Unbelievable. President George W. Bush and his senior aides considered — and rejected — a military response to Russia’s 2008 invasion of Georgia, according to a new history of the conflict and interviews with former officials in the Bush administration. With desperate Georgians begging for American help in closing down the key route through which [...]
Right wing think tanks began to push the stupid idea of privatizing Social Security in the late 1990s which culminated in George W Bush’s failed attempt to privatize Social Security at the beginning of his second term. Investors have just endured an absolutely terrible 10 years — a string of crashes, crises, financial scandals, recessions [...]
Old news, but Jeffrey Toobin writes a profile of US Supreme Court Justice John Roberts and shows that he is a jurist who sides with those in power over the liberties of the general citizen. Nominated by President Bush in 2005, the relatively young justice will serve for years to come: And this, ultimately, was [...]