Hoyer and Cantor accidentally leave "AIPAC" in Israel memo


$91 billion more for Iraq, Afghanistan


Obama plan to end offshore tax havens faces bipartisan opposition


Murtha's nephew gets $4 million in no-bid contracts from Pentagon


Pelosi plays defense on torture..

...CIA says Pelosi was briefed on torture

...but maybe she wasn't?

FLASHBACK: Pelosi, others in Congress were briefed on waterboarding as early as 2002...

"...the reaction in the room was not just approval, but encouragement"

...consistently embraces right wing

...rejects single payer health care


CAUGHT ON TAPE: Rep Jane Harman promises Israeli agent to lobby Justice Dept. to drop charges against Israeli spies..

...agent promised to lobby Pelosi for Harman committee appointment in return..

...Obama's Justice Dept to drop espionage case


War escalates under Democrats


Obama moves to expand Treasury's power

Summers, Geithner and Wall Street's ownership of government

Geithner aides worked for months with AIG on bonuses


Obama withdraws NIC nominee Charles Freeman, Freeman blames right-wing Israeli lobby

...Nancy Pelosi pushed for his withdrawal

...so did Charles Schumer


Obama keeps CIA 'torture flight' program intact


Obama commits to sending 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan

Afghanistan: not a good war


Obama embraces Bush's War on Terror

...will continue sending prisoners to secret prisons around the world

...uses state secrets doctrine to shut down lawsuit by former CIA detainees

...leaves torture loopholes open

...seeks to block illegal wiretapping suit

Obama moves to weaken executive pay caps set by Congress


Senate GOP's alternative stimulus package costs 3.5 times as much as Obama's


Loopholes found in order to close CIA black sites


Obama appoints defense lobbyist to #2 Pentagon post

Obama's DNI pick may have aided terrorists in Timor, lied to Congress

Bob Gates predicts a sustained back-door draft

Obama's cabinet shaping up to be hawkish

...No anti-war voices on foreign policy team


Dozens of former lobbyists serving on Obama's transition team

Biden picks former lobbyist as his chief of staff


Pentagon board recommends budget cuts


The case against Joe Lieberman

Lieberman: 'I worry about' whether Obama has 'the right stuff to bomb Iran'


Obama puts hundreds of Bush rulings under review

...will investigate Bush torture

...plans to close Guantanamo prison

Russia optimistic about improves relations with Obama


McCain gave keynote address to 2006 ACORN convention


McCain and Palin pal around with terrorists:

McCain sat on board of council that supported Latin American death squads in Iran-Contra scandal

..."a point of contact for extremists, racists and anti-Semites"

...group linked to former Nazi collaborators

...cover for White House's secret and unconstitutional Iran-Contra program

...McCain says he resigned, but group leaders don't remember a resignation

...was featured on cover of council's newsletter

...voted to protect domestic terrorists who attack abortion clinics, doctors

...Palin attributes political success to Kenyan witch hunter, terrorist

...pals around with white supremacists


Study: Mainstream media biased in McCain's favor


Brzezinski warns against Afghanistan surge


Bush, McCain flip flop on GI bill, are trying to take credit now it's passed


Bush ridicules those who call for diplomacy in foreign relations, compares to Nazi appeasers

James Baker: talking to an enemy is not appeasement...

Flashback: McCain was for talking with Hamas before he was against it

..."the ultimate flip flop"

Defense Secretary Gates: "We need to... sit down and talk with" Iran

McCain agrees with Bush that diplomacy is equivalent to appeasement

...says Reagan didn't negotiate for hostages in Iran, but Reagan did negotiate

Flashback: The Bush family's Nazi past...


House Republicans twist Obama's words on Israel


Russia Today accuses CNN of misusing its footage of South Ossetia ruins


9-11 Commission reconvenes: slams Bush


Cheney aide was in Georgia just before war started

Putin thinks Cheney pushed for Georgia conflict to help McCain


Mukasey: Justice staffers won't be held accountable for breaking the law


White House wiretapped the late Benazir Bhutto, favored Musharraf


Bush family gushes on Rush Limbaugh:

"...important and excellent broadcasting..."
"...consider you a friend..."
"...our pal..."
"...a guy we really care for..."
"Proud of you, always"
"Do you see our man (Fox News President Roger) Ailes at all?"


Cheney considered false flag attack to provoke war with Iran


Judge to Karl Rove's citizen arresters: "It's about time"


Bush energy secretary repeats lie that there were not significant oil spills caused by Hurricane Katrina


Pentagon attempted to cover up KBR's negligence in electrocution of US soldier


Iraq War architect Richard Perle poised to get into the oil business...


