All Articles on Dick Cheney
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News War Tribunal Finds Bush, Cheney Guilty of War Crimes Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal orders reparations be given to torture victims Read more |
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Views Heights of Hypocrisy: The Universal Use of 9/11 in Politics A year ago, I wrote a blog about the death of Osama bin Laden, " Today is Not a Day of Celebration for Me ." I wrote the blog after witnessing so many Americans celebrating, fist-pumping, dancing, and reveling in the streets about the death of bin Laden. Seeing so many Americans acting like that... Read more |
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Views Heart Transplants “How about my heart?” asked the Tin Woodman. “Why as for that,” answered Oz, “I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.” — L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz New hearts are not always what they are cracked up to be... Read more |
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News Sentencing of Arms Dealer Viktor Bout Avoids His Connections to U.S., Dick Cheney U.S. had previously seen "the merchant of death" as "very valuable for national security operations." Read more |
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News Dick Cheney Gets New Heart Former Vice President Recovering After Undergoing Surgery Read more |
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Further Cheney Decides Canada "Just Not A Friendly Country" To War Criminals Calgary says no to Cheney Having deemed Canada - Canada? - too dangerous, Dick Cheney has cancelled an April speaking appearance in Toronto because he's worried a bunch of mouthy ruffians who oppose torture and support elemental human rights might bother him like they did last year in Vancouver... Read more |
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News Super Tuesday: If Dennis Kucinich Loses, What Next? US Rep. Dennis Kucinich is fighting a tough primary battle in Ohio to stay in the US House of Representatives. Redistricting forced Kucinich and Marcy Kaptur, also a progressive Democrat, to battle it out for Ohio's reconfigured 9th District. Pundits predict that Kaptur will win but it's never... Read more |
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Views Real Cowards Go To Tehran Imagine the classic United States neo-conservative wet dream; staring at Iran on a map and salivating about the crossroads between Europe and Asia, between the Arab world and the Indian subcontinent, between the Arabian Sea and Central Asia, with 10% of the world's proven oil reserves (over 150... Read more |
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Views The Definition of Insanity: Deregulating Over and Over and Expecting Different Results A cynic might argue that business leaders and their friends in Congress weren't expecting different results. In either case, we've become a bipolar nation, 1% manic and 99% depressive. Our affliction is caused by a 30-year experiment in the dismal economics of delusion. Deregulation for... Read more |
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Views Is The Past The Future? The News Dissector Reports From and on Iran The TV series House of Lies is about business but it could as easily be about government and foreign policy. In a recent episode, one of the management consultants pitches a company about the need to launch a new product. She recounts the story of the Polaroid Company known as the Apple of its day... Read more |