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New York Times | Roberts, Too Much of a Mystery

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 14:00:53 -0700

 

 

 

 

Frank Rich; Hunger strike at Gitmo continues; Democrats challenge

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Roberts for Life?

http://www.truthout.org/Roberts.shtml

TO's coverage of the Senate's review of John G. Roberts to be Chief

Justice of the United States Supreme Court is under way: " Roberts for

Life? " A hard look at the future of American Justice.

 

Mayday Mississippi Delta

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by Katrina. We will provide the best sources available for the most

up-to-date and expansive coverage possible.

 

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New York Times | Roberts, Too Much of a Mystery

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091805A.shtml

New York Times: The unknowns about Mr. Roberts's views remain

troubling, especially since he is being nominated not merely to the

Supreme

Court, but to be chief justice. That position is too important to entrust

to an enigma, which is what Mr. Roberts remains.

 

Frank Rich | Message: I Care About the Black Folks

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091805B.shtml

Frank Rich: Once Toto parts the curtain, the Wizard of Oz can never be

the wizard again. He is forever Professor Marvel, blowhard and

snake-oil salesman. Hurricane Katrina, which is likely to endure in the

American psyche as long as L. Frank Baum's mythic tornado, has similarly

unmasked George W. Bush.

 

Democrats Question Gonzalez on Attempt to Blame Eco Groups for Flood

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091805C.shtml

An email message which suggested the Bush Justice Department was

looking to blame environmentalists for a break in the New Orleans

levee and

the ensuing flood has sparked vehement responses among the Democratic

caucus in Congress.

 

Widespread Hunger Strike at Guantanamo

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091805D.shtml

A hunger strike at the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has

unsettled senior commanders there and produced the most serious

challenge yet

to the military's effort to manage the detention of hundreds of

terrorism suspects, lawyers and officials say.

 

Rice a No Show at UN Dinner on Women's Rights

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091805E.shtml

Diplomacy's most powerful woman, US Secretary of State Condoleezza

Rice, has turned down a dinner date with other female foreign

ministers to

discuss women's rights, citing a busy schedule.

 

Peter Dreier | Bush Helps Disaster Profiteers

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091805F.shtml

President Bush is taking advantage of the Katrina tragedy to get rid of

workers' protections in favor of higher profits for politically

connected corporations.

 

For Bush Disasters Mean Troops on US Soil

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091805G.shtml

President Bush's push to give the military a bigger role in responding

to major disasters like Hurricane Katrina could lead to a loosening of

legal limits on the use of federal troops on US soil.

 

Ernie McCray | Katrina's Wakeup Call to We the People

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091805H.shtml

Ernie McCray: You know, we can be so beautiful, at times, like right

now. Just look at us, human beings of all colors and sexualities and

creeds and beliefs and affiliations reaching out to the many battered

souls

who survived Katrina's devastating visit.

 

Tom Engelhardt | The Presidency Shines (for Twenty-Six Minutes)

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091805X.shtml

Don't say they can't. They can - and they did. Despite every calumny,

it turns out that the Bush administration can put together an effective,

well-coordinated rescue team and get crucial supplies to militarily

occupied, devastated New Orleans on demand, in time, and just where they

are most needed. Last Thursday, in a spectacular rescue operation, the

administration team delivered just such supplies without a hitch to one

of the city's neediest visitors, who had been trapped in hell-hole

surroundings for almost three weeks by Hurricane Katrina. I'm

speaking, of

course, of George W. Bush.

 

Bolton Visited Judith Miller...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091805Y.shtml

" Bolton's visit raised some eyebrows in Washington, " the Post said. " A

vocal defender of administration claims in 2003 that Iraq was seeking

weapons of mass destruction, he could have had access to a State

Department memo, parts of which were classified, that detailed

Wilson's trip

to Niger to determine whether Iraq was seeking uranium there and

identified his wife as a covert CIA operative. "

 

JoAnn Wypijewski | Veterans Lead Counter Recruitment Efforts

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091805Z.shtml

The planners of Operation Iraqi Freedom forgot another thing on the

road to Baghdad: how veterans would affect their ability to get new boots

on the ground.

 

 

 

 

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