Bush’s Secret Nuclear Strike Plans »
By Leslie on Nov 6, 2007 in Bush/Cheney, Current Affairs, Iran, Nuclear weapons | View Comments
“If the president decided to nuke Iran, here’s the plan.”
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Diego Garcia Secretly Readied for Bunker Busters »
By Leslie on Oct 30, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Via Cliff Schecter, from the Herald UK: The US is secretly upgrading special stealth bomber hangars on the British island protectorate of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, according to military sources. The improvement of the B1 Spirit jet infrastructure coincides with an “urgent operational need” request [...]
Sibel Edmonds Wants to Tell All »
By Leslie on Oct 30, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
From Brad Friedman, the Bradblog: FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds will tell all—and face charges if necessary—to any major television network that will let her. She’s prepared to name names, including those of two ‘well-known’ Congress members involved in criminal corruption. The ‘most gagged person in U.S. history’ tells the Brad Blog she’s now exhausted all [...]
Thousands Protest War + Open Thread »
By Leslie on Oct 28, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Image: Kimberly White/Reuters The San Francisco anti-war protest, above, echoed others across the country this weekend. Did anyone go to the protests?
New US Sanctions on Iran »
By Leslie on Oct 28, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Imam Square, Isfahan, Iran. Last Thursday, Bush imposed the stiffest economic sanctions against Iran since 1979. The new sanctions target the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps [IRGC], the Qods force, Iranian banks, companies allegedly associated with the IRGC and individuals. Bush’s announcement coincided with increased tensions between Turkey and Iraq, Kurdish tensions with Iran, news of [...]
The Manufacture of Consent »
By Leslie on Oct 26, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Salon’s Sidney Blumenthal quotes Walter Lippmann to point out, something which Lippmann observed almost 90 years ago, that “the crisis of journalism cannot be disentangled from the crisis of national government:” “Everywhere today,” Lippmann wrote in Liberty and the News, “men are conscious that somehow they must deal with questions more intricate than any that church or [...]
Bush Visits California »
By Leslie on Oct 25, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
New au courant picture per request: Bush vows [with a straight face] that California won’t be forgotten! Write your own caption…
Gonzales Could Be Prosecuted »
By Leslie on Oct 24, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Fired former US Attorney John McKay, from Washington state, told Keith Olbermann last Friday that a report due out soon from the DOJ’s Inspector General’s office “likely will include recommendations for criminal prosecution of Gonzales and maybe others. The House Judiciary Committee has been hearing testimony about the alleged politicization of the DOJ. Crossing party [...]
Dodd: Warrantless Wiretaps a Victory for Terrorists »
By Leslie on Oct 24, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Speaking in Iowa today, Senator Dodd said: The president’s willingness to trample Constitutional rights hands terrorists a “victory” beyond what they could achieve through another attack. “When you give up basic Constitutional rights, you give terrorists a far greater victory in ways.”
Forest Fires Target People Who Hate America »
By Leslie on Oct 22, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
That’s what Glenn Beck said on his radio program: “I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.” [Referring to the Southern California wildfires.] Beck hosts CNN Headline News and he’s a regular commentator on ABC’s Good [...]
Susan Update »
By Leslie on Oct 22, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Just spoke with Susan: The hospital is training her for the marathon. They’ll be working her out several times a day for the next week at least, until she can outrun the nurses. Several raccoons were scheduled to be delivered, but they never arrived. If anyone sees any MIA raccoons, would they please let me [...]
Susan Update »
By Leslie on Oct 18, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Susan says she’s received flowers and cards from various people, and they cheer her room up quite a bit. She would like to thank everyone for that. (She said she will send people personal thank-you notes when she’s at home.) She says, “Thank you so much for everything everyone has done.”
NSA, FISA and the Telecoms »
By Leslie on Oct 18, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
First of all apologies for not posting much this week in Susan’s absence. I’ve been swamped at work, because the magazine where I work is going to press. So a lot of late nights all week. Now, if you haven’t already, I recommend everyone read Murray Waas’s lengthy article about Gonzales and the NSA probes, [...]
Cheney’s Law »
By Leslie on Oct 16, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
PBS will air Cheney’s Law tonight, about the Dark Side’s closed-door obsession with seizing unlimited Presidential power. [Check here for local listings.] Here’s a preview.
Susan Update »
By Leslie on Oct 16, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Just spoke with Susan. She says hello to everyone.She’s on a lot of medications right now and a bit out of it. She’s due to start physical therapy within a day or two, and she doesn’t know when the hospital will release her yet.
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