Clipping FileRemember that article...WorkingForChange: Why more of them now hate us- March 31, 2004 As if to underscore how disinterested the White House -- or our tunnel-visioned national media -- is in preventing future terror, a vast escalation of the threat to America occurred last week. Quick -- can you name it If you can, you're paying close attention; after one day, the threat virtually evaporated from our newscasts (though not those elsewhere in the world); it certainly hasn't been linked here with analysis as to the efficacy of Bush's War on Terror.... If the United States is to be..http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=16678 WorkingForChange: Bush puts a 'cancer on the presidency'- March 31, 2004 "Worse Than Watergate," the title of a new book by John Dean, Richard Nixon's White House counsel, is a depressingly accurate measure of the chicanery of the BushCheney cabal. According to Dean, who began his political life at the age of 29 as the Republican counsel on the House Judiciary Committee before being recruited by Nixon, "This administration is truly scary and, given the times we live in, frighteningly dangerous." And when it comes to lies and cover-up, the Bush crowd makes the Nixon..http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=16677 Krugman: This Isn’t America- March 31, 2004 Last week an opinion piece in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz about the killing of Sheik Ahmed Yassin said, "This isn't America; the government did not invent intelligence material nor exaggerate the description of the threat to justify their attack." So even in Israel, George Bush's America has become a byword for deception and abuse of power. And the administration's reaction to Richard Clarke's "Against All Enemies" provides more evidence of something rotten in the state of our...http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/30/opinion/30KRUG.html The New Yorker: "Campaigns"- March 31, 2004 America has endured fierce electoral struggles over war and peace before, most recently over Vietnam in 1968. This “war on terror” campaign, however, in its focus on the critical question of “Who can make us safer,” may come to more closely resemble the Red-baiting campaigns of the fifties or the elections after the Civil War in which rivals “waved the bloody shirt.” But this campaign includes a shadow player the others lacked. For nearly a decade, Al Qaeda...http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?040405ta_talk_danner MSNBC - Chalabi: A Questionable Use of U.S. Funding- March 28, 2004 Ahmad Chalabi has never paid much attention to rules. As an international financier, he was convicted in absentia in 1992 of embezzling millions from his own bank in Jordan. In the mid-'90s, the CIA tried to make him its point man in a plan to oust Saddam Hussein, but found he was not controllable, leading to a bitter divorce. "His primary focus was to drag us into a war that Bill Clinton didn't want to fight," says Whitley Bruner, the CIA agent who first contacted Chalabi in London in 1991....http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4615823/ "We should have had orange or red-type of alert in June or July of 2001"- March 27, 2004 A former FBI wiretap translator with top-secret security clearance, who has been called "very credible" by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has told Salon she recently testified to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States that the FBI had detailed information prior to Sept. 11, 2001, that a terrorist attack involving airplanes was being plotted. Referring to the Homeland Security Department's color-coded warnings instituted in the wake of 911, the former translator,...http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/03/26/translator/ Republicans for Kerry- March 27, 2004 It's a quandary afflicting many moderate Republicans, who feel alienated by their party's rightward lurch and economic irresponsibility, and who fear that another four years of Bush will consolidate the power of the party's most hard-line conservative elements. Even as moderate Republicans make gains in liberal states like New York and California, they're feeling squeezed by their own party. Elements of the Republican right have declared jihad on the values party moderates hold dear, and though.http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/03/26/moderates/ Whiskey Bar: Veto Powers- March 27, 2004 A short documentary history of US hypocrisy vis a vis the UN Security Council and Israel.http://billmon.org/archives/001271.html Josh Marshall on Clarke attack- March 27, 2004 What this is about isn't Condi Rice or Richard Clarke or even George W. Bush. It's about what happened -- finding out what happened. One side wants to find out; the other doesn't. This whole story turns on that simple fact. Why else try to destroy Clark unless what he has to say is profoundly damaging Liars are usually easily discredited; it's the truth-tellers who need to be destroyed.http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_03_21.php#002771 Daily Outrage: Fourteen 911s- March 27, 2004 September 11th was horrible and tragic and important, so it's fitting that we have opened a major national discussion about what went wrong. But consider that car crashes claim some 43,000 people every year -- a death toll equal to a September 11th once every three and a half weeks. And many, many thousands of these deaths could be prevented. So where's the major national discussion The political leadership Newspaper pages, television airwaves and prime retail space in book stores are all...http://www.thenation.com/outrage/index.mhtml?pid=1339 |