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Year: 2009
Dick Cheney is Fairly Pleased With His Eight Bloody Years
Ed Pilkington in New York guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 17 December 2008 01.19 GMT The outgoing US vice-president, Dick Cheney, last night gave an unapologetic assessment of his eight years in office, defending the invasion of Iraq, the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, secret wiretapping and the extreme interrogation method known as waterboarding. In his first […]
MoreThousands Line Up For Free Food In San Francisco
Steve Rubenstein, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, December 17, 2008 (12-16) 13:47 PST SAN FRANCISCO — Never have so many people waited so long in San Francisco for a chicken. Not only a chicken, but cans of pears, corn, carrots and tomatoes, plus a sack of pinto beans. The line Tuesday for the annual grocery giveaway […]
MoreCaptain America And Spiderman Blew Millions In Pro-Troop Propaganda Scam
EXCLUSIVE FROM W I R E D By Noah ShachtmanWhile the Pentagon preps for a new administration, a scandal from an earlier era is rearing its head. A Defense Department project, supposedly designed to support U.S. troops, was used instead to channel millions of dollars to personal friends and allies of its chief. The “America […]
MoreNot Just Super Rich Getting Destroyed By “The Madoff”
ASSOCIATED PRESS Dec 14, 6:16 PM (ET) By JOE BEL BRUNO NEW YORK (AP) – From a Jewish youth charity in Boston to major banks as far afield as Zurich, the list of investors who say they were duped in one of Wall Street’s biggest Ponzi schemes are streaming forward. Around the world, investors who […]
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