Guest guest Posted January 2, 2006 Report Share Posted January 2, 2006 " t r u t h o u t " <messenger Billions in Iraq Reconstruction Money Diverted for Other Uses Mon, 02 Jan 2006 10:00:48 -0800 Billions in Iraq reconstruction money diverted; propaganda payola paid to Sunni religious scholars; more airstrikes in Iraq; Public Editor questions bosses at the New York Times; push to raise minimum wages coming from states; and more ... Browse our continually updating front page at http://www.truthout.org 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 | 01.02 Billions in Iraq Reconstruction Money Diverted for Other Uses http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010206I.shtml " The US never intended to completely rebuild Iraq, " Brig. Gen. William McCoy, the Army Corps of Engineers commander overseeing the work, told reporters at a recent news conference. Muslim Scholars Were Paid to Aid US Propaganda http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010206J.shtml A Pentagon contractor who paid Iraqi newspapers to print positive articles written by American soldiers has also been compensating Sunni religious scholars in Iraq in return for assistance with its propaganda work, according to current and former employees. US Forces Step Up Iraq Airstrikes http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010206K.shtml The number of airstrikes in 2005, running at a monthly average of 25 until August, surged to 120 in November and an expected 150 in December, according to official military figures. Richard Lacayo | Has Bush Gone Too Far? http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010206L.shtml Richard Lacayo writes: Because they required the president to plainly bypass an act of Congress, the no-warrant wiretaps may be the sharpest _expression yet of the administration's willingness to expand the scope of executive power. Howard Zinn | After the War http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010206M.shtml Howard Zinn writes that the war against Iraq, the assault on its people, the occupation of its cities, will come to an end, sooner or later. The process has already begun. The first signs of mutiny are appearing in Congress. The first editorials calling for withdrawal from Iraq are beginning to appear in the press. The anti-war movement has been growing, slowly but persistently, all over the country. Byrob Calame | Behind the Eavesdropping Story, a Loud Silence http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010206N.shtml The Public Editor for the New York Times writes: " For the first time since I became public editor, the executive editor and the publisher have declined to respond to my requests for information about news-related decision-making. My queries concerned the timing of the exclusive Dec. 16 article about President Bush's secret decision in the months after 9/11 to authorize the warrantless eavesdropping on Americans in the United States. " States Take Lead in Push to Raise Minimum Wages http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010206O.shtml Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have acted on their own to set minimum wages that exceed the $5.15 an hour rate set by the federal government, and this year lawmakers in dozens of the remaining states will debate raising the minimum wage. Jason Leopold: Bolton Testimony Revealed Domestic Spying http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/010206Z.shtml This past spring, an explosive nugget of information slipped out during the confirmation hearings of John Bolton - nominated by President Bush to be the United States Ambassador to the United Nations - that in hindsight should have blown the lid off Bush's four-year-old clandestine spy program involving the National Security Agency. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Go directly to our home page: http://www.truthout.org Click to SUBSCRIBE -> http://truthout.org/.htm Our Privacy Policy -> http://truthout.org/privacypolicy.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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