Day December 11, 2005

CrooksandLiars in LA Times

Big write-up! I helped John Amato start CrooksandLiars. He virtually invented online news video blogging, gets a zillion hits a day, and has worked real hard to make C&L the great blog that it is. Way to go, pal!

Bush busted on more lies

French told CIA of bogus intelligence The foreign spy service warned the U.S. various times before the war that there was no proof Iraq sought uranium from Niger, ex-officials say. More than a year before President Bush declared in his…

Anti-recruitment rally

It’s a poverty draft. The military targets people of color in working class areas for recruitment. This ANSWER LA Youth and Student rally was held at the Military Entrance Processing Center in the heavily Black and Latino South LA. It’s…

Dept. of the Obvious

The Army Corps agrees in an initial study that the New Orleans (levee) system was probably overtaxed. In a stunning burst of intellectual prowess and deduction, Col. Fred "Bulldozer" McCarthy said preliminary data indicated the levees failed because "there was…

Kidan readies his aria

Federal prosecutors have all but finalized a plea agreement with a second business partner of former lobbyist Jack Abramoff in exchange for cooperation in the ongoing criminal investigations of Abramoff, congressional aides and Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio), lawyers in…