Mickey Z

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Monday, October 24, 2005

America has been been punk’d

With high-profile indictments looming on the political horizon (http://tinyurl.com/dlrt7), here are two articles and a short video:

Video: The mainstream media plays hardball
http://tinyurl.com/93l5r

“It is now quite clear that the outing of Valerie Plame was part of a broader White House effort to mislead and manipulate U.S. public opinion as part of an orchestrated effort to take us to war. The unraveling of the Valerie Plame affair has exposed their scam—and it extends well beyond compromising the identity of a CIA officer. In short, the Bush administration organized and executed a classic ‘covert action’ program against the citizens of the United States.”

For the complete article, please click here:
http://tinyurl.com/bvm6r

Scooter Libby “studied political science at Yale under former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and began working with his former teacher under Cheney at the Defense Department during the George H.W. Bush administration, thinking about grand national security strategy in the post-Cold War era.”

(Scooter)

For the complete article, please click here:
http://www.slate.com/id/2128530

Anyone have other related articles or videos to recommend?

(This post is presented in solidarity with the Progressive Blogger Union: http://www.pbu.blogspot.com.)

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One of my haiku has found a home here:
http://www.talkingkitchen.com/haiku.htm

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For your viewing pleasure:

http://www.squidandthewhalemovie.com

This weekend, Michele and I saw The Squid and the Whale, an excellent “little” film directed by the writer of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (a film we loved).
Recommended.

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In my CD player today: Suburban Sprawl & Alcohol by LP

(Goddamn, this gal has pipes.)
http://www.lprock.com