Norman Solomon _ Applauding While Lebanon Burns
July 26, 2006
“Syndicated columnist Richard Cohen declared in the Washington Post on Tuesday that an-eye-for-an-eye would be a hopelessly wimpy policy for the Israeli government,” writes Norman Solomon. “Cohen likes to sit in front of a computer and use flip phrases like ‘punch out your lights’ as euphemisms for burning human flesh and bones with high-tech weapons, courtesy of American taxpayers.”
Castro Gets the head butt
July 14, 2006
TPMmuckraker July 13, 2006 04:52 PM
July 14, 2006
As the suit reads, it “arises out of a conspiracy among current and former high-level officials in the White House and actions taken by and on behalf of those officials in 2003 to violate the constitutional and other legal rights” of Valerie and Joseph Wilson.
Delay Redux?
July 10, 2006
By
MIKE ALLEN, HILARY HYLTON
Could
Tom DeLay be headed back to the House? A source close to the
ex-Congressman tells TIME that DeLay is planning an aggressive campaign
to retake the House seat he quit in June if an appeals court lets stand
a ruling by a federal judge last week that his name must stay on
November’s ballot–even though he has moved to Virginia. “If it isn’t
overturned, Katy bar the door!” says a G.O.P. official. “Guess he’ll
have to fire up the engines on the campaign and let ‘er rip.” DeLay,
awaiting trial for money laundering, never intended to fade away. He
plans to give paid speeches and has signed a deal to have his bio
penned by best-selling author Stephen Mansfield. But to run, DeLay
would have to raise money fast: his campaign fund has well under $1
million left. At least he knows his would-be opponent well:
ex-Congressman Nick Lampson’s original district was eliminated in a
redistricting engineered by DeLay.
Notebooks belonging to former New York Times reporter Judith Miller indicate she may have been told about covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson by another White House official before her first meeting in late June 2003 with I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff who was indicted last year related to his role in the Plame-Wilson leak, an attorney representing Libby claims.
North Korea launched a long-range Taepodong-2 missile early Wednesday in an apparently unsuccessful test that failed in flight, a senior State Department official said.
Veterans for Peace has drafted a Declaration of Impeachment using nothing but excerpts from the Declaration of Independence (plus a few words in parentheses). It reads as follows, and should be read at picnics and protests on the Fourth of July:
US probes troops in Iraq rape-murder case
July 1, 2006
U.S. soldiers may have raped an Iraqi woman and then murdered her and three members of her family, including a child, U.S. army officers said on Friday.
Confirming another major investigation into alleged killing and abuse of Iraqi civilians by at least three U.S. troops, one official said the incident in March just south of Baghdad had initially been blamed on insurgents active in the area.
