Wed. 12/13: The U.S. v. George Bush et al.

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A 20-year prosecutor lays out the case against George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, and Colin Powell. The charge: conspiracy and fraud in taking the country to war. ELIZABETH de la VEGA is the author of U.S. v. George W. Bush et al.

ALSO: The great RICKY JAY talks about the world of “deceptive practices.” He’s one of the world’s most accomplished sleight-of-hand artists, and has appeared on TV and in movies, including David Mamet’s films “House of Games”, “Homicide,” “Spanish Prisoner,” and “Heist.” His award-winning show “Ricky Jay and his 52 Assistants” is running at the Geffen Theater in Westwood through Jan. 27. (originally broadcast Sept. 26, 2001)

PLUS: falling wages and rising unemployment: the world economy over the last 50 years has been plagued by over-production and excessive competition; the result is a long-term crisis since the early 1970s. UCLA historian ROBERT BRENNER is the author of The Economics of Global Turbulence. “Here, at last – something good out of the left” — The Wall Street Journal.

MORE STUFF TO READ: my TruthDig piece, “Was Nixon Worse? Counting the dead in Vietnam and Iraq”
And at TheNation.com, “John Lennon’s Legacy: Did “Give Peace a Chance’ Save a Single Life?”