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09.04 Here We Go Again: Another Rig Explosion 08.31 Legislation for Greater Agribusiness Empowerment 08.25 America's Gulf: Updating the Greatest Ever Environmental Crime 08.16 Obama's Gulf Swim Was Fake 08.11 America's Gulf: A Toxic Crime Scene Video National Health Care Systems In Other Countries Media Matters
09.02 How the Right Still Frames Iraq 08.26 The Israeli Lobby: Declassified Documents Expose Its Influence 08.18 Tell NBC: Sunday Morning Needs a Real War Debate 08.12 Who Gets to Review and Be Reviewed? 08.12 Net Neutrality Threatened 08.11 Situation Room Scaremongering Ref. : The Daily Howler Justice Matters
09.05 Ripping Off Dead War Vets' Beneficiaries 09.01 Continuity of Government: Coup d'Etat Authority in America 08.31 Lawsuit Challenges Obama Administration's Targeted Assassination Policy 08.28 Ramsey Muniz - Guilty of Being Latino and Activist in America 08.17 Gender-Based Violence in Haiti 08.16 The Scott Sisters: Victimized by American Injustice 08.15 Universal Jurisdiction to Hold Israel Accountable 08.13 From Goldstone to Uribe US Politics, Policy & Culture
09.05 The True Cost of the War 09.03 Reflections on Jack Kennedy 09.02 The Dishonor of Militarism 09.02 Katrina's Destructive Aftermath 08.30 Persecuting a Conciliator 08.29 Yale University's Pro-Israeli, Anti-Islamic Conference 08.27 Hawks Box in Obama on Afghan War 08.24 Iraq Pullout: Mission Accomplished or Strategic Retreat? 08.23 Thinking About Lying 08.23 America Knows How to Do Xenophobia 08.20 Spinning the US Failure in Iraq 08.19 Part Tinker Bell, Part Predator Drone: The Fantasy of the Presidency as Deus ex Machina 08.16 Thinking About Rainbows 08.16 In Dreams Begin Responsibilities 08.12 A Neocon Preps US for War with Iran High Crimes?
08.31 America's Holy Crusade against the Muslim World 08.23 The Laureate and the Leaker: Swedish Warrant a Salvo in Team Obama's War on Wikileaks 08.18 Impact of Israeli Military Order No. 1650 08.14 Gaza's Poisoned Water 08.13 Timebends: The Further Fruits of Wikileaks' Revelation 08.12 Don't Try These GOP Alibis at Home 08.10 The Charade Begins: Netanyahu's Flotilla Massacre Probe Testimony Economics & Business Non/Mis/Malfeasance
09.06 Thinking About Labor 08.30 Thinking About Fear 08.27 America Facing Depression and Bankruptcy 08.19 Homeowners' Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes be Foreclosure-proof? International
09.06 Honduran Repression Continues Unabated 09.05 Sanctions kill innocent civilians: Who pays for the loss of life in Iran? 08.30 Israel will not choose to attack Iran: Harun Yahya 08.30 Israel Threatens War with Lebanon 08.24 Notes from Besieged Gaza 08.23 Washington Orders Shahbaz Airbase Saved, not Pakistan's Flood Victims 08.23 Political Killings in Colombia 08.23 A united Iran against a collapsing Israel 08.22 The Charade Announced: Latest Israeli No-Peace Peace Talks for September 08.21 Israeli Academic Freedom at Risk 08.20 Israel's Bogus Construction Moratorium 08.19 We hear "Israel will attack Iran!" and "America will Israel attack Iran!" over and over 08.19 Palestine: Occupied, Divided, Isolated, Oppressed and Unaided 08.15 Iran, Tajikistan and Afghanistan: Diplomacy of Brotherhood We are a non-profit Internet-only newspaper publication founded in 1973. Your donation is essential to our survival.
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COMMENTARY:The Abramoff AbsurdityIf you need evidence of just how deceptive the Abramoff scandal will ultimately reveal itself to be, then consider what Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher said at a news conference at the Justice Department: “Government officials and government action are not for sale." This was an outrageous lie. Just because the excessive chutzpah and greed of Jack-the-Corrupter Abramoff and his gang got them nabbed does not negate the political reality that government officials and government action have been, still are, and in all likelihood will remain for sale. The historical fact is that no previous federal government scandal has ever put a stop to the legal and illegal sale of government. To put an end to the institutionally sanctioned bipartisan corruption of Congress and pay-to-play politics, consider how Congress will respond to these questions:
Joel S. Hirschhorn is the author of Sprawl Kills – How Blandburbs Steal Your Time, Health and Money and the forthcoming Delusional Democracy – Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government. He can be reached through sprawlkills.com.
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