Iraq war 11/18

An Iraq Deadline for Bush 11/18

Former CIA director accuses Cheney of overseeing torture 11/18

War critics spineless, says Cheney 11/18

Morning-After, Months Later 11/16

Torture Alleged at Ministry Site Outside Baghdad 11/16

Document Says Oil Chiefs Met With Cheney Task Force 11/16

Report Details F.D.A. Rejection of Next-Day Pill 11/15

Debunking the Right: The World Did Not See the Iraqi Threat as Bush Did 11/14

Torture's Terrible Toll 11/14

What The Senate Intel Committee Found: Bush Admin Manipulated Case For War 11/14

Condi accuses Syria of arbitrary detentions. Hypocrisy surrenders 11/14

Postcards from a corporate tax holiday 11/13

Fox conservatives say they don't care about your lost manufacturing job 11/13

San Francisco in uproar after O'Reilly endorses terror attack on monument to firefighter heroes 11/13

Schwarzenegger Abandons Court Fight Against Nurses 11/12

Libby Testimony Is Key To Rove Inquiry 11/12

Pre-war CIA report questioned al Qaeda-Iraq ties 11/11

His Image Tarnished, Bush Seeks to Restore Credibility (with more lies) 11/11

Chalabi US trip stirs controversy 11/10

Bush Suffers a Trifecta of Defeat in Off-Year Election 11/9

US forces 'used chemical weapons' during assault on city of Fallujah 11/8

Cheney fights hard to protect torture 11/7

Experts: U.S. is spending its way to financial ruin 11/7

Bush borrows more from foreign countries than previous 42 presidents combined 11/7

Report Warned Bush Team About Intelligence Suspicions 11/6

Rioters shatter Bush's hopes of forging free trade coup 11/6

Rosa Brooks: Soviet-style torture is the new American way 11/5

Source of Forged Niger-Iraq Uranium Documents Identified 11/4

Italy: We told you those WMD documents were fake 11/4

Bush at Hemisphere Talks: Trade Fight Awaits 11/4

EU to look into 'secret US jails' 11/4

Pelosi Offers a Privileged Resolution on Iraq 11/3

Truth about Torture 11/3

Rove's Future Role Is Debated 11/3

Democrats in Senate Act as An Opposition Party 11/2

Questions of Trust in the Press Room 11/1

Click for photo Gallery of CCRCC vigil at High Noon

Click for photo Gallery of CCC Vigil at High Noon

October 2005

Bob Herbert: Smoke Gets in Our Eyes 10/31

War Powers in the Age of Terror 10/31

E.J. Dionne, Jr.: Some Principles; GOP Supreme Court machinations give lie to talk of overriding standards 10/31

The dream world of David Brooks 10/31

Joseph Wilson: Our 27 months of hell 10/29

Libby Takes a Fall 10/28

Humiliated Bush forced to retreat as moral right turns its guns on him 10/28

Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh: Iraq Confidential 10/27

We've Been Here Before 10/27

Ladies and Gentlemen: The Real George W. Bush 10/27

Shipwrecked; Bush has so thoroughly destroyed the Republican establishment that no one, not even his dad, can rescue him now 10/27

Iraq's War Dead 10/26

No End In Sight 10/25

Are 2,000 U.S. Deaths "Negligible"? 10/26

A Fake End to Fake News 10/26

Weaponsgate is a Media Scandal 10/25

What Part of 'Global Warming' Don't We Get? 10/25

Contract on America 2.1 -- Commentary by Will Durst 10/24

Walker's World: Bush at bay; Fitzgerald Interested in Forged Niger Docs 10/24

The Return of the Bush Quiz. Test your knowledge of BushCo missteps, misstatements and miscues 10/24

E&P: Open warfare at the New York Times 10/24

GOP: Hmm, how to pretend exposing an agent to justify a fake war isn't a big deal? 10/24

Young Democrats Sharpen Tactics Against Old Rivals; New Breed on Hill Works Aggressively To Snap GOP Grip 10/23

Fighting the Gulf Coast wage cut 10/23

Who Is Scooter Libby? 10/23

Hans Blix says White House misled the world -- and itself -- on Iraq 10/22

Woman of Mass Destruction 10/22

Welcome to Faith-Based America 10/22

Talking About Testicles and Toughness, Instead of Actually Having Those Things 10/22

It's Not up to the Court 10/22

Editor Says He Missed Miller 'Alarm Bells' 10/21

Bush's Ace in the Hole-- The Pardon Power 10/21

ESP wonder; newspapers channel Bush 10/21

A Long Overdue Frog-March 10/21

With Military Aid Response, Bush is Again Up To No Good 10/21

Powell Aide Blasts Rice, Cheney- Rumsfeld 'Cabal' 10/21

The Most Important Criminal Case in American History 10/21

Prez Iraq team fought to squelch war critics 10/20

The Rude Pundit: The Republican In Fall 10/20

Leave the Dopers Alone 10/20

Judy Miller's Reporting: A Cancer on the New York Times? 10/20

If you what to see what democracy could be, look to Latin America 10/20

New York Times's Misguided Crusade 10/20

Conservatives are raging against Bush to hide the utter failure of their ideology 10/20

Maureen Dowd -- Naughty Harry: Lawyering Without a License 10/19

Why Can't the Left Face the Stolen Elections of 2004 & 2008? 10/19

Why You Should Oppose the USDA's Mandatory Property and Animal Surveillance Program 10/18

