Posts Tagged ‘Bush’

Thomas Frank in Berkeley Wednesday, 25 January 2012 7:30 P.M. The Hillside Club

Filed under: Events — by Joyce Cole 01/16/2012 @ 12:29:12 AM
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KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents:
THOMAS FRANK
“Pity the Billionaire: The Hard Times Swindle and the Unlikely Resurgence of the American Right”
Hosted by Richard Wolinsky
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 – 7:30 pm
Berkeley Hillside Club
2286 Cedar … [Keep reading >>]

Thomas Frank in Berkeley, 25 January 2012 @ 7:30 P.M. The Hillside Club

Filed under: FrontPage — by Joyce Cole 01/16/2012 @ 12:18:05 AM
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KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents:
THOMAS FRANK
“Pity the Billionaire: The Hard Times Swindle and the Unlikely Resurgence of the American Right”
Hosted by Richard Wolinsky
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 – 7:30 pm
Berkeley Hillside Club
2286 Cedar … [Keep reading >>]

Torture? The Lawyer Said it was Legal!

Filed under: Action! | Books | Bush Administration — by Ruth Friend 11/19/2010 @ 4:33:36 PM
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This piece in TruthOut is worth revisiting given GW Bush’s new book “Decision Points”.  With links to the original story by Jason Leopold on the investigative work he did on … [Keep reading >>]

Presidential Vacations

Filed under: Presidency — by Will Kirkland 08/20/2010 @ 3:58:41 PM
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From CBS news via Pensito
This is Mr. Obama’s 9th vacation since taking office. As of today, he has spent all or part of 38 days on “vacation” away from … [Keep reading >>]

Bush Cited Gog and Magog as Reason for Iraq Invasion

Filed under: Iraq | War — by Will Kirkland 05/26/2009 @ 8:06:37 PM
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From Clive Hamilton at Counterpunch.

In 2003 while lobbying leaders to put together the Coalition of the Willing, President Bush spoke to France’s President Jacques Chirac. Bush wove a story about … [Keep reading >>]

Bush a Felon: Conservative Judge

Filed under: Bush Administration | Torture — by Will Kirkland 05/11/2009 @ 9:35:48 PM
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Hmmmmm….

“Conservative Fox News Commentator and former district judge Andrew Napolitano said President George W. Bush is likely a felon in a May 8 broadcast over the Fox News Network. The … [Keep reading >>]

Bush Persued

Filed under: Bush Administration — by Will Kirkland 03/17/2009 @ 9:38:02 PM
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CALGARY – A crowd of roughly 400 noisy protestors gathered outside the Telus Convention Centre in downtown Calgary on Tuesday to demonstrate against a noon address by former … [Keep reading >>]

Executive Assassination Teams

Filed under: Bush Administration | War — by Will Kirkland 03/12/2009 @ 9:00:19 PM
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Eric Black, a former reporter and current blogger, in Minnesota was at a Great Conversations event at the University of Minnesota on Tuesday night, a discussion between Walter Mondale and … [Keep reading >>]

Bush Stopped Israel Bombing Iran [?]

Filed under: Bush Administration | Iran | Israel — by Will Kirkland 01/10/2009 @ 10:57:44 PM
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It’s pretty hard to credit sanity to the outgoing president but if David Sanger is right, if his sources are right and if this story isn’t some sort of black-art … [Keep reading >>]

Dismal Inaction In Bush’s OSHA

Filed under: Environment | Health & Welfare — by Will Kirkland 12/30/2008 @ 8:15:06 AM
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A long investigative piece in the Washington Post is worth reading. One is staggered. After all the shouting about cost benefit analysis the conservatives made under Reagan one … [Keep reading >>]

Rather Says CBS Caved

Filed under: Media | Reporters — by Will Kirkland 12/30/2008 @ 7:04:29 AM
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Long ago and far away Dan Rather and CBS 60 Minutes broadcast a report that then President and candidate, G. W. Bush, had been given special treatment in the Texas … [Keep reading >>]

Afghanistan Signs Cluster Bomb Treaty. U.S. Does Not!

Filed under: War | Weapons — by Will Kirkland 12/3/2008 @ 5:38:03 PM
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In a last-minute change, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan agreed on Wednesday to join some 90 other nations signing a treaty banning the use of the cluster munitions that have … [Keep reading >>]

Words for Acts

Perhaps an honest world will never exist. But what's to keep us from dreaming? If each one of us tries to change, maybe we'll succeed.

Rita Atria -- The Sicilian Rebel



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