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Truthdig - Robert Scheer: Silencing Saddam

The din starts to become a roar. MB
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, December 31, 2006

Richard A. Clarke | While You Were at War …

Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, December 31, 2006

Hussein the Rabbit

Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, December 31, 2006

Bush Silences a Dangerous Witness

Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, December 31, 2006

Gerald Gerald:Hu Is Leading China

Enjoy. MB
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, December 31, 2006

Review of the year: The Middle East

Lebanon, lovely, wonderful area of sanity is going to get it again. Constantly betrayed by its Western supposed allies. MB
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, December 31, 2006

He takes his secrets to the grave. Our complicity dies with him

Reading this article will clarify many reasons why this murder was so rushed. Also why Saddam Hussein was not sent to the Hague for trial. MB
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, December 31, 2006

NYT Op-Ed (Kristof): Ten Suggestions for Rescuing the Bush Legacy

Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, December 31, 2006

NYT Guest Op-Ed (Theroux): America the Overfull

Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, December 31, 2006

NYT: Hussein’s Case Won’t Bolster International Human Rights Law, Experts Fear

Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, December 31, 2006

NYT: Many Young Indians Are Fat; More Are Famished

Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, December 31, 2006

NYT: A Year to Suspend Disbelief [2nd of two year-end round-ups]

Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, December 31, 2006

NYT: Wheeling, Dealing and Reeling [1st of two year-end round-ups]

Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, December 31, 2006

NYT: Homes Sell, and History Goes Private [a strange and unsettling pattern]

Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, December 31, 2006

NYT Books in Review: “Modern Liberty,” “What Paul Meant”

Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, December 31, 2006

Torture: Just another plot device

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Sunday, December 31, 2006

While You Were at War…

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Sunday, December 31, 2006

NYT Guest Op-Ed: Justice, but No Reckoning

Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, December 30, 2006

NYT: Struggling to Save His Amazon, From the Top of a Death List

Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, December 30, 2006

NYT: House Democrats to Object to Florida Election Outcome

Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, December 30, 2006

Stansberry & Associates - Matt Badiali’s Oil Report -US Oil Discovery

Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, December 30, 2006

John Nichols on Rahm Emanuel

Emanuel, the former Clinton administration "fixer" who organized support for the North American Free Trade Agreement and other Wall Street-favored policies and who then went to Congress as a pro-corporate, pro-war Democrat, has tried to spin his management of the DCCC during the 2006 election cycle as a success. In fact, many of the Democrats who prevailed on November 7 did so despite the Illinois congressman's efforts, not because of them. - John Nichols
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, December 30, 2006

The Skinny on Sun Myung Moon

Go to article (click) - Robert Parry (journalist who broke the Iran Contra story) gives us a full account of the world of the "Moonies" ... it's one of those "would be funny if it weren't so scary" reads. It's long but worth it. - MAB
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, December 30, 2006

What’s Bad about GM? The cars

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, December 30, 2006

Saddam Hussein is Put to Death

Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, December 30, 2006