Become a Republican 10/18

'Rule of Law'? That's So '90s 10/18

Fox News Pushing “Criminalization of Politics” Talking Point 10/18

Judy Miller, Manchurian Reporter 10/18

Running on Fumes 10/18

Harriet Miers: A Sucker Punch 10/18

The Stealth Judge 10/17

What is the 'character' of Bush administration? 10/16

Bush's Pledge? The Joke's on the Poor 10/14

Stuck In Baghdad? Yeah, Right 10/13

The End Of The Trust-Me Presidency? 10/13

Gore Vidal talks about the Bush Junta on Independent World Television 10/13

Sidney Blumenthal: Who Will be Indicted and When? 10/13

Losing Hope in Louisiana 10/12

Inexpert Selection 10/12

The Vanishing Middle 10/12

CIA review faults prewar plans 10/12

President created terror mess he describes 10/11

Al Qaeda's Golden Opportunity 10/11

2,000 dead? Who cares? Why is the country so oblivious to the Iraq war's casualties? 10/10

President's torture veto will pose extremely awkward situation for him 10/10

Bush's Most Desperate Speech Yet 10/10

Bush's terrifying terror speech 10/10

Arguing with Bush and the GWOT 10/8

Rove's nightmare: If Karl Rove told federal officials in 2003 he wasn't involved in outing Valerie Plame, he could face charges 10/8

Bush vows to veto anti-torture law after Senate revolt 10/8

Abuse: Systematic And Chronic 10/8

Making sense of Miers 10/8

Iraq and terror 10/8

Bush & Co. have hijacked Jesus, using him as the poster child for their callous worldview. It's time to rescue Christ from his kidnapper 10/8

Making a Mockery of Conservation 10/7

Bush's D'oh! Factor 10/7

George Bush: 'God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq' 10/7

Flim-Flam and Hoo-Hah 10/7

Katrina Contracts Will Be Reopened; No-Bid Deals Questioned on Hill 10/7

Posse and Harriet: The real reason that Bush picked Miers 10/6

The Decline of the Daily Newspapers 10/6

"The subjugation of news by entertainment seriously harms our democracy: it leads to dysfunctional journalism that fails to inform the people." Al Gore 10/5

Bush Dunnit! 10/4

Bushie and Harriet 10/4

Kofi and the Scandal Pimps 10/4

Hurricanes Rain on Bush's Tax Cut Parade 10/4

The police abuse terror and harassment laws to penalise dissent while we insist civil liberties are our gift to the world 10/4

Miller's Big Secret 10/3

Secret report reveals Iraq War caused catastrophe of New Orleans response 10/3

Congress has always had its share of extremists. But the DeLay era is the first time the fringe has ever been in charge 10/2

Newsweek declares GOP "power outage" 10/2

Dismantling VA 10/2

Huffington: Who is Judy Miller kidding? 10/2

The GOP's Spreading Plague 10/2

Bush threatens to veto defense bill if Senators attempt to probe torture abuse or set policies to ban it 10/1

Retired general: Iraq invasion was ‘strategic disaster' 10/1

The House's Abuse of Patriotism 10/31

ABC: Instead of Setting the Agenda, Bush and GOP Lawmakers Are Changing the Subject 10/31

Indictment Gives Glimpse Into a Secretive Operation 10/29

In Indictment's Wake, a Focus on Cheney's Powerful Role 10/29

Rove not indicted, still under investigation 10/28

Libby Indicted in CIA Leak Probe 10/28

Top Cheney Aide To Be Indicted 10/28

US forces in Iraq reach 161,000, highest level of the war 10/28

Gulf Coast Wage Cut Reversed: Davis-Bacon Will Be Back 10/27

Harriet Miers steps down 10/27

Grand Jurors Hear Counsel on Leak Case 10/27

Negotiators on Torture Bill Feeling Heat 10/26

US death toll in Iraq hits 2,000 10/25

New York Times: Was Cheney Ground Zero for TreasonGate? 10/25

Return of the Vietnam-style body count 10/24

New evidence proves Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist lied about his stock holdings 10/24

NY Times, Miller Fight Over CIA Leak Probe 10/23

Miers family received 'excessive' sum in land case 10/23

Unisys bilked U.S. in multi-billion Homeland Security contract 10/23

Cornell President Condemns Teaching Intelligent Design as Science 10/22

Valerie Plame plans civil suit against White House officials 10/22

White House Defense Shaky in CIA Leak Case 10/21

Embarrassing setback for Bush nominee 10/21

Amateur hour as Miers does mock hearings 10/21

Cheney 'cabal' hijacked US foreign policy 10/20

Miers Is Asked to Redo Reply to Questions 10/20

Chertoff Says FEMA's Lack of Planning to Blame 10/20

A Year Later, Goss's CIA Is Still in Turmoil 10/19

Inflation Soars on Surge in Energy Prices 10/18

FEMA memos show internal chaos during Katrina 10/18

Bush's job rating continues to drop 10/18

Iraqis Say Civilians Killed in U.S. Raids 10/18

Judgment Call 10/17

Cheney May Be Entangled in CIA Leak Investigation, People Say 10/17

Miers expected to be president's terror ally 10/15

Thatcher reveals her doubts over basis for Iraq war 10/14

Bush Teleconference With Soldiers Staged 10/13

Parade Magazine's Chavez Smear Venezuelan president a terrorist funder? 10/13

Bush approval dips below 40 percent 11/12

FEMA Restricts Evacuee Data, Citing Privacy; Families and Police Protest 10/12

DeLay Is a King Without a Crown in the House 10/12

Cheney's Halliburton stock options rose 3,281% last year, senator finds 10/11

Iraq war now costing $6 billion a month 10/11

Scope of Plots Bush Says Were Foiled Is Questioned 10/11

Editorial: Wal-Mart Can Hide, But It Can't Run 10/11

Bush's FEMA didn't plan, signed bad contracts on the fly for key tasks like body retrieval 10/10

A Central Pillar of Iraq Policy Crumbling 10/9

Western trained, Western armed, enemies 10/7

George Bush's "80 Iraqi Army Battalions" vs Reality 10/7

Rove Ordered to Talk Again in Leak Inquiry 10/7

IAEA, ElBaradei Share Nobel Peace Prize 10/7

Poll: Bush Ratings Hit New Low 10/7

New Questions From the Right on Court Pick 10/6

DeLay, Successor Blunt Swapped Donations 10/6

Conservatives still uneasy about Miers 10/5

Miers Briefed Bush on Famous Bin Laden Memo, But Newspapers Handle the AP Photo Quite Differently 10/4

