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June 4, 2004 He's Acting Like Nixon in the Final Days Has Bush Gone Over the Edge? By ALEXANDER COCKBURN A sensational account of an imploding George Bush is making the rounds. It's by Doug Thompson, the publisher of Capitol Hill Blue, put out in the dawn hours of June 4...

Bush's Erratic Behavior Worries White House Aides By DOUG THOMPSON Publisher, Capitol Hill Blue Jun 4, 2004, 06:15 President George W. Bush’s increasingly erratic behavior and wide mood swings has the halls of the West Wing buzzing lately as aides privately express growing concern...

A long time colleague, a well-known constitutional lawyer, told me that he would support the military taking such unprecedented action against an out-of-control executive branch. A seasoned Washington political observer, well known to television audiences, echoed the lawyer's sentiment _ he even...

Apprehension and Frustration Neo-Cons on the Brink By WAYNE MADSEN Having just hit the half-century mark age wise, I can't remember a time when Americans were more apprehensive and frustrated than they are today. Sure, there was Watergate. But thanks to our then working system of checks and...

Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Perle, Wolfowitz, and Bush Sr. do not represent the American people, but a small circle of corporations and military industrialists concerned only with the accumulation of power and wealth at any cost. George Jr. the willing puppet and participant in the scheme is not...

American Caligula Posted May 28, 2004 thepeoplesvoice.org By: Raymond Ponziny "Let them hate so long as they fear." - Roman emperor, Caligula Caligula, the schizophrenic by-product of an influential Roman family grew up in a wealthy decadent world steeped in generations of treachery...

Freedom vs. Security: A False Choice by Rep. Ron Paul, MD by Rep. Ron Paul, MD In recent days administration officials have warned the nation about possible terrorist attacks, subjecting us once again to color-coded threat charts and puzzling admonitions to go about our...

Tony Oz

Though he notes that many of the Secretary of State’s dire forebodings (friendly Arab regimes undermined; oil prices sent stratospheric; Iraq left up to its elbows in Shia vs. Sunni blood) have yet to come to pass, Mr. Woodward—a better friend to his source than vice versa—sympathizes, and...

You're Back, Bob! Woodward's Book Bisects Bushies by Robert Sam Anson Plan of Attack, by Bob Woodward. Simon and Schuster, 468 pages, $28. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome back, Mr. Woodward. Your friends were worried...

Humanity is first casualty of war ANTONIA ZERBISIAS "Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's gonna happen? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" — George W. Bush's mother Barbara on ABC/Good Morning...

Anti-U.S. Uprising Widens in Iraq; Marines Push Deeper Into Fallujah Cleric's Force Tightens Grip In Holy Cities By Rajiv Chandrasekaran Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, April 8, 2004; Page A01 BAGHDAD, April 7 -- Violent resistance to the American occupation of Iraq spread...

130 US Troops Dead In New Iraq Fighting - Pentagon Source Sky News 4-6-4 A Pentagon source has said up to 130 US troops have been killed in fierce fighting in Iraq. The large scale battle, described as "intense", has taken place in the town of Ar Ramadi, 20 miles west of Fallujah...