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Who We Are - "Rumsfeld...should have been fired for bungling the Iraq war" Ohio - "The Bureau of Workers' Compensation invested $225 million in a hedge fund" Military Recruiters - "It's an insidious kind of draft, quite frankly." Problem for Bush - "They establish a prima facie case of going to war under false pretenses." Did Bush Steal 2004 Election? - "Similar new concerns have since surfaced in Maryland and elsewhere." Mood on Iraq Sours - "Bush's approval ratings have tumbled further, to...the lowest level of his presidency." Napalm in Iraq War - "American officials lied to British ministers over the use of...napalm" A Press Coverup - "The Washington press corps are more embarrassed than the White House" Inquiry - "The memo...could be the first documentary proof that Bush deceived the American people." More Damning - "I don't think most Americans know these prewar attacks ever happened" Bolton Fight - "The Bush administration hyped intelligence on Iraq before the 2003 invasion" Guantánamo "Gulag" - "Bush & Co...is now gunning for the venerable Red Cross." 'Exit Strategy' - "Opinion polls showing a drop in support for the war" Tobacco Penalty - "A close friend of President Bush from their days as Skull & Bones members" A Broken Body - "The House has become trivial, and corruption cannot be investigated" Boosting Retirement Age - "Work till you're 69 before getting full Social Security benefits?" Emissions Regulations Could Stall Energy Bill - "Democrats...were shut out of writing the energy legislation" Evidence Can't Be Ignored - "Lying to Congress about the need to go to war is a high crime" The Definition of Insanity - "These folks are in such deep denial" Early Plans for Invading Iraq - "It's Bush's war. Period." Sunset - "It is not Social Security...but healthcare and…employer-run pension plans" Arms Can't End Iraq War - "We can't kill them all...When I kill one I create three" Army Lowers Standards - "We are going to need some sort of national service, a draft" Pessimism on War - "The American public has reached a 'tipping point' on Iraq." Rich-Poor Gap - "Concern that wealth disparities may destabilize the economy" Evidence Intel Was Fixed - "The full British Briefing Papers have been attached below." Human Toll of a Pension Default - "Like Enron, workers' lives and retirements have been ruined" US Lacked Postwar Plan - "Advisers to Blair predicted instability." Need for Gulf War 'Excuse' - "The White House has declined to respond" Bush Job Approval Dips to New Low - "All they're doing is getting our guys killed."
Americans and Brits Demand Answers - "We are opposed to...involvement...in a war that is based on lies." Iraq Exit Strategy - "The United States is in danger of getting mired in a protracted, costly conflict" GOP Walks Out - "The hearing was an example of Republican abuse of power" Raising Soc. Sec. Age - "Republicans privately reviewed suggestions for raising the...retirement age" Washington - "Corporate tax breaks...pension...drilling in the Arctic...limit lawsuits...asbestos" Meet Team DeLay - "DeLay...initiated...a plan to force lobbyists to hire only Republicans" Iraqis Fighting US Forces - "99.9 per cent" of those captured fighting the US were Iraqis" Memogate Hearings - "Already committed to going to war in the summer of 2002" Losing Our Country - "Let's try to do something about the politics of greed." 9/11 Pilot's Widow Denied Pension - "At what point does our Government step in and stop atrocities...?" Injuries to All - "The Bush administration's hostility to workplace safety." Leak Triggers Another Shutdown - "We found examples of unresolved conflicts" Party for Lobbyists - "This is hardly the first time this administration has tinkered with the truth." Shift in Tobacco Suit Is Assailed - "Selling out the American people." Bush Lied about War? - "Readers have been badgering...newspapers to examine the memo story." Revenge of Baghdad Bob - "The way you can tell when Bush is lying is that his mouth is moving." Memo Gets Fresh Attention - "Intelligence and facts were being fixed" Recruiters Go Way Beyond the Call - "Just formalities. Sign here. And here. Nothing to worry about." After Downing Street - "The Iraq invasion was unnecessary" Oil Giant Influenced Bush - "White House sought advice from Exxon on Kyoto stance." Carter: Shut Down Gitmo Prison - "This is not the way to treat people" Memo Story Won't Die - "The...Memo remains among the top 10 most viewed articles" The Anti-Christ and I - "Satan sells in the USA." Pension Loopholes - "Most companies that operate pension funds are using the same loopholes." Memogate - "Senator...I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong" The