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Democrat on Panel Probing Abramoff to Return Tribal Donations
The senior Democrat on the Senate committee investigating former lobbyist Jack Abramoff announced this week that he will return $67,000 in donations from Indian tribes represented by the indicted Republican. http://www.tr uthout.org/docs_2005/12140 5O.shtml ...
From freedom to torture not in my back yard
Free Market News Network by Bernie Quigley 12/12/05 It is startling to read an apologist for torture lobbying his special agenda in a New England newspaper. We have never experienced this climate before... ...
Media Tangled in Lobbyist Case
Press Freedoms Debated After Wiretapping of Call to Reporter. http://www.washi ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte nt/article/2005/11/11/AR20 05111101649.html?referrer= emailarticle From Information Clearing House ...
Bush Threatens U.N. Over Clinton Climate Speech
US, Under Fire, Eases Its Stance in Climate Talks The United States dropped its opposition early Saturday morning to nonbinding talks on addressing global warming after a few words were adjusted in the... ...
How much lower can they go?
In 2004, federal lobbyists spent $2.1 billion -- the equivalent of the gross domestic product of the Republic of Congo or the amount the U.S. government spends annually on energy assistance for low-income... ...
Washington infected with a culture of corruption
Joe Conason The New York Observer 12/06/05 California's 'Duke' heads to the pokey Washington infected with a culture of corruption For a crude bully who used to bray about lining up Democrats and... ...
Democracy for sale
The Nation by Robert Scheer 12/07/05 Call it Tonto's revenge: The outrageous rip-off of Native American tribes by a top Republican lobbyist is leading inexorably to a reckoning for the allegedly morally... ...
Stop CIA Kidnappings That Submit People to Torture and Abuse
This week, even as the ACLU filed an historic lawsuit on behalf of an innocent European kidnapped by the CIA and held in a secret detention center, the president and the secretary of state continued to... ...
Republicans Have Lost High Moral Ground
Robert Scheer writes: To see behind the scenes as Christian-right superstar Ralph Reed, bought off by top Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, dupes his grassroots "pro-family" followers into unwittingly... ...
GOP Senator Changed Position after Abramoff Donation
US Senator Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) changed his stance on a 2001 bill after receiving a $5,000 donation from a lobbyist's client who opposed the legislation, records show. http://www.truthout .org/docs_2005/120505Q.sht ml ...