Saturday, September 19, 2009

CIA Torturers Running Scared

By Ray McGovern
September 19, 2009

For the CIA supervisors and operatives responsible for torture, the chickens are coming home to roost; that is, if President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder mean it when they say no one is above the law – and if they don’t fall victim to brazen intimidation.

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What Did Ahmadinejad Really Say?

By Robert Parry
September 19, 2009

It is an important principle of journalism that when someone makes a statement, especially a controversial one with grave implications, the comment should be put in the fullest possible context so the reader can make an informed judgment. But that rule doesn’t seem to apply when the New York Times writes about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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Industries Battle Obama's Reforms

By Michael Winship
September 18, 2009

If you ever needed proof that Washington is governed by the Golden Rule - the one that says, he who has the gold, rules - you only have to look at the wagonloads of cash being dumped by big business into crushing President Obama's domestic agenda.

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Bad Vietnam Lesson for Afghanistan

By Douglas Valentine
September 17, 2009

It just had to happen. And I just had to laugh.

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Hate Radio Hollows Out America

By Jay Diamond
September 17, 2009

For months radio lout Steve Malzberg screamed 10 times a day that "Folks, Barack Obama HATES! this country and his WIFE HATES! this country."

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Monopoly Looms in Electronic Voting

By Lisa Pease
September 16, 2009

While we’ve been concentrating on the healthcare debate, the economy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, another story important to American democracy has gotten inadequate attention: a single company is poised to monopolize the counting of over 75 percent of the nation’s votes.

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Protest of War Games Prompts Arrests

By Linda Milazzo
September 15, 2009

Last Saturday, six members of various anti-war groups, including World Can't Wait and Military Families Speak Out, and an OpedNews journalist, were arrested at a protest organized to shut down The Army Experience Center, a venue at Franklin Mills Mall in Philadelphia that invites young people to engage in simulated war games.

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Challenging Americans on Torture

By Ray McGovern
September 15, 2009

On April 16, President Barack Obama released official memoranda demonstrating serious crimes by the previous administration.

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How the Soviet Menace Was Hyped

By Melvin A. Goodman
September 15, 2009

A recently declassified study on Soviet intentions during the Cold War identifies significant failures in U.S. intelligence analysis on Soviet military intentions and demonstrates the constant exaggeration of the Soviet threat.

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Torture First, Justify Afterwards

By Jason Leopold
September 15, 2009

The Bush administration gave its initial clearance for CIA interrogators to brutalize an al-Qaeda “high-value detainee” through verbal guidance and didn’t follow up with a formal legal opinion until “months later,” the CIA’s former inspector general said.

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Monday, September 14, 2009

Was the 'Lockerbie Bomber' Framed?

By Morgan Strong
September 14, 2009

And what if Mr. Al-Megrahi is innocent Mr. President?

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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Ray McGovern Warns of 'Two CIAs'

By Brad Friedman
September 13, 2009

During my interview last week with 27-year CIA analyst Ray McGovern on the Mike Malloy Show (which I've been guest hosting all this week), the man who used to personally deliver the CIA's Presidential Daily Briefings to George Bush Sr., among other Presidents, offered an extraordinarily chilling thought --- particularly coming from someone with his background.

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