Washington Liberals

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  • NSA Documents Reveal Bush Administration Ignored Al Qaeda Threat

    “Many of the documents publicize for the first time what was first made clear in the 9/11 Commission: The White House received a truly remarkable amount of warnings that al-Qaida was trying to attack the United States. From June to September 2001, a full seven CIA Senior Intelligence Briefs detailed that attacks were imminent, an…

  • The ugly origin of the war on drugs

    After serving his time federal prison, John Ehrlichman granted an interview to author Dan Baum, who reports that Ehrlichman explained the origin of the war on drugs this way: The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and black people. You understand what I’m saying?…

  • Who's to blame?

     

  • How Obama Frames Issues to Help Romney

    Obama vs. Romney: The Framing Matchup, Round One Where Romney talks morality (conservative style), Obama mainly talks policy. Where Romney reframes Obama, Obama does not reframe Romney. In fact, he reinforces Romney’s frames in the first part of his speech by repeating Romney’s language word for word – without spelling out his own values explicitly.…

  • Catholic on Catholic civil war brewing

    “A house doesn’t have to fall on my head to tell me a battle royal is brewing within the Catholic Church over the conservative hierarchy’s heavy-handed efforts to clamp down on dissenting Catholic voices. Not when a prominent American nun comes “this close” to calling the present Church leadership a bunch of brown-frocked fascists. Or…

  • Setting the Record Straight

    Apparently by Jay Branscomb.

  • Washington State Lawmakers' Voting Scores on Peace

    According to Peace Action’s Congressional Voting Record for last year’s session of Congress, only  Senators Maria Cantwell (78%), Patty Murray (78%),  Representatives  Jim McDermott (74%), and Jay Inslee (57%) had respectable scores on issues related to war and military spending.   Rep. Dave Reichert had the worst record, scoring just 9%.   In the following chart, the…

  • No justice for all

    Created by: OnlineCriminalJusticeDegree.com

  • Who's funding Tim Eyman?

    Fuse Washington says:

  • Occupy Seattle Live Stream

    http://www.livestream.com/owsoccupyseattle http://www.livestream.com/owsoccupyseattle Currently, as I write this, they’re discussing how often to have General Assemblies and whether there should be a quorum (of 50?) for making decisions.  They endlessly discuss process and how to make decisions. They bemoaned low turnout.  I listened for about an hour. Sounds unproductive. Sometimes top-down, centralized, hierarchical organizations, with lots…