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Tue - January 16, 2007Dollars, not Democracy, drive U.S. foreign policyLast week, members of the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee grilled Secretary of State
Condoleezza
Rice about a hydrocarbon law being
considered by
Iraq's
parliament. The bill, the contents of which have not been published, is expected
to prescribe how Iraq's oil revenue will be shared among the major factions in
that country. The measure also is supposed to spell out the degree to which
foreign companies could invest - and profit - from Iraq's oil
industry.
Posted at 03:23 PM Read More Sun - January 7, 2007Future of Iraq: The spoils of warIraq's massive oil reserves, the
third-largest in the world, are about to be thrown open for large-scale
exploitation by Western oil companies under a controversial law which is
expected to come before the Iraqi parliament within days.
Posted at 03:46 PM Read More Fri - January 5, 2007DEA Has Spent $175 Million Eradicating "Ditch Weed" Plants That Don't Get You HighIn the past two decades, the Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA) has spent at least $175 million in direct
spending and grants to the states to eradicate feral hemp plants, popularly
known as "ditch weed." The plants, the hardy descendants of hemp plants grown by
farmers at the federal government's request during World War II, do not contain
enough THC, the primary psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, to get people
high.
Posted at 03:50 PM Read More Tue - October 31, 2006Florida ballot terminals favor RepublicansFlorida voters using electronic ballot
machines are having persistent problems choosing Democrats in early elections,
the Miami
Herald reports.
Posted at 06:26 PM Read More Mon - October 2, 2006Rumsfeld, Ashcroft said to have received warning of attackDefense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and
former Attorney General John Ashcroft received the same CIA briefing about an
imminent al-Qaida strike on an American target that was given to the White House
two months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Posted at 11:25 PM Read More Sun - October 1, 2006Iraq War Costs $6 Billion a MonthOn September 22, an updated report by the
Congressional Research Service was filed with Congress, The
Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since
9/11.
Posted at 11:28 AM Read More Tue - September 26, 20062001 memo to Rice contradicts statements about Clinton, PakistanA memo received
by United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shortly after becoming
National Security Advisor in 2001 directly contradicts statements she made to
reporters yesterday, RAW STORY
has learned.
Posted at 11:24 AM Read More Sun - September 10, 2006US accused of covert operations in SomaliaEmails suggest that the CIA knew of plans
by private military companies to breach UN rules
Posted at 10:45 AM Read More Thu - August 31, 2006Bush, Cheney, Rummy just making stuff upThey've got no plan So what's their
strategy? Make
stuff up:
Posted at 10:12 PM Read More Tue - August 29, 2006U.S. Secretly Negotiated with Gaza KidnappersThe U.S. secretly agreed to the "real
demands" set by the group behind the August 14 kidnapping of two Fox News
journalists in Gaza, according to a report in the pan-Arab newspaper al
Hayat.
Posted at 10:03 PM Read More Fri - August 11, 2006Wed - August 2, 20069/11 Panel Suspected Deception by PentagonSome staff members and
commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story
of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a
deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a
reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in
the debate.
Posted at 08:21 PM Read More Fri - July 28, 2006U.N. rights body tells US to shut "secret" jailsThe U.N. Human Rights Committee on Friday
told Washington it should immediately shut all "secret detention" facilities and
give the International Committee of the Red Cross access to anybody held in
armed conflict.
Posted at 09:42 PM Read More Wed - July 12, 2006Novak: Rove was a source in outing PlameNow that Karl Rove won't be indicted, now
that the president won't fire him, now that it really doesn't matter anymore,
more details of the Valerie
Plame leak investigation trickle
out.
Posted at 09:43 PM Read More Thu - June 22, 2006EPA: Special fuels not to blame for costs"Boutique" gasoline blends to help states
meet clean air rules are
not
a factor in higher prices as President Bush has suggested, says a draft of a
study ordered by the White House.
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