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in Stories Reviewed in Prior Years 2007 Federal Budget Proposes Social Security Privatization Reviewed by David Abbott Bush quietly slipped privatization of Social Security into the 2007 federal budget despite overwhelming public rejection of the idea. The plan would siphon $700 billion from the existing Social Security system, within the first seven years, to pay [...]
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in Stories Reviewed in Prior Years Halliburton to build domestic detention facilities Reviewed by Bailey Malone As the UN demands closure of KBR-built Guantanamo facilities, the Halliburton subsidiary was awarded a $385 million, five-year contract from DHS’s US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to build detention facilities within the US. The facilities would house an emergency [...]
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in Stories Reviewed in Prior Years Associated Press and New York Times employ NED reporter Reviewed by David Abbott A bylined freelancer for the Associated Press, who is also a stringer for the New York Times in Haiti, is moonlighting as a consultant for the US government-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED), according to an [...]
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in Stories Reviewed in Prior Years Project Censored Editorial Board: Carolyn Epple, Charlene Tung, Dorothy Freidel, Francisco Vazquez, Greta Vollmer, Jeanett Koshar, Mary Gomes, Michael Ezra, Myrna Goodman, Patricia Kim-Rajal, Philip Beard, Rashmi Singh, Rick Luttmann, Ronald Lopez, Stephanie Dyer, Thom Lough, Tim Wandling, Tony White, Gary Evans MD, Andy Roth, Ben Frymer, Wingham Liddell, [...]
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in Stories Reviewed in Prior Years Project Censored Editorial Board: Carolyn Epple, Charlene Tung, Dorothy Freidel, Francisco Vazquez, Greta Vollmer, Jeanett Koshar, Mary Gomes, Michael Ezra, Myrna Goodman, Patricia Kim-Rajal, Philip Beard, Rashmi Singh, Rick Luttmann, Ronald Lopez, Stephanie Dyer, Thom Lough, Tim Wandling, Tony White, Gary Evans MD, Andy Roth, Ben Frymer, Wingham Liddell, [...]
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Project Censored Editorial Board: Carolyn Epple, Charlene Tung, Dorothy Freidel, Francisco Vazquez, Greta Vollmer, Jeanett Koshar, Mary Gomes, Michael Ezra, Myrna Goodman, Patricia Kim-Rajal, Philip Beard, Rashmi Singh, Rick Luttmann, Ronald Lopez, Stephanie Dyer, Thom Lough, Tim Wandling, Tony White, Gary Evans MD, Andy Roth, Ben Frymer, Wingham Liddell, April Hurley MD and Karilee Shames [...]
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Title: “”The Ashcroft-Rove Connection: The Ties That Blind” By: Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill & the staff of Democracy Now! Source : Democracy Now!, Fall 2003 Researched by Vanessa Castellanos. Attorney General John Ashcroft is refusing to appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate who in the administration leaked the name of a CIA operative to journalists. [...]
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#001 Bush Profiteers Collect Billions from No Child Left Behind Researched by Sam Burchard The architect of No Child Left Behind, Bush’s first senior education advisor, Sandy Kress, has turned the program, which has consistently proven disastrous in the realm of education, into a huge success in the realm of corporate profiteering. After ushering NCLB [...]