Bush Economy - "Even the merely wealthy are being left behind in the dust" Energy Bill Pork - "Taxpayers hold all the risk while energy companies reap all the rewards." Los Alamos Whistleblower - "They left him in the parking lot for dead" The Mugging - "We are rich. We own America. We got it, God knows how, but we intend to keep it" The Mobility Myth - "American workers have been hurting badly for years." Proposal on Nuclear Waste - "The public doesn't want radioactive waste in their local garbage dump" Lying for War - "The memo makes clear that President Bush was lying" Former Supporter - "The best way to support the troops today is to give them a plan to exit Iraq" US Has Secret Jails - "We know they are being mistreated, abused, tortured and even killed" Sellin' Nukes - "Nuclear energy has received $74 billion of taxpayers' money" The Richest - "Those earning more than $10 million a year now pay a lesser share" A Policy of Rape (Graphic Story) - "Bush finally let the word Darfur pass his lips on Wednesday" Selling Washington - "The energy companies got everything they wanted." SEC Pick Is Friend to Corporations - "Cox...one of the strongest pro-business voices." White House Needs a 'Deep Throat' - "This skullduggery was going on all the way up to the president" The dirty blonde who made the world come into focus - "What is this thing...called 'Watergate' anyway?" Protecting Pensions - "Pension plans 'ought not to be controlled by companies' " Leukemia Link - "Pollutants in the air around power lines could become electrically charged" Offenses Impeachable - "It means that our president and all of his administration are war criminals." Video Special - "What I Saw in Iraq" Rummy Rules - "Rummy Rules - a shifting, ill-defined coda based on double-talk" Jailhouse Rock - "There's ample substantiation of serious abuses" UK Nuclear Leak Unnoticed for Months - "83,000 litres of radioactive fuel...accidentally discharged." Catapulting the Propaganda - "60 percent of the American people are in favor of funding stem cell research" A Cover-Up - "True patriotism means confronting your government when it lies." War Crimes Trial - "British soldiers and officers are under investigation for alleged war crimes" Goading Saddam into War - "Blair...discussed how to make 'regime change' in Iraq legal." Frozen pensions are a wake-up call - "IBM workers sued the company" The Downing Street Memo - "Our search for the truth has been stonewalled and I need your help." Impeachable Offenses - "Warrior-King: The Case for Impeaching George W. Bush" Rumsfeld and Bush - "There is also "prima facie" evidence against Bush for war crimes and torture." Rice Interrupted - "Demonstrators interrupted a speech by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice" Afghan Gambit Fails - "Anything goes against the bad guys - and they are all bad guys" Still to Blame - "They have done irreparable damage to the reputation of the American military" Public Has Right to See Abuse Photos - "The judge decided some pictures from Abu Graib could be released" Storage of Nuclear Waste - "50,000 tons of nuclear waste is now kept at reactors" Global Warming Versus Nuclear Power - "Exelon, Entergy, and Duke Energy" Indian Apology - "The long history of government mistreatment of American Indians" Rally against Schwarzenegger - "Arnold can't be bought: Big business already owns him" Amnesty Takes Aim - "Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time" Bush the Despot - "Bush's drive for absolute power has momentarily stalled" Hidden Angle - "BP...adopted a 'zero tolerance' policy for bad news" CIA's Role in Abuse - "Jamadi died several hours later in a shower stall at Abu Ghraib prison" Capitulation to the Nuclear Lobby - "Nothing can be done, we're all doomed!" Bush Approval Mark Nears Low - "33 percent approve of his plans for Social Security changes." Preaching to the Choir? - "A C average does not preclude the presidency" Ohio's Election Scandal - "Attack on election board whistleblower and leaked Blackwell threats." US Citizens Tortured - "FBI participated in interrogations" Did Your Promised Pension Plan Get Taken Away? - "ABC Would Like to Hear Your Story" When Pensions Change Hands - "Mergers Shift the Obligation To Pay" Parents Critical of Army - "Tillman's family is lashing out against the Army" Unknown Unknowns - "What did the president do after being told about Abu Ghraib?" Ally from Hell - "Bush seems paralyzed in the face of the slaughter" Abuse Report - "Afghanistan's president...demanded 'very, very strong' action by the United States" CIA Action - "Probe finds 'rendition' of terror suspects illegal." Guantánamo - "The Bush administration's answer to the problem was to bury the truth." Asbestos