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Jason Leopold: Yo Democrats! Wake Up!
Tuesday, 3 June 2003, 1:14 pm | Jason Leopold
Hey you! Tom Daschle. WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You’ve been taking Tylenol PM again haven’t you? I knew it. I told you that stuff makes you groggy. Get your punk ass out of bed and get back to work. And this time don’t forget to dust off your balls, ... More >>
Iraq War Planned Two Days After 9-11- Wolfowitz
Tuesday, 3 June 2003, 12:52 am | Jason Leopold
While the hawks in the Bush administration attempt to justify the logic behind a pre-emptive strike against Iraq now that its become clear the country’s alleged weapons of mass destruction are nowhere to be found, the true reasons for going to war are ... More >>
Jason Leopold: US Plans To Overthrow Iran Regime
Thursday, 29 May 2003, 11:30 am | Jason Leopold
Here we go again. While postwar Iraq continues to crumble, the Bush administration is now setting its sights on a new target—Iran—in its so-called effort to reshape most of the Middle East and bring democracy to countries ruled by vicious dictators. ... More >>
Halliburton "Tapped" On Iraq Oil Industry In Nov.
Wednesday, 14 May 2003, 9:47 am | Jason Leopold
Months before the United States military showered Iraq with bombs and missiles, the Department of Defense was secretly working with Vice President Dick Cheney’s old company, Halliburton Corp., on a deal that would give the world’s second largest ... More >>
Halliburton Breaks Law While Profiting From Terror
Monday, 12 May 2003, 2:50 pm | Jason Leopold
Cheney’s Old Company Continues To Break Laws While Profiting From Terror By Jason Leopold More >>
DoD Insiders On The Demise Of Thomas E. White
Monday, 12 May 2003, 10:51 am | Jason Leopold
Two weeks ago, Secretary of Defense fired Thomas White, who was tapped by President Bush two years ago as Secretary of the Army. Today, White, the former vice chairman of Enron Corp., the disgraced energy company that imploded in a wave of accounting ... More >>
Halliburton's History Supporting Terrorist Regimes
Wednesday, 16 April 2003, 12:38 am | Jason Leopold
Kellogg Brown & Root, the company chosen last month by the Pentagon to extinguish oil well fires in Iraq, has a long history of supporting the same terrorist regimes vilified by the Bush administration and on at least one occasion defrauded the United ... More >>
FERC Conversation With Wall St May Violate Fed Law
Tuesday, 8 April 2003, 1:32 pm | Jason Leopold
Two weeks ago, after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a staff report to Congress that said California’s electricity and natural gas markets were the victim of widespread manipulation by more than a dozen energy companies, the chairman of ... More >>
Rummy's War Plan & The Casualties That May Result
Tuesday, 1 April 2003, 9:57 am | Jason Leopold
Last October, the New York Times reported that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ordered the military’s regional commanders to rewrite all of their war plans to capitalize on precision weapons, better intelligence and speedier deployment in the event the ... More >>
Jason Leopold: Richard Perle - Enterprising Hawk
Friday, 28 March 2003, 3:17 pm | Jason Leopold
Richard Perle’s resignation Thursday as chairman of the Defense Policy Board, a Pentagon advisory group, is long overdue. Perle quit the board because he was hired to help bankrupt telecommunications firm Global Crossing win approval from the Department ... More >>
Abuse During Calif Energy Crisis; $Bns In Refunds
Thursday, 27 March 2003, 10:21 am | Jason Leopold
The sky-high electricity and natural gas prices in California between 2000 and 2001 that bankrupted the state’s largest utility and caused several days of rolling blackouts was the result of widespread manipulation by several Texas-based energy companies ... More >>
NZ/Melbourne - Breeding Ground For Rock Revolution
Wednesday, 26 March 2003, 5:40 pm | Jason Leopold
Not since Nirvana turned Seattle into a breeding ground for grunge and post-punk has a geographic area become synonymous with a particular style of music. But such is the case with Melbourne, Australia, which over the past year has consistently ... More >>
Jason Leopold: The Reality of War Sinks In
Tuesday, 25 March 2003, 10:37 am | Jason Leopold
I hope the stock market gets hammered. I hope the Iraqis set fire to as many oil fields as possible. I hope oil prices in the United States surge and shortages persist. I hope the antiwar protestors become disobedient. I hope the economy never recovers. ... More >>
Jason Leopold: As War Looms, Hypocrisy Prevails
Thursday, 20 March 2003, 11:09 am | Jason Leopold
This is my last ditch effort to show the hypocrisy within President Bush’s administration regarding its policies toward Iraq and its President, Saddam Hussein, just as the United States and Britain prepares to invade the country. More >>
Jason Leopold: Bush Familial Hypocrisy
Monday, 17 March 2003, 12:40 am | Jason Leopold
President Bush started beating the war drums Saturday in an attempt to win support for a war that many people here and throughout the world believe is unjustified. In his weekly radio address Saturday, Bush dug deep into the past; reminding the ... More >>
Iraqi Human Rights Abuses Less Important In 1989
Friday, 14 March 2003, 11:00 am | Jason Leopold
Rumsfeld, Bush Sr. Refused To Back 1989 UN Resolution To Investigate Iraq For Human Rights Abuses By Jason Leopold More >>
Jason Leopold: Meanwhile... On The Eastern Front
Tuesday, 11 March 2003, 4:49 pm | Jason Leopold
Last week, at a Pentagon “town hall” meeting between Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and members of the U.S. armed forces, someone asked Rumsfeld if the U.S. decides to invade Iraq what would the U.S. do if the situation in North Korea boils ... More >>
Jason Leopold: War Means Time To Open ANWR - GOP
Monday, 10 March 2003, 11:27 am | Jason Leopold
With War Looming, Iraqi Oil Imports May Be Strained; Time To Open Up ANWR, GOP Says By Jason Leopold More >>
Jason Leopold: When Poppy Bush Said It How It Is
Thursday, 6 March 2003, 11:19 am | Jason Leopold
When Poppy Bush Said It How It Is Bush Sr. Said In 1996 That War With Iraq `Would Turn Entire Arab World Against Us’ By Jason Leopold More >>
For Six Years Think Tank Has Been Hell-Bent On War
Thursday, 27 February 2003, 12:31 am | Jason Leopold
Never before in the history of the United States presidency has a think tank had such an impact on shaping U.S. foreign policy as the Project for the New American Century has on helping President George W. Bush set foreign policy goals for his ... More >>
