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Fed Giving Wall Street a Nanny-State Bailout?
Reuters reports: “A fire sale of Bear Stearns Cos Inc stunned Wall Street and pummeled global financial stocks on Monday on fears that few banks are safe from deepening market turmoil. … The combination of Bear Stearns’ bailout and the Fed’s offer on Sunday to extend direct lending to securities firms for the first time…
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Five Years Later — Oil Contracts: Success of War?
BEN LANDO President Bush has repeatedly called for the passage of the proposed Iraqi oil law. Lando is energy editor for UPI. He has recently launched the web page IraqOilReport.com. ANTONIA JUHASZ Juhasz is the author of the book The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time and is with the group…
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Adm. Fallon and Attacking Iran
The Washington Post reports on its front page today that Adm. William Fallon “had made several comments reflecting disagreement with the administration’s stance on Iran, most recently in an Esquire magazine article last week that portrayed him as the only person who might stop Bush from going to war with the Islamic republic.” GARETH PORTER…
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Iraq Veterans Speak: Winter Soldier Hearings
ADAM KOKESH KELLY DOUGHERTY Kokesh is co-chair of Iraq Veterans Against the War; Dougherty is the group’s executive director; they can direct media to other veterans from around the country. IVAW released a statement: “Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan is a four-day summit that will bring more than 200 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans together ……
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Five Years into Iraq War, a Key Question: How Did This Happen in the First Place?
Drawing on extensive archival research, the documentary film “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death” makes its New York City theatrical debut with an engagement starting Friday (March 14) at the Quad Cinema in Manhattan. Coinciding with the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, the documentary’s premiere in New…
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Bush and McCain on Torture
President George W. Bush said in his latest weekend radio address: “Congress recently sent me an intelligence authorization bill that would diminish these vital tools. So today, I vetoed it. And here is why: The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror — the…
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The Presidential Candidates and South America Tensions
ABC News reports: “Standing side by side in a show of solidarity, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez and Ecuador President Rafael Correa stood firm in their support of one another after days of accusations lobbed back and forth between the two countries and Colombia.” JO ROSANO Rosano is the mother of Marc Gonsalves, a Pentagon contractor…
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The Presidential Candidates and Israel
Rabbi ARNOLD JACOB WOLF Sen. Barack Obama lives across the street from Rabbi Wolf’s synagogue, KAM Isaiah Israel, Chicago’s oldest Jewish congregation. Wolf, who has known Obama for about 10 years, said today: “Some of what has been ascribed to Obama is ridiculous. He takes very cautious positions on the Mideast. I am a supporter…
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With McCain Visiting the White House, New Spotlight on Lobbying Scandal
“At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust nor make a decision which in any way would not be in the public interest and would favor anyone or any organization.” — Sen. John McCain, Feb. 21, 2008 JEROLD STARR Starr just wrote the Nation magazine piece “The Other Side…
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From Gaza
AFP is reporting today: “Israel vowed on Monday to keep hitting Gaza even as troops pulled out of the … territory after clashes that killed at least 120 Palestinians.” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to Egypt, Israel, the Palestinian territories and Brussels from March 3 to 7. The following individuals are in Gaza,…