Saturday, December 13, 2008

The Bigger Pay-to-Play Picture

By Brent Budowsky
December 13, 2008

Let’s ignore the righteous pundits who chortle sweet nothings about the scandal in Illinois and speak to a larger truth that they ignore.

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Friday, December 12, 2008

Torture Trail Seen Starting with Bush

By Jason Leopold
December 12, 2008

A bipartisan congressional report traces the U.S. abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib to President George W. Bush’s Feb. 7, 2002, action memorandum that excluded “war on terror” suspects from Geneva Convention protections.

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Thursday, December 11, 2008

A Time Machine to Save America

By Robert Parry
December 11, 2008

Looking out over the bleak landscape of economic and national security disasters that George W. Bush is leaving behind, I sometimes think the best use of the trillion-dollar bailout funds might be to invent a time machine that could take the world back eight years to the fateful decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to give Bush the White House.

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Will Obama Buy Torture-Lite?

By Ray McGovern
December 11, 2008

You’ve got to hand it to them. Torture aficionados at the White House and CIA have conned key congressional leaders into insisting not only that torture-lite would be a swell idea, but advocating that the overseers of torture be kept on.

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Tuesday, December 09, 2008

We All Failed Gary Webb

By Robert Parry
December 10, 2008

Since Gary Webb’s suicide four years ago, I have written annual retrospectives about the late journalist’s important contribution to the historical record -- he forced devastating admissions from the CIA about drug trafficking by the Nicaraguan contra rebels under the protection of the Reagan administration in the 1980s.

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Condi's Advice to India on Terror

By Ivan Eland
December 9, 2008

As rage coursed through India after the Mumbai terrorist attacks, Condoleezza Rice, the Bush administration’s Secretary of State, flew to India and cautioned the Indian government on avoiding a knee-jerk and counterproductive response.

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Monday, December 08, 2008

The Significance of Nixon's 'Treason'

By Robert Parry
December 9, 2008

You might have thought that when audiotapes were released of President Lyndon Johnson accusing Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign of “treason” for sabotaging Vietnam peace talks – as 500,000 U.S. troops sat in a war zone – the major U.S. news media would be all over it, providing insight and context.

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