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A Very Interesting Thing Happened on the Way to Justice

This particular interesting thing relates to Exxon and the ages-ago Exxon Valdez oil spill across a goodly part of the coast of Alaska. Seems their captain went aground with a tanker and, the next thing we knew, people were up there mopping ecosystems and sponging (as best they could) crude oil off the feathers of various and sundry birds.

Wandering Through a Morass of Money—The Quagmire Called Procurement

The Pentagon’s forgetfulness has sneaked its way silently across four years and never so much as made a ripple beyond the CBS mention. Sixteen times the amount pissed away by the Savings and Loan industry has gone over the Niagra Falls of military spending and nary a soul has been shipped off to the pokey.

Dick Cheney's Fingerprints

Dick Cheney's Fingerprints,
THE BOOK,
Published December 15, 2006

Buy it Now @ $19.90

Author’s note:

There’s been unending complaint on the part of the Bush administration, that the pitfalls of war in Iraq could not have been known.

Wrong.

Many of us knew. And we wrote about it--not after the disaster became apparent, but months before the invasion.  We acknowledged what would go right and, much more importantly, spelled out what would go wrong and how and when and who the players would be.

A War That We Now Find Ourselves In

After being briefed at the Pentagon Wednesday, the president said

"I thank these men who wear our uniform for a very candid and fruitful discussion about the -- about how to secure this country, and how to win a war that we now find ourselves in."

With the Best of Intentions, But Wrong Again

The Army has been task-forcing in Iraq, this time at the behest of an assistant Secretary of Defense, which means Rummy’s embattled battle-plans have outlasted Rummy.

Whistling Past the Graveyard

The Baker-Hamilton report on the Iraq war is in. It crucifies the administration’s five-year policy and still, the president isn’t having any. Bush might not even be aware of the depth of his Middle East disaster as yet. He was a bit pale and shaken before the cameras while facing the press with Tony Blair, but he’ll get over it when he realizes the alternative is Dick Cheney’s wrath.

Cancer Strikes the Business Model

I’ve never been a fan of the corporate quarterly profit. Wall Street and its demands, its requirement to forecast, its punishment for missing the number along with its fickle application of investment capital  has enormously empowered the crooked executive.

Trying Desperately Not to ‘Lose’ What is Already Lost

President Bush, and therefore his entire six-year political strategy, has been soundly repudiated in the mid-term elections. Quickly, but long after it might actually have done some good, Donald (heck of a job) Rumsfeld had the rug of presidential support yanked unceremoniously out from under him.