How generations of high finance and Ivy League breeding led to a presidency handed from father to son. An excerpt from "American Dynasty." [Salon]
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Kevin Phillips talks about his big Bush book, all the rumors surrounding George W. (some of them true), and how the Democrats can stop sabotaging themselves. [Salon]
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One-time Republican hero Kevin Phillips dares to speak up against the Walker-Bush oligarchy that rules the American state through oil, intelligence, big money and the power of the Christian right. [Salon]
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Two days ago, a video taken off the infrared sight system on a US Army OH-58D Kiowa was posted to a BitTorrent site which features various military videos. What is disturbing about the video is its subject—a couple making love in the back seat of a convertible—and not just because our 'brave men in uniform' are using multimillion dollar aircraft to play peeping Tom. No. They're spying. On what could possibly be US civilians, on US soil. Which is illegal. [Kuro5hin.org]
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