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CARL POPE
The Unbearable Arrogance of Oil huffingtonpost.com — Why is the Bush Administration looping back to its old, and often rejected, demand for more drilling, in the Arctic and off our beaches? Is this simply lame-duck autopilot? Who was the audience? It turns out to be a very small, very elite, and very attentive audience.

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CRAIG MCCORD
Empty Shelves, Empty Bellies huffingtonpost.com — A common myth states that “if you can get a job, you can make a living in America,” but the gap between a living wage and jobs that pay a living wage is ever-widening. Living below the poverty line places a massive strain on a household budget and little or no money makes it impossible to purchase adequate and nutritious food.

BARBARA EHRENREICH
This Land Is Their Land thenation.com — At a time when the super-rich are grabbing more than their share, if a place is truly beautiful, you probably can’t afford to live there.

BERNIE HORN
Why Aren’t We Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom? Freedom is, quite simply, the most popular political principle in America. After years of warrantless wiretapping, illegal imprisonments, and torture, we should all be saying the F-word with regularity. I mean freedom. Why do progressives seem allergic to this word? Why aren’t we shouting the battle cry of freedom?

EDWARD J. MARKEY
Why Is Bush Helping Saudi Arabia Build Nukes? online.wsj.com — What country is three times the size of Texas and has more than 300 days of blazing sun a year? What country has the world’s largest oil reserves resting below miles upon miles of sand? And what country is being given nuclear power, not solar, by President George W. Bush, even when the mere assumption of nuclear possession in its region has been known to provoke pre-emptive air strikes, even wars? If you answered Saudi Arabia to all of these questions, you’re right.

KEVIN G. HALL
Three Steps to Lower Oil Prices mcclatchydc.com — As gasoline prices soar to new records, America’s president — and the two men who hope to succeed him — are offering only partial or long-term solutions and ignoring three steps that many experts say could bring some relief now.

ROBERT SCHEER
Blame Rising Oil Prices on Bush huffingtonpost.com — Yep, he did it; Bush’s deliberate roiling of world politics is the key variable in the run-up of oil prices. No president has been more brilliant in destabilizing the politics of oil-producing countries from Venezuela to Russia and on to the key oil lakes of Iraq and Iran. This last will go down in our nation’s history as one of the dumbest escapades ever, rivaling even the madness of the Vietnam War.

DANIEL GROSS
Bushed newsweek.com — Bush’s inability to address the nation and the markets’ economic anxieties should inspire as much pity as scorn. The ideas he offered are pretty much the same as those he’s offered the last two years. With seven months left in a highly unpopular presidency, with Congress firmly in Democratic control, it’s not clear President Bush actually can do much to relieve economic distress.

Iraqis Condemn American Demands washingtonpost.com — Top Iraqi officials are calling for a radical reduction of the U.S. military’s role in their country after the U.N. mandate authorizing its presence expires at the end of this year. Government officials have said that the United States should agree to confine American troops to military bases unless the Iraqis ask for their assistance, with some saying Iraq might be better off without them. “The Americans are making demands that would lead to the colonization of Iraq,” said Sami al-Askari, a senior Shiite politician on parliament’s foreign relations committee who is close to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. “If we can’t reach a fair agreement, many people think we should say, ‘Goodbye, U.S. troops. We don’t need you here anymore.’ ”

Bush Regrets War Rhetoric guardian.co.uk — President Bush has expressed regret that his rhetoric in the run-up to the war in Iraq may have created the impression that he was a warmonger. “I think that in retrospect I could have used a different tone, a different rhetoric,” Bush said. The phrases he used to win support for the war such as “bring ‘em on” and “dead or alive” he said, “indicated to people that I was, you know, not a man of peace.”

Bush Warns Iran of ‘All Options’ news.bbc.co.uk — President Bush says he wants to pursue diplomacy to deal with Iran’s controversial nuclear program, but “all options are on the table.” Mr. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said further sanctions against Iran were possible.

BILL SCHER
Conservatives Addicted to Big Oil After passing last month a penny-ante compromise bill on energy, Senate leaders finally launched a real confrontation over the direction of our energy policy.

RAYMOND J. LEARSY
Making the World Safe For Gluttonous Oil Profits huffingtonpost.com — This administration has virtually done nothing to arrest the nation’s slide toward becoming an oil patch supplicant. In doing nothing, other than occasional ineffectual lip service, and worse still supporting policies favorable to oil industry interests they have made a bad situation far worse. This while the American everyman and woman is left to deal with this policy disaster.

McClellan and the Media ‘Enablers’
One of ex-White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s sharpest barbs was aimed at George W. Bush’s “complicit enablers” in the U.S. press corps, those who acquiesced to the Iraq War lies. In this guest essay, media critic Jeff Cohen agrees with that point. May 31, 2008…

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The ADHD Scam and the Mass Drugging of Schoolchildren (Transcript)
(NaturalNews) Today I am bringing you news from the world of ADHD, because scientists claim they have found a difference in the brains of children with ADHD versus “normal” children. The brains of these children who have been diagnosed with ADHD were…

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Security Chief Blasts “War on Terror” ft.com — The west needs a more comprehensive strategy to counter al-Qaida propaganda and the U.S. should stop using the term “war on terror,” according to a top intelligence official. Charles Allen, the senior intelligence official at the Department of Homeland Security, says the phrase is counter-productive because it creates “animus” in Islamic countries.

ROBERT SCHEER
Where is the Outrage? huffingtonpost.com — Are we Americans truly savages or merely tone-deaf in matters of morality, and therefore more guilty of terminal indifference than venality? It’s a question demanding an answer in response to the publication of the detailed 370-page report on U.S. complicity in torture.

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Even the FBI Is Outraged over U.S. Torture
By Robert Scheer, Truthdig
The Justice Department has issued a report on torture, citing testimony by scores of FBI officials outraged over our treatment of prisoners. Read more »

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