Bush cronies tried to redefine 'carbon dioxide' to save power plants from emissions regulations


Former Chief Guantanamo Prosecutor: Military commissions "not justice"


Bush Homeland Security aide caught on tape offering high-level access for donations to Bush library...


Mukasey won't hold Justice Dept partisans accountable


McClellan: Cheney's in it for the oil


Former State Dept official: Hundreds of detainees died in US custody, at least 25 murdered

Army general: Bush has committed war crimes

Law school plans Bush Admin war crimes prosecution


Hundreds wrongfully held at Guantamo


Report: Withdrawal timetable necessary for Iraq stability


Senate GOP votes against troop funding


40,000 US troops diagnosed with PTSD since Iraq War began


Support our troops: Bush "strongly opposes" 0.5% pay raise for US military


Senate bows to Bush, preserves immunity for spying telecom companies

Bush committed at least 30 felonies in breaking FISA law...


House votes to give immunity to spying telecom companies


Iraq death toll "above highest estimates," above 655,000


Journalist: MSNBC, ABC corporate bosses pushed for stories selling Iraq War


Fox News suggests Obamas engage in a "terrorist fist jab"


Judge critical of Guantanamo trials dismissed


FBI concerned about Republican National Convention: recruits people to infiltrate "vegan potlucks," "investigate terrorist acts"


Bush lies about his sacrifice for Iraq War effort: hasn't actually given up golf

...looking forward to leaving office so he can email with his friends

...removed computer from Oval Office to avoid "record requests"


"Patriot Act Lite" making its way through Congress


UK police chief heading CIA rendition flight investigation found dead


McCain won't support Iraq oil audit


Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaeda


McCain votes against ban on waterboarding, backs Bush veto

Flip flop: Watch McCain scold Romney for not ruling out waterboarding


"We don't torture": Bush vetoes ban on waterboarding

Flashback: Waterboarding results in death


House overwhelmingly passes bill that would allow US government to seize computers with pirated mp3s, videos...

...would create a new cabinet-level agency, copyright czar

...bill backed by entertainment giants


House closes doors to debate spying bill

How they voted: House fails to override Bush veto on torture ban


National Republican Congressional Committee treasurer embezzles up to $1 million


Iraq War costing American taxpayers $5.54 million per hour


"DC Madam" Palfrey found dead

Palfrey's condo manager on suicide note: "That is not her signature"

Palfrey: "...they will make it look like suicide."

Cheney may have been a client

Flashback: Cheney's prostitution problem

Hauls box of evidence to mother's before death...


BETRAY US: Petraeus promotion a sign of war with Iran?

Flashback: Whose Betrayal?


Report: Cookies more effective than waterboarding


Obama Administration files petition to block Chinese Muslims at Guantanamo from entering US


Obama nominates superfund polluter lawyer to run DOJ environment division


US air strikes kill over 100 Afghan civilians, residents demand troop withdrawal


Torture memo author Bybee personally lobbying members of Congress

Bush aides pressure Justice Dept to water down ethics report on torture memo authors


Powell aide: torture helped build Iraq War case

Abu Ghraib guards to appeal conviction: Torture memos prove they were 'scapegoats for Bush'

Private waterboarding contractors billed taxpayers $1,000 per day

Study: Churchgoers more likely to support torture


US soldiers in Afghanistan evangelize Afghans:
Distribute Bibles, "Hunt people for Jesus"

...Military denies


Air Force One photo op cost nearly $330,000


Pharmaceuticals benefit from flu panic: 15 million doses of bird flu vaccine expired


Obama negotiating exceptions to Iraq withdrawal deadline...

...no plans to close Baghdad bases housing 25,000 troops

Blackwater still in Iraq, gets $22.2 million contract from State Department to stay through the summer


Afghanistan veteran tells Congress:
War was a big mistake, warns against troop surge


Obama releases Bush torture memos

...does not support investigation, prosecution

UN torture expert: CIA exemption illegal

...torture architect still at CIA

...military agency warned against torture in 2002


Obama expands Bush defense of warrantless wiretaps

...invokes states secrets defense


A review of Obama's first 100 days:
Looks like Bush!

Obama breaks records for corporate welfare

Nader: Where's my Change?


Federal Reserve has been sending money to foreign banks for over a year...


