Saturday, March 21, 2009

How to Really Hit Back at Wall Street

By Brent Budowsky
March 21, 2009

Let’s ban political contributions to any candidate, of any party, for any office by any company that receives bailout money, until the money is paid back in full.

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CIA Has 3,000 Docs on Torture Tapes

By Jason Leopold
March 21, 2009

The CIA has about 3,000 documents related to the 92 destroyed videotapes that showed “war on terror” detainees being subjected to harsh interrogations, the Justice Department has disclosed, suggesting an extensive back-and-forth between CIA field operatives and officials of the Bush administration.

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Friday, March 20, 2009

Good News, Bad News

By Robert Parry
March 20, 2009

The good news is that – thanks to our readers – we did meet the grant challenge from a donor.

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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Losing the Oxygen of Journalism

By Gray Brechin
March 19, 2009

We seldom think of oxygen unless it’s absent. You’d think about it a lot if it suddenly exited this room; you’d start gasping and writhing, your eardrums would burst, you and your neighbors would do a lot of bleeding on each other, then you’d die.

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Framing Obama -- by the WPost

By Robert Parry
March 19, 2009

An insidious power of a propagandistic newspaper – especially one with great influence – is how it can “frame” an issue so the assumptions behind a story guide the readers to a preordained conclusion under the guise of presenting a fair journalistic account.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Torture Revealed Yet Again

By David Swanson
March 19, 2009

As with the evidence that Bush, Cheney and gang intentionally lied us into a war, or the evidence of illegal and unconstitutional spying, each time a major new piece of evidence of torture emerges, it is impossible not to hope that this is the one that will compel the Justice Department or Congress or the courts or the American people to act decisively.

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CIA's Panetta Is Falling Short

By Melvin A. Goodman
March 18, 2009

President Barack Obama’s CIA director, Leon Panetta, needed only one month to establish that he lacks the courage, contrariness, judgment, and political and intellectual independence to reform the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Indentured Servants, Circa 2009

By Barbara Koeppel
March 18, 2009

The immigration imbroglio is the gorilla in the room that won’t go away.

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

New Evidence of Bush Torture Crimes

By Jason Leopold
March 17, 2009

As more pieces of a very ugly mosaic fall into place – including new details from a confidential 2007 report by the International Committee of the Red Cross about interrogations at CIA “black sites” – any remaining doubt that the Bush administration engaged in a conscious policy of torture is disappearing.

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Sunday, March 15, 2009

WPost Is a Neocon Propaganda Sheet

By Robert Parry
March 15, 2009

For Americans who hear the name Washington Post and still think of “All the President’s Men” – brave journalists and editors facing down a corrupt President – today’s version of the newspaper would be a sad disappointment, a betrayal of a noble past.

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