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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 |
RawStory: "In 1981, began the era of neoliberalism, a movement which, at least temporarily, remade the Democratic Party, redefined American journalism and didn't really die until now, writes David Brooks in the New York Times.
The left, which has the momentum, is growing more uniform and coming to look more like its old, pre-neoliberal self. The right is growing more fractious. And many of those who were semiaffiliated with one party or another are drifting off to independent-land."
The only way neocons can keep their powers is to prevent any form of government that wants a rule of law, justice and liberty. Their last resort is brutal force, which simply would mean they have lost their integrity, morality and justification.
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Emma Darwin's Diaries 1824-1896 now online.
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ThinkProgress: "Yesterday, Halliburton announced that it would be moving its corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai. Reincorporating in Dubai would mean that Halliburton - which earned $2.3 billion in profits last year - will be paying less taxes to the U.S. Treasury, even as it collects billions from government contracts."
Salon: "As the military scrambles to pour more soldiers into Iraq, a unit of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Ga., is deploying troops with serious injuries and other medical problems, including GIs who doctors have said are medically unfit for battle. Some are too injured to wear their body armor, according to medical records."
And in Africa the illegal incarceration of people gets full support of the US.
LeMonde: "En Afrique de l'Est, un réseau régional de pays alliés de Washington et se livrant à des transferts de prisonniers hors de tout cadre légal apparaît peu à peu au grand jour.
Le premier point d'ancrage de ce réseau se trouve au Kenya. Une vague d'arrestations y a commencé, au début du mois de janvier, alors que les troupes éthiopiennes achevaient de chasser du pouvoir, en Somalie voisine, les forces de l'Union des tribunaux islamiques."
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Guardian: "Alberto Gonzales, the US attorney general faces mounting calls to resign from Democrats and commentators, threatening to add to the Bush administration's recent run of troubles."
NYTimes: "During the hearing on his nomination as attorney general, Alberto Gonzales said he understood the difference between the job he held - President Bush's in-house lawyer - and the job he wanted, which was to represent all Americans as their chief law enforcement officer and a key defender of the Constitution. Two years later, it is obvious Mr. Gonzales does not have a clue about the difference.
He has never stopped being consigliere to Mr. Bush's imperial presidency. If anyone, outside Mr. Bush's rapidly shrinking circle of enablers, still had doubts about that, the events of last week should have erased them.
First, there was Mr. Gonzales's lame op-ed article in USA Today trying to defend the obviously politically motivated firing of eight United States attorneys, which he dismissed as an 'overblown personnel matter'. Then his inspector general exposed the way the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been abusing yet another unnecessary new power that Mr. Gonzales helped wring out of the Republican-dominated Congress in the name of fighting terrorism.
On Thursday, Senator Arlen Specter, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, hinted very obliquely that perhaps Mr. Gonzales's time was up. We're not going to be oblique. Mr. Bush should dismiss Mr. Gonzales and finally appoint an attorney general who will use the job to enforce the law and defend the Constitution."
TheNation: "Now Gonzales is the figure most identified with the second casualty in the war on terror - the erosion of the rule of law at home. He's at the center of two metastasizing Justice Department scandals: the political purge of eight top US prosecutors and the FBI's misuse of the Patriot Act to compile thousands of personal, business and financial records without judicial approval."
LATimes: "D. Kyle Sampson, the chief of staff to Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales, is leaving the Justice Department in the first fallout from the department's bungled firing of U.S. attorneys last year, people familiar with the situation said Monday night.
Sampson, a top lawyer under Gonzales and his predecessor, John Ashcroft, had been identified by congressional Democrats as one of a handful of senior officials whom they wanted to question as part of the deepening investigation into who ordered seven federal prosecutors relieved of their duties in December and why."
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