August 7, 2009
For a bit of change, let's talk about a different kind of health care reform - the kind that affects the health of the planet.
Friday, August 07, 2009
Ex-CIA Analyst Criticizes State Secrets
By Melvin A. Goodman
August 7, 2009
My 24 years as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency (1966-90) taught me that national security is only the ostensible reason for using the state secrets privilege in cases before the court. The real reason usually has more to do with national embarrassment and not national security.
Read on.
August 7, 2009
My 24 years as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency (1966-90) taught me that national security is only the ostensible reason for using the state secrets privilege in cases before the court. The real reason usually has more to do with national embarrassment and not national security.
Read on.
Olbermann-O'Reilly 'Truce' Frays
By Robert Parry
August 7, 2009
The agreement between top brass at General Electric and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation – to tamp down the war of words between MSNBC host Keith Olbermann and Fox News star Bill O’Reilly – has broken down after the truce was revealed by the New York Times last weekend.
Read on.
August 7, 2009
The agreement between top brass at General Electric and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation – to tamp down the war of words between MSNBC host Keith Olbermann and Fox News star Bill O’Reilly – has broken down after the truce was revealed by the New York Times last weekend.
Read on.
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Ellsberg's Hiroshima Remembrance
By Daniel Ellsberg
August 6, 2009
August 6, 2009
It was a hot August day in Detroit. I was standing on a street corner downtown, looking at the front page of The Detroit News in a news rack. I remember a streetcar rattling by on the tracks as I read the headline: A single American bomb had destroyed a Japanese city.
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
GE Muzzles Olbermann about Fox
By Robert Parry
August 5, 2009
August 5, 2009
The emergence of liberal evening hosts on General Electric’s MSNBC has been welcomed by Democrats and others on the American Left as a counterweight to the right and center-right bias of much of the U.S. news media. But there is a difference between GE testing out whether this lineup will produce a ratings boost and actual independence in journalism.
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Bush's Conspiracy to Riot
Robert Parry
August 5, 2009 (Originally posted August 5, 2002)
More than three decades apart, two political riots influenced the outcome of U.S. presidential elections.
Read on.
August 5, 2009 (Originally posted August 5, 2002)
More than three decades apart, two political riots influenced the outcome of U.S. presidential elections.
Read on.
Battling for Single-Payer Healthcare
By Siobhan Kolar
August 4, 2009
August 4, 2009
The people started lining up an hour early in Aurora, Illinois, 40 miles west of Chicago and not a hotbed of radical socialism, to hear Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, talk about HR 676, the single payer bill he co-authored with Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan.
Assessing Rumsfeld's Military Strategy
By Ivan Eland
August 4, 2009
In his new book, By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld, Bradley Graham argues that although ideology and arrogance played a role in the fiasco of invading and occupying Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld’s concept of transforming the military into a leaner, more deadly force also played a role.
Read on.
August 4, 2009
In his new book, By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld, Bradley Graham argues that although ideology and arrogance played a role in the fiasco of invading and occupying Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld’s concept of transforming the military into a leaner, more deadly force also played a role.
Read on.
Monday, August 03, 2009
Bashing Obama on Taxes
By Robert Parry
August 3, 2009
Across the cable TV news shows on Monday was a smirking cynicism about President Barack Obama supposedly reneging on his campaign pledge not to raise taxes on the middle-class, but this new conventional wisdom rested on a weak foundation.
Read on.
August 3, 2009
Across the cable TV news shows on Monday was a smirking cynicism about President Barack Obama supposedly reneging on his campaign pledge not to raise taxes on the middle-class, but this new conventional wisdom rested on a weak foundation.
Read on.
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Panetta Pleads for No CIA Punishment
By Melvin A. Goodman
August 2, 2009
The ideological partnership between the Washington Post and the Central Intelligence Agency is becoming despicable.
Read on.
August 2, 2009
The ideological partnership between the Washington Post and the Central Intelligence Agency is becoming despicable.
Read on.
How Pay-to-Play Corrupts Washington
By Michael Winship
August 2, 2009
August 2, 2009
As we marvel over the depths of hypocrisy and greed currently plumbed in the health care reform debate, it may help to remember that even Honest Abe Lincoln had his share of tainted colleagues, one of the most notorious of whom was his first Secretary of War, Simon Cameron.
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