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95 Labour MPs say no. But Blair gets his missile
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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,2034300,...
Labour's historic divisions over nuclear weapons came back to haunt Tony Blair yesterday when 95 Labour backbench MPs rejected his plans to commence the £20bn renewal of the Trident nuclear submarine system.
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Rolling Stone : Leaving Iraq: The Grim Truth
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/13710030/leaving_...
"Beyond Quagmire
"A panel of experts convened by Rolling Stone agree that the war in Iraq is lost. The only question now is: How bad will the coming explosion be?"
It's been striking to me how often the projected worst-case scenarios have either been right, or not bad enough.
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World Trade Center Mastermind Confesses at Gitmo Bay
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TERRORIST_CONFESSI...
He admits planning and financing many other high profile terrorist attacks - but says he was tortured by the CIA
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Dick Cheney's warped vision of the world
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/03/13/cheney/ind...
Glenn Greenwald on how Dick Cheney personifies the same right-wing paranoid, apocalyptic vision as bin Laden.
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Political Profiling of Elected Democratic Officials: When Rhetorical Vision Participation Runs Amok
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http://www.epluribusmedia.org/columns/2007/20070212_politica...
A study by Donald C. Shields and John F. Cragan shows that "Data indicate that the offices of the U.S. Attorneys across the nation investigate seven (7) times as many Democratic officials as they investigate Republican officials, a number that exceeds even the racial profiling of African Americans in traffic stops."
Presents the problems caused by political profiling, and suggests legal solutions.
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Submitted by schlach
63 months, 1 week, 4 days, 6 hours agoTags: democracy, law, BUSH, politics, doj, Gonzales
Paul Krugman: Did Bush misuse the Justice Department?
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http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_...
"The bigger scandal, however, almost surely involves prosecutors still in office... Donald Shields and John Cragan, two professors of communication, have compiled a database of investigations and/or indictments of candidates and elected officials by U.S. attorneys since the Bush administration came to power. Of the 375 cases they identified, 10 involved independents, 67 involved Republicans and 298 involved Democrats."
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Submitted by schlach
63 months, 1 week, 4 days, 7 hours agoTags: Gonzales, news, BUSH, law, democracy, doj
Is Gonzales a Diversion? | White House Watch by Dan Froomkin
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04...
Froomkin probes whether Gonzales is issuing carefully parsed acknowledgements of mistakes in order to take heat off the White House and its involvement with the politically-motivated firing of 8 US Attorneys.
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Submitted by schlach
63 months, 1 week, 4 days, 7 hours agoTags: news, Gonzales, doj, democracy, law, BUSH
Gonzales: I am a mistake
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http://blogtopicz.com/2007/03/14/gonzales-i-am-a-mistake.asp...
Here we go with another Zenny Edited News Bite!
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Gonzales: 'I did make some mistakes'
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/14/fired.attorneys/index...
Saying his professional and political fates lie in the president's hands, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales conceded Wednesday that he "absolutely" should've been more plugged in to the process that saw eight U.S. attorneys fired.
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Bush can't hide from mounting woes
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2007/...
-President Bush's trip to sunny Latin America was no day at the beach. He was buffeted by complaints about immigration laws, ethanol tariffs, the Iraq war and accusations that the United States was ignoring its southern neighbors.
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