James Ridgeway | The Bush Family Coup

t r u t h o u t | 12.31

James Ridgeway | The Bush Family Coup

Sat Dec 31, 2005 19:14

t r u t h o u t | 12.31

James Ridgeway | The Bush Family Coup
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/123105A.shtml
James Ridgeway explores President George Bush use of 9-11 to reorganize and increase the federal government's reach far beyond any existing law to delve into the lives of innocent, ordinary people.

Padilla Lawyers Urge Supreme Court to Block Transfer
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/123105B.shtml
Lawyers for Jose Padilla told the Supreme Court on Friday that it should not grant the government's emergency request to have him transferred from a military brig to civilian custody to face terrorism charges in a civil court.

Britain Goes Public on US Torture
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/123105C.shtml
Britain's former ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, has defied the Foreign Office by publishing on the internet documents providing evidence that the British Government knowingly received information extracted by torture in the "war on terror."

Review of the Year: Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/123105D.shtml
Patrick Cockburn examines the passing year as a time in which the US admitted it was not going to defeat the insurgency. It was the ebb tide of American and British power in Iraq. By the end of the year both countries were urgently looking to withdraw their troops in circumstances not too humiliating to themselves and without precipitating the complete collapse of the Iraqi state.

Six Killed, 45 Injured in Indonesia Bombing
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/123105E.shtml
Six people were killed and 45 injured when a bomb exploded at a market stall selling pork in the Indonesian town of Palu in religiously-divided Central Sulawesi province.

In Worker's Death, View of China's Harsh Justice
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/123105F.shtml
>From the prison cell where he contemplated an executioner's bullet, a migrant worker named Wang Binyu gave an anguished account of his wasted life from migrant worker to brutal murderer. Unexpectedly, it rippled across China like a primal scream.

US 2005 Death Toll in Iraq Nears 2004 Record
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/123105G.shtml
Gunmen raided a house south of Baghdad, killing five Sunni family members, and a roadside bomb in the capital killed two policemen, part of a wave of violence Saturday that claimed 18 lives, increasing American military deaths in 2005 to nearly the same as 2004.

Sign Tallying Military Deaths Upsets Army
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/123105H.shtml
Scott Cameron never imagined his modest memorial to American troops, tallying the war's dead and wounded in Iraq, would transform a quiet street here into the latest front of the nation's tense debate about the war in Iraq.

Abramoff, Prosecutors Said Close to Deal
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/123105X.shtml
Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff are putting the finishing touches on a plea deal that could be announced as early as Tuesday.

Nonprofit Group Funded by DeLay-Abramoff Cabal
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/123105Y.shtml
The US Family Network, a public advocacy group that operated in the 1990s with close ties to Rep. Tom DeLay and claimed to be a nationwide grass-roots organization, was funded almost entirely by corporations linked to embattled lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Chalabi Named Iraq Oil Minister
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/123105Z.shtml
As a fuel crisis deepened in Iraq, the government replaced its oil minister with controversial Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi, whose poor performance in the Dec. 15 elections was a setback in his recent attempt at political rehabilitation.

Red State Road Trip: A 60-Minute Documentary
http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm
How could America have given George W. Bush a second term? Filmmaker Chris Hume decided to find out by embarking on a 6,000-mile, cross-country journey in search of America's soul. The result: a fascinating, hilarious, and often disturbing road-trip adventure.
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Impeach George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for violating the
Constitution of the United States
http://www.apfn.org/APFN/IMPEACH_BUSH.HTM

America On The Brink Of Disaster
http://www.rense.com/general69/brink.htm

By William E. Jackson Jr. on Iraq

The AP headline read: "Justice Dept. to Probe Source of 'NYT' Domestic Spying Story." Oh, yes, please let it happen, over one year after The Times says it first had the scoop--prior to the November 2004 presidential election! Without even asking a compliant special court for a warrant, POTUS George W. Bush way back in 2001authorized electronic spying on citizens of this country within this country.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-e-jackson-jr/the-press-as-the-fourth-b_b_13100.html

The Bush Family Coup
12-31-2005 • Village Voice
The 9-11 attacks provided the rationale for what amounts to a Bush family coup against the Constitution. From the outset, President Bush used the attack to reorganize and increase the federal government’s reach far beyond any existing law to delve in Read Full Story
http://freedomsphoenix.com/