Bush reasserts faith in nominee 10/4

DeLay indicted on money laundering charge 10/3

Something stinks in America 10/2

Bush and Cheney Aides' Testimony Contradicts Earlier White House Statement 10/2

Health Officials Vigilant for Illness After Sensors Detect Bacteria on Mall; Agent Found as Protests Drew (Hundreds of) Thousands of Visitors 10/2

U.S. Generals Now See Virtues of a Smaller Troop Presence in Iraq 10/1

Buying of News by Bush's Aides Is Ruled Illegal 10/1

Bush's Obscene Tirades Rattle White House Aides

September 2005

Blood on Their Hands 9/30

John Roberts, GOP Hypocrite 9/30

Cindy Sheehan, Our Imploding President 9/30

U.S. has sanctioned torture for too long 9/30

"The President's Policies in Iraq Are Breaking the United States Army" 9/30

Absurdities & Atrocities 9/29

The Hammer Gets Hit, Hard 9/29

Karen Hughes takes her "Innocents Abroad" tour to the Middle East -- and plays into the hands of Osama bin Laden 9/29

George Bush in Hell 9/28

Arguments for an Impeachment Resolution 9/28

Cronies at the Till 9/28

Find the Brownie 9/28

Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side' 9/28

As an experiment in government according to business principles, the Bush administration is pretty much bankrupt 9/28

The 'Stuff Happens' Presidency 9/27

Can You be a "Survivor" of the Surreal World of the Bush Administration? 9/27

Crony Capitalism is the Name of the Republican Game 9/27

Baghdad is a Scene of Grim Occupation 9/27

Torturous Silence on Torture 9/27

What Causes Terrorism? Not the Koran 9/26

Blair falls into line with Bush view on global warming 9/26

Empty Promises Are The New Black -- Will Durst 9/26

Judge Roberts on trial 9/26

How Many More Mike Browns Are Out There? 9/25

Anti-Bush, And Mincing No Words 9/25

Molly Ivins on putting a vet in charge of womens' health issues. As in veterinarian 9/25

Hard Bigotry of No Expectations 9/25

Global warming? Better believe it 9/25

Bush's ideological quagmire 9/25

US soldiers trade grisly photos of dead and mutilated Iraqis for access to amateur porn 9/24

Soldier's chilling testimony fuels demonstrations against Iraq war 9/24

Former Head of U.S. Central Command Blasts Administration Over Iraq: "We're the ones wearing "red coats" in Iraq" 9/24

Pattern of Abuse 9/24

Read Human Rights Watch's report on new torture allegations in Iraq. Devastating 9/24

Kafka Does Iraq 9/24

Toxic waters coverup in New Orleans? 9/24

This is Global Warming, Says Environmental Chief 9/23

Global Denial 9/23

Changing the Climate 9/23

Join This Weekend's Anti-War Fight 9/23

The Failed War for Oil 9/23

Roberts Is the Wrong Choice for Chief Justice 9/23

Blackwater Down 9/23

Bush To Waste Precious Hurricane Preparedness Resources on Photo-op 9/22

Antiwar Activists in Town For Weekend Protests 9/22

Off the Wagon Again? 9/22

Bush's responses to the crisis in Iraq and the aftermath of Katrina are jarringly repetitive. Are his speechwriters using a computer's copy-and-paste function? 9/22

White House Finds in Katrina Recovery 'Opportunity' to Waive Needed Protections 9/22

Defining a New 'New Deal' 9/21

It's the Governance, Stupid! 9/21

Bush Administration Paradox Explained 9/21

The Next Fake Threat 9/21

Bush Taps Crony for Whitewash of Katrina 9/21

Bush & Media: Normalizing the Abnormal 9/21

Plamegate: The John Bolton Connection 9/21

Sen. Reid: Roberts Leaves Too Many Unanswered Questions 9/20

Dodging the Costs of the Warfare State 9/20

The Rude Pundit: John Roberts Is No Stealth Nominee 9/19

Dean: The Verdict on John Roberts 9/19

What has happened to Iraq's missing $1bn? 9/19

Hastert was Warned in a Letter in January that FEMA was "Raiding" Funds for Dealing with Natural Disasters and That FEMA, Since Bush's Homeland Security Reorganization, Was Headed for Disaster 9/19

It's a Setup! 9/18

Bush Cronies'Profiteering from Our Tax Dollars on Corrupt "Reconstruction" in Iraq is Not Enough, Now they are Asking for Donations to "Rebuild" Iraq 9/18

Message: I Care About the Black Folks 9/18

Fighting the Moral Decay of "Those People" 9/18

A disturbing view from inside FEMA 9/18

Disney on Parade 9/17

Bush Repackaged 9/17

Being that Katrina originated in the Bahamas , it only makes sense that we invade Cuba 9/17

Bush Helps Disaster Profiteers 9/17

Karl Rove's Big Easy 9/17

Aid Effort 9/17

Not the New Deal 9/16

The deafening - and dangerous - silence on taxes 9/16

Bush's Katrina Cop Out 9/16

Garrison Keillor: Why not have a decency standard for Congress? And let's hand out fines to politicians 9/16

The looting of America – by George Bush 9/16

Who's in Charge? Karl Rove! 9/15

The Man in the Flaming Britches 9/15

Outrageous Accusations Against the Democratic Party 9/15

Back Inside New Orleans 9/14

A Fatal Incuriosity 9/14

Hurricane Looting Not Over Yet 9/13

As bodies recovered, reporters are told 'no photos, no stories' 9/13

Drowning by Numbers 9/13

Taking the "Fem" Out of FEMA 9/13

Arise, Ye Orphans of the Storm 9/13

The Specter of a Soviet-Style Crisis 9/13

The Mosquito and the Hammer 9/13

Creeping fascism in America 9/13

Now They Tell Us 9/13

The bitter lessons of four years 9/13

Ending Tyranny, The Bush Way 9/13

Be angry, be very angry 9/13

Unwagging the Dog 9/13

We have imposed our disastrous president on the world - but America's finest quality is already turning the tide at home 9/13

