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Donald Rumsfeld vs. Black Self-Help
(Also appearing: Watergate, Chicago street gangs, Col. Gadaffi and Dick Cheney) This post is part of a series related to the documentary I am producing: Radical Roots: The Story of a Food Revolution....
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Rumsfeld Now Says George W. Bush was Wrong About Iraq
(illustration by DonkeyHotey)From MSNBC:President George W. Bush was wrong to try to build democracy in Iraq, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a recent interview, marking a...
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Donald Rumsfeld's regret over Iraq? Trying to 'fashion a democracy' there
At long last, Bush administration Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has found something he regrets in the way the U.S. war against Iraq was sold and executed. Not the bit about weapons of mass...
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What do you know? Donald Rumsfeld didn't always say Iraqi democracy was...
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld knows what went wrong in Iraq: The United States tried to promote democracy there, rather than not invading to...
View ArticleUpdate on Saleh v. Bush about War on Iraq - (N.D. Cal. 2014) – Now in Ninth...
US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is being asked to hear a claim that the US-led Iraq war was illegal under laws formed because of the Nuremberg trials in the wake of World War II....
View ArticleA Tragic Legacy of the Bush Administration
Many bad policies came out of the Bush Administration. I have neither the energy or the time to catalog them here. What I would like to focus on is the terrible refugee situation playing out from the...
View ArticleLet Me Tell You About Appearing in Federal Court
Today I opened my e-mail to find a Daily Kos action on Net Neutrality, titled, "This is How Lyn Jensen Appeared in Federal Court." Well, let me tell you about the time I actually appeared in federal...
View ArticleMy Evening with Ahmad Chalabi
Today, the world learned that Ahmad Chalabi, one of the major figures in the lead up to the war in Iraq, has died. As you may remember, neo-conservatives portrayed Chalabi, leader of the Iraqi National...
View ArticleBush 41's new biography says W was "served badly" by Cheney and Rumsfeld.
A new biography of George H.W. Bush will be out next week. To drum up interest in the book, the publisher and author (Jon Meacham) are "sharing" some of the juicier bits with the press. 41 appears to...
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George H.W. Bush goes off script. Sorry, Jeb?
Daaaaaad! Former President George H.W. Bush, aka Poppy Bush, has released a book. You have probably heard by now that it is distinctly unflattering to two members of the George W. Bush presidency; he...
View ArticleThe Seven Sisters+The Cheney/Rummy Violence = ISIL/DAESH: The chickens came...
ISIL/Daesh:I’ve read that ISIL with thoughts of a Caliphate may have started as early as 1999. However most news sources indicate it sprang from George W Bush’s war on Iraq when Bremer et al kicked the...
View ArticleToo Many Secrets
Not knowing about the politically imprisoned former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman or the private rich and powerful men’s Bohemian Grove Club or what happened to the Electric Car and why, is not the...
View ArticleRumsfeld quietly shelved a 2002 report undermining Bush administration's...
Turns out, according to Politico’s John Walcott, there were some known unknowns and some unknown unknowns that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld knew about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction in...
View ArticleColbert, master of "The Word," destroyed Rumsfeld's House of Cards with a...
Stephen Colbert had Donald Rumsfeld on The Late Show as a guest. Had it been the Colbert Report, I’m sure he would have savaged Rumsfeld like he did Bill Kristol ten years ago. But this is network...
View ArticleDonald Rumsfeld wandered onto Stephen Colbert's show...
“WOW.”That was Stephen’s response to Rumsfeld’s answer to a very pointed question.The host continued to say he would never be so “cynical” to believe that the Bush administration knowingly lied to the...
View ArticleCartoon: Donald Rumsfeld, tech bro
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View Article1/27/16 TILT (THINGS I LEARNED TODAY)
,1) Isis has a dating website. It targets Western women, with a "match" dot com type of feeling to it.“There's even a hashtag that's going around - ‘jihotties’. -Trevor Noah2) Kentucky will be getting...
View ArticleRobert Bateman has the low down on Ted Cruz's National Security Advisor. It's...
Over at Esquire, where you can legitimately read it for the articles, Robert Bateman has a profile of the person who is apparently giving Ted Cruz national security advice. You know, Ted Cruz the...
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Fox News Freaks Out When Obama Mentions Climate Change Because --- Terrorism
One of the most predictable lines of attack on President Obama by Fox News and other right-wing media is to latch unto his commitment to mitigating the catastrophic effects of anthropomorphic climate...
View ArticleJeremy Scahill/Democracy Now: Is Bernie Sanders getting a pass on his own...
On a recent Democracy Now Facebook post, a video clip is shown with Amy Goodman and The Intercept founder, Jeremy Scahill. The question that is asked; Has Bernie Sanders been given a pass on his own...
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