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Endless Nightmare, Ever Darker

An alert but anonymous commenter pointed me to this story, which I see now has been picked up by many others, but since it fits so perfectly with the column I posted below on America’s new military autocracy and John Roberts’ role in upholding it, I thought I’d give it an airing here as well.

White House threatens veto on detainee policies. Excerpt from AP:

“The White House on Thursday threatened to veto a massive Senate bill for $442 billion in next year’s defense programs if it moves to regulate

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Dog Days: Frisky Pups and Frozen Scandals

From the Washington Post (via Steve Gilliard):
Puppy Love, at a Price: Affluent Owners Find More Ways to Pamper Their Pets

Excerpt: "Last year, pet owners across the country spent…$34.4 billion caring for their pets, more than double the $17 billion a year spent a decade earlier, according to American Pet Product Manufacturing Association Inc., a Greenwich, Conn.-based trade association. Much of that cash went for routine veterinary visits and over-the-counter food, but more owners are paying for toys, gourmet biscuits and a nice haircut, as

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Killing Joke: The Day the American Republic Died

Bob Herbert, who has been incandescent for months now, usefully reminds us of the comedy routine that Bush performed for a sycophantic audience of TV and radio "journalists" back in March 2004: the infamous "hunt for WMD" in the Oval Office. As you’ll recall, this was a series of cutesy shots showing Bush peering behind the office curtains, looking under the rug while cracking wise: "No weapons of mass destruction under here! Maybe they’re over here?" and so on.

I thought

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The Executioner’s Face is Always Well Hidden

From The Washington Post:

"CONGRESS HAS a novel response to the rash of prisoners over the past few years who have been exonerated of capital crimes after being tried and convicted: Keep similar cases out of court. Both chambers of the national legislature are quietly moving a particularly ugly piece of legislation designed to gut the legal means by which prisoners prove their innocence….

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“Robbing the cradle of civilization”

Wise man Chalmers Johnson is on the case — the forgotten case — of the dagger Bush has driven into the very heart of the common heritage of human civilization: "These events were, according to Paul Zimansky, a Boston University archaeologist, ‘the greatest cultural disaster of the last 500 years.’ Eleanor Robson of All Souls College, Oxford, said, ‘You’d have to go back centuries, to the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258, to find looting on this scale.’"
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The Hollow, Hateful, Harmful Compassion of the Great and Good G8

The "historic" aid package announced by the Politburo of the Plutocracy in Scotland this week will indeed provide an unprecedented level of unhindered assistance, doled out with no strings attached. Unfortunately, this largess is being dispensed to the G8’s corporate masters, not the suffering people of Africa. Bono and Geldof have been played like violins — or maybe honked like clown horns — by the Politburo, who used the pop stars’ credibility to blur the rapacious essence of their heavily conditioned "compassion." Here’s yet another look at the truth<font face="Times

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The Hour of the Inevitable

Hard truths from the Guardian:

Blair Put Us in the Firing Line: The war on Iraq made the London attack inevitable

Excerpt: "The fury generated by Tony Blair’s decision to coat-tail George Bush into what only the blind still call a justified war has put us all in the firing line. When Blair led us into the war on terror, he knew that a country with which Islamist networks had no immediate axe to grind would be drawn into their sphere of hate as a consequence.

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Shell Game: Iraqi Oil Fields Offered Up to Foreign Investors

Hey, look over there! Terrorists in London! Meanwhile, back at the ranch….

Eleven Iraqi Oil Fields Go Up to Go Up for Tender

"Eleven oil fields in southern Iraq, capable of boosting the country’s production to three million barrels a day will soon be tendered to international investors, the Iraqi oil ministry announced Friday…."

This is the real game, this is what it’s all about, this is why Bush and Blair diverted all those resources away from tracking down real terrorists into their terrorist-manufacturing war of

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