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  • The 2024 Election By the Numbers

    Thursday, January 16, 2025
    The majority of voters did not vote for Donald Trump for president; the majority of voters did not vote for Republican candidates for the Senate; and fewer than 51% of voters cast their ballots for Republican candidates for the House of Representatives. The Republican Party now controls the White House, both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court, no matter how that came to be. I believe it is worth bearing in mind that a majority of U.S. citizens did not support the Republican winners.   read more
  • Creeping Military Takeover…in the U.S.: Thomas A. Schweich

    Monday, December 22, 2008
    Thomas Schweich, a Republican who served in the Bush administration as ambassador for counter-narcotics in Afghanistan and deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement affairs, warns about the gradual takeover by military ...   read more
  • Torture Doesn’t Work

    Sunday, December 21, 2008
    Reporting on the Bush administration’s use of torture to extract confessions from terrorism suspects, Vanity Fair’s David Rose reminds us that in addition to the moral considerations, torture is not effective. For example: “The unreliability of in...   read more
  • Interior Report Slams Former Fish and Wildlife Leader

    Sunday, December 21, 2008
    A report issued by the Department of Interior’s Inspector General harshly criticizes Julie MacDonald, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks. According to the report, MacDonald “frequently contested the scientific findi...   read more
  • Rumsfeld and Torture: The Walls Close In

    Wednesday, December 17, 2008
    The Senate Armed Services Committee has issued a devastating report that concludes that the use of torture at Abu Ghraib prison and other sites was not the work of isolated “bad apples,” but the direct result of directives issued by Secretary of D...   read more
  • Who’s Getting Trillions in Loans? It’s a Secret

    Tuesday, December 16, 2008
    The Federal Reserve has refused a request by Bloomberg News to reveal who has received more than $2 trillion in emergency loans and what the Fed has accepted as collateral. Of the total, $1.23 trillion has been doled out in the last three months. ...   read more
  • Texas County Tries to Stop Border Fence

    Tuesday, December 16, 2008
    El Paso County in Western Texas, which has a larger population than the state of Alaska, has filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court to stop construction of hundreds of miles of fencing on the Mexican border. Homeland Security Secretary Michae...   read more
  • Federal Agency Board Worth $34 Billion Hasn’t Met in Almost Two Years

    Tuesday, December 16, 2008
    The Railroad Retirement Board is a rich but obscure agency that distributes $10 billion a year in retirement benefits to more than 600,000 beneficiaries and $74 million annually in unemployment benefits to 29,000 claimants. According to an investi...   read more
  • Bush Rushes to Sign Nuclear Deal with Iran’s Leading Trade Partner

    Monday, December 15, 2008
    The Bush administration is rushing to sign a nuclear cooperation deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) despite the fact that the UAE has been used as a transshipment point for military technology headed to Iran. The nuclear trafficking program ...   read more
  • EPA Most Wanted List

    Monday, December 15, 2008
    In an attempt to redeem itself after almost eight years of relative inactivity, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued an FBI-style most wanted fugitives list for people charged with environmental crimes. The fugitives are wanted for...   read more
  • “Patriotic” Pro-Troop Group Pocketed the Big Bucks

    Monday, December 15, 2008
    Allison Barber, the chief of the American Forces Information Service, was in charge of the “America Supports You” program meant to show the public’s support for U.S. troops and their families. Instead, she funneled $8.8 million in contracts to the...   read more
  • Afghan War Crime Covered Up…Literally

    Monday, December 15, 2008
    Tom Lasseter, writing for the McClatchy Newspapers, reports, “Seven years ago, a convoy of container trucks rumbled across northern Afghanistan loaded with a human cargo of suspected Taliban and al Qaida members who'd surrendered to Gen. Abdul Ras...   read more
  • Mexican Drug War Deaths in One Year Outnumber 5 Years of US Deaths in Iraq

    Saturday, December 13, 2008
    The U.S.-supported “get tough” anti-drug strategy in Mexico has achieved some success, but has come at a price: 5,376 deaths so far in 2008—15 a day. This approach has caused drug trafficking groups to collapse and splinter. The U.S., which releas...   read more
  • Bailing Out the Banks (and Others) Has Cost the Average Family $1,900…So Far

    Saturday, December 13, 2008
    The 5-member Congressional panel tasked with overseeing the $700 billion bailout has issued its first report. The Department of the Treasury has so far doled out $165 billion to 87 banks in exchange for stock and warrants. Treasury also gave AIG $...   read more
  • Bush Lifts Protection for Endangered Species

    Saturday, December 13, 2008
    The Bush administration issued revised endangered species regulations that will eliminate some of the mandatory, independent reviews that government scientists have performed for 35 years on dams, power plants, timber sales and other projects. In ...   read more
  • By the Heliport of Babylon

    Saturday, December 13, 2008
    Fragments of bricks, engraved with cuneiform characters thousands of years old, lie mixed with the rubble and sandbags left by the US military on the ancient site of Babylon in Iraq. From April 2003 to June 2004, US troops built embankments, dug d...   read more
  • Breaking the Law: Bush Officials Feel the Heat

    Wednesday, December 10, 2008
    With so much attention centering on the developing financial crisis, it isn’t surprising that other important stories have slipped through the cracks. Nevertheless, as the Bush administration winds down, there has been a surprising flurry of activ...   read more
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