Leaked memo: Pentagon knowingly exposed US soldiers to toxic waste under Bush


White House claims House GOP members asked for Obama's autograph during stimulus talks


Poll: 1 in 4 voters believe Bush committed war crimes


Domestic spying program targetted journalists, bloggers


Bush claims No Child Left Behind "liberated" American children

Former White House counter-terrorism official: Bush has not saved US lives

Cheney: If the President does it, it's not illegal


Pentagon executives get $30,000 bonuses


Suit claims Halliburton subsidiary KBR exposed troops to unsafe water, food, fumes

...Indiana troops sue KBR for chemical exposure


US interrogator: Bush's torture policies have caused more American deaths than 9/11


Bush's last-minute "fire sale": will auction off 50,000 acres for drilling

White House approves measure to encourage mountaintop mining

White House pressured entertainment industry to produce pro-war propaganda


Secret order allows US military to raid militants anywhere in the world


Shell negotiates for 25-year oil monopoly in southern Iraq


Bush's parting gift: lifting consumer protection and environmental regulations


Bush Administration contests status of 200,000 Ohio voters


US air raid in Syria kills eight

...witness says at least two Syrian villagers detained

...Syria demands apology, compensation

...US faces international condemnation

..."terrorist agression"

...Syria closes US school, cultural center

...may shut down US embassy in Damascus


Charges dropped against five Guantanamo prisoners

...Pentagon to renew charges

...CIA officers might be put on trial in Britain over torture allegations


Taxpayers to pay $46,790 for portrait of Rumsfeld


Bush issues two more presidential signing statements, can now bypass more than 1,100 laws


Revealed: White House abused domestic spying program

...US soldiers' "phone sex" and "pillow talk" recorded, passed around

...data collected on Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders

...eavesdropped on journalists routinely


New US intelligence report:
'victory' not certain in Iraq


Memo leaked: Bush had plans to ignite Iraq War with decoy UN plane...


Bush had no plan to catch bin Laden after 9-11


Gonzales: Bush, worried about legality of wiretapping program, personally sent him to Ashcroft's hospital room for signature

...late night visit, Ashcroft heavily medicated


Rice, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft knew about US torture as early as 2002

Echoes of Iraq War: White House claims bailout will pay for itself


Maliki suggests Bush stalling withdrawal to help McCain

Military unit moved from Iraq to US to "help with civil unrest and crowd control"


White House illegally deletes over 10 million emails


At last minute, Bush bars press from financial meeting


Leaked US-Iraq agreement reveals plans to keep US troops and bases in Iraq indefinitely

Over 200 malnourished, diseased prisoners found in secret Basra prison...


Bush secretly ordered special ops troops into Pakistan


Woodward: Bush "failed to lead" on Iraq, was not involved in meetings on the surge

..."I got other things to do"

...Condi Rice, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Generals Casey and Abizaid, Rumsfeld advised against the surge

...Joint Chiefs almost revolted in 2006

...General Casey: Bush doesn't understand the Iraq War, called Baghdad a "troop sump"


Karl Rove met with Bush almost weekly, despite retirement


Rice: Military force "not the way to deal in the 21st century"


Bush admin continues to spread baseless rumors about Iran


Mukasey appoints torture-backer as DOJ Chief of Staff


White House knew Iraq had no WMD, ordered CIA to forge intelligence


Injured vets group cancels Cheney speech

...Cheney demanded vets be sequestered for two hours prior to speech

...would have barred them from leaving until his speech is over...


McClellan: White House gave Fox News talking points


2002 Justice dept memo revealed: It's not torture if the torturer believes "in good faith" that harsh methods will not cause "prolonged mental harm"


Karl Rove accused of threatening GOP operative to "take the fall" for 2004 election fraud in Ohio


Bush flips: agrees to a "general time horizon" for Iraq withdrawal


Bush claims executive privilege on CIA leak


Turkey admits cooperation with Iran


Iraq Paliamentarian: 70% of Iraqis want US to withdraw...


Secret plan revealed to keep Iraq under US control...

...50 military bases

...control of Iraq's airspace

...legal immunity for US contractors, troops

...would allow the US to strike at any country from inside Iraq

US withholding funds from Iraq, pressuring government to accept plan


Bush: Iraq War will "take forty years"

..."I don't care if it created more enemies"

...decision to go to war not based on any long-term strategy for the mideast


McClellan book prompts Congress to call for the release of Bush/Cheney testimony in CIA leak investigation


Australia pulls out of Iraq

Australian PM Rudd: Bush abused intelligence to sell war


Manson prosecutor outlines case for prosecuting Bush for murder...