Guardian: Sorry, Mr. President, Katrina isn't Sept. 11 9/12

America's Battered Wife Syndrome 9/12

A Radical Roberts Court 9/12

The Fleeting Charm of Free Trade 9/12

Welcome to the 'Third World,' America 9/12

All the President's Friends 9/12

Living Too Much in the Bubble? 9/12

Message to Bush: Three Debacles and You are Out! 9/12

We have the most partisan, incompetent, elitist, manipulative, sleazy, dishonest, corrupt White House in memory, and the Democrats get scared that they might be called partisan! 9/12

Where there is no vision, the people perish 9/12

Newsweek: How Bush blew it 9/11

FEMA Director Brown paid millions to Florida residents unaffected by '04 hurricanes to help Bush win majority of votes there 9/11

Katrina disenfranchises 1.5 million voters 9/11

La. Senator Returns to Capitol to Denounce Bush 9/11

'War on Terror' Said to Cause U.S. Deaths as Bush Invokes 9/11

Stupid Quotes About Hurricane Katrina 9/11

In Katrina, a Shameful Indictment 9/10

Neigh to Cronies 9/10

GOP will exploit Katrina to push attacks on minimum wage, separation of church and state 9/10

Firms with Bush ties snag Katrina deals 9/10

FEMA Nixes Grassroots Radio Station for Hurricane Evacuees 9/10

Pat Robertson's Katrina Cash 9/10

How many members of the Bush Administration does it take to change a light bulb? 9/10

Dealing with Dull Minds 9/10

No Direction Home 9/10

Will Bush wriggle out of this one? 9/10

Katrina Timeline 9/10

America's Darwin Awards and a Philosophy Assignment 9/10

So, What Was So Controversial About Kanye West’s Remarks? 9/10

Democratic Parishes excluded in Bush's pre-Katrina emergency declaration 9/9

Katrina underscores Bush's isolated style 9/9

Advance Men in Charge 9/9

Project Censored presents the 10 biggest stories the mainstream media ignored over the past year 9/8

Daily Show: Meet the F**kers: An introduction to a new breed of public servant 9/8

Who do we blame? Frankly, it's obvious 9/8

Have You No Shame? 9/8

No Strangers to the Blues 9/8

Reaching the Tipping Point 9/8

UN hits back at US in report saying parts of America are as poor as Third World 9/8

The Long Emergency Ahead 9/8

Hurricane Reality vs. Right-Wing Ideology 9/8

It's Not a 'Blame Game' 9/8

After the Storm, the Swindlers 9/8

Our Moral Culture Was Breached, Too 9/8

Psychological Resistance to Facing Election Fraud 9/7

Robert Scheer: The Real Costs of a Culture of Greed 9/7

Maureen Dowd: Haunted by Hesitation 9/7

Osama and Katrina 9/7

Roberts Unfit to be Chief Justice of the United States 9/7

The Richest Inheritance 9/7

The Real Rehnquist 9/7

Doris "Granny D" Haddock on Katrina 9/6

Bush launches inquiry and puts himself in charge of it 9/7

How Bush Will Use Katrina; A Sneak Preview of the Coming Damage-Control Campaign 9/6

Sleaziness from on high 9/6

Team Bush's bad day in Wyoming 9/6

Yet Another Gulf War 9/6

Why FEMA turned away help 9/5

A Failure of Leadership: "Bush to New Orleans: Drop Dead" 9/5

Has Katrina Saved US Media? 9/5

Iraq in America: At the Front of Nowhere at All 9/5

United States of Shame 9/5

Killed by Contempt 9/5

Tragic events in New Orleans have laid bare America's bigotry and exposed the lie of equal opportunity 9/5

After Failures, Government Officials Play

Official say Bush Administration warned of storm's potential 9/5

Blame Game 9/5

White House Enacts a Plan to Ease Political Damage (i.e. move Rovian Lies) 9/5

U.S. the New Saddam 9/4

Katrina may just jolt us back from la-la land 9/4

Falluja Floods the Superdome 9/4

GOP Agenda of FURTHER Enriching the Wealthy May be At Risk 9/4

The president from Mars 9/4

Bush at Bay 9/4

Storm Exposed Disarray at the Top 9/4

Even Mr. Bill Predicted the Levee Could Fail:
Mr. Bill's America's Wetland World Tour 9/3

Bush's family terrorism test 9/3

What's Bush Got To Do With It? 9/3

Rapes, killings hit Katrina refugees in New Orleans 9/3

Bush Strafes New Orleans, Where's Huey Long? 9/2

Big Oil's Bigtime Looting 9/2

Ending the Impunity of the Bush White House 9/2

A Can't-Do Government 9/2

How to Create a Crisis 9/2

Iraq Mess Adds to the Problem 9/2

Why Thousands May Die 9/2

Irony of Ironies: U.N. Offers Disaster Assistance to U.S. 9/2

Critics Say Bush Undercut New Orleans Flood Control 9/2

A Declaration of War 9/1

Lake George 9/1

"No one can say they didn't see it coming" 9/1 - In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.

Some Iraq warriors insist women's rights can wait until later, but democracy and development flourish when women are treated as equals 9/1

How Bush Cut the Throat of New Orleans 9/1

Why New Orleans is in Deep Water 9/1

'Casual to the point of careless' - Bush under fire for slow reaction 9/1

SEC Opens Full Probe Into Frist Stock Sale 9/30

Times Reporter Free From Jail; She Will Testify 9/30

Venezuela accuses US of 'double standard' on terrorism 9/30

Fear Exceeded Crime's Reality in New Orleans 9/29

DeLay Is Charged With Criminal Conspiracy in Texas 9/29

DeLay indicted in campaign finance probe 9/28

Strict bankruptcy law new blow for victims 9/28

FBI Investigating Why the Bush Admin Demoted Prosecutor Conducting a Criminal Investigation into Tom Delay's buddy Jack Abramoff 9/28

Conspiracy Charge a Possibility for DeLay 9/28

Operation Offset 9/28
pdf of Operation Offset

EPA tells polluters it wants less data 9/28

Waxman and Pelosi Introduce Anti-Cronyism Bill 9/27

Gitmo Judge Rejects Claim He's Interfering 9/26

Cindy Sheehan Arrested in Front of White House on Monday 9/26

President Bush Pushing Abortion Ban 9/26

Aid to Iraq Ministries To Shift to Pentagon 9/26

Antiwar Fervor Fills the Streets 9/25

Britain to pull troops from Iraq 9/25

Bush plea for cash to rebuild Iraq raises $600 9/25

Amid Many Fights Over Qualifications, a Bush Nomination Stalls in the Senate 9/24

Frist Knew About Blind Trust Investments 9/24

Antiwar Bus Tour Rolls Into Capital for Protests 9/23

Carter says Gore won 2000 election 9/23

Poor New Orleans Neighborhood Floods Again 9/23

Protecting tax cuts, GOP proposes cuts to military health care 9/22

Bush: Troops will not withdraw on my watch 9/22

Defense Spending Is Overstated, GAO Report Says 9/22

Abramoff Probe May Threaten Leading Republicans as It Expands 9/22

Bush has ChevronTexaco lawyer head fed's oil price gouging probe 9/22

Texas Coast Braces For Rita 9/22

Bush's Words on Iraq Echo LBJ in 1967 9/22

Senators Accuse Pentagon of Obstructing Inquiry on Sept. 11 Plot 9/22

British Troops Reduce Presence in Basra 9/22

Pentagon Bars Military Officers and Analysts From Testifying 9/21

While you were watching Katrina, House Republicans derailed investigation of Karl Rove 9/21

Hundreds of tons of British food aid shipped to America for starving Hurricane Katrina survivors is to be burned 9/21

Scandal Visits the White House 9/21

Rita Strengthens to Category 4 as It Moves Across Gulf 9/21

Blair 'relished sending British forces to war' (Like Bush, Blair is a closet sociopath who probably tortured small animals as a kid) 9/20

No Place for a Poet at a Banquet of Shame 9/20

Ex-Iraqi defence minister wanted over $1bn fraud 9-20

Tons of British aid donated to help Hurricane Katrina victims to be BURNED by Americans 9/20

Rove Has Lawyer Fired for Telling Truth to Press, While Keeping His Own Job After Lying to Press 9/19

NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan 9/19

Lights on! Just kidding... 9/19

154 Patients Died, Many in Intense Heat, as Rescues Lagged 9/19

Chertoff AWOL As Katrina Strikes 9/19

Ex-education chief to give paid advice on own policies 9/19

What Noble Cause? 9/18

War without end 9/18

A disturbing view from inside FEMA 9/18

Bush's changing tune 9/18

Media Hallucinated "Thoughtful" Bush Commentary on Race 9/18

A Reality Check on Bush's Speech to the UN World Summit 9/17

George, send more money to Texas 9/17

Sugar for Sugar, Salt For Salt 9/17

Bush's Holy War on Nature 9/17

Bush Admin Email Shifts Levee Break Blame To Enviro Groups 9/17

Bush Dead Set on Bankrupting America 9/17

FEMA, Slow to the Rescue, Now Stumbles in

As New Orleans flooded, Chertoff discussed avian flu in Atlanta 9/16

Depression and Mistrust Prevail at the UN 9/16

Global warming 'past the point of no return' 9/16

US jobless growth at 10-year high 9/16

Case Against Inheritance Tax Is Bogus 9/15

John Roberts: The Nominee 9/15

Breach of a Myth 9/15

Sick and Abandoned 9/15

The Reconstruction of New Oraq 9/15

World Leaders Shake Heads as Reforms to Check Nuclear Arms Spread Dumped 9/15

Baghdad's deadliest day 9/15

Chertoff delayed federal response, memo shows 9/14

Conyers Statement on Valerie Plame Resolution 9/14

F.A.A. Alerted On Qaeda in '98, 9/11 Panel Said 9/14

On Eve of World Summit, Hurricane Bolton Threatens to Wreak Havoc on the Global Poor 9/13

Democratic Leaders Ask GAO to Oversee Gulf Coast Reconstruction 9/13

Government Coverup of Dangerous Toxins in New Orleans 9/13

Rumors Swirl around Vice President Cheney 9/13

Bush puts "duct tape" idiot in charge of FEMA 9/13

UN Fears an Unhappy Birthday as Rows Threaten Summit 9/13

White House uses practices criticized in Iraq rebuilding for hurricane-related jobs 9/13

President Bush Fails Mississippi Guard -- Again 9/13

On Katrina, Global Warming - Al Gore 9/12

Overkill in New Orleans 9/12

Katrina pushes twin issues of race and poverty at unwilling Bush 9/12

Privatized Mercenaries Descend on New Orleans 9/12

Destination Cairo: human rights fears over CIA flights 9/12

Word for word: Was race a factor in the Katrina debacle?; Racism hard to see, but it’s there 9/11

U.S. Can Confine Citizens Without Charges, Court Rules 9/11

Bush Supporters Question Iraq War Tactics 9/11

'Racist' police blocked bridge and forced evacuees back at gunpoint 9/11

Breakdowns Marked Path From Hurricane to Anarchy 9/11

Brown Doesn't Know Why He Was Removed (Can you say "Totally Clueless?") 9/10

World summit on UN's future heads for chaos 9/10

Court Gives Bush Right to Detain U.S. Combatant 9/10

In two front-page articles, Wash. Post presented falsehoods, distortions masking Bush administration's apparent Katrina failures 9/10

