Day June 13, 2004

Retired diplomats, military leaders say Bush must go “A group of 26 former senior diplomats and military officials, several appointed to key positions by Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, plans to issue a joint statement this week…

Mandela carries Olympic torch outside his former cell “The torch arrived in Cape Town on Saturday and was flown by helicopter to Robben Island where Mr Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years in jail. Standing in front of his…

Your tax dollars at work Torturing Iraqi prisoners. On orders from higher-ups. Oh, excuse me, the official line is the dogs were used to “scare” prisoners. Yeah, if you were naked in a prison and ripped bloody by an attack…

SEC probing Halliburton ‘bribes’ “A Halliburton subsidiary is under investigation by the US stock market regulator over allegations it paid bribes for Nigerian gas contracts. Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) and three other partner firms allegedly paid $180m in bribes,…

The Reagan Mournathon didn’t work No bump in the polls for Bush from it. Had Reagan died a year ago, there woud have been a big bump up for Dubya. But no longer. Bush’s steady slide down continues unabated.