Bush Out

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Top ten posts since I started this blog in 2003: 1. How Bush's friends manipulated Global Oil Prices in the lead-up to the 2006 mid-term...

The son of the man who built the Sydney Opera House - himself a highly respected architect - gets the usual "batshit crazy" treatm...

BBC News - Belgian pleads guilty to US-Iran arms sales charges Mr Monsieur... real name?

Tensions high at climate deal crunch time - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Mr Rudd today announced the Government was doubli...

Iraq war inquiry Tony Blair invasion British military commanders are expected to tell an inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens today, that ...

Well, maybe not quite. Doctors thought he was in a coma, but he was in fact conscious A Belgian man thought to have been in a coma for 23 ye...

Blair misled MPs on Iraq war: papers Blair misled MPs on Iraq war: papers By Europe correspondent Emma Alberici Posted 10 hours 40 minutes a...

Guardian Report: US Setting Aside $1.3 Billion For Anti-Taliban Afghan Militias 1.3 billion something is wrong here wish we could audit this...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com The Washington Post has known since 2005 in exactly which countries the CIA maintained its illegal, secret priso...

First Obama, now his AG... In any fair trial, this would be enough to get the case thrown out. September 11 accused to explain why "I h...

Pro-Israel lobby group bankrolling Tories, film claims | Politics | The Guardian 50% of MPs in the shadow cabinet are Conservative Friends o...

A comment from Zelikow? And more "anonymous White House officials"? Why...? Obama orders inquiry into handling of Hasan intelligen...

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ANTHRAX ATTACKS AND ITS COVER-UP: Bruce Ivins sent samples of RMR-1029 to both Battelle and Dugway. Practically all of t...

Book Review - 'The Ground Truth - The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11,' by John Farmer - Review - NYTimes.com It doesn’...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com What Galbraith kept completely concealed all these years was that a company he formed in 2004 came to acquire a ...

The Associated Press: Obama's hesitancy on war buildup sends messages "How do we signal resolve and at the same time signal to the ...

Rice And Hadley Look Set To Launch Consulting Firm | TPMMuckraker In September, the RiceHadley Group LLC was registered as a business in Cal...

... is that they couldn't get hold of this information themselves. I assume the DoJ/CIA/FBI/etc is staffed with fools while Indymedia ha...

Fall in housing starts to impact prices The myth is that higher property taxes increase the cost of housing and office space over time. The ...

Breaking news Breaking news Washington sniper executed by injection: prison 1:39pm Washington sniper John Muhammad has been executed by leth...

Maybe not quite! But I am sure the professional global warming sceptics will grab at it with both hands... Ice loss offsets global warming: ...

On Bush's Watch, U.S. Suffered Its "Electronic Pearl Harbor" Enter Jim Lewis, who directs the Technology and Public Policy Pro...

Justice Watch: Yoo Withdrew: Amidst Growing Call for Criminal Investigation, Torture Memos Author John Yoo Withdraws from Federalist Society...

They really do let anyone into the US Marines these days... Marine accused of attacking priest Marakis, a Greek Orthodox priest visiting fro...

A former NY Post editor is suing the paper, claiming they are racist misogynists . Longtime Murdoch favourite editor Col Allen, the man who ...

Albrechtsen ABC board retires

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Free market flawed, says survey More than 29,000 people in 27 countries were questioned. In only two countries,...

I was trying to explain to my 12-y-o about East and West Germany today when he saw a TV story about the Berlin Wall (I drove through it 20 y...

Japanese protest against US military presence: Okinawa has long been called the United States' "unsinkable aircraft carrier" b...

The cap fits! BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The map that changed the world The name America, for example, very probably represents not just a t...

Wall Street Record Bonuses Return as Big 3 May Pay $30 Billion - Bloomberg.com Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase ...

Exxon clinches Iraq oil deal Exxon Mobil on Thursday became the first US company to win a contract since Iraq's oil industry was nationa...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com Michael Ledeen is one of the most dishonest and ludicrous jokes on the political scene. Will that stop George S...

I followed this case for a while way back when... Italy Convicts 23 Americans In CIA Terrorist Kidnapping Case MILAN — An Italian judge foun...

Pilger awarded Sydney Peace Prize: Pilger noted that in an essay in The Monthly magazine published not long before Mr Rudd became prime mini...