Guest guest Posted August 8, 2006 Report Share Posted August 8, 2006 " t r u t h o u t " <messenger Lieberman and Lamont Battle to the Wire Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:18:35 -0700 BP pipeline corrodes and Congress asks where all the money is going; US soldiers' day of rape and murder in Iraq; Peter W. Galbraith on the lack of coherency in US plans in Iraq; will James Baker play fix-it for Bush?; Fox's labor board announces it will allow US/Mexican companies to fire striking miners; 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 | 08.08 Lieberman and Lamont Battle to the Wire http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080806J.shtml As Connecticut voters prepared for their highly anticipated Democratic primary today, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman and Ned Lamont, the two rivals for United States Senate, used sharply different tactics yesterday to gain a final advantage in a contest that appeared to be tightening. Democrats Call on Congress to Probe BP Shutdown http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080806K.shtml Democratic members of the US House of Representatives called on Congress to hold hearings into BP's operations in Alaska following a second oil pipeline rupture at its Prudhoe Bay operations over the weekend that will shut the 400,000 barrel-a-day oilfield, saying the shutdown reflects BP's chronic mismanagement of its US drilling operations and that the company had been earning enough money to prevent the problem. Soldiers " Hit Golf Balls Before Going Out to Kill Family " http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080806L.shtml US soldiers accused of raping and murdering a 14-year-old Iraqi girl drank alcohol and hit golf balls before the attack. One of them grilled chicken wings afterwards, a criminal investigator told a US military hearing yesterday. France Seeks Changes to Middle East Cease-Fire Resolution http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080806M.shtml France sought changes to a draft UN resolution drawn up with the United States that calls for an end to fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. Lebanon has rejected the draft resolution, presented to Security Council members, because it does not call for withdrawal of Israeli forces from its territory. Peter W. Galbraith | Mindless in Iraq http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080806N.shtml As we now know, Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon had no plan to secure any part of Baghdad. It allowed looters to destroy Iraq's governmental infrastructure and to steal thousands of tons of high explosives, weapons, and radioactive materials. And it had no coherent plan for Iraq's post-war governance. A Higher Power: James Baker Puts Bush's Iraq Policy Into Rehab http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080806O.shtml You might be excused for not noticing that a bipartisan commission quietly started work last spring with a mandate to help the Bush administration rethink its policy toward the war. James Baker, backed by a team of experienced national-security hands, has been busily at work trying to devise a fresh set of policies to help the president chart a new course in - or, perhaps, to get the hell out of - Iraq. David Bacon | Hundreds of Mexican Miners Fired for Striking http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080806P.shtml David Bacon writes, " Just days after conservative candidate Felipe Calderon declared himself the winner of Mexico's July 2 presidential election, the Mexican federal labor board lowered the boom on striking miners ... The board said they'd abandoned their jobs, and gave the mine's owner, Grupo Mexico, permission to close down operations ... The Grupo Mexico board of directors include directors of Kimberly Clark Mexico (the family business of US Congressman James Sensenbrenner, author of last year's anti-immigrant bill HR 4437) and the Carlyle Group (whose board included President George Bush Sr.). " VIDEO | Operation House Call Update A Report by Geoffrey Millard and Scott Galindez http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm As " Operation House Call " winds down, Geoffrey Millard speaks with participants about why they joined the effort and what the reaction has been from Congress. " Operation House Call, " a project of Military Families Speak Out that began June 22, ended on Thursday, August 3, as Congress went its August recess. VIDEO | Murtha on Patriotism and the Cost of the War An Interview by Geoffrey Millard and Scott Galindez http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm In Part 2 of our interview with Congressman John Murtha, we ask him about the attacks on his patriotism, the cost of the war, and his opposition to permanent bases in Iraq. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ 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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