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Senator Dianne Feinstein | The Significant Impact for All Americans

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405A.shtml

Senator Dianne Feinstein speaks on the United States Supreme Court.

 

 

The New York Times | President Bush's Loss of Faith

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405B.shtml

The president's strange declaration yesterday that the draft

constitution would protect the rights of women and minorities, and his

continuing

attempts to clog the debate with misleading explanations, suggest his

own lack of commitment to the only rationale for keeping American troops

in Iraq - or, perhaps, New York Times suggests, his lack of faith in

the likely outcome.

 

 

CIA Sends Finished 9/11 Report to Panels

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405C.shtml

CIA Director Porter Goss personally delivered to Congress the findings

of the agency's inspector general report on the attacks of Sept. 11,

2001, opening a debate about how much of the highly classified and

critical document should be made public.

 

 

Maureen Dowd | My Private Idaho

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405D.shtml

Gas is guzzling toward $3 a gallon. US troop casualties in Iraq are at

their highest levels since the invasion. Afghanistan's getting more

dangerous, too. The defense secretary says he's raising troop levels in

both places for coming elections. So our overextended troops must prepare

for more forced rotations, while the president hangs loose, Dowd asks.

 

 

Anti-War Center in Crawford Aided by Link to Grieving Mother

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405E.shtml

With only $3 in the bank, things looked pretty grim for the Crawford

Peace House two weeks ago. Then came Cindy Sheehan. The grieving

California mother's quest to talk to President Bush about the war that

claimed

her 24-year-old son's life inspired thousands of war opponents. More

than $150,000 has been donated to the Crawford Peace House since

Sheehan's arrival.

 

 

Specter Hints at What Roberts Can Expect

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405F.shtml

The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman warned Supreme Court nominee

John G. Roberts Jr. yesterday to expect tough questions about the court's

" judicial activism " and lack of respect for Congress.

 

 

Ex-Halliburton Worker Pleads Guilty to Bribes

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405G.shtml

A former Halliburton Co. worker pleaded guilty late last week to taking

more than $110,000 in bribes from an Iraqi company in 2004 and

defrauding the United States, court documents showed.

 

 

China and Russia Complete Unprecedented Military Maneuvers

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405H.shtml

According to Alexander Duguin, the " pope " of the Eurasian movement in

Russia, it's the " different colored revolutions of 2003 and 2004 in the

post-Soviet territories " that push Moscow and Beijing to reinforce

their military partnership.

 

 

US to Send More Troops to Iraq

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405I.shtml

The United States plans to send more troops to Iraq in advance of an

Oct. 15 referendum on a new Iraqi constitution, which is considered

unlikely to halt the country's violence, Defense Secretary Donald H.

Rumsfeld said today.

 

 

9 Northeastern States in Pact to Cut Power Plant Emissions

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405J.shtml

New York and eight other Northeastern states have come to a preliminary

agreement to freeze power plant emissions at current levels and then

reduce them by 10 percent by 2020.

 

 

Gary Hart | Who Will Say 'No More?'

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405K.shtml

Former Senator Gary Hart says he wants a leader who is willing now to

say: " I made a mistake, and for my mistake I am going to Iraq and

accompanying the next planeload of flag-draped coffins back to Dover Air

Force Base. And I am going to ask forgiveness for my mistake from every

parent who will talk to me. "

 

 

Christian Appy | Military Families May Once Again Lead Us out of War

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405L.shtml

In Vietnam itself, the mostly working-class American military of that

era made its opposition to the war increasingly clear as the fighting

dragged on. By 1972, the military was in shambles.

 

 

Chavez Calls Robertson Threat " Terrorism "

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405M.shtml

At least 3.5 million Americans tune in to Rev. D. James Kennedy's

sermons, broadcast from Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort

Lauderdale,

Fla. Since 1995, the unabashedly political televangelist has also

reached out to the Beltway elite with his Center for Christian

Statesmanship

in Washington.

 

 

Fetuses May Not Feel Pain in Early Months

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405N.shtml

A review of medical evidence has found that fetuses likely don't feel

pain until the final months of pregnancy, a powerful challenge to

abortion opponents who hope that discussions about fetal pain will

make women

think twice about ending pregnancies.

 

 

David J. Becker | Reviving Jim Crow?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405O.shtml

Any day now the Justice Department will render judgment on one of the

single most discriminatory pieces of voting legislation of recent years:

a Georgia state law requiring voters to present one of only six forms

of photo identification before they can exercise their right to vote.

One thing is certain Becker concludes. If this law is approved, it will

be more difficult for minorities to vote in Georgia - the home of John

Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr. - than in any other state.

 

 

Street Battles Besiege Baghdad as Constitution Is Debated

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405Y.shtml

As Iraqi officials inched toward an agreement on a new constitution,

dozens of heavily armed insurgents attacked Baghdad police checkpoints

Wednesday with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles. It was some

of the heaviest street fighting in the capital in months.

 

 

Marjorie Cohn | Abu Ghraib General Lambastes Bush Administration

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405Z.shtml

For the first time since she was made the scapegoat for the torture

scandal at Abu Ghraib, Maj. Gen. Janis Karpinski lambastes the Bush

administration for its entire Iraq policy. In Marjorie Cohn's exclusive

interview with her, Karpinski implicates the White House in setting the

torture policy. She describes the cover-up by the administration after

the

photographs came out, and says that Rumsfeld knowingly prosecuted the

Iraq war with less than half the troops he needed.

 

 

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