Katrina rings alarms on climate change: World Bank 9/9

After Katrina fiasco, time for Bush to go 9/9

Hiding Bodies Won't Hide the Truth 9/9

New Orleans: A Geopolitical Prize 9/9

It's Accountability Time 9/9

Bush lifts wage rules for Katrina 9/9

Eight Big Lies About Katrina 9/9

Leaders Lacking Disaster Experience; 'Brain Drain' At Agency Cited 9/9

How Reliable Is Brown's Resume? 9/9

Firefighters Told by FEMA That Their Job Would Be To Hand Out Flyers 9/8

Grand Jury Indicts PAC Connected to DeLay 9/8

Anger directed at FEMA leader 9/8

Emergency Agency Called A Disaster 9/8

Forced Evacuation of a Battered New Orleans Begins 9/8

Macabre Reminder: The Corpse on Union Street 9/8

Terrorism Conference: Bush Administration Speaker Makes a Complete Fool of Himself 9/8

Bush's use of firemen: Props 9/7

The three top jobs at the Federal Emergency Management Agency under President Bush went to political cronies with no apparent experience coping with catastrophes 9/7

Barabara Bush: They Were Underprivileged, So This is Working Very Well for Them 9/7

Hugo's Helping Hand 9/7

New Orleans Catastrophe Down to Privatization... And Catastrophic Failure of Government 9/7

Navy Pilots Who Rescued Victims Are Reprimanded 9/7

Offers of Aid Immediate, but U.S. Approval Delayed for Days 9/7

Rebuilding may cost as much as war in Iraq 9/7

Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor 9/7

Can FEMA Do Anything Right 9/6

Bush: chilling lack of empathy, stunning inefficiency 9/6

Homeland Security Admits They Denied Red Cross Access to New Orleans 9/6

Bush Fails to Stem Anger with Second Rovian Stage Managed PR Appearance/Stunt in Devastated Area 9/6

Katrina's truths 9/6

FEMA Turned Away Aid, Rescue Crews, Cut Emergency Communication Lines 9/6

Iraq new epicenter for terrorism; Current conditions worse than Afghanistan under Taliban, Annan says 9/6

Bush's Roberts-for-Chief Ploy: A Black Day for America 9/5

Bush Team Tries to Pin Blame on Local Officials 9/5

A Hurricane of Consequences 9/5

The Lost City: What Went Wrong: Devastating a swath of the South, Katrina plunged New Orleans into agony. The story of a storm—and a disastrously slow rescue. 9/5

New Orleans paper blasts "bald-faced lies," calls on Bush to fire FEMA chief 9/5

“One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever” 9/4

Russert to HomeSec director: Are you planning your resignation? 9/4

Criticism of Bush Mounts as More than 10,000 Feared Dead 9/4

Budget Cuts Delayed New Orleans Flood Control Work 9/4

New Orleans a 'ghost town' for 9 months 9/4

Debunking the WaPo and Bush Administration: Gov. Blanco Requested Federal Aid from Bush on Sunday, August 28th - 2 Days Before Katrina Struck 9/4

Gallup refuses to poll for pro-impeachment sentiment 9/4

No mobs. No gangs. Just despair. 9/4

Knight Ridder exposes horsey background of FEMA chief 9/4

Castro offers medical aid to U.S. 9/4

"They Just Left Us Here to Die" 9/4

How can the world's richest nation let so many die? 9/4

Ex-officials say weakened FEMA botched response 9/4

Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans 9/4

Bush sends marines as flood fury grows 9/4

Video: FoxNews reports refugees were "locked" in Convention Center 9/3

The big disconnect on New Orleans; The official version; then there's the in-the-trenches version 9/3

Notes From Inside New Orleans 9/3

Fight poverty? Compassion president says no way. 9/3

Katrina Comes Home to Roost 9/3

Bush faked levee repair for photo op yesterday 9/3

Why the New Orleans crisis shames Americans 9/3

Homeland Security won't let Red Cross deliver food 9/3

Hurricane was sign of divine wrath, fundamentalists say 9/2

FEMA Dir. Mike Brown fired from prior job at Horse Assoc 9/2

World Stunned as U.S. Struggles with Katrina 9/2

Despite Katrina, Frist Will Call Vote on Estate Tax Repeal 9/3

FEMA Opts Out Of Reality 9/2

Flood-control funds short of requests 9/1

FEMA Directing Hurricane Katrina Donations to Pat Robertson 9/1

"Other than telling us how to live, think, marry, pray, vote, invest, educate our children and now, die, I think the Republicans have done a fine job of getting government out of our personal lives." - Craig Carter

Katrina Edition

August 2005

Judge Answers Question about Whether Commanders Knew About Abuse at Abu Ghraib 8/31

Getting Agnostic About 9/11 8/31

Another Embarrassment for Bush 8/31

Estate's Rites 8/31

Venezuela offers fuel, food to hurricane-hit US 8/31

N.O. Mayor: Katrina May Have Killed Thousands 8/31

Guard Belongs in New Orleans, Not Baghdad 8/31

Republicans Accused of Witch-Hunt Against Climate Change Scientists 8/30

Catapulting the Propaganda: The President, Cindy Sheehan, and How Words Die 8/30

Sauce for the Gander 8/30

Bush's Pat Robertson Problem 8/30

Destroying the National Parks 8/30

The Rude Pundit: The One Word Death of Democracy in Iraq 8/30

Journalists didn't bother vetting Iraq war rationale; News media owe public an explanation and a pledge 8/30

