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GEF @ 5:28 PM MST

Kucinich presents Bush impeachment articles
06/09/2008 @ 8:01 pm
Filed by David Edwards and Mike Sheehan
An Ohio Democratic lawmaker and former presidential candidate has presented articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush to Congress.
Thirty-five articles were presented by Rep. Dennis Kucinich to the House of Representatives late Monday evening, airing live on [...]

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By- Suzie-Q @ 5:00 PM MST

The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind
From: Daily Mail
By Sharon Churcher
Last updated at 1:45 AM on 08th June 2008
Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans’ rights, said: ‘I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly [...]

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GEF @ 4:28 PM MST
Countdown Redux: Richard Clarke On Bush Administration – “We Can’t Let These People Back Into Polite Society”

C&L covered this segment from last Friday’s Countdown, but I thought an emphasis on Richard Clarke’s scathing remarks about the lack of, and the need for, accountability from the Bush administration [...]

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by Geezer Power…4:34 pm

Well I’ve always thought that Source Watch contained reliable information, but being a Wiki based format it is controlled by the editors. The Presidential Prayer Team was obviously not an urban legend,as they claim, but formed by the Bu$h administration. They then claim the the Presidential Prayer [...]

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By- Suzie-Q @ 3:00 PM MST

Abramoff, White House Connection Detailed In House Report
The Huffington Post | June 9, 2008 [...]

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By- Suzie-Q @ 2:25 PM MST

From: Huffington Post
By- Sam Stein
McClellan To Testify Before Judiciary Committee
June 9, 2008 04:50 PM

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, whose scathing memoir about his time in the Bush administration sent waves through Washington D.C., has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, a senior committee official [...]

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Iraq War, Peak Oil, Rummy, and the PNAC

by Geezer Power…1:35 pm

The American Conservative
March 10, 2008
Oil for War
After invading one of the most petroleum-rich countries on earth, the U.S. military is running on empty.
by Robert Bryce
Napoleon famously said that an army marches on its stomach. That may have been true for his 19th-century force. But the modern American military runs on jet fuel—and [...]

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anthony @ 21:40 BST

Gareth Porter | Inter Press Service | Monday, June 9, 2008
WASHINGTON: Pentagon officials firmly opposed a proposal by Vice President Dick Cheney last summer for air strikes against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) bases by insisting that the administration would have to make clear decisions about how far the United States [...]

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McCain Is A Hard-Line Neocon

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:05 PM MST

Make No Mistake, McCain Is a Neocon

By Robert Parry, Consortium News. Posted June 9, 2008
McCain is a hard-line neocon allied with Bush’s ‘preemptive war’ theories abroad and his concept of an all-powerful ‘unitary executive’ at home.
Since clinching the Republican presidential nomination, John McCain has sought to hide [...]

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Afternoon Jukebox… Twilight Zone

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:00 PM MST

Golden Earring – Twilight Zone

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Irish Referendum May Doom EU Dream for United States of Europe

anthony @ 19:37 BST

James G. Neuger | Bloomberg | Monday, June 9, 2008
With less than 1 percent of the European Union’s population and just over 1 percent of its economy, Ireland has 100 percent control over the bloc’s ambition to become a United States of Europe.
Ireland this week becomes the only one of the EU’s [...]

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Blackwater Now Offers Private Spy Services

By- Suzie-Q @ 9:00 AM MST

Blackwater’s Private CIA

By Jeremy Scahill, The Nation. Posted June 9, 2008
The notorious mercenary company now offers spy “services” to Fortune 500 companies, for the right price.
This past September, the secretive mercenary company Blackwater USA found its name splashed across front pages throughout the world after the [...]

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By- Suzie-Q @ 7:00 AM MST

From: Think Progress
By Matt at 1:14 pm
Duffy: ‘White House Lawyers Are Concerned’ McClellan’s Book Will Reignite ‘The Valerie Plame Business’»

In his explosive new memoir, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan claims that Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, “and possibly Vice President Cheney” encouraged him to “repeat a lie” to [...]

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