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by Bob Cesca @ 9:38 PM EST
Last night’s non-victory victory rally in Florida underscored everything that’s awful and ridiculous about the Clinton-Clinton ‘08 style. They pledged not to campaign in Florida, yet they campaigned there anyway. The primary was unofficial and no delegates were counted, yet they celebrated with a televised victory rally anyway [...]
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By Paul Rieckhoff @ 5:10 PM EST
Last year, “Walter Reed” became a rallying cry for the veterans’ movement. This year, it may be “Marion, Illinois.”
In June 2007, a combat-disabled Vietnam veteran went to the VA hospital in Marion, IL, complaining of chest and abdominal pain. Tests quickly revealed he had suffered a ruptured spleen [...]
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By- Suzie-Q @ 12:30 PM MST
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anthony @ 17:46 GMT
Vote fraud expert convinced chain of custody is corrupt, says “criminal enterprise” is at work
Paul Joseph Watson | Prison Planet | Updated Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Fresh from her confrontations in New Hampshire during which public officials were grilled about slapdash chain of custody and ballot box tampering issues, Bev Harris told the [...]
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By- Suzie-Q @ 9:00 AM MST
Abramoff fallout has lobbying industry close to crisis
With President Bush’s promise to veto earmark-laden legislation that emerges from Congress this year, lobbyists who built their businesses around securing targeted federal dollars for their clients worry they may not survive.”There is a constant drumbeat that people need to start [...]
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Sudhan @16:55 CET
By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet. Posted January 29, 2008.
Protesters who re-enacted one of Blackwater’s worst civilian massacres in Iraq got jail time, while the real killers remain free.
Last week in Currituck County, N.C., Superior Court Judge Russell Duke presided over the final step in securing the first criminal conviction stemming from [...]
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GEF @ 8:08 AM MST
US Troops Reductions in Iraq May Slow
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is sending strong signals that U.S. troop reductions in Iraq will slow or stop altogether this summer, a move that would jeopardize hopes of relieving strain on the Army and Marine Corps and revive debate over an open-ended U.S. commitment [...]
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By- Suzie-Q @ 7:30 AM MST
DENVER — Democrat John Edwards is exiting the presidential race Wednesday, ending a scrappy underdog bid in which he steered his rivals toward progressive ideals while grappling with family hardship that roused voters’ sympathies but never diverted his campaign, The Associated Press has learned.
The two-time White House candidate [...]
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GEF @ 6:08 AM MST
For Giuliani, a Dizzying Free-Fall
Perhaps he was living an illusion all along.
Rudolph W. Giuliani’s campaign for the Republican nomination for president took impressive wing last year, as the former mayor wove the pain experienced by his city on Sept. 11, 2001, and his leadership that followed into national celebrity. Like [...]
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Sudhan @11:15 CET
By Stephen Zunes | Foreign Policy In Focus, January 28, 2008
President George W Bush announced during his recent Middle East trip that he is formally serving notice to Congress of his administration’s decision to approve the sale of bomb-guidance kits to Saudi Arabia. This announcement follows notification on five other arms deals [...]
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