US largest supplier of weapons to developing nations 8/30

Katrina's Real Name 8/30

Iraqi Constitution Dangerously Short of US Goals: Experts 8/30

The 'Good News' from Baghdad 8/30

The Arab League calls the constitution a "recipe for chaos." 8/30

Global arms sales the highest since 2000 8/30

Iraq's doomed police training 8/30

Big Soda's Publicity Stunt 8/29

'A New Label on a Bottle of Poison' 8/29

George W. Bush's Noble Cause - 'Political Capital' 8/29

Bush's Obscene Tirades Rattle White House Aides 8/29

Vets Aren't Buying Bush's B.S. 8/29

Understanding why "intelligent design" doesn't really challenge evolution 8/29

Waxman on Halliburton & Greenhouse 8/29

War Supporters Concerned That 'Theocracy' Will Be Final Word in Iraq Saga 8/29

ACLU reveals FBI labeled peace, affirmative action group 'terrorist' 8/29

Bush suffers ratings tumble as Sunnis reject Iraq charter 8/29

Louisiana National Guard troops watch Katrina from Iraq 8/29

ORDER 81: Re-engineering Iraqi agriculture 8/29

The Vietnamization of Bush's Vacation 8/28

Not Your Daddy's Creationists 8/28

We Owe Pat Robertson and Ann Coulter a Big Thank You 8/28

Campaign to ring Chavez alarm fails to resonate 8/28

Bolton's appalling road map for relations with the rest of the world 8/28

It's a long read, but a must-read: Matthew Simmons on the truth about global oil resources 8/27

Adam, Eve and T. Rex 8/27

Rallying the Troops and Avoiding Reality 8/27

The Achilles Heel of Torture 8/27

Lack of detail bedevils Iraq's new constitution 8/27

Is Bush al-Qaeda's 'Useful Idiot'? 8/26

Never Enough 8/26

Two fingers to America 8/26

Why I'm Leaving the American Legion; An Open Letter to the National Commander 8/26

Internal Report Said to Fault C.I.A. for Pre-9/11 Actions 8/26

Reviving Jim Crow? 8/26

F.B.I., Using Patriot Act, Demands Library's Records 8/26

California Accuses Drug Companies of Fraud 8/26

Charter Talks in Iraq Reach Breaking Point 8/26

Achieving 'Total Victory' in an Unwinnable War 8/25

Dumbing Down Darwin 8/25

Cry 'Havoc' and Let Slip the Gods of War 8/25

Truth-Telling on Race? Not in Bush's Fantasyland 8/25

Bush's Iraq Fantasy 8/25

Gary Hart: Who Will Say 'No More'? 8/25

A CIA Cover Blown, a White House Exposed 8/25

Jennifer K. Harbury Knows American Torture Starts at the Top, and It Has for Decades 8/25

Memo for the President 8/25

Iraqis Miss Third Constitution Deadline 8/25

Today's WH briefing shows desperate Bush clinging to 9/11 8/25

How to Get Out of Iraq 8/25

Iraq Lawmakers Won't Meet on Constitution 8/25

Investigating Pat Robertson 8/25

They Knew... Despite the Whitewash, We Now Know that the Bush Administration was Warned Before the War That Its Iraq Claims were Weak 8/24 [8/4]

Only One Thing Left to Conclude: The Media Want the War 8/24

Secular Iraqis Say New Charter May Curb Rights 8/24

Our Mission in Iraq has Mutated 8/23

The New York Times Falls off the Wagon 8/23

Iraq's Unsettling Constitution 8/23

No Proof Found of Iran Arms Program 8/23

The Devil's Got a Hold of Pat Robertson and Won't Let Go 8/23

More Statesmanship, Less Salesmanship, Please . . . 8/23

The 'Big Lie' on Bush's Nightstand 8/23

Miller Embedded Over Her Head in Washington 8/23

Is Blair off to Join the Carlyle Group? 8/23

Bush's lousy analogy: Baghdad in 2005 ain't no Philadelphia in 1787 8/23

War of the Future: Oil drives the genocide in Darfur 8/22

Corruption in the Republic 8/22

Bush's Other Iraq Invasion 8/22

What Boneheaded Design Guides Dubya's Moves? 8/22

Time to Break the Silence 8/22

Bush's Option to Escalate the War in Iraq 8/22

How the White House Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Islamic Law 8/22

Don't Prettify Our History 8/22

Truth in Recruiting 8/22

Soldier 'instructed' to abuse Abu Ghraib prisoners 8/21

Bush's 5-day push to defend the indefensible 8/21

The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan 8/21

The War in Iraq: Disastrous Decision 8/20

Kerry: We don't need a second Republican Part 8/20

Bolton Tries to Force Line-By-Line UN Reform Revision 8/20

Ted Kennedy Comes Out Swinging On Roberts 8/20

Santorum’s People Toss Young Women out of Barnes & Noble, Trooper Threatens Them with Prison 8/20

Cindy Sheehan: Hypocrites and Liars 8/20

Global Warming: Will You Listen Now, America? 8/20

There is Such a Thing as Too Late 8/20

Hey, What's That Sound? 8/20

Bush Won't Answer Cindy, But Has to Answer Congress 8/20

Secrets of the morgue - Baghdad's body count 8/19

Ex-Marine Says Public Version of Saddam Capture Fiction 8/19

Like Old Times: U.S. Warns Latin Americans Against Leftists 8/19

Free Speech: Going, Going ... 8/19

The Letter George W. Bush Should Have Sent to Cindy Sheehan 8/19

Olympic doublespeak: A perfect 10 in training 8/19

Rick Santorum's Battle Against the First Amendment 8/18

Food for thought: Crop diversity is dying 8/18

When Media Hacks And Bush Lie 8/18

The Rude Pundit: John Roberts Does Not Heart Women 8/18

Camp Casey Crosses Desecrated (by a sad, pathetic asshole) 8/18

What's the policy, Judith? 8/18

Blood Runs Red, Not Blue 8/18

The exodus of grief and anger to Crawford 8/17

Guzzle Gas, and Pretend 8/17

Cindy Sheehan's Tragic Critics 8/17

Bush's Blind Spot on Iran 8/17

Iraq & the Logic of Withdrawal 8/17

Biking Toward Nowhere 8/17

Women of the New Iraq 8/16

Deceptive Talk About Iraq 8/16

Of Course He Is a Psychopath 8/16

Who's Really Screwing up America? Here are Seven Candidates 8/16

'Wash Post' Guild Leaders Want Paper Out Of Sept. 11 'Freedom Walk' 8/15

Chavez revokes US agent immunity 8/15

Cindy's Victory 8/15

Cindy Sheehan's Message Repudiates George Bush - And Howard Dean 8/15

How Bush would gain from war with Iran 8/15

Social Security Lessons 8/15

Election Fraud Continues in the US 8/14

Doubt on war grows in U.S. 8/14

Bush and the Saudis: Kissing Cousins Once More 8/14

Germany to saber-rattling U.S.: Cool your jets 8/14

Legal Urban Legends Hold Sway 8/14

Someone Tell the President the War Is Over 8/14
Someone Tell Frank Rich the War Is Not Over 8/16

It Takes a Village to Smear Cindy Sheehan 8/14

Frameshop: The 'Grieving Mom' Frame 8/14

Republicans chant "we don't care" at Sheehan 8/13

Decency Is Not In Them 8/13

Still Hiding the Bush Bulge 8/13

In Iraq, No Clear Finish Line 8/13

Official Spin, Unnamed Sources, and the Art of Managing Perceptions 8/13

Bush's Secrecy Goes Too Far 8/13

'Support our troops' — bring them home alive 8/13

Howard Zinn: Occupied Zones: "My country is in the grip of a president surrounded by thugs in suits 8/13

Naomi Klein: Terror's Greatest Recruitment Tool 8/13

Around US, Iraq Mess Finally Sinks In 8/12

Abramoff Indicted in Casino Boat Purchase 8/12

Not Another Justice Sunday 8/12

21 Administration Officials Involved In Plame Leak 8/12

Robert Novack: The Informer 8/12

Louisiana Purchase: The Feds Recruit Culture War Cadets 8/12

Why Big Business Hearts John Roberts 8/12

Four Amendments & a Funera; A month inside the house of horrors that is Congress 8/11

At Rummy's Bizarro Pentagon, Torture is Rewarded While Sex is a Firing Offense 8/11

Warming Hits 'Tipping Point' 8/11

Intelligent Is As Intelligence Doesn't 8/11

Weird Science on the Religious Right 8/11

Big Brother On and Off the Job 8/11

Bush Order Lets Him Control Roberts' Memos. It's all so Kafkaesque. 8/11

Bush's Energy Disaster 8/11

No End in Sight in Iraq 8/11

Rumsfeld Goes ABSOLUTELY Bonkers 8/11

Baghdad elite flees Iraq and the daily threat of death 8/11

President Bush Ditches Mother Of Slain Soldier8/11

Get Past Bush's War Rhetoric to See What Has or Has Not Worked 8/10

Widespread Ignorance 8/10

Why No Tea and Sympathy? 8/10

A Mother's Texas Vigil 8/10

A Soldier Speaks: Joseph R. Newbrough 8/10

Depleted Uranium is WMD 8/9

Bad Medicine? 8/9

End Lifetime Appointments 8/9

Cheney + Pakistan = Iran 8/9

Bush Vacations While Soldiers Die 8/9

Officials Test Radio Tags at Canada Border 8/9

Lawsuit filed against Rumsfeld 8/9

The Hiroshima Cover-Up 8/8

Nothing is Ever the President's Fault 8/8

Academic Mercenaries 8/8

In Plain Sight 8/8

One Nation, Under Watch 8/8

Mythology in the White House 8/8

Judge Roberts's Paper Trail 8/8

Bush Pushes Very Hot Button 8/8

Army Whistleblower Draws Fire 8/7

CIA Commander: We Let bin Laden Slip Away 8/7

Bush Refuses To Meet With Sheehan 8/7

The Twilight Era of Petroleum 8/6

Lessons Learned, Lessons Not Learned 8/5

Anonymous Lies From Anonymous Sources 8/5

AP Poll: Approval of Bush's handling of Iraq reaches low point 8/5

Two Million Imprisoned = Too Many 8/5

GM Crops Lead to Herbicide-Resistant “Superweed” in UK 8/4

"Honor" Our Soldiers by Bringing Them All Home Now; If Cause is "Noble," Send Jenna and Barbara 8/4

U.S. Military Presence in Paraguay Stirs Speculation 8/4

Collapse of Antarctic ice shelf could have global effects 8/4

The Escargot Stratagem 8/4

Timely Disclosures Can Prevent Wars 8/4

In Congress, the GOP Embraces Its Spending Side 8/4

Demagogues for Jesus Work to Establish Religious Theocracy in USA (home grown Taliban) 8/4

Ohio Families Fed Up With Loss of Marines 8/4

Ohio battalion loses 20 Marines in 2 days 8/3

Top GOP Fictions on the White House Leak Case Refuted 8/3

True Facts 8/2

Trouble in the Land of the Free 8/2

War is Fun as Hell 8/2

Iran Is Judged 10 Years From Nuclear Bomb 8/2

Prison Abuse Decisions Came from the Top 8/2

Operation Withdrawal Scam' 8/1

War on Terror, Rest in Peace 8/1

Lawyers, Guns and Money 8/1

When They Knew 8/1

Bush Defies Military, Congress on Torture 8/1

The Debate That Wasn't 8/1

Rush Limbaugh on Cindy Sheehan:
"Frankly, I'm also fed up -- not fed up. I retract that. I'm weary, ladies and gentlemen, of even having to express sympathy. 'Oh, she lost her son!' Yes, yes, yes, but (sigh) we all lose things."