By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Then US President George W. Bush. His defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. His vice-president, Richard Cheney. His chief political adviser, Karl Rove. These were some of the lords of destruction who engineered the...
The "war on terror" policy pursued by the past Macapagal-Arroyo administration should be declared as good as dead and should be abandoned by the incumbent President. That policy was based hook, line, and sinker on former U.S. President George W. Bush, Jr.'s neo-conservative theory linking Iraq to the 9/11 bombings. Now, an Iraqi defector who was the primary source of so-called intelligence reports that were used to make a case for Bush's Operation Iraqi Freedom has confessed that he made the whole story up. (By Center for People Empowerment in Governance / bulatlat.com)
The American people are disappointed over US Pres. Obama's performance. The magic of his rhetoric is failing amid the worsening poverty and the essentially unchanged policies. By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com US President Barack Obama brought hope to the...
The criminal frame-up of young Muslim-South Asian British citizens by the British security officials was specifically designed to cover up for the failed Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and the Anglo-American backing for Israel's destructive but failed invasion of...
By Le Monde Editorial Posted by Bulatlat.com Defenders of human rights in the United States and elsewhere may rejoice over the speech George Bush pronounced Wednesday, September 6. The American president acknowledged the existence of "secret prisons," in which the...
By David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz Posted by Bulatlat.com Nothing else worked that day. The President was flying haplessly around the country looking distinctly unpresidential; the Vice President was in a bunkered panic. The military couldn't scramble armed jets...
By Maura Reynolds, Richard B. Schmitt and David G. Savage The Los Angeles Times Posted by Bulatlat Convictions could also be based on material unseen by the accused. The Senate may object. Washington — President Bush asked Congress Wednesday to approve a new system...
When the history of this era is finally written, based on the Tai Chi Principle, Osama bin Laden and his scattering of followers may be credited for goading the fundamentalist leaders of the United States into using the power in their grasp so - not to put a fine...
Nixon Was Bad. These Guys Are Worse. The nation would be much more secure and productive under a Nixon presidency than with Bush. Indeed, has any administration in our national history been so damaging as the Bush-Cheney era? How could a once-admired, great nation...
President Bush says he knew his top national security advisors discussed and approved specific details about how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to an exclusive interview with ABC News Friday. BY JAN...
Dr. Ayad Allawi, the former interim Iraqi prime minister previously referred to even by US Congress members as a "Bush puppet," voiced his strong support for a US withdrawal timeline during a Wednesday Congressional hearing. BY MAYA SCHENWAR, T r u t h o u t Posted...
President Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government, according to senior American officials. BY ERIC...
After six years of brutal occupation following the widely condemned US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the US government has found itself more isolated than ever before. The people of the world are outraged that at a horrendous cost the US has committed the...
Despite the public’s long-standing opposition to the war and support for a short timetable for withdrawal, Obama and his generals continue to defy public wishes as they debate whether the occupation will continue for another three years, six years, or indefinitely...
As with any event that pushes history forward, when you click the play button over and over to watch Muntanzer al-Zaidi mumble something in Arabic that we now know meant "This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog!," the question inevitably arises - Why...
At the rate she is going, Mrs. Arroyo will have more than a pair of shoes thrown at her when she is finally booted out of Malacanang. BY CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO Streetwise/ Business World Posted by Bulatlat The year ends with two of the most hated political figures...
NI RICHARD R. GAPPI Inilathala ng Bulatlat Tulad ng iyong kamangha-mangha at kagila-gilalas na mga bomba, nagmamartsa ang sanlaksa, ang mga gera-de-bota. Nang mapilay ang iyong katwiran at katinuan, dumating ka tulad ng kuwago na humahapon sa nag-aabong dilim at...
BY BULATLAT An international anti-imperialist organization hailed the Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at US President George W. Bush. In a statement sent through email, Jose Maria Sison, chairman of the International Coordinating Committee of the...
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