By Robert Parry
April 7, 2010
Overall, the New York Times praises President Barack Obama’s revised policy on when to launch nuclear attacks, though agreeing with some critics that it was a mistake to continue brandishing nukes at Iran, the only non-nuclear-armed state still being threatened.
Read on.
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
CIA Assigned to Kill US Citizen
By Jason Leopold
April 7, 2010
The Obama administration has lowered another legal barrier shielding Americans from extrajudicial punitive action by their own government, in this case authorizing the CIA to kill a U.S. citizen suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda in Yemen and links to two attacks inside the United States last year.
Read on.
April 7, 2010
The Obama administration has lowered another legal barrier shielding Americans from extrajudicial punitive action by their own government, in this case authorizing the CIA to kill a U.S. citizen suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda in Yemen and links to two attacks inside the United States last year.
Read on.
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Obama Threatens Iran with Nukes
By Robert Parry
April 6, 2010
April 6, 2010
In readjusting U.S. policy on when to launch a nuclear strike, President Barack Obama has repudiated the use of nukes against non-nuclear states with the exception of Iran, which he termed an “outlier” along with North Korea.
Monday, April 05, 2010
Is Vatican Guilty in Child-Sex Scandal?
By Robert Parry
April 5, 2010
April 5, 2010
Often the worst scandals are ones that have become engrained as business as usual within an organization or a society, not entirely accepted but tolerated by the Old Boys Network in command, like racial segregation, