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G20 summit: US and Europe paper over divisions

Instead, the two sides papered over their differences with a nine-page communiqué, much of which consisted of high-flown phrases such as the affirmation that all the assembled heads of state "agreed on the desirability of a new global consensus on ...

From CHRIS MARSDEN AND BILL VAN AUKEN, UK Indymedia Newswire,  3 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Gordon Brown,  Barack Obama,  International Monetary Fund,  World Bank,  European Union

Washington bears guilt for Gaza war crimes

The relentless bombing campaign, which in its first 48 hours has left at least 300 dead and 1,000 wounded, is a deliberate slaughter of innocent civilians and an act of state terror. The toll of casualties, many of them women and children, is ...

From BILL VAN AUKEN, UK Indymedia Newswire,  29 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Hamas,  White House,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  New York Times Company

Stocks plunge on Wall Street as bailout fails in Congress

The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 777 points, or 7 percent. The other major indexes fell even further, in percentage terms, with the Nasdaq Composite Index plunging more than 9 percent and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index falling 8.8 percent. ...

From BILL VAN AUKEN, UK Indymedia Newswire,  30 Sep 2008
Related Topics: White House,  Henry Paulson,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Democratic Party

Democrats convene in Denver amid police state security and a sea of corporate cash

The more than 4,000 Democratic delegatescovered by an army of some 15,000 members of the pressare convening in what amounts to a political bubble surrounded by security measures consistent with those of a police state. The convention itself, not to ...

From BILL VAN AUKEN, Portland Indymedia,  28 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Cindy Sheehan,  George W. Bush,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

Obamas patriotism tour: the last refuge of a Democratic scoundrel

In the 24 hours leading up to the speech, the presidential race was dominated by a media-generated furor over a remark made by Obama supporter Gen. Wesley Clark, in an interview on a Sunday television talk show. Clark, appearing on CBS television's ...

From BILL VAN AUKEN, Portland Indymedia,  3 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  Wesley Clark,  Supreme Court of the United States,  George W. Bush

Democratic Congress approves war funding, legalizes domestic spying

The congressional Democrats have given the administration more funds than it requested for the two warspaying in advance for most of fiscal 2009in order to avoid another vote on war funding in October, on the eve of the national elections. Their aim ...

From BILL VAN AUKEN, Portland Indymedia,  23 Jun 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  George W. Bush,  Nancy Pelosi,  U.S. Congress

Big oil cashes in on Iraq slaughter

These deals reached with the US-backed regime in Baghdad have placed the five-year-old US war of aggression in the clearest possible perspective. For the thousands of American families who have seen their sons and daughters killed in the Iraq war ...

From BILL VAN AUKEN, UK Indymedia Newswire,  20 Jun 2008
Related Topics: ExxonMobil,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Saddam Hussein,  Condoleezza Rice,  United Nations

Washington demands permanent bases to repress Iraqis, launch new wars

Details of the terms being negotiated between US officials and the Iraqi puppet regime of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on a Status of Force Agreement (SOFA) covering the continued presence of US occupation troops in the country emerged this week ...

From BILL VAN AUKEN, UK Indymedia Newswire,  6 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Khalaf al-Ulayyan,  Nouri al-Maliki,  George W. Bush,  United Nations,  Saddam Hussein

US: Republicans prepare to play terror card in 2008 election

This is scarcely surprising, as the so-called “global war on terrorism” and the events of September 11, 2001 have provided the essential ideological framework for virtually all of the Bush administration’s policies for nearly seven years. It is a ...

From BILL VAN AUKEN, UK Indymedia Newswire,  5 Jun 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Dick Cheney,  George W. Bush,  Newt Gingrich

Fallout from McClellan book: The Iraq war’s “complicit enablers,” then and now

As McClellan began making the rounds of television news interviews, former White House counselor Dan Bartlett described the book, “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception,” as “total crap” and called the ...

From BILL VAN AUKEN, UK Indymedia Newswire,  30 May 2008
Related Topics: Frances Townsend,  White House,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama

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