Bush Administration

10 Million Solar Rooftops Proposed By Senator Bernie Sanders, Others

BuzzFlash.com | Amy Weiss | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Arlen Specter, Solar Moratorium, Bush Administration, Solar Roof, Ben Cardin, John Kerry, Robert Menendez, Bernie Sanders, Solar Power, John Warner, Solar Rooftops, Green News

While the Bush administration put a two-year moratorium on solar energy projects on public land last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and colleagues d...

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Unions Battle New Age Robber Barons

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Sen. Barack Obama, Circular Welded Steel, Employee Free Choice Act, Economy, Merrill Lynch & Co., China, Global Corporations, CNM/CUT, U.S. International Trade Commission, OAO Severstal, Phil Casey, Unemployment, Wall Street, Bush Administration, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Phelps Dodge Corp., Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Wharton School, Gerdau Ameristeel, Gerdau, Esmark, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

To succeed now, unions must be able to stand toe-to-toe with global corporations on their own turf, which means in many cases unions too must be global.

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Nipping Solar Energy in the Bud

Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 06.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Renewable Energy, Solar Tax Credits, John McCain, Bush Administration, Solar Power, Barack Obama, Republicans, Green News
Jeremy Jacquot

Many a start-up's hopes were dashed when the Bureau of Land Management, in its infinite wisdom, decided to place a moratorium on the construction of new solar plants on public land in six Western states.

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Advice to Democrats: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Lee Daniels | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Hillary Clinton, General Election, Democrats, Democrat Unity, Barack Obama, Politics News
Lee Daniels

The issue of whose side are you on is not a matter of Democrat versus Democrat. It's a matter of the Democratic Party against a party whose reign has produced a cesspool of corruption.

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Script Doctors

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Bush Administration, Supreme Court Justices, Bush Administration Torture, Guantanamo Detainees, George W. Bush, Michael Mukasey, Antonin Scalia, Guantanamo, Habeas Corpus, Torture, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

After the Court's ruling that Guantanamo detainees are now entitled to habeas corpus, all the president's men are working overtime so they can stack the deck strongly in favor of winning convictions.

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Politicians Play General, Generals Play Politics (Part 5)

Russ Wellen | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Negotiations, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Energy, Military, Bush Administration, Russia, Diplomacy, Cold War, Iaea, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Russ Wellen

In the conclusion of our series on Jeff Huber, columnist at Military.com and author of a new novel, Bathtub Admirals, we asked him more questions on f...

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Iran Attack Not a Problem, Say War Wonks

Russ Wellen | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Persian Gulf, Mohamed ElBaradei, Nuclear Weapons, Attack, Bush Administration, Uranium Enrichment, Oil Markets, War, Nuclear Iran, P5=1, Blowback, Politics News
Russ Wellen

For better or worse, we're constitutionally incapable of summoning up sufficient cynicism to imagine the moral depravity required to start another war.

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Neocons Busy Rewriting History On Iraq

Washington Independent | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Bush Administration, Revisionist History, War in Iraq, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Politics News

Ever since the Rumsfeld era at the Pentagon ended abruptly in the aftermath of the Democratic victory in the 2006 mid-term elections, the civilian haw...

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The Imperialist Right Threatens Obama on Iraq

Gareth Porter | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq Iran Violence, US Military, Bush Administration, Robert Kaplan, Iraq Iran, Imperialism, Iraq, Barack Obama, Politics News
Gareth Porter

The idea of linking Obama's troop withdrawal plan to the Iranian position in Iraq makes no sense objectively, but it is the logical political response by those who led the United States into a disastrous war.

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Iraq on the Brain

Bernard I. Finel | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Bush Administration, American Security Project, War on Terror, Politics News
Bernard I. Finel

Many conservatives have developed a case of Iraq Syndrome, which is dangerous in reducing most of America's foreign policy problems to Iraq.

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Politicians Play General, Generals Play Politics (Part 4)

Russ Wellen | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Military, Bush Administration, Cold War, Democrats, Pacifism, Barack Obama, Libertarians, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Russ Wellen

"I'm sorry he caught so much flak over the things his pastor said, but like I always caution, that's the kind of thing that happens when you go to chu...

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Condi Rice: Back to the Future

Patrick Barry | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nato, Condoleezza Rice Foreign Affairs, Condoleezza Rice, Kagan, Bush Administration, Foreign Affairs, Rice, Europe Allies, Iraq, Rumsfeld, Mccain, Afghanistan, Politics News
Patrick Barry

If you try to square Rice's Marty McFly analysis in Foreign Affairs with the state of the world today, you end up with a catalog of faulty recommendations and squandered opportunities.

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Stephen Johnson's Tragic Legacy

Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 06.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Epa, Environment, Bush Administration, Stephen Johnson, Green News
Jeremy Jacquot

I think we can all agree that we need agencies like the EPA to remain fully independent and only be staffed with the most dedicated, qualified individuals. Let's hope the next administration helps return the agency to relevancy.

