On Monday, the governments of Bangladesh and Portugal joined India, Pakistan and a host of other nations in declining to send troops to Iraq. Pakistan is dithering—as in most of the rest of the world, public sentiment there is running strongly against such an action—as is South Korea, which originally said it would but . . . → Read More: High Noon
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Fox News head Roger Ailes claims that his operation has single-handedly forced objectivity into the news world. Greg Mitchell, editor of media trade magazine Editor & Publisher, begs to differ, although he seems to have been so astonished by Ailes’ remarks that he got a little tongue tied. Ailes is, of course, referring to . . . → Read More: Roger Ailes is to objectivity as ? Sam Dash, probably best known as the chief counsel for the Senate Watergate committee, and more recently cursed with the thankless task of acting as Ken Starr’s ethics advisor, has an op-ed piece in Newsday suggesting that the White House officials responsible for outing CIA agent Valerie Plame may have violated a domestic terrorism . . . → Read More: Sam Dash: Plame leakers may have violated PATRIOT Act In November of last year, Don Rumsfeld confidently laid out the future with regard to a potential, there-are-no-plans-on-the-president’s-desk war in Iraq. “I can’t tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won’t last any longer than that,” [Rumsfeld] said in an . . . → Read More: Memo to Rummy: Has it been five months yet? You can read the entire report here—it’s short, basically says that they read the UPI story about horrid conditions faced by injured and ill National Guard and Reserve troops there, sent some aides down to check it out and found that, yep, conditions are shitty—and below is the key paragraph in the summary. The . . . → Read More: Senators Kit Bond and Pat Leahy on Ft. Stewart Human rights organizations are accusing the UN of censoring a report on western corporate participation in the looting of Congo’s natural resources during the just-ended civil war. The Independent has the story, including an allegation that a British company, Avient, was contracted to conduct military operations in the country during 1999 and 2000. After . . . → Read More: Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain … The National Institute of Standards and Technology will be running a seminar in December to discuss “building trust and confidence in voting systems.” These would be the electronic voting systems recently ridiculed by computer scientists and electronic voting experts as enormously insecure and largely unauditable. BTC News will be running a special report on . . . → Read More: Electronic Voting Symposium Tom Kean, the Republican chair of the independent commission on September 11, has publicly threatened to subpoena documents it has requested but not received from the White House and other, unspecified executive departments. . . . → Read More: 911 Commission gots issues with Bush Once a week or so I do a Google News search on Rashid Dostum, warlord, US ally, assistant minister of defense to the mayor of Kabul, likely opium trafficker and suspected war criminal. If anything bad is happening in Afghanistan, odds are that it’s either connected to Dostum or that whoever is reporting on whatever is happening will find occasion to mention him. This week, the search produced an article from the Beeb about UN concern over the increasing control the Taleban exercise over portions of the country. . . . → Read More: Time once again to play “My Favorite Warlord.” Thanks to a friend on the Slate bulletin boards, BTC News has learned that Ted Kennedy is to receive the 2003 George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service. The news was in a recent column by Georgie Ann Geyer, who I thought was dead. No one seems to have picked up on the story apart from Geyer and the Associated Press: . . . → Read More: “I love you, Son, but you’re a dickweed.” |
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