Archive for December, 2007

Election a democracy test for Georgian president

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

International Herald Tribune - President George W. Bush described Georgia as a "beacon of democracy" and liberal economic reforms have helped deliver gross domestic product growth of between 9 and 12 percent in each of the past four years. Foreign investment has surged. But many >>> Read ...

House of Bush: Country club to megachurch

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Daily Telegraph - During the 1988 American presidential campaign, Billy Graham was asked why Vice-President George Bush, the Republican candidate, didn't talk about God in his speeches. Some well-connected Americans are more dangerous than crazed mullahs "Well, you >>> Read more San Francisco Gate - Only George ...

Reuters World News Highlights 0230 GMT Dec 30

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Guardian Unlimited - WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a $556 billion bill to fund most of the federal government through September 2008, ending a year-long budget fight with President George W. Bush by also including new money for the Iraq war. >>> Read more Observer - Al-Qaeda ...

Rupert s Big Teeth

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

New York Observer - There was the attorney Theodore Olson, who had served in the Reagan administration and later in the George W. Bush administration (after successfully representing him in Bush v. Gore). There was the conservative writer Thomas Bray, former Tribune >>> Read more BBC Middle ...

Robert Fisk: They don’t blame al-Qa’ida. They blame Musharraf

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

The Independent - Benazir Bhutto, the courageous leader of the Pakistan People's Party, is assassinated in Rawalpindi attached to the very capital of Islamabad wherein ex-General Pervez Musharraf lives and we are told by George Bush that her murderers were ...

Politics AP

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Miami Herald - President Bush, still voicing concern about special project spending by Congress, signed a $555 billion bill Wednesday that funds the Iraq war well into 2008 and keeps government agencies running through next September. President Bush has signed a >>> Read more Sponsored ...

Tackling the ‘axis of evil’: a win, a loss and a draw

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Minneapolis Star Tribune - WASHINGTON - Just four months after 9/11, George Bush identified Iran, Iraq and North Korea as the "axis of evil" and declared that defanging these rogue regimes was America's most urgent national security task. Bush will be judged on whether he >>> Read ...

The Torture Tape Fingering Bush As a War Criminal

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Common Dreams - President George Bush claimed Zubaydah was critical in identifying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the mastermind behind 9/11. The president also conceded that at some point the CIA, believing Zubaydah was withholding information, used an alternative >>> Read more Des Moines Register ...

After the Iran NIE

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Slate - George W. Bush's news conference on Monday was the most dismaying spectacle put on by a top American official since Condoleezza Rice's news conference two and a half weeks earlier. Both the president and the secretary of state were addressing the >>> Read more OpEdNews.com ...

Glenn Greenwald

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

Salon - Why does the Republican establishment think that Mike Huckabee should be barred from the use of Christian symbols while John McCain -- and, for that matter, George Bush -- are to be cheered when they do? Especially on this day, that strikes one as a ...