Bill - "A small group of companies has lobbied for and won relief from their liability" Mercury from Power Plants - "Attorney generals from at least 13 states challenged the rules in a lawsuit" How Bush Makes Sure They Agree - "Yes, the president is promoting his agenda" Red Cross - "US investigators had confirmed that interrogators had flushed a Koran down a toilet." Wrong and Right - "There wasn't enough hot water in all of Cuba to make me feel clean." Media Hero - "He blasted the whole of the US Senate" Political Lexicon - "The irony is that they live in a permanent state of fear." Afghan Inmates' Deaths - "It's all going to come out when everything is said and done." Whistleblowers with Courage - "Creators of illegal wars are war criminals" Muslim World Anti-American - "Views of President Bush were uniformly negative." Things Fall Apart - "There are signs that the Bush administration may be unraveling" Mock Executions - "Soldiers quoted the captain as telling them they 'shouldn't talk about it' " Not a Pretty Picture (Graphic Photos) - "The Bush administration-tries to censor and sanitize coverage" Duke to outsource HR services - "Employees not offered jobs with Hewitt will be laid off" Congress Oil Claims - "I told the world that your case for the war was a pack of lies" Don't Blame Newsweek - "Get your minds around it. Our country is guilty of torture." Memo Reopens War Claim - "Senator, we are not engaged in a war in Afghanistan." Mandatory Overtime - "Staffing cutbacks are impinging on basic inspection and repair functions" Pension Safety Net - "We're moving back to a world that existed in the early 20th century" Social Security Not in Peril - "Social Security is not 'in crisis' " Secret Way to War - "Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology." Staying What Course? - "At this point, the echoes of Vietnam are unmistakable." New Wind to Green Energy - "Wind power is better than nuclear power stations for tackling global warming" Immigration's Costs - "We deserve better than that as a nation." Awol Crisis - "People are calling us because there is a real problem" Cheney Wins Ruling - "Keep secret how industry crafted the administration's energy policy" Ridge Reveals Clashes on Alerts - "Ridge said he wanted to 'debunk the myth' " USA's Depleted Uranium - "The radioactivity persists for over 4,500,000,000 years" CAFTA - "All CAFTA does is give big corporations the chance to exploit their workers" They Lied to Us - "Desire for regime change was not a legal base for military action" Quest for the Truth - "I don't think they've learned anything at all since the first Gulf War" Torture Whitewash - "The Bush administration and the Pentagon are whitewashing the whole thing." Intelligence Warned of Iraq War - "Intelligence was 'being fixed around the policy' " Employee Pension Plans - "Some retirees could see sharply lower pension payments" Wal-Mart Crushes Union - "In 30 years of union activism, I have never seen anything like it" One of These Days - "Save a bunk for Mr. Blair, too. Criminals belong in prison." Unions Key to Health Coverage - "Members more likely to have medical benefits." War Protest Reasonable - "He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on the world" Always Low Wages. Always. - "Don't cry for the bondholders, but do cry for the workers." Outsourcing Torture - "The United States had lost is moral authority to criticise other nations" US Impeded Talks - "Bush 'destroyed the atmosphere' for negotiations" Privatization at Gunpoint - "Using direct military force, new private operators took over the terminals." Bill Clinton Versus Big Mac - "Quit Digging your Grave with a Knife and Fork" Prewar Documents - "Bush seemed determined to act militarily" Nuclear Option - "It's going to be much uglier than you think." The Young and the Jobless - "Younger workers...have just been crushed." God's Own Party? - "Partisan attempts to hijack faith and politics are wrong." Energy Panel Records - "Cheney Wins Court Ruling" Secret Iraq Plan - "Was there a coordinated effort...to 'fix' the intelligence" New Medicare - "Elderly people with low incomes may lose some of their food stamps" McDonald's Coffee Case - "By the End of the Trial, the Jury Was Outraged" CAFTA Hurts Labor - "Trade agreements should serve people, too - not just corporate interests." The Final Insult - "Bush's Social Security plan...cuts for anyone making more than $20,000" Jagged Little Drill - "Cornerstone environmental law, NEPA, under fire in energy bill." GOP Like Companies - "The change has most affected pensions." Bush and Putin - "Four years ago, your presidential election was decided by the court." Mission Accomplished - "Usually...people become reporters before they prostitute themselves" Reid Calls Bush 'A Loser' - "I think this guy is a loser." Soldier Lifts Lid - "An army insider blows the whistle on human rights abuses" Name Withheld Pending Notification - "Our media was, and still is, a willing shill for the Administration" Bush Made Intel Fit Iraq Policy - "The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." Anti-War Claims - "Murder and torture are 'war crimes' " Lobbyist - "Lobbyist under criminal investigation had close contact with Bush team." Democrats Voted Out of Church - "He's the kind of pastor who says do it my way or get out" Energy Policy - "American energy policy - written by Beavis and Butthead" Drug Problem - "Republican leaders violated parliamentary procedure, twisted arms and perhaps engaged in bribery" Bush Spin - "American foreign policy is a tissue of lies" Criminals Belong in Prison - "Get George W. Bush out of the White House and into a cellblock" Forest Rule - "Lands are now at immediate risk...from the logging, mining and drilling industries" Most Dislike Social Security Plan - "60 percent say they don't like the way he's handling the issue." Lobbyist's Deal - "This is starting to smell more like criminal activity" Hitting the Middle Class, Again - "Newly proposed cuts would be only the first whack" Workers Urge Rejection of Free-Trade Pact - "We're losing jobs" Health Coverage Dispute - "We thought it was discrimination" From 'Gook' to 'Raghead' - "Guys in my unit...would...shatter bottles over the heads of Iraqi civilians" Unpunished for Torture - "Only Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski was reprimanded." A Lobbyist's Stake - "We need that moolah...We have to hit $50M this year (our cut!)." Bush Would Cut Benefits - "Bush called on Congress...to curtail future Social Security benefits" Dumb Dems Let GOP Run Wild - "One out of every two jobs...was taken by a worker over 55." How Blackwell and Petro saved Bush’s Brain - "Chance of Exit Polls Being So Wrong...One-in-959,000." GOP Bows to Pressure - "Republicans probably are starting to wish...DeLay would just disappear." Swindler on a Gusher - "Does anybody still think the path to war wasn't greased by oil?" Photos of War Dead - "The ban on such photos was imposed...by...Dick Cheney." Puncturing Another Weapons Myth - "Bolton repeatedly clashed with intelligence officials in 2002 and 2003" Unfair Labor Practices - "Waste Management is more interested in keeping employees powerless" Chernobyl - "The construction is unstable, unsafe, and does not meet any safety requirements." Bush Labor Department Takeaways - "That law was the only thing between us and the street" Healthcare Double Standard - "Americans favor some kind of national healthcare system" 100 Bunker-Busting Bombs - "The Pentagon announced the sale a short time after visits by Sharon" Hostile Information - "Civilians were targeted by snipers." Reverse Ethics Rule - "Republicans were trying to protect House Majority Leader Tom DeLay" Land of the Dead - "A chain reaction went out of control in No 4 reactor" No WMD in Iraq - "The WMD investigation has gone as far as feasible." Retirement Credit - "Members…aren't getting credit toward their military retirement" Workers Win Big - "Pro-worker activism will continue at Washington University" Wal-Mart Inquiry - "Coughlin maintains that the money was used on anti-union activity" Call for Special Prosecutor - "The government cannot ignore the systematic nature of the torture" Social Security Privatization - "Nobody wants to be baited and switched" 'War Could Be Illegal' - "The Prime Minister was warned...conflict breached international law." The Silencing of Sibel Edmonds - "The federal government is routinely retaliating against government employees" Testimony Disputed - "Hubbard disputed Bolton's testimony." The Mighty Laid Low - "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" Bush Lies, America Cries - "The truth is, we were never under threat from Iraq." House Passes Energy Bill - "She called it "anti-consumer, anti-taxpayer, anti-environment" Navajo Nation Outlaws Uranium Mining - "This legislation just chopped the legs off the uranium monster" Mercury Rising - "Coal-fired power plants...are the largest source of man-made mercury pollution" Wal-Mart's Free Market Fallacy - "Wal-Mart could not survive in a real free market" Trouble for Halliburton - "Defence Department audits showing additional overcharges totaling 212 million" Energy Bill - "This bill lavishes taxpayer subsidies on big energy companies" Lobbyist Gave DeLay a Skybox for Donors - "DeLay was admonished…for…legislation involving energy" AIPAC Employees Ousted - "The FBI raided AIPAC's offices in Washington twice last year" The Missing Energy Strategy - "Even the coal-fired utilities...are getting religion" 'Wish Lists' of Detainee Tactics - "Electrocution, blows with phone books and using dogs and snakes" A Time for Disobedience - "The press is now looking squarely at a perversion of government." The Woman Who Fought George Bush - "She looked like she should be surfing on a beach in California" Horrifying, Personal John Bolton Story - "John Bolton put me through hell" What I Didn't See in Iraq - "Trust me when I tell you things are so much better in Iraq" Power for Power's Sake - "I am the federal government" Arms to Haiti - "Bush administration has been accused of ignoring its own arms embargo" Clean Air Change - "Some people think it's a good idea. Most don't." Bush's Immigration Plan Divides Republicans - "There are strange bedfellows on both sides" Congress's Shadow World - "Washington is now a $3-billion-a-year company town." Nuclear Power - "The true economies of the nuclear industry are never fully accounted for." Tort Reform - "What companies...would be interested in tort reform in Texas with asbestos problems" CEO Pay - "It's time to put the brakes on runaway CEO pay." War for Oil - "The US appears to have fought a war for oil in the Middle East, and lost it." Convention Unrest - "Demonstrators had followed the instructions of senior officers" Stroke the Rich - "IRS has become a subsidy system for super-wealthy Americans" Bush's Poll Numbers Worst on Record - "Bush has the lowest approval rating of any president" 2 in GOP Take Aim at DeLay - "Tom's conduct is hurting the Republican Party" Broken Promises—Retiree Health Benefits - "The retirees say they were tricked." Choice for UN Faces Bullying Claims - "John Bolton...has a record of harsh criticism of the UN" Interior Refuses Yucca Testimony Request - "If they need more proof, I will be happy to make up more stuff." Cash Helped Wal-Mart - "The money was spent on anti-union activities" Baghdad Anniversary - "Force the occupation to leave from our country" Guantánamo Detainees - "I don't care about international law" Paul Anderson - "You can imagine the reaction I get when I say 'carbon tax' in the halls of Duke Energy" Bush Standing with Public Weakening - "People are not very impressed by what Bush is doing" Corporates Must Help - "Corporates must join efforts to check trafficking of women" Nuclear Plants Are Still Vulnerable - "The government has failed to address the risk" Sue Myrick Panders for Bush - "Administration officials did most of the talking" Sweeney on Social Security - "Workers have paid in more to Social Security than has been needed" Social Security Accounts 'Dead' - "Privatization is dead" Culture of Crime and Greed - "Wal-Mart could not survive without manipulating the system" Sen. Boxer - "Cutting Johnson off in mid-sentence, Boxer said the pesticides study is 'morally wrong' " Keep Social Security - "The thieves on Wall Street have proven their willingness to bilk" The High Cost of Cheap Labor - "Illegal immigration today isn't 'cheap' labor, except to the employer." Protesters Keep CIA at Bay - "We think this is a huge victory but also not the end of it" Abu Ghraib Probe - "Other deaths elsewhere in Iraq that may have involved the CIA." Nuclear Industry Moving Waste to Dry Sites - "Experts: Pools More Vulnerable to Terrorism" Woman Challenges NC Anti-Cohabitation Law - "Government has no business regulating relationships" Retirees Sue Ex-Employer - "Health-care premium...$685 a month...pension...$460" Curbing Medical Suits Stalls - "The president has urged Congress to slim the huge asbestos docket." US Ignored Arms Inspectors - "Every piece of fresh evidence had been tested - and disproved" All We Want Is the TRUTH - "Will the press now do its job, and report the facts?" Yucca Probe - "If they need more proof, I will be happy to make up more stuff." Curveball - "The CIA's assessment...'was based largely on reporting from a single human source' " Doubts on Weapons Were Dismissed - "CIA officers sent urgent e-mails...describing grave doubts" Justices Give Older Workers More Leeway in Alleging Bias - "The decision affects about 75 million workers" Medicare Premium Rising - "Medicare's financial outlook has deteriorated dramatically over the past five years" Bush's Social Security Plan - "Bush...seeking to 'cut the guts out of Social Security' " Neocons as Parasites - "Bush Sr. called the neocons the 'crazies in the basement.' " We Can't Remain Silent - "Many servicemen...want to do the right thing" The Pentagon's Secret Stash - "Why we'll never see the second round of Abu Ghraib photos." Women Bear Brunt of Occupation - "Violence against women and sex crimes have also increased"
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