Dick Cheney Predicts "Quagmire" in Iraq

Cheney, speaking at the American Enterprise Institute, April 15, 1994.

Clergy and Laity Concerned About Iraq, Inaugural Event

Video of the April 4, 2005 gathering at Riverside Church in New York City, celebrating the anniversary of Martin Luther King's historic 1967 speech, "Beyond Vietnam," given at that site. Includes excerpts of remarks by Riverside senior pastor, Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sister Joan Chittister, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Cleveland Mayor Jane L. Campbell, Gold Star Families for Peace founders Celeste Zappala and Cindy Sheehan, who lost their sons to the war in Iraq, and others.

Fair and Balanced Inaugural

Vanity Fair's Judy Bacharach's commentary on the contrast between the lavish Bush 2005 inaugural while troops in Iraq go without necesary equipment, apparently catching Fox News off guard.

The Ohio Vote, 2004

We Do Not Concede's video documenting disenfranchisement of African Americans in Ohio, available in Windows Media Format here. (A previously available Quicktime version is apparently no longer online. If it becomes available again we'll link it.)

American journalist Greg Palast, now based in the U.K, won the prestigious Financial Times David Thomas Prize in 1997. He was nominated Business Writer of the Year by the UK Press Association in 1999 for his reporting on Pat Robertson's legally dubious business endeavors. Currently a reporter for BBC Television's Newsnight and the London Observer, Palast has been called "The world’s greatest investigative reporter you’ve never heard of." In this video clip, released as a promotion for his book The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Palast discusses his investigation of the systematic exclusion of black voters from the Florida election rolls.

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In the sequel to the video clip above, reporter Greg Palast continues the discussion of his investigation of the election in Florida, and segués to revelations about "Poppy" Bush's connections to a Canadian gold mining company owned in part by Adnan Khashoggi, one of the middle-men in the Iran-Contra scandal.

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In the last clip of the series, reporter Greg Palast discusses voting machines in Florida, Bush administration efforts to block an FBI investigation of the bin Ladens, and comments briefly on how government connections have enriched the Bush family.

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Notes from the filmmaker:

On May 26, 2002, George W. Bush, America's Supreme Court selected President, was in Paris, France to meet the recently democratically re-elected French President Jacques Chirac.
 
Concerned individuals and groups from all over the world mobilized to voice their feelings about the policies of the government headed by Bush. Up to 10,000 people were on hand to vent their frustrations and anger about the Bush's treatment of issues such as the war on whatever, the crisis in the Middle East, the environment, and world trade.
 
Gathering at Place de la Republique under heavy rain, the march continued to Place de la Bastille where they were greeted by blue skies and big, white, fluffy clouds. From Bastille, the protesters finished their march at Place de la Nation, where they danced to music, shared food and drink, discussed their opinions with fellow protesters, and dreamed of a better world.
 
Let us all hope that, like the march that began miserably with cold, pouring rain yet ended under sunny skies and good spirits, our world currently gripped by fear and suffering from exploitation of its resources and peoples will eventually see the light of a brighter day.
 
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