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Car Owners in the Driver's Seat - "Hybrid car enthusiasts have stoked their passion through online discussion" Forest Service Admits 'Serious' Mistake - "This is no small little slip across the border and a few trees" Anti-Iraq War Parents - "American people are beginning to realize this war was created on lies" White House Exposed - "Wilson appeared to be an eyewitness to administration dishonesty" Venezuela Slams Robertson - "It's a huge hypocrisy to maintain this discourse against terrorism" General Lambastes Bush - "I had been hesitant to speak out before because this Administration is so vindictive." Bush's Loss of Faith - "No one wants young men and women to die just because others have" Morgan Stanley Settlement - "$40 Million Goes to 67 Women" My Private Idaho - "W. is determined to stay the course on bike trails all over the West." Anti-War Center in Crawford - "With only $3 in the bank, things looked pretty grim" Ex-Halliburton Worker Pleads Guilty to Bribes - "Formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney" Who Will Say 'No More?' - "Waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool said to push on" Pat Robertson Calls for Assassination - "I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it" Blair to Join Carlyle Group? - "Investment giant with strong links to the White House" More Images of Abu Ghraib - "These are reportedly far worse than the sickening originals." Thousands Protest Bush - "People can protest a war while supporting troops and veterans" Bush's Watergate - "Karl Rove's favorite president is Richard Nixon." Dirty Tricksters - "Karl Rove's plague of deception is becoming visible to the public now" Connecticut Versus Bush - "The state is not the first entity to sue in response to No Child Left Behind." Hearings on Exit Strategy - "It is the US-led occupation itself that is fuelling their violent fervour." Mother Tips the Balance against Bush - "She might also be Bush's worst public relations nightmare." Killed in a Dishonorable War - "Chase Johnson Comley did not die to preserve your freedoms." US Probes Killing of Iraqi - "U.S. troops have been convicted of wrongful deaths." Iraq Looking like Vietnam - "We should start figuring out how we get out of there" Don't Prettify Our History - "The 2000 election is still an open sore on the body politic." Wrong Way - "The White House has tried to shore up its positions by discounting all bad news" The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan - "Character assassination is the Karl Rove tactic of choice" War of the Future - "Oil drives the genocide in Darfur." You Mowed Down His Cross - " I am a Veteran of the Iraq war, having served with the 4th Infantry" Seizing Congressman's Home - "Cunningham, an eight-term Republican, has been dogged by an investigation" Support Growing for Iraq Exit - "If I had known then what I know now, I wouldn't have supported the resolution" Has the "Tipping Point" on Iraq Been Reached? - "The administration is under more and more pressure from within" What They Did Last Fall - "Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election." 'Peace Mom' - "They organized 1,600 candlelight vigils Wednesday night" Billions to US Firms - "Rewarding the companies that are most adept at stashing overseas profits" Fined for Channeling Donations - "The Federal Election Commission yesterday fined Westar Energy" Merck Negligent - "The jury awarded more than $250 million in total damages" Pope Seeks Immunity in Texas - "Patino-Arango has been indicted in a criminal case" Prewar Memo Warned of Gaps in Iraq Plans - "Officials Voiced Concerns About Post-Invasion Security" Who Are the Real Puppets? - "The corporate media are the ones reporting the same false claims" Why Bush Can't Answer Cindy - "Bush has no intention of ever pulling out of Iraq." Blood Runs Red, Not Blue - "Bush is bicycling as soldiers and marines are dying." Attacks Show Desperation - "Samuel Johnson suggested that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Military Blocked Sharing of Files on Terrorists - "We're not going to pass on information" Gagging Workers off the Job - "Noam Chomsky likes to refer to corporations as dictatorships" Secrets of the Morgue - "Bodies of 1,100 civilians brought to mortuary in July." The Mother of All Battles - "And