Up for rescue tonight:
- tim779's Media Watch - An Eye on Corporate Media reviews a major media outlet correspondent's past writing about the war, and criticizes how she wrung her hands over "who will stop the war?" ... when she has been in the best position at all to criticize and bring it to the forefront of the American people all along.
- Steven D's Why isn't Bush Cooperating on Nuclear Smuggling Probe? details the non-cooperation of the current administration with a Swiss-instigated inquiry into an international nuclear smuggling network.
- Rimjob's The Virtues Of War discusses categories of justification for war and raises the question of criteria for a "just war" - and if there is such a thing.
- jeysiin's Young Progressive's Blog: Phase 1 Nearing Completion gives an update on a new blog for young progressives being created by Kossacks, and asks for feedback and input.
- UncommonSense's The New American Century is already over looks at the defection of Francis Fukuyama from the PNAC fold and discusses how the failure of the original Bush Doctrine has escalated so quickly.
- localroger's After the Storm: Four Beginnings brings on-the-ground news of four projects that are coming back after Katrina's devastation of New Orleans.
- Patriot Daily News Clearninghouse's Haditha Massacre Cover-Up pulls together different news accounts and gives an overview of the current standing of the Haditha incident and attempts to cover it up.
- lightseeker's Abu Ghraib, PMC's and the Imperial Presidency explores the use of private military contractors and how they are used to let the administration off the hook in terms of responsibility for abuses.
- NathanNewman's Welfare Does Not Breed Persistent Poverty analyzes an Economist article that disputes the conventional wisdom that poverty-relief social programs sustain a permanent underclass.
- JRFord's Forrest Bush argues that it's impossible to hate George Bush, because his ineptness puts him in a class with Rainman or Forrest Gump.
- BobcatJH's President Bush's dangerous incompetence points out that on three separate occasions - Katrina, Dubai Ports and now Haditha - Bush has had to learn details from the press, which is quite disturbing considering he's declared himself the official "decider" for this country and remains miserably uninformed.
- krazypuppy's Mr. President, did you do everything to avoid war? is a powerful, spot-on challenge to Bush to live up to the ethos of Memorial Day.
- DrSpalding's Data retention is for anti-terrorism, not child exploitation enforcement discovers an article in which AG Gonzales stops hiding behind the online child porn excuse for retaining data and admits its about keeping tabs on us to fight "terrorism."
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