Saturday, September 13, 2008

Palin Claims Right to See All State Files

By Jason Leopold
September 14, 2008

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is maneuvering to stop an investigation into an alleged abuse of power, in part, by claiming that she has an unlimited right to pry into the personnel records of all state employees, including the state trooper who divorced her sister.

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Will McCain-Palin Lies Hurt Them?

By Robert Parry
September 13, 2008

Despite all the chatter about how “historic” Campaign 2008 has been, it is the McCain-Palin ticket that it is truly testing the limits, not of race or gender politics, but whether the United States is ready to enter into a new dimension of political lying.

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Friday, September 12, 2008

The Truth and Sarah Palin

By Robert Parry
September 12, 2008

When Sarah Palin was plucked from obscurity, we didn't focus on her personal life; we zeroed in on her record -- and discovered a very different reality from what was first reported. September 12, 2008

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A 9/11 'What-If?'

By Peter Dyer
September 11, 2008

What if we had never gone to war? What if, after the shocking crimes of September 11, 2001, the United States had pursued a different course?

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Did al-Qaeda Succeed?

By Robert Parry
September 11, 2008

Ten years after the neoconservatives laid out plans for permanent U.S. global dominance – and seven years after the brutal 9/11 attacks gave them the opening to carry out those plans – the neocons instead have guided the United States onto the shoals of a political/military disaster and the prospect of rapid decline.

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Iran's Road Less Traveled to Nukes

By Ray McGovern
September 10, 2008

Thomas Fingar, the U.S. government’s top intelligence analyst, in a public speech on Sept. 4, repeated the intelligence community’s key judgment that Iran’s work on the “weaponization portion” of its nuclear development program “was suspended” in 2003.

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Mocking Constitutional Rights

By Nat Parry
September 10, 2008

On the third day of the Republican National Convention, GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin mocked Barack Obama for believing that individuals accused of terrorism actually have rights under the law.

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Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Fox Guest Attacks Rachel Maddow

By Brent Budowsky
September 10, 2008

Even by the low standards of the Republican News Network, a.k.a. Fox News, the attack on Rachel Maddow, as a "Lesbian Air America host," was a despicable new low.

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Palin's Strange Probe of a Trooper

By Jason Leopold
September 9, 2008

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin – collaborating with her husband Todd and several senior aides – conducted what amounted to a rogue investigation into suspicions that her ex-brother-in-law was faking a job-related injury as a state trooper, according to state documents, law enforcement officials and former aides to Palin.

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Monday, September 08, 2008

The Rising Cost of the Iraq 'Surge'

By Robert Parry
September 9, 2008

Since Jan. 10, 2007, when George W. Bush announced his troop “surge,” more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers have died in the Iraq War – about a quarter of the total war dead – but now an even higher cost may loom ahead, the indefinite continuation of the conflict under President John McCain.

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Storm Troopers at the RNC

By Ray McGovern
September 8, 2008

Ten days ago, as the nation focused attention on the hurricane nearing the Mississippi delta, another storm was brewing far upstream in St. Paul, Minnesota — a storm far more dangerous, it turned out, but one by and large overlooked by the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM).

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Sunday, September 07, 2008

Bush Still Fights House Subpoenas

By Jason Leopold
September 8, 2008

The Bush administration still is resisting a congressional subpoena seeking testimony from former White House counsel Harriet Miers on the firing of nine federal prosecutors in 2006, taking the unprecedented executive privilege battle to the U.S. Court of Appeals.

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Sarah Palin's Media No-Show

By Mary MacElveen
September 7, 2008

During the GOP national convention, Republicans were openly hostile towards the news media.

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