in the process, she's exposed a president's feet of clay." Biking toward Nowhere - "The son wanted to go into Iraq to best his daddy in the history books" Court Strikes Down Bush Attack on Workers - "A Contract 'Not Mutually Binding' Is Not a Contract" Desecration of the Dead - "His name is Larry Northern, and he is a wretch." Exodus of Grief and Anger to Crawford - "He kept telling me he wasn't doing anything dangerous" Bush's Blind Spot on Iran - "It is telling that Bush made the comments on Israeli television" An Exit Strategy for Iraq Now - "Bush has been forced to address the existence of the antiwar constituency" Reality Check for Bush - "Republicans, especially in the House, have the jitters." Social Security Lessons - "In fact, Mr. Bush came to bury Social Security, not to save it." Cindy's Victory - " 'This thing, the wheels are coming off it.' - Gen. Barry McCaffrey" Antiwar Sentiment Gets Champion - "Majority now believe the US 'made a mistake in sending troops to Iraq.' " Cindy Sheehan's War - "The Bush administration is in trouble in Iraq, in Washington, and in Crawford." Antiwar Views in Covering Funerals - "George Bush killed my grandson." Bush - "Obviously, the conditions on the ground depend upon our capacity to bring troops home." Bush's Economic Invasion of Iraq - "Oil is, of course, at the heart of the agenda." Utility Company Boosts Solar Energy Project - "It's happening right now." Smearing Cindy Sheehan - "People who speak truth to power somehow are marginalized in this country." Tell the President the War Is Over - "We will stay the course...What do you mean we, white man?" US Lowers Sights on Iraq - "The United States no longer expects to see a model new democracy" US Steps Up Role in Iraq - "The Americans say they don't intervene, but they have intervened deep" Italy Hastens Troop Withdrawal - "Italy has some 3,000 troops in Iraq" War Foes Intensify Texas Vigil - "Bush got his first look yesterday at the anti-war protest" Unfeeling President - "But this president does not know what death is. He hasn't the mind for it." Iraqi Children Die - "You have killed the innocent and such things will lead the people to destroy you" Mother's Vigil - "I think he definitely is one of those people who lived his life through a higher calling" Bush Ditches Mother of Slain Soldier - "I didn't come all this way from California to stand here in a ditch" Scottsdale Mothers Join Vigil - "But there is nothing honorable about a war based on lies" Abramoff Indicted in Fraud Case - "Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff was indicted by a federal grand jury" Cindy Sheehan - "She spoke with a combination of utter determination, unassailable integrity..." The Murder of Casey Sheehan - "You tell me the truth. You tell me that my son died for oil." One Mother's Stand - "Who will get arrested first, Cindy or Osama?" GOP Paying Legal Bills of Bush Official - "James Tobin...is charged...with four felonies" Canadian Sues US over Rendition - "Charges the US government with violating the Torture Victim Protection Act" The Informer - "The self-described "prince of darkness" appears blinded by the light." The Power of Pork - "They recognized they would be subject to a certain amount of pork" Radiation Standard for Yucca Mountain - "EPA proposes easing the overall public health standard" Bush Is No Nixon - "No mother who lost her son to this Iraq war should be made to stand in a ditch" Selling Out the Environment - "What's left is a dizzying $14.5 billion in energy-industry subsidies" Mortgaged to the House of Saud - "Saudi Arabia is believed to have paid Bin Laden's murderous gang millions" Military Families to Crawford - "Bush has consistently tried to hide, and to hide from, the cost of the war in Iraq." Nuclear Energy Can't Solve Global Warming - "The reasons have little to do with nuclear safety" Waiting, and Waiting - "Mrs Sheehan has vowed to camp out on the spot until Mr Bush agrees to see her" Lawsuit against Rumsfeld - "Complaint provides first look at isolation and abuse." Star-Spangled Lies - "The president leads a siege of public opinion on the home front" Every Mother's Son - "This is a human being totally disconnected from humanity and reality." White House Has Not Provided Files - "All we're trying to do is make the public safer." GOP Divided over Torture - "The trio decided Congress