Coalition of the willing?
US paid allies to participate in Iraq invasion


McClellan: Bush misled US into Iraq War, directed administration to out CIA agent


BETRAY US: Petraeus "happy to" participate in Pentagon propaganda campaign

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The Hollywood Left? Hollywood's role in Pentagon propaganda


Treatment of children in War on Terror amounts to war crimes...


US essentially waging nuclear war in Iraq...


Brand new torture tactic: not waterboarding, but "water treatment"

US interrogators do China's dirty work in Guantanamo


Rice defends Iran policy as "successful"

Bush Admin on hypocritical foreign policy: would "rather be right than consistent"


Bush promises to give enriched uranium to Saudi Arabia


Israeli official: Bush planning to attack Iran before term is over

...White House denies


US plane violates Venezuelan airspace

...Pentagon confirms


US won't support cluster bomb ban


Bush admin intended to spark media frenzy about Iranian weapons in Iraq

...US weapons experts:
There are no Iranian weapons in Iraq


Air Force aims for "full control" of "any and all" computers


Former Military Intel officer: U.S. listed Palestine Hotel in Baghdad as a target prior to killing journalists in 2003 attack


Pentagon analyist-propogandists made over 4,500 media appearances


Former State Dept. officials: Bush Admin. ignored Iraq corruption

...Ambassador Crocker either "negligent" or "intentionally misleading"

The facts about Petraeus' fog of war..


U.S. deploys more than 43,000 troops unfit for combat

Cheney: Baghdad's Disneyland-style amusement park is evidence that things are going "swimmingly" in Iraq

Iraqi military orders Sadr City residents to evacuate

Bush Administration ramps up pressure on Iran


Maliki disagrees with Bush/Petraeus, says U.S. troops should leave

Bush calls for end to Iraq troop withdrawals (as if they ever began)

All-day curfew imposed in Baghdad


White House torture memo gives green light for cutting, biting, scalding...

National Lawyers Guild calls for disbarment of memo author Yoo


Historian labels Bush "biggest thug" to occupy White House


Bush "envious" of soldiers' "exciting," "romantic" mission in Afghanistan


Iraq War costs reach $3 trillion


Perino "under strict instructions," will be fired if she talks to press about the falling dollar


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Pentagon Iraq memos to Bush contained Bible verses


Single-payer health care missing from Senate hearings

...single-payer advocates arrested


Wells Fargo needs $15 billion more from taxpayers

...Bank of America needs $34 billion more

Top-paid CEOs in 2008: Four of top ten subsidized by taxpayers

Senate kills foreclosure bill, Banks celebrate

...Durbin: Banks "own" US Congress

...Finance, insurance, real estate interests paid $42 million to lobby Congress

Why recession is not so bad


National Security: Air pollution threatens 60% of Americans


Geithner's love affair with Wall Street..

Obama expected to appoint Fannie Mae CEO to run bailout..

Wall Street pay bouncing back..

Bailed out banks shipping thousands of jobs overseas..


GM gets $2 billion more from taxpayers


Merrill Lynch uses $2.62 billion in tax dollars for bonuses, 22 times AIG bonuses...

JPMorgan Chase to spend US tax dollars on new jets, luxury aircraft hangar

AIG spends $218 million in US tax dollars to pay executive bonuses

Bailed-out banks raise interest rates for late credit card payments

Bank of America uses taxpayer bailout on $10 million for Super Bowl festivities

...is negotiating a Yankees sponsorship

...Bailed-out Citibank has giant Mets sponsorship


Israel using white phosphorus against Gazans


With economy in shambles, Congress gives itself a raise


Merril Lynch chief fights for $10 million bonus

Automakers spent $65 million on lobbying, political contributions in 2008

AIG to double, triple salaries of senior managers

Taxpayers to bail out Citigroup

Fed refuses to disclose recipients of $2 trillion in federal loans

...bailout package to save banks $140 billion in taxes

American Express requests $3.5 billion bailout


FDA: 90% of baby formula contains melamine

...Hairspray deemed unsafe for pregnant women


Poll: 23% of Texans think Obama is a Muslim


Exxon Mobil posts biggest quarterly profit ever


Alaska Senator Ted Stevens convicted on all counts of corruption


20% of Colorado voters purged from rolls

...50,000 Georgia voters' registrations in question, thousands purged

...Voting machines malfunction in
Florida, West Virginia

...machines flip votes in Tennessee

...votes flipped in Texas, Missouri

...same problem on two different voting machine brands

...ballots thrown out in Texas

...thrown out in Virginia, Georgia

...New Mexico GOP sued for voter intimidation


Georgia continues to attack South Ossetia


WV voting machines switching early Obama votes to McCain

Confusing ballots not being counted in NC


Fox News hires disgraced reporter Judith Miller

...hires Glen Beck


Bush Administration pressures PBS not to run torture documentary until term is over...

