The pattern for the past two years has been left-wing governments falling like ninepins, and European voters have been flocking to free-market and centre-right parties.
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The bureaucracy of Gitmo
Benjamin Franklin’s famous trade-off between liberty and temporary safety – for those who deserve neither — stands itemized in human form in the Gitmo documents, in those many files full of misspellings, malapropisms and justifications, the dream-diary jottings of a superpower nightmare.
The Bush Administration — desperate to convince on climate
The Bush Administration was desperate to “sensitise” European leaders to its view that technologies such as carbon capture and storage and nuclear power were the way to handle climate change.
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CIA used detainees as human guinea pigs
The Bush administration’s attempts to prove that “enhanced” interrogation techniques did not constitute torture actually involved the CIA using human experimentation on detainees.
BP oil spill: blame Bush
The Bush administration and its pro-oil industry policies should shoulder a large part of the blame for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, argues Matthew Yglesias.
Bush “knew Guantanamo prisoners were innocent”
A former senior aide to Colin Powell says Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld knew that “the vast majority of Guantánamo detainees were innocent”, but thought releasing them would harm their case for war in Iraq.
How the West has been screwing Haiti for years
Today, the West has woken up shocked at the devastation in Haiti and is clamoring to lend a hand — yet for years, we have stood by while the country has grown poorer, more violent and less democratic.
Somalia: the real victim of Bush’s War on Terror
Iraq and Afghanistan may have grabbed the headlines, but Somalia has been the real victim of the War on Terror, with the US inadvertently delivering the country into the arms of Islamic extremists with ties to al-Qaeda., writes Martin Fletcher.
Great unsolved mysteries in the War on Terror
It’s been a year since Bush left the White House, yet so much about his “War on Terror” is still unknown: what did Cheney really know? Where have all the CIA’s prisoners gone? Who forged the Yellowcake documents?
Millions of missing Bush emails uncovered
Twenty-two million emails from the Bush White House have been found and restored, despite the administration’s claims none were missing from the archives. It raises the question: what else has fallen through the cracks?
How Bush’s birth control policies fueled Africa’s baby boom
Experts say Dubbya’s policy of refusing African AIDS-prevention funding to groups promoting family planning services and counseling programs has seen birth-rates swell on the already over-populated continent.
What Dick Cheney didn’t know about Valerie Plame
Notes from an FBI interview with former US VP Dick Cheney about the 2003 outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame have been released, revealing Cheney claimed “near total amnesia” on the whole scandal. Read the list of the important events and dates he just can’t recall.
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CIA kept detainees alive to torture them more
A human rights lawyer claims that under the Bush administration, the CIA tortured some terror suspects so badly during interrogation sessions, it had to keep them alive so they could continue being tortured.
revealed How the Pentagon used PSYOPS on the US public
New evidence uncovered by Raw Story exposes how the US military’s propaganda arm used “psychological operations” tactics on the US public to sell them on the Iraq War.
The climate change report Bush tried to suppress
America’s EPA has finally released a 2007 report suppressed by the Bush White House, which recommends the government begin regulating greenhouse emissions because of the serious threat posed by climate change.
The empire strikes back: Bush’s Star Wars plan was wrong
US Defense Secretary and Republican Robert Gates has written an op-ed for the NYT, arguing Obama was right to quash Bush’s plans for a missile shield in Eastern Europe for a more “pragmatic” approach.
A sneak-peek inside the Bush White House
A former Bush speech writer has released some tasty tidbits from his forthcoming insider’s account of working in the Dubbya White House, revealing the former President’s trash talk about Obama, Palin, Biden and others.
Sullivan: Dear Bush, only you can prevent torture
As a fellow Christian and conservative, commentator Andrew Sullivan writes an open letter to former US President George W. Bush, asking him to take full responsibility for the torture perpetrated under his regime, so the country can finally move forward.
Bush and Cheney’s final hours
TIME tells the tale of the tumultuous final hours of the Bush presidency, as Dubbya and VP Dick Cheney butted heads over whether to grant a pardon to Cheney’s former chief of staff and convicted felon, Scooter Libby.
CIA planned to deploy teams of assassins
More information about the CIA’s secret plans to knock-off Al Qaeda leaders has been revealed, with news they were planning to train and deploy anti-terrorist hit squads.
Cheney’s secret plans revealed
The Wall Street Journal have revealed the details of the secret CIA plans Dick Cheney kept hidden from Congress: a Presidential order to capture or kill Al Qaeda leaders.
Cheney’s big secret
Former Vice President Dick Cheney directly ordered the CIA to withhold information about a secret counterterrorism program from the United States Congress for eight years of the Bush administration, the NYT revealed this weekend. Expect sparks to fly.
Time to acknowledge North Korea’s terror
A year has passed since George Bush removed North Korea from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism. It’s time we put them back on it, says Joshua Stanton .
Clarke: 9/11 “trauma” is no excuse
9/11 may have changed many things, says Richard A. Clarke, but it did not change the Constitution — Bush officials can’t use it to justify their actions.
