FEATURED ARTICLES
- A Full Day Of Protest Planned for Inauguration, Washington Post
- Soros group raises stakes in battle with US neo-cons, The Financial Times
- CBS' Cowardice and Conflicts Behind Purge, gregpalast.com
- Mike Chertoff's Dirty Little Secrets, LA Weekly
- Torture -
From J.F.K. to Baby Bush: Torture in the Senate, Truthout
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The searing photographs from Abu
Ghraib have made it harder to create and
maintain the alliances we need to prevail against the vicious terrorists who
threaten us, and those abuses serve as recruiting posters for the terrorists."
- - Senator Patrick Leahy (To Alberto Gonzales in last week's A.G. confirmation
hearing)
KNOW YOUR HISTORY - January 13th
1958 -- 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petitioned the UN for a nuclear
test ban.
1971 -- The 1964 Gulf
of Tonkin resolution, which amounted to a declaration
of war against Vietnam, was repealed by Congress. U.S. Senators Wayne
Morse of Oregon and Ernest
Gruening of Alaska share the distinction of casting the
only votes against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution on August 7, 1964. The resolution
supported President Lyndon Johnson's military actions against North Vietnam
in retaliation for its attack on a U.S. spy ship in the Tonkin
Gulf which turned
out to be a bogus lie. The resolution passed in the House 414-0 and the Senate
88-2. Gullible Senators & Congresspersons? Same as it ever was.
1991 -- Seattle's University Baptist Church offers sanctuary to military personnel
opposed to the US war with Iraq.
2003 -- England: Greenpeace activists break into Sizewell
B nuclear power station
to demonstrate lax
security.
RHINO SEZ:
Rhino exits his soggy, brushy homestead in Southern
California having kept
his head above the waterline in spite of 17 inches of rain in 15 days. He
has a look around and sees billionaires wanting to fund politically progressive
efforts (YAY!), CBS sinking further into a cowardly crouching crevice (BOO!),
a John
Ashcroft ash kissing right wing partisan prosecuting judge up for
Homeland Security Czar (YUCK!), and last, and with the least amount of credibility,
a torture rationalizing shrub facilitating attorney way too close to confirmation
for U.S.
Attorney General (THE SKY REALLY IS FALLING!).
Read it and weep my friends. Then organize! Organize! Organize!
Big doin's on Inauguration Day.
A Full Day Of Protest Planned for Inauguration
By Manny Fernandez, Washington Post, January 13, 2005;
AT: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5131-2005Jan12.html
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Soros group raises stakes in battle with US neo-cons
By James Harding, The Financial Times, January 11 2005
A group of billionaire philanthropists are to donate tens of millions more
dollars to develop progressive political ideas in the US in an effort to counter
the conservative ascendancy. George Soros, who made his fortune in the hedge
fund industry; Herb and Marion Sandler, the California couple who own a multi-billion-dollar
savings and loan business; and Peter Lewis, the chairman of an Ohio insurance
company, donated more than $63m (£34m) in the 2004 election cycle to
organizations seeking to defeat George W. Bush. At a meeting in San Francisco
last month, the left-leaning billionaires agreed to commit an even larger sum
over a longer period to building institutions to foster progressive ideas and
people...
MORE AT: http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c0e45a86-6408-11d9-b0ed-00000e2511c8.html
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CBS' Cowardice and Conflicts Behind Purge
Network's Craven Back-Down on Bush Draft Dodge Report Sure to Get a Standing
Rove-ation at White House
by Greg Palast. gregpalast.com, Tuesday, January 11, 2005
"Independent" my ass. CBS' cowardly purge of five journalists who exposed
George Bush's dodging of the Vietnam War draft was done under cover of what the
network laughably called an "Independent Review Panel." The "panel" was
just two guys as qualified for the job as they are for landing the space shuttle:
Dick Thornburgh and Louis Boccardi. Remember Dickie Thornburgh? He was on the
Bush 41 Administration's payroll. His grand accomplishment as Bush's Attorney
General was to whitewash the investigation of the Exxon Valdez Oil spill, letting
the oil giant off the hook on big damages. ...
Then there's Boccardi, not exactly a prince of journalism. This is the gent
who, as CEO of the Associated Press, spiked his own wire service's exposure
of Oliver North and his traitorous dealings with the Ayatollah Khomeini. Legendary
AP investigative reporters Robert Parry and Brian Barger found their stories
outing the Iran-Contra scandal in 1986 stopped by their bosses. They did not
know that Boccardi was on those very days deep in the midst of talks with North,
participating in the conspiracy...
READ THIS IN DEPTH EXPOSE ON THE CBS SCANDAL AT:
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=407&row=0
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Mike Chertoff's Dirty Little Secrets - Bush's New Homeland and Security Czar
by Doug Ireland. LA WEEKLY, JAN 14, 2005
The Bush White House thinks they’re being clever by naming a prosecutor
instead of a criminal to head the Department of Homeland Security: Mike Chertoff,
whose appointment as DHS czar in the wake of the failed nomination of scandal-plagued
Bernie Kerik (now under investigation by multiple law-enforcement agencies)
was announced as the Weekly went to press. But Chertoff is as political an
appointment as one can imagine--especially for those who know the arena of
politics in New Jersey, where Chertoff was U.S. Attorney, and where his naming
to the DHS job caused jaws to drop. Chertoff was a political attack dog in
that job, indicting and convicting a raft of Democratic officeholders...
MORE AT: http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/08/news-ireland.php
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Rhino's
Bottom Line is Part 3 of a 3 part series on torture, made all important
by the pending confirmation of attorney Alberto Gonzales to the highest law
enforcement position in the U.S.
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