Category: War
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Nobel, Laureate Physicists Urge Bush Against Nuking Iran
Thirteen of the nation’s most prominent physicists have written a letter to President Bush, calling U.S. plans to reportedly use nuclear weapons against Iran “gravely irresponsible” and warning that such action would have “disastrous consequences for the security of the United States and the world.” Remember Sy Hersh’s New Yorker articles? A government consultant with […]
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EU Investigation: Over 1,000 Secret CIA Flights
The CIA has conducted more than 1,000 clandestine flights in Europe since 2001, and some of them secretly took away terror suspects to countries where they could face torture, European Union lawmakers said yesterday.
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The Trillion Dollar War
New York Times diagram illustrating how the war on terror could cost us over a trillion dollars.
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Cost of Iraq War Could Top 1 Trillion Dollars
Martin Wolk at MSNBC writes: Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and self-described opponent of the war, puts the final figure at a staggering $1 trillion to $2 trillion, including $500 billion for the war and occupation and up to $300 billion in future health care costs for wounded troops. Additional costs include a negative […]
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Ashcroft Cashes In
Mr. Ashcroft has become a Washington lobbyist, setting himself up as something of an anti-Abramoff and marketing his insider’s knowledge of how Washington works. One of Mr. Ashcroft’s newest clients is ChoicePoint, a broker of consumer data that is increasingly being used by the government to keep tabs on people within the United States. The […]
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Stay Busy
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United States National Security Strategy Updated and Released
The fourth through seventh words are, I kid you not: America is at war. Summary: America will continue to pre-emptively attack its enemies and Iran is now the greatest danger facing the United States, George Bush announced today in a new version of his “National Security Strategy”. ThinkProgress does a little fact checking. They also […]
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Salon Publishes More Abu Ghraib Photos and Videos
It keeps getting worse. Your tax dollars at work.
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Bush Approval Ratings Descend to 33 Percent
I love listening to the news try and still give some sort of positive spin to the plummeting ratings. And to think we haven’t even had a draft yet.
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