...watch documentary here


Chavez mocks "leftist" Bush for bank nationalization


Ron Marlett teaches Sally Kern a thing or two


Former OK governor Frank Keating calls Obama "a guy of the street"


Fox guards henhouse: former Goldman-Sachs executive responsible for oversight of bailout spending

...US retirement savings lose $2 trillion in 15 months

...Dow continues to fall

...AIG executives celebrate bailout with lavish retreat


House approves bailout, Dow Jones plunges

...credit still tight

...national debt tops $10 trillion

...world markets tank

...US stocks down

Kucinich: "We're back to taxation without representation"

...We had alternatives

Paul: Bailout guarantees a depression

Wells Fargo acquring Wachovia for
$15.1 billion

Wachovia faced 'silent' bank run,
FDIC forced sale


Man dies after being tasered by police


Pelosi paid husband with PAC funds

Naysayers in House win bailout vote

Kucinich: "Too much money in too short of time, going to too few people..."

Paul: Bailout is welfare, socialism for the rich...

Kaptur: "The people pushing this deal are the very same ones who are responsible for the implosion..."

Many economists say bailout not needed

Harvard economics prof: bailouts aren't the answer

Bloomberg analyist: $700 billion could balloon to $5 trillion


Washington Mutual siezed by Fed, largest takeover yet...

Ron Paul proposes legislation to abolish the federal reserve


Paulson's former firm one of the biggest beneficiaries of bailout plan

Pelosi, 50 other members of Congress benefit from Bush's bailout package

...could push US debt to post-WWII levels

...would crush dollar

...plan would bar review from "any court of law or any administrative agency"

...a historic swindle

...Main Street backlash

...Wall Street's five biggest firms paid themselves $39 billion in bonuses for 2007

Congressional leaders "stunned" to hear that US financial system may break down in a matter of days...

...bailout could cost one trillion dollars

...US taxpayers to bail out foreign banks as well

...treasury has offered $125 billion to banks outside of the US

Exclusive: Jim Inhofe accidentally implies that McCain, other Republicans don't love America...

In 2007, Inhofe lied about his reasons for supporting Iraq invasion


FDIC prepares for more bank failures


Limbaugh says Obama's nomination an example of affirmative action: "nobody had the guts to stand up and say no to a black guy"


Pelosi's why-haven't-you-impeached-Bush tour

...clashes with protesters over impeachment


FDIC takes 2 more banks, closes 28 branches


Sally Kern carries gun into OK state capitol, no homosexuals were harmed

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Louisiana police officer kills man with taser


IndyMac Banks seized by federal regulators

Analysts: More banks will fail


Reporters: Major networks ignoring wars in Iraq and Afghanistan


Veterans on the attack against Jim Inhofe


Lessons of the Tim Russert coverage


Video: Israeli terrorists beat Palestinians with bats


Pelosi's refusal to impeach enables Bush to trample Constitution

Ron Paul: Pelosi strikes down portion of bill requiring Congressional approval for attack on Iran... because "the leadership in Israel asked her to"


Former Congressman Ernest Istook was showered with gifts from Jack Abramoff

Missouri GOP Credentials Committee interrogates delegate, threatens to revoke credentials because of "support for Ron Paul"

GOP officials boast about cheating at state conventions to stop Ron Paul supporters


Texas preacher threatened with arrest for talking to boy scouts about the constitution


Some things you should know about cell phone spying...


Chris Matthews: MSNBC bosses are "pro-war"


Taser International sues medical examiners

puts chill on doctors...


Company plans to mine Grand Canyon


Report slams U.S. food safety


Are you unhappy? Is it because of consumer addiction?


Survivalism goes mainstream as U.S. economy tanks


Faulty NJ voting machines subpoenaed

NJ, OH voting errors 40,000% higher than allowed by law


Polonium found in cigarettes


Sally Kern has state investigate "death threats," investigators conclude there were no threats

Flashback: OKC Mayor Mick Cornett takes credit for Kern's victory against "the gay agenda"

Open Letter to Sally Kern

Sally Kern confirms hate speech against gays

Kern responds: "Shame on the person" who made speech public

Only on Coup by Memo:
the history behind Sally's "Kern-servative" crusade against gays


Ethanol not so green


EU officials: beware of new global warming cold war









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