Archive for the ‘bush’ Category

Lebanon on brink of civil war

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Lebanon stands on the brink of all-out civil war. A general strike by the leading trade union to protest rising prices and demand an increase in the minimum wage has led to armed conflict between the pro-Western Sunni and Druze-based government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and the Shia-based Hezbollah ...

Conservatives Happier Than Liberals

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person's tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities.Read the full story

Congress subpoenas Cheney’s chief of staff on torture

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) today issued a subpoena to David Addington, Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, compelling him to testify before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on June 26 for any knowledge of harsh interrogation techniques employed at Guantanamo ...

Internet Archive’s NSL Challenge

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional NSL Served on Internet Archive On November 26, 2007, the FBI served a National Security Letter NSL on the Internet Archive, a digital library. The letter sought personal information about one of the Archive s users, including the individual s NAME, address, and any electronic ...

Media Matters - WSJ editorial falsely claimed

Monday, March 31st, 2008

A Wall Street Journal editorial falsely asserted that "the Senate Intelligence Committee found" former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV "had lied in claiming his wife [former CIA agent Valerie Plame] had played no role in sending him to Niger."Read the full story

Military veterans to deliver citizen arrest warrants for Bush and Cheney

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Backed by family members and supporters all across the nation, U.S. military veterans will serve citizen arrest warrants for George Bush and Dick Cheney tomorrow in Washington, D.C.Read the full story

World |Kosovo Serbs seize UN courthouse

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Hundreds of Kosovo Serbs have taken over a UN courthouse in the northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica, raising a Serbian flag to replace the UN's.Read the full story

Free Preview - WSJ.com

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. federal government ran a monthly budget deficit of $175.56 billion in February, a record for any month, the Treasury Department said Wednesday.Read the full story

AFP.com | Agence France-Presse, a global news agency

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

BELGRADE (AFP) - Rioters set fire to the US embassy in Belgrade on Thursday, before fighting Serbian police in pitched battles and looting shops, after an earlier huge but peaceful rally against Kosovo independence.Read the full story

CIA confirms rendition flights to Brits

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

WASHINGTON - CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledged Thursday that two rendition flights carrying terror suspects refueled on British territory, despite earlier U.S. assurances that none of the secret flights since the Sept. 11 attacks had used British airspace or soil.Read the full story