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Master Media Manipulations and the Art of War(-selling)

Rachel Haimowitz | Posted 06.05.2008 | Media

Read More: George Bush, Scott Mcclellan, Phil Donahue, Propaganda, Freedom of Information Act, Valerie Plame, Media, Barack Obama 2008, Listening Post, Bush Administration, Katie Couric, Anna Nicole Smith, Iraq War, Armstrong Williams, Al Jazeera, Keith Olbermann, Ashleigh Banfield, Media News
Rachel Haimowitz

Tthe story of Obama's victory has and will continue to drown out all the other recent news. And boy, was there some big news made by Scott McClellan this week.

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The Repubs' War on One Particular Scientist

Michelle Pilecki | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Muslim, Bush Administration, Bechtel, Science, Nuclear Physics, Aclu, Republicans, Scientists, Politics News
Michelle Pilecki

So you'd think the US would want to hold onto good nuclear physicists, right? Especially American citizens who have been active in the community as well as excellent scientists?

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Scott McClellan's Rollercoaster Ride through Primetime

Rachel Haimowitz | Posted 05.31.2008 | Media

Read More: Bush Administration, Video, Scott Mcclellan, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, What Happened, White House Press Secretary, Anderson Cooper, Hurricane Katrina, Anderson Cooper 360, Keith Olbermann, The Daily Show, Media News
Rachel Haimowitz

Almost as interesting to me as McClellan's book is the way in which the anchors have handled their interviews. In this regard, Olbermann and Cooper represented the two distant ends of the spectrum.

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'Let Them Hate, So Long as They Fear' -- Caligula

Carl Pope | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Epa, Bush Administration, Stephen Johnson, Politics News
Carl Pope

"Who's afraid of a library book, a library book, a library book? Who's afraid of a library book, so close to the election?" I've changed the old nurs...

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In Defense of James Frey and Memoir

Lisa Dale Norton | Posted 05.30.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Publishing, Bush Administration, James Frey, Autobiography, Writing, Arts, Oprah, Memoir, Obama, Media, Journalism, Narrative Nonfiction, Mcclellan, Entertainment News
Lisa Dale Norton

The function of a memoir is to make a truth about a life lived that resonates in the bones of the writer and sends out shock waves of recognition to readers.

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FDA Makes No Attempt to Hide Industry Ties in Its Review of Baby-Bottle Safety

Paul Raeburn | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bpa, Food Safety, Bush Administration, Bisphenol A, Fda, Baby Bottles, Politics News
Paul Raeburn

If the FDA was going to rely almost entirely on industry-sponsored studies to come to its conclusions about plastics, why didn't it try to hide that?

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Bush Officials Deserting In Huge Numbers: Half The Administration's Top Political Positions Vacant

Washington Post | Dan Eggen and Christopher Lee | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, George Bush, Bush Officials, White House, Bush Officials Leaving, Politics News

With eight months left in President Bush's term, scores of senior officials already are heading for the exits, leaving nearly half the administration'...

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What Would Buddha Do?

Jared Bernstein | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Policy, Buddha, Bush Administration, Market Forces, Absolutism, Appeasement, John McCain, Politics News
Jared Bernstein

In Buddhism, the notion of balance is central. Over the Bush years, there has been a damaging drift toward absolutism. You're with us or against us, diplomacy is appeasement, tax cuts forever, the axis of evil, and markets always work best (and government, worst).

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Every Veteran Deserves our Support

Gov. Chris Gregoire | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Troops, Support the Troops, Memorial Day, Gov. Chris Gregoire, Bush Administration, Veterans, Chris Gregoire, Politics News
Gov. Chris Gregoire

Our goal from the beginning of my term in Washington state was to ensure that we're appropriately honoring all of our veterans.

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Hologram Man: The Sad, Weird Twilight of George Bush

John Eskow | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration, Iraq, War in Iraq, George W. Bush, Politics News
John Eskow

How could a man, even a simulacrum of a man, like Bush, grow so wildly detached from all known reality?

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Behind the Rise in Prices: The Plan to Torpedo the Dollar

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Price of Oil, Dollar, China, Bush Administration, Economy, Bankers, Hank Paulson, Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis, China Earthquake, Politics News
Danny Schechter

Paulson avoided a straight answer with a flurry of "uh, uh, uh," halting phrases and contradictory assertions.

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Record-Breaking Ten Million Consumer Products Already Recalled This Year; Bush Administration's Response: Oh Well.

Linda Cronin-Gross | Posted 05.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Toys, Consumers Union, Product Recalls, Hazardous Products, Lead, Hazardous Product Legislation, Bush Administration, Consumers, Consumer Product Safety, Consumer Product Safety Commission, China, Consumer Products, Product Safety, Business News
Linda Cronin-Gross

A new report just issued by Consumers Union (CU) - and promptly ignored by the mainstream media - says that recalls of toys and other consumer produc...

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