needed a say in the treatment of detainees" March on Crawford - "Why did you kill my son? What did my son die for?" A Day in the Ditch of Democracy - "And we told them that's what Hitler's people said" We Let bin Laden Slip Away - "He had definitive intelligence that bin Laden was holed up at Tora Bora" Trial by Constitution - "The struggle that ends with regime change in America has already begun." US Troops Shakedown Iraqis - "Several soldiers have called the rental arrangement 'extortion' " News Isn't Helping Bush - "She...is disenchanted over Iraq, health care...minimum wage." How Vulnerable Is Bush? - "Bush is falling into the Nixon trap - his administration can do no wrong." CIA Leak Case - "Rove was fired from the state campaign to re-elect the first President Bush" Kill the Energy Bill - "The nation deserves an energy policy that is not powered by pork." Al Qaeda to West: It's about Policies - "Blair has brought to you destruction in central London" Blood on Their Hands - "Blair...Bush have 'far more blood on their hands' than the terrorists" "What Have We Done?" - "You subverted us, you destroyed our lives, you owe us." The Myths of Hiroshima - "American unilateralism born of atomic arrogance" Fixing an Old Injustice - "And those trusts have been criminally mishandled." GOP Chief Hastert Took Bribes - "It may be more than another embarrassing security scandal" Pentagon Eyes New Landmine - "May soon resume production of antipersonnel land mines" Stain on the White House - "It is your job to put the soul back in the body." Iraq's Child Prisoners - "Coalition forces are holding more than 100 children in jails such as Abu Ghraib." How the UK Gave Israel the Bomb - "They've gone out of their way to do it without safeguards" The Imperfect Storm - "Some of United's problems may have been due to avoidable waste and human greed" Democrats and the Energy Bill - " 'Bipartisan'...never means shared sacrifice, it means shared giveaways" US Suppressed Footage of Hiroshima - "Americans are still being kept at a distance from images of death" None Dare Call It Stolen - "Ohio, the Election, and America's Servile Press" US-Led Troops Part of Problem - "The presence of British and U.S. troops in Iraq is fuelling...insurgency" Tale of Travel and Torture - "They told him he was to be tortured by Arabs" Iraqis Accuse Kuwait of Stealing Oil - "Kuwaitis have taken territories up to half a mile inside Iraq." The CAFTA Capers - "No. Hayes, a Republican from Concord, can't be recalled." Guantánamo Trials Rigged - "Commissions...are rigged, fraudulent, and thin on evidence" Prison Abuse Decisions Came from the Top - "We have dramatically reduced our national reputation" Bush Defies Military, Congress on Torture - "Bush persists in ignoring the warnings of our top military leaders" Spy's Notes Were Shelved - "Classified by the CIA...to conceal politically embarrassing facts" Secret Memo - Send to Be Tortured - "It is a per se violation of the US Torture Statute" Triumph of the Machine - "The campaign for Social Security privatization has degenerated into farce." Being Like Bernie - "Sanders as the most popular politician in the state" When They Knew - "Rove may have learned Valerie Plame's identity from within the Administration" The Roots of Prisoner Abuse - "The White House ignored these military lawyers' advice two years ago." Suspect's Account of London Attack - "You could see Iraqi women and children who had been killed by US and UK soldiers." Guantanamo Detentions Disgraceful - "Carter also criticized the U.S.-led war in Iraq as 'unnecessary and unjust.' " Cafta Passed by 2 Votes - "The floor...resembled the set of 'Let's Make a Deal' " CAFTA - "CAFTA's passage was bought by an outrageous amount of pork barrel politics" Stand for Justice - "What we can do to resist the Bush administration" Congress Passes National Energy Plan - "The bill is a series of missed opportunities" Fallujah - "Iraqis make comparisons between their occupation and the Israeli occupation of Palestine" Theft of the 2004 Election - "Meanwhile Noe laundered money into Republican Party campaigns." The Case of Sergeant Benderman - "He chose to speak truth in the face of power and adversity" Bush Won't Block Abuse of Detainees - "Bush and Rumsfeld have taken no responsibility." Stop, Thief! - "Assessing the reaction to the Roberts nomination." Rice - "Rice was entrusted with a vital task: 'to instruct and protect G.W. at his most vulnerable' " EPA Holds Back Report - "Something's fishy when the Bush administration delays a report" Giveaway Secretly Slipped into Energy Bill - "The subtitle is an indefensible giveaway" Billions in Tax Breaks for Energy Companies - "$8.5 billion, to...coal, natural gas and electric companies." AFL-CIO Calls for Troop Withdrawal - "This is not liberation. It is occupation...a new era of colonization." Labor Gets Tough on CAFTA - "That goes for Republicans, for independents and, especially, for Democrats." Maternity Leave - "The United States has chosen a radically different approach" Vacation's All I Ever Wanted - "Bush is heading off for another month-long vacation in Texas." Trudeau Defends Reference - "Real nickname for Bush's close advisor" Keep Nuclear Waste off Native Lands - "Anyone who is trying to tell me that nuclear power is clean is lying to me." A Chance to Block CAFTA - "Most Republicans from North Carolina remain opposed" Probe of CIA Leak - "He suggested the administration had manipulated intelligence to justify going to war" 'Doonesbury' Strip - "Given the coverage of Karl Rove, we thought it was appropriate" What Did the President Know? - "A possible White House cover-up" Bush Aide Learned Early of Leaks Probe - "Gonzales...waited 12 hours before officially notifying the rest" Shots to the Heart of Iraq - "The hatred of the Americans has increased. I myself hate them." The Case Against Bush - "Downing Street Memo Teach-In" Possible Perjury, Obstruction - "Rove has been interviewed twice by the FBI" Rove Scandal Could Stick - "A president...led us into a war based on false information." Agents Criticize Bush - "Bush should take action against those involved" Legislation - "Cheney's office nor the lawmakers would say exactly what was discussed at the meeting" Abu Ghraib Delay - "The ACLU contends that prisoner abuse is systemic." Iraq Hurting Terror Fight - "Iraq is undermining the fight against terrorism" Multiple Administration Security Breaches - "By Rep. Henry Waxman" Correcting the Record - "In the case of Valerie Plame she is facing a gang of bullies" Accounts in CIA Case Differ - "The administration had exaggerated the evidence" Mr. Roberts - "He ruled against requiring Dick Cheney's energy task force to release its records." Off Course in Iraq - "Most chilling of all are the prospects for Iraqi women." Israeli Agents in Iraq - "Israeli intelligence officials are operating in Iraq." Asbestos Victims Are Speaking Out - "Today, victims are demanding their voices be heard" CHOKING ON ASBESTOS - "This bill is a dream for insurance companies" Tough Immigration Bill - "Illegal aliens in the United States would have to leave the country" Slash 14,500 Jobs - "Large-scale job cuts could be particularly painful for HP." White House v. Wilson/Plame - "The problem for the White House; we have no idea what he knows." Firing Aides in Leak Probe - "This is about the credibility of the president of the United States" EPA Paid Weather Channel - "The Environmental Protection Agency paid the Weather Channel $40,000" Ethics Complaint - "Schwarzenegger's lucrative contract with a publisher violated state laws" Reporter Ties Cheney Aide to CIA Story - "Time identifies chief of staff as 2nd source." Bush Statement Conflicts with Executive Order - "Your new standard is not consistent with your obligations" FBI Monitored Web Sites - "It's increasingly clear that the government is involved in political surveillance" FBI Files - "1,200 pages on a civil rights organization engaged in lawful activity" Follow the Uranium - "WELL, of course, Karl Rove did it." In Plame Leaks, Long Shadows - "Karl Rove had a secret." "What I Told The Grand Jury" - "Cooper! I thought you'd be in jail by now." Blame Bombings on Iraq War - "Britain must withdraw now." Aristide in Exile - "Washington's negotiators made one demand that Aristide could not accept" Karl Rove's America - "The medal can...be delivered to his prison cell." Rove's Nondisclosure Agreement - "The White House has an affirmative obligation to investigate" Larger Scandal - "The president deliberately manipulated intelligence" Rove Is in Serious Trouble - "Rove's leak to Matt Cooper is now an established fact" Scientists with Ties to Companies - "Forty-four government