NPR (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Erich Origen and Gan Golan, authors of Goodnight Bush: An Unauthorized Parody, describe how they used the children's classic Goodnight Moon to satirize the Bush administration.
UncommonSense (Free subscription) | yesterday
Perhaps out of unresolved anger over Italy's withdrawal from the Iraq occupation, but more likely out of sheer stupidity and ineptitude, the Bush administration released a press kit for the G8 summit in which it describes Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as, "a political dilettante who gained his high office only through the use of his considerable influence on the national media."But...
Free Internet Press (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
U.S. exports to Iran have jumped dramatically during president George Bush's years in office in spite of his tough rhetoric against the Tehran government and the imposition of fresh economic sanctions. Analysis of U.S. government trade figures published Tuesday by the Associated Press revealed a near tenfold increase over the last seven years in sales to Iran. Goods include cigarettes, aircraft...
The Nattering Nabob (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge overseeing Guantanamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to put other cases aside and make it clear throughout the Bush administration that, after nearly seven years of detention, the detainees must have their day in court. Get this: the administration says that they want more time to add to the evidence they are using to hold the detainees....
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
A small group of responders suffering from various ailments and left with deforming injuries after the 2001 terror attacks joined Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerrold Nadler Tuesday in calling for the Bush Administration to rehire the man known as the World Trade Center health guru.
Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Bush Administration Strikes Oil in Iraq by Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch And speaking of oil, just when we were barely getting used to Big Oil and Iraq hitting the front pages of American newspapers in tandem, here comes Afghanistan! Who now remembers that delegation of Taliban officials, shepherded by Unocal ("We're an oil and gas company. We go where the oil and gas...
On Deadline (Free subscription) | yesterday
U.S. exports to Iran have grown by more than 1,300% under President Bush, jumping from $8.3 million in 2001 to $146 million in 2007, according to a study by the Associated Press. The wire service, citing its review of trade...
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
A federal judge overseeing Guantanamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to put other cases aside and make it clear throughout the Bush administration that, after nearly seven years of detention, the detainees must have their day in court.
Florida Sun Sentinel (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
A federal judge overseeing Guantanamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to put other cases aside and make it clear throughout the Bush administration that, after nearly seven years of detention, the detainees must have their day in court.
Think Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yesterday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said he would like to set a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops. Today, however, the Bush administration rejected the timetable. In an April 24, 2007 interview with Charlie Rose, however, President said he would remove troops if asked by Iraq, but he predicted that Maliki would not [...]
BloggerRadio.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
BloggerRadio has long reported the Bush Administration as an unnatural disaster. Technorati Tags: Bush Fatigue,GOP Republicans,McCain is McSame,Politics
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
In 2005, as Congress debated legislation to ban cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody, then-White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan repeatedly asserted that the Bush administration “does not condone torture” and would “never authorize the use of torture.” But in a podcast interview with ABC News’s Jake Tapper yesterday, McClellan disavowed his previous [...]
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge overseeing Guantanamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to put other cases aside and make it clear throughout the Bush administration that, after nearly seven years of detention, the detainees must have their day in court....
Threat Level (Free subscription) | yesterday
Online activists from the right and the left announced an unprecedented campaign Tuesday to hold democratic lawmakers accountable for caving to the Bush administration on domestic spying Netroots activists are raising money online to run advertisements against "Blue Dog Democrats" such as Rep. Chris Carney,...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here's the press release from Dave Bitts and Zeke Grader of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Asssociations opposing the Bush administration proposal to lift the offshore oil drilling moratorium. "We know there are bad consequences from drilling for oil and from burning it," said Bitts. "We've already marched to the drumbeat of war for oil and that has had disastrous consequences,"...
