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Feb 29 2008
The Three Trillion Dollar War
By MWC NEWS   

Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard Economist Linda Bilmes on the True Cost of the US Invasion and Occupation of Iraq

One week after President Bush rejected charges the war in Iraq has hurt the US economy, a new book puts a conservative estimate of the war’s cost at $3 trillion so far. In their first national broadcast interview upon their book’s publication, Nobel laureate and former chief World Bank economist, Joseph Stiglitz, and co-author Linda Bilmes of Harvard University say the Bush administration has repeatedly low-balled the cost of the war—and even kept a second set of records hidden from the American public.

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Tags:  Joseph Stiglitz Linda Bilmes Iraq Conflict
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Feb 28 2008
Exxon suxx. McCain duxx
By Greg Palast   

Nineteen goddamn years is enough. I'm sorry if you don't like my language, but when I think about what they did to Paul Kompkoff, I'm in no mood to nicey-nice words.

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Tags:  Greg Palast Paul Kompkoff Exxon Valdez McCain
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Feb 22 2008
Behind the John McCain Lobbying Scandal
By MWC NEWS   
A Look at How McCain Urged the Federal Communications Commission to Act on Behalf of Paxson Communications

On Thursday, the New York Times revealed McCain repeatedly wrote letters to government regulators on behalf of Paxson Communications and other clients of the telecommunications lobbyist, Vicki Iseman.

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Tags:  Angela Campbell New York Times John McCain Paxson Communications Vicki Iseman
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Feb 21 2008
Israel’s Use of Cluster Bombs Shows Need for Global Ban
By MWC NEWS   

Attacks in Lebanon Violated Laws of War

The human devastation inflicted on Lebanon by Israel’s illegal use of cluster munitions highlights the urgent need for an international treaty banning the weapon, Human Rights Watch said in releasing a report. At a conference this week, more than 100 states will discuss a treaty to ban cluster munitions, a process prompted in part by Israel’s cluster attacks on Lebanon in 2006.

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Tags:  Winograd Commission Cluster Bombs Lebanon war
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Feb 20 2008
Rigged Trials at Guantanamo
By MWC NEWS   

The Nation magazine reveals the former chief prosecutor for the prison’s military commissions says the Pentagon has foreclosed the possibility of acquittals.

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Tags:  Nation magazine Rigged Trials Guantanamo
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