scientists have violated ethics rules" The World Speaks on Iraq - "Never before has a war aroused this level of protest" Use of A-Bombs Against US - "I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons" The Women of Gitmo - "This practice must come to an immediate end" Fire Rove - "Enough is enough" Honesty Rating Drops - "Iraq replaces jobs as most important American priority." $8 Million for Dirty Tricks - "And what exactly did Sproul do for all that pay?" Security Clearance Bill - "Voters rate Bush negatively on 'being honest and straightforward' " 25 Years in Prison - "Federal prosecutors had sought a life sentence as a deterrent." The Real Rove Scandal - "If you can't shoot the messenger, take aim at his wife." Energy Bill - "Kelliher was Dick Cheney's point man in organizing the secret energy task force" $356 Million Pension Claims - "$50.89 (million)...involving Enron's cash balance retirement plan" There Goes the Electrical Grid - "PUHCA puts utilities under strict regulation" White House Silence - "The White House is suddenly facing damaging evidence that it misled the public" Rove Unfit for Public Office - "The purpose of such punishment is always to bully and terrorize other employees" Plame, By Any Other Name - "Did Rove keep all this from Bush?" Rove's Role in CIA Leak - "The only fear here is where does this go" War on Terror Is a Colossal Failure - "Raids on civilians continue, alienating even more people." 'Endless' Terror War - "I don't think it's even started yet." It Just Gets Worse - "The hole we're in is deep enough. We need to stop digging." Plan to Reduce Troops - "The memo said Washington planned to cut its forces" Iraq: Credibility, Responsibility, Accountability - "Saddam was raised at a meeting just 10 days after the first inauguration." Muslims Pray for London Bombing Victims - "Muslim clerics...condemn the London bombings" The Price of Occupation - "Most Londoners...were opposed to the Iraq war." Barbaric Bombing - "If you bomb our cities...we will bomb yours" Blood in London - "Bush claims that we are safer because of the occupation of Iraq." London Picks Up the Pieces - "Response to the massacres carried out by Britain in Iraq and Afghanistan" Fighting the Wrong War - "Growing skepticism here about the effectiveness of...Bush's 'war on terror' " The Time of Revenge Has Come - "Blowback from Bush and Blair's incompetently pursued war" Bribery Probe of DeLay - "Were they paying for more than just the meeting" Cost of Medicare - "The bill had ballooned from $400 billion to $534 billion." PBGC Witheld Information - "Bill...will have serious implications for the lives of 44 million Americans" Saving Social Security - "Saving Social Security requires a level of truth-telling" Nuclear Dinosaur - "Without government intervention, there simply would be no nuclear industry." A Fiction as Powerful as WMD - "Most people in Britain want troops withdrawn from Iraq" When US Troops Will Leave - "Bush has shown no sign of wanting to give up the bases." Fighting the Iraq War at Home - "Bush has a problem." The Silenced Majority - "A war begun on false premises slogs on" Declaration of Impeachment - "Group also announces petition to remove President Bush." Not Dominion, but Liberty - "But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy." Celebrating Independence - "Empire-building is destroying the soul of our nation" They Died for Their Country - "For not all of America's wars have been worth dying in" The Rove Factor? - "One of Cooper's sources was White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove" Government Secrecy - "We're better off with openness." Karl Rove is a Plame Case Source - "If true, this would suggest a perjury rap for Rove" The Radiation Link to Cancer - "Even very low doses of radiation pose a risk of cancer" Question on Impeachment - "Bush's televised address to the nation produced no noticeable bounce" The Stain of Torture - "America cannot continue down this road." US Withdrawal - "The best way to support our troops in Iraq is to bring them home." Covering Up Napalm in Iraq - "The Pentagon lied." Unease For GM Retirees - "Everything we worked to build up, they're trying to tear down." CAFTA Deserves a Quiet Death - "Bush will continue arm-twisting" Republicans Ride the Third Rail - "Reward the affluent at the expense of everyone else" Dangerous