Character Assassinations
Patricia J. Williams
Why does the fraudulence of the Republican machine remain so widely known and so persistently ignored?
Bush's Lies
2007
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Cheney on Trial
The Libby trial exposed the truth about who really pulls the strings in the Bush White House.
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Cheney's Henchman Gets His
Nicholas von Hoffman : Government
Why should the Vice President have a national security adviser to begin with?
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War Drums on Iran
: Iraq
Congress and the media must challenge unsourced White House allegations of Iran's involvement in Iraq or risk a disastrous, widening war.
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Levin's Pursuit of Douglas Feith
Sen. Carl Levin is determined to get to the bottom of how Douglas Feith's false intelligence helped lead the US to a disastrous and illegal war.
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Feith-Libby Lies Exposed
A new Pentagon report documents how the Bush Administration fooled us once with lies about Iraq's Al Qaeda ties. Will that keep them from fooling us again on Iran?
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Not All Lies Are Created Equal
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
Looking for reasons to impeach the President? Listen to the testimony in Scooter Libby's perjury trial.
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Impeachment: The Case in Favor
Elizabeth Holtzman : Executive
Between Iraq, Katrina and wiretapping, the case for removing Bush is overwhelming.
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Bush's Theater of the Absurd
Bush is the insolent star of an absurd spectacle, seeking to escalate a failed war that Congress and the people oppose.
2006
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2006: A Year of Living Dangerously
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : Iraq War
2006 will be remembered as a year in which the American people and the world rose up to challenge the criminal actions and deceit of the Bush Administration.
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Liar. 'Liar?'
Bush's contempt for the truth and for those whose job it is to find it has created an existential crisis for mainstream media.
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It's Over for Bush
As voters expressed their disgust, this election signaled a repudiation of the corrupt Bush regime, a clear antiwar victory and the collapse of the conservative order.
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What Bush Has Wrought
Robert Scheer : Electoral Politics
We are now led by a false warrior who acts the simpleton, while playing to his version of what Middle America wants. To stop the madness, on November 7 voters must soundly repudiate what Bush has wrought.
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The Real Cover-Up
Robert Scheer : Republican Party
Far more important than the Foley affair is the Bush Administration and the GOP have molested Lady Liberty while pretending to guard our national security.
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Iraq and Reality
: Iraq
Throughout the Iraq debacle, intelligence and analysis have not mattered to the Bush Administration. The White House will continue to duck reality all the way to election day.
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A Distinct Lack of Intelligence
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
If George W. Bush took the latest National Intelligence Estimate seriously, he would end the ineffectual "war on terror" model and treat terrorism as a pathology to be clinically and relentlessly excised.
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Déjà Vu on Iran?
: Iran
The Bush Administration is trying to use flawed intelligence to whip up public support for military action against Iran. Can they get away with this again?
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Rocky Anderson, Folk Hero?
Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson's cachet is growing in the wake of a stem-winding speech in which he called the President to account for lies and ineptitude in Irag, castigated a complaisant media and assailed the electorate for passively consuming government lies.
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Challenging the Culture of Obedience
Through lies, ineptitude and immoral policies, the Bush Administration has led the nation to the brink of disaster, ruined our reputation and sowed hatred that will take generations to uproot.
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Why We Don't Know Our Enemy
Hysteria over the barbarians at the gate has destroyed republics from Rome to Germany. A new book explains why Bush's post-September 11 America may meet a similar fate.
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The President's Jihad
Robert Scheer : Journalists & Journalism
The Bush Administration's jihad against newspapers that reported on a secret program to monitor the personal-banking records of unsuspecting citizens is more important than the original story.
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The Uses and Abuses of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Eric Alterman : Media Analysis
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was a really bad guy. But the Bush Administration's armchair warriors mythologized him into a self-fulfilling prophecy of insurgent terror.
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The Hot Air Factory
Alexander Cockburn : Karl Rove
Under Karl Rove's deft hand, Bush has been maneuvered from one catastrophe to another. Why is the left obsessed with him?
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Truth Is for 'Liberals'
Eric Alterman : Journalists & Journalism
Five years into the Bush Administration, the press corps still can't figure out how to handle the White House's primary media management tactic: lying.
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Kenny Boy's Connections
Despite the President's denials, connections between Enron's corporate criminals and the Bush family inner circle are are deeply embedded in the policies of two Administrations.
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One More Insider Denounces Bush
Former CIA official Tyler Drumheller joins the parade of insiders denouncing how the Iraq war has been sold and fought.
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The Leak and the 'Truth'
David Corn : US Intelligence/Covert Ops
If President Bush wants to tell the truth to the American public, he can make Cheney, Rove and Libby come clean about their role in the Plame affair.
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Now Powell Tells Us
The former Secretary of State says he and his department's top experts never believed that Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat, but this made little difference to President Bush.
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George W. Bush's Approach to Maintaining Constitutional Rule in a Democracy Through a Series of Checks and Balances
Calvin Trillin : George W. Bush
Bush's approach to maintaining control: Can you say Caine Mutiny?
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Mary Tillman: 'The Administration Used Pat'
With the Pentagon's inspector general suggesting criminal negligence in the killing of former NFL star and Army Ranger Pat Tillman, it is time to demand Congressional hearings into the way the Bush Administration cynically spun the story to serve its political purposes at the expense of the truth.
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Lies About Blowjobs, Bad. Wars? Not So Much.
Eric Alterman : Journalists & Journalism
Despite his lies and incompetence, Bush remains more popular with elite media than Clinton or any other political leader who sought to save us from the Iraq catastrophe. Why won't they connect the dots?
2005
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A Motion for Censure
John Conyers Jr. : Iraq War
In a report issued December 20, Representative John Conyers Jr. documents the misconduct of President Bush and his Adminisration, and makes the case that they should be censured by Congress for violating a series of federal laws.
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A Transcript
9/11 Commission calling, with questions on accountability. But from the White House side of the line come no answers, only talking points.
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Reprehensible
Dick Cheney channels Nat King Cole in an unforgettable rendition of the meaning of the word "reprehensible."
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Dictionary of Republicanisms
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Republican Party
Compassionate conservativism n. An expensively cultivated phrase created by a decades-old and well-funded Radical Right program of Orwellian doublespeak.
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The Lies That Bind
Eric Alterman : Journalists & Journalism
Lack of candor is not surprising from Bush or Ahmad Chalabi, but why does the New York Times continue to struggle with the truth about Judith Miller? The Gray Lady might solve the problem by banning anonymous Administration sources in its news reports. If they're going to lie to us anyway, why not under their own names?
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The Big Lie Technique
As President Bush denounces his critics and proclaims war without end in Iraq the central front in a new cold war, he fails to acknowledge that he is responsible for handing Al Qaeda a new home base.
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Lying with Intelligence
A newly declassified Defense Intelligence Agency document discrediting reports of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq disproves the Bush Administration's claim that they went to war using the best available intelligence.
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Scooter Libby: A Republican Nursery Rhyme
Catching small fry, letting the big fish go.
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Faith and Fraud
The fictional world created by the Bush Administration over its five years in power is falling to pieces, with the blood-soaked folly in Iraq, a ruined environment, massive corruption and a basic failure to govern. Yet the faith-based President continues to fashion lies, and believe them.
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After the Libby Indictment
David Corn : Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
The CIA leak scandal has revealed the Bush crew's dishonesty and hypocrisy. But don't expect the Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald or Bush to ever explain what really happened.
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Senate Democrats Show Some Spine
John Nichols : Democratic Party
Senate minority leader Harry Reid forced Republicans into a closed-door session Tuesday to examine the Administration's use and misuse of intelligence on Iraq. Could Democrats finally be acting like an opposition party?
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Culture of Collusion
The deceit and misinformation evidenced in the CIA leak scandal is poison to an open society. We need a tough investigation of how the American people were misled on the Iraq war, a more skeptical media and real leadership from Democrats.
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Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh: Iraq Confidential
Iraq is a nation on fire, a conflagration of America's making that threatens to consume everything the nation stands for. How did we get there? How do we get out? Can we get out?
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The White House Criminal Conspiracy
Elizabeth de la Vega : George W. Bush
The Bush Administration should be prosecuted for conspiracy to defraud the United States by using half-truths and recklessly false statements to lead the country into an illegal war. This article is a collaboration with TomDispatch.com.
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Looting the Black Poor
Earl Ofari Hutchinson : Urban Issues
New Orleans is the classic tale of two cities: one showy, middle-class and white; the other poor, downtrodden and low-income black.
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FEMA: Confederacy of Dunces
FEMA enjoyed bipartisan praise during the 1990s under President Clinton. By the time Hurricane Katrina roared into the Gulf, the Bush Administration had dismantled it.
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The Disaster President
: Politicians & Political Leaders
The incompetence revealed by the response to Hurricane Katrina can be traced to a twenty-five-year project, begun in the Reagan era, of discrediting government.
2004
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Bush, Kerry & Vietnam
The flag and uniform Bush has wrapped himself in should be ripped off.
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Shh, Don't Tell the Swing Voters
Bush is being sold as a no-nonsense leader. So much for truth in advertising.
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Senate WMD Report Whacks CIA, Not Bush
The panel says there was no immediate threat from Iraq.
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Truth About Iraq Finally Has Its Pants On
Yet even in face of the 9/11 commission's rebuke, the White House keeps dissembling on Al Qaeda links
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Bush's Lies About Iraq
Christopher Scheer, Robert Scheer & Lakshmi Chaudhry
The Bush Administration continues to brazenly invent new rationales for its foreign policy, shamelessly twisting the facts to support its twisted agenda.
2003
2002
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Bush Lies, Media Swallows
Reporters and editors who "protect" their readers and viewers from the truth about Bush's lies are doing the nation--and ultimately George W. Bush--no favors.
Can young voters stand up to suppression and swing Election 2008? Plus: Robert Fisk on the Middle East, and McCain's Russia scandal. (13mb mp3)
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