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Secret Report Accuses CIA of Torture, Book Says (Scott Shane)
WASHINGTON — Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the CIA's interrogation methods for high-level al-Qaida prisoners constituted torture and could make the Bush ...
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My boss at KBR: "The Military is None of our F---ing Concern." (Ben Carter)
Ben Carter is a water safety expert and a caring family man. Passionate about his work, Carter went to Iraq to support the troops and reconstruction efforts. Yet soon after he arrived in Iraq he ...
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Guardian Publish the Biofuels Report They Didn't Want You to Read (Aditya Chakrabortty)
The implication of the report is that crop-derived fuels have been the ultimate cause of food riots, starvation and high prices around the world
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Our Phony Economy (Jonathan Rowe)
From testimony delivered March 12 before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee on Interstate Commerce. Rowe is codirector of West Marin Commons, a ...
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Bush to G8: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter' (Andrew Grice)
President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit.
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Mukasey: Bush's New 'Mr. Cover-up' (Robert Parry)
Even Sen. Charles Schumer, whose vote last year ensured Michael Mukasey’s confirmation as Attorney General, was left sputtering as Mukasey returned the favor by rebuffing Schumer’s concerns about ...
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My Kingdom for a Backbone (Mary Lyon)
(World News Trust) -- I've been watching a parade of slapstick worthy of the Keystone Kops lately, but it's not on Vintage Movie Night -- it's in Washington D.C. Hapless doesn't even begin to ...
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U.S. Senate Passes Spy Plan That Ends Phone Company Suits (Nicholas Johnston and James Rowley)
July 9 (Bloomberg) -- The Senate gave final congressional approval to legislation that overhauls U.S. electronic spying and ends lawsuits against telephone companies that aided government ...
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U.S. Stocks Tumble, Sending S&P 500 to Bear Market; Banks Slide (Eric Martin)
July 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks slid, sending the Standard & Poor's 500 Index into its first bear market since 2002, after rising borrowing costs spurred concern the biggest mortgage finance ...
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Online Movement Aims to Punish Democrats Who Support Bush Wiretap Bill (Sarah Lai Stirland)
Online activists from the right and the left announced an unprecedented campaign Tuesday to hold Democratic lawmakers accountable for caving in to the Bush administration on domestic spying.
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