Guest guest Posted August 21, 2005 Report Share Posted August 21, 2005 " t r u t h o u t " <messenger Stirling Newberry | The Black Gold Window Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:15:44 -0700 Stirling Newberry, Frank Rich, Fitzgerald goes for the top man, US conceding to the Islamists, Minutemen with guns and more... http://www.truthout.org Go directly to our coverage of Cindy Sheehan's courageous stand in Crawford, Texas. http://truthout.org/cindy.shtml Join fellow bloggers at the t r u t h o u t Town Meeting. Get perspective on today's important issues from TO's editorial team and prominent guest bloggers. Join the debate! http://forum.truthout.org/blog t r u t h o u t | 08.21 Stirling Newberry | The Black Gold Window http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082105A.shtml The economic numbers are like a speedometer - they tell you how fast you are going, but not whether you are lost. The economic numbers aren't cooked, they are telling us that the economy is doing what it is supposed to do given the policy levers that are being pulled. The problem, according to Stirling Newberry, is that this economy is no longer the economy people want to live in. That is the real source of the disconnect. Frank Rich | The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082105B.shtml Frank Rich says that Cindy Sheehan couldn't have picked a more apt date to begin the vigil that ambushed a president: Aug. 6 was the fourth anniversary of that fateful 2001 Crawford vacation day when George W. Bush responded to an intelligence briefing titled " Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States " by going fishing. Fitzgerald Has Reputation for Pursuing the Man at the Top http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082105C.shtml Fitzgerald has prosecuted mobsters, terrorists and even journalists. He has investigated and charged state and city officials in this notoriously crooked state with pit bull tenacity. ... And always, he has methodically, inexorably pursued his investigations to target the man at the top of the organizational pyramid. Linda Bilmes | The Trillion-Dollar War http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082105D.shtml The human cost of the more than 2,000 American military personnel killed and 14,500 wounded so far in Iraq and Afghanistan is all too apparent. But the financial toll is still largely hidden from public view and, like the suffering of those who have lost loved ones, will persist long after the fighting is over. US Conceding to Iraqi Islamists, Negotiators Say http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082105E.shtml Islam will be " the main source " of Iraq's law and parliament will observe religious principles, negotiators said on Saturday after what some called a major turn in talks on the constitution and a shift in the US position. Sunnis Say They've Been Left out of Talks http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082105F.shtml Sunni Arabs complained Saturday they were being sidelined in talks on the new constitution only two days before the deadline and warned that their community will reject the document if it is submitted to parliament without Sunni consent. Thousands Rush to Bankruptcy as Law Change Nears http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082105G.shtml The rise, which lawyers and bankruptcy experts say is driven in large part by people who say they fear that it will become much more difficult to escape debt and seek a clean slate under the new law, appears to have caught some bankers and lawyers by surprise. Minutemen Will Be Armed While Patrolling Houston http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082105H.shtml Leaders of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps of Texas say those involved in the operations targeting local illegal immigrants will be allowed to carry arms as long as they comply with all federal and state laws. In fact, those who have a concealed-weapons permit are being offered a discount on joining the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. The New York Times | Walking the Wrong Way http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082105X.shtml The event is an ill-considered attempt to link the Iraq war to the terrorist attacks of 2001, and misguided in almost every conceivable way. It also badly misreads the public's mood. The American people are becoming increasingly skeptical about the war. They want answers to hard questions, not pageantry. Shiite and Kurdish Militias on the Rise across Iraq http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082105Y.shtml Shiite and Kurdish militias, often operating as part of Iraqi government security forces, have carried out a wave of abductions, assassinations and other acts of intimidation, consolidating their control over territory across northern and southern Iraq and deepening the country's divide along ethnic and sectarian lines, according to political leaders, families of the victims, human rights activists and Iraqi officials. Army Planning Iraq Force through 2009 http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082105Z.shtml The Army is planning for the possibility of keeping the current number of soldiers in Iraq - well over 100,000 - for four more years, the Army's top general said today. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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