Incompetence - "My answer is, Bring 'em on." Torture and Accountability - "Public opposition can change...government policy." Empty Words - "Bush pursued a war of choice in Iraq" Extremists Want to Undermine Social Security - "The best thing to do is just say no." Cheap, Safe Energy - "Renewables also do not leave a legacy of radioactive waste" Iraq War Speech - "US military presence in Iraq...a powerful recruiting tool for terrorists" The Tipping Point - "US public opinion on the Iraq war dips with every dead soldier" General Admits to Secret Air War - "Coalition aircraft waged a secret air war against Iraq " Ally's Doubts on Iraq War - "British advisers foresaw variety of risks" Demonizing Granddad - "Social Security 'reformers' find creative ways to slash benefits." Health Care of Veterans - "2005 deficit angers Senate Republicans" Is This What They Call Democracy? - "Iraq has become a vast prison" Tribunal - "The attack on Iraq is an attack on justice, on liberty, on our safety, on our future, on us all" Army's Hard Sell - "The all-volunteer Army is not working." Plans to Make Plutonium - "First production of plutonium 238 since the cold war" Asbestos Legislation - "Deal is Good for Companies, Bad for Victims" Bush Struggles - "He is already a lame duck President." America Turns on Bush over Iraq - "The spectre of Vietnam is stirring." Karl Rove Is a Liar - "Polls continue to show deepening public alienation from the president" The Smoking Bullet - "It only takes one member of Congress to begin an impeachment process" Most Oppose Draft - "People simply don't want their kids to be sent off to Iraq" Most Cowardly War in History - "The assault on Iraq is an assault on all of us" Letter on Downing Street Memos - "Only rigorous Congressional oversight can determine the truth." Arrest of 13 CIA Agents - "Omar, 42, said in the calls he was tortured with electric shocks." The Class of '05 - "I think recruiters target poor kids." Republicans Voice Their Doubts - "Rumsfeld, rarely at a loss for words, appeared momentarily stunned." Fixing To Fix "Fixed" - "Blair forced to acknowledge that the documents are authentic" Guantanamo Torture Reports - "The time is up. We have to act now. If not, we won't have any credibility left" S&L Redux - "Taxpayers might have to underwrite the Pension Protection Fund" Competitors Beat Nuclear Power - "Nuclear power is the costliest option" GOP Plan for Social Security - "This is the worst of all worlds" Exponential Enrons Ahead - "And get ready to start paying your power bill to Halliburton" Guantánamo Interrogations - "Doctors compromised medical ethics" Blinded by the Light - "Dick Cheney...'We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators...' " Wink-Wink Lobbyist Move - "The tribe ultimately paid Mr. Scanlon as much as $15 million" The Thing We Don't Talk About - "Bush and Tony Blair had decided to invade Iraq in April of 2002" Tax Breaks Pad Energy Bill - "Would shower the energy industry with billions of dollars in tax incentives" Kill the Messenger - "How, then, did the US military end up killing journalists?" The Road to Riches Is Called K Street - "Lobbying firms hire more, pay more, charge more" US Was Big Spender - "The United States handed out nearly $20 billion of Iraq's funds" Families Demand Truth - "Most of us are not anti-military and would never malign the soldiers" GOP Allies Are Breaking Ranks - "It's like they're just making it up as they go along." FBI & 9/11 - "Why has the 9/11 Commission intentionally omitted this information...?" "Old News"? - "Going to the United Nations would be an attempt to legalize a predetermined war" Hit by Friendly Fire - "The reality is that we're losing in Iraq." Smoking Signposts to Nowhere - "The Bush administration seems somehow to be weakening" Allies Resist America - "The CIA was believed to have played a role in the disappearance" Relatives Seek Hearings - "But I don't sleep well. My son died for a lie." High Crimes - "The White House clearly has something to hide." British Fretting over Iraq War - "It sounds like a grudge between Bush and Saddam." Soldier Sues - "He volunteered to...portray an uncooperative detainee." The Queen and the Soldier - "I am not fighting for you any more" We Are All Complicit - "Thirty prisoners have now died in US custody."
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