Dancing Around Accountability
 
When Dick Cheney surfaced on Wednesday long enough for an interview with Fox News eminence Brit Hume -- an event that CNN’s Jack Cafferty promptly likened to “Bonnie interviewing Clyde” -- the vice presidential spin emerged from a timeworn bag of political tricks. Cheney took responsibility. Whatever that means.

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Australian Corruption & Huge Iraq Deaths

Australia has been a major supplier of wheat to Iraq. During the Sanctions War against Iraq (1990-2003), Australia continued to sell wheat to Iraq but the UN Volker Report (2005) has disclosed that this involved massive kickbacks. The monopoly Australian Wheat Board (AWB) was responsible for US$222 million out of an estimated US$1.8 billion of illicit payments to Saddam Hussein’s régime during the UN Oil For Food program in 1999-2003. Subsequently elicited AWB documents from 2000-2001 indicate that the kickback mechanism involved excessive trucking fees paid to a Jordanian company half-owned by the Iraqi Government.

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Fmr. Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami Debates Outspoken Professor Norman Finkelstein on Israel, the Palestinians, and the Peace Process

What happens when a former Israeli Foreign Minister debates a scholar known as one of the world's foremost critics of Israeli policy? The answer is not what you may expect. We spend the hour with Shlomo Ben Ami, author of "Scars of War, Wounds of Peace," and Norman Finkelstein, author of "Beyond Chutzpah".

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A Counter Agrument To An Argue-Punch

On February 8, Counter Punch published an article titled "Chill Out Jihadis, They're Just Cartoons" by Christopher Fons. Fons opening statement is, "Many "leftists" have taken the position that the cartoons published in the Danish paper and elsewhere are primarily a representation of Western racism and should be condemned. Nonsense."

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