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Bushs royal crush

President Bush greeted Queen Elizabeth in Washington on 7 May 2007 as a royal distraction from polls showing him as the most unpopular president since Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace.

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 15 May 2007

Bushs soft-focus hard-edge

Having written extensively on the Bush administration's torture policy, I came to the conclusion, in light of the shocking photographs from Abu Ghraib, that the visual medium is

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 1 May 2007

The Republicans grand experiment

On 26 January 2007, J Scott Jennings, the White House deputy political director working for Karl Rove, delivered a PowerPoint presentation to least forty political appointees, many participating through teleconferencing,

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 17 Apr 2007

Bush besieged

The rise and fall of the Bush presidency has had four phases: the befuddled period of steady political decline during the president's first nine months; the high tide

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 3 Apr 2007

The Republican subversion of law

The Bush administration's first instinct was to shield Karl Rove from scrutiny when Congress began inquiring about the unusual firings of eight United States attorneys. Among the replacements,

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 20 Mar 2007

Dick Cheney in Afghanistan: close to home

Was the suicide-bomber attack at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan on 27 February 2007 an attempted assassination of United States vice-president Dick Cheney or a horse's head in his

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 7 Mar 2007

The United States vs I Lewis Libby

Throughout the anxious months before the trial of United States vs. I Lewis Libby, one of Scooter Libby's old mentors, a prominent Washington attorney and Republican with experience

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 20 Feb 2007

The Libby trial: contortions of power

Few issues more agitated and preoccupied vice-president Dick Cheney in the early months after the declaration of "mission accomplished" in Iraq than former ambassador Joseph Wilson's

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 7 Feb 2007

Washingtons political cleansing

James A Baker, the consummate Republican political operator over the past thirty years, did not expect that President Bush would accept the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group he co-chaired

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 17 Jan 2007

Jeane Kirkpatrick, shadow of the present

The death on 7 December 2006 of Jeane Kirkpatrick - ambassador to the United Nations during Ronald Reagan's first term and the highest-ranking neo-conservative in his administration -

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 20 Dec 2006

Bushs bunker of dreams

The Iraq Study Group's report, released on 6 December 2006, that the situation in that country is "grave and deteriorating" is hardly the first caution that

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 13 Dec 2006

The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright

Buy now: UK, US, Worldwide "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" by Lawrence Wright Knopf | August 2006 | ISBN 037541486X Recommended by Sidney Blumenthal: Lawrence

By Sidney Blumenthal

/ 11 Dec 2006