At Glenn Beck's Call

By David Swanson
September 7, 2009

Fox News screaming head Glenn Beck now tells President Obama to fire White House employees, and Obama obeys.

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Obama Must Respect Afghan Humanity

By Sherwood Ross
September 7, 2009

The war in Afghanistan hangs like some cloud of poison gas over Washington that won’t blow away.

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Anti-Hillary Movie Tests Legal Limits

By Michael Winship
September 6, 2009

The envelope, please. And the winner for "most influential motion picture in American politics" is... “Hillary: The Movie.”

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Colin Powell and Lessons of My Lai

By Robert Parry
September 4, 2009

In an Aug. 28 editorial, The New York Times applauded a belated “note of personal regret” from former Lt. William Calley for his role in the massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai in 1968. But neither the Times nor any other leading U.S. news outlet has ever suggested that remorse might also be due from Colin Powell, who as a young Army major helped cover up the crime.

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Broder Is Latest Torture Apologist

By Melvin A. Goodman
September 4, 2009

David Broder, the senior op-ed writer at the Washington Post, has joined his colleagues (Fred Hiatt, David Ignatius and Richard Cohen) in condemning Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to name a special counsel to examine possible law-breaking by CIA interrogators.

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Mercenaries Hide Costs of War

By Sherwood Ross
September 3, 2009

The growing use of private armies not only subjects target populations to savage warfare but makes it easier for the White House to subvert domestic public opinion and wage wars.

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The War on CIA's Inspector General

By Melvin A. Goodman
September 3, 2009

President Barack Obama is permitting CIA Director Leon Panetta to weaken the Agency’s’s Office of Inspector General (OIG).

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Ignoring the Truth about Lockerbie

By William Blum
September 3, 2009

If there's anyone out there who is not already thoroughly cynical about those on the board of directors of the planet, the latest chapter in the saga of the bombing of PanAm 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland might just be enough to push them over the edge.

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Afghanistan for Dummies

By Ray McGovern
September 2, 2009

I’m going to ask for my money back. I’ve seen this Afghanistan movie before. The first time, Vietnam was in the title.

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WPost Misses Real Problem at CIA

By Melvin A. Goodman
September 1, 2009

It only took 24 hours for The Washington Post to go from the sublime to the ridiculous.

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