Four years ago this week, the tanks rolled for what President Bush originally called, “Operation Iraqi Liberation” ”“ O.I.L. I kid you not.
And it was four years ago that
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Here’s how to estimate the effect of spoilage on the election outcome. For fun, let’s take Florida 2000. We know from comparison of census tracts to precincts that 54% of the 179,855 ballots “spoiled” were cast by African-American voters, that is, 97,000 of the total.
Every poll put the Black vote in Florida for Al Gore at over 90%. Reasonably assuming “spoiled” ballots matched the typical racial preferences, Gore lost more than 87,000 votes
Iraq Study Group or Saudi Protection League? They’re kidding, right? James Baker III and the seven dwarfs of the “Iraq Study Group” have come up with some simply brilliant recommendations. Not. Baker’s Two Big Ideas are: 1. Stay half the course. Keeping 140,000 troops in…
Winston Smith has reproduced the inside of our President’s skull with this extraordinary collage — based on Greg Palast’s bestselling book, “Armed Madhouse.” Winston is the “best collage artist in the Universe … best-kept secret of the underground” (writes Ivan Stang). His work is seen…
Why doesn’t George Bush just throw a virgin into a volcano? Or Dick Cheney? Or Lynn Cheney?
[Thursday, October 26, 2006] Imagine this: You’re tied to a stake and savages are about to light the logs under your feet. So, class, what do you do? Cut and run! How about this one? Evil-doers have tied you to the railroad tracks and the…
Q&A with Greg Palast By Michael Causey, Washington Independent Writers President (http://www.washwriter.org) By fans he’s been called “a cross between Sam Spade and Sherlock Holmes.” He’s been called a lot worse by opponents. But muckraking journalist, author and TV reporter Greg Palast wouldn’t have it…
Not only has Chavez delivered cheap oil to the Bronx and other poor communities in the United States. And not only did he offer to bring aid to the victims of Katrina. In my interview with the president of Venezuela on March 28, he made…
HUFFINGTON POST- EAT THE PRESS | Scott Thill Good news from the edge of reality: Exxon has changed its mind. It was only days ago that they were employing the help of their subsidiary known as the Department of Homeland Security to put a Gitmo…
September 14th, 2006 Forget the orange suit. Exxon Mobil Corporation, which admits it was behind the criminal complaint brought by Homeland Security against me and television producer Matt Pascarella, has informed me that the oil company will no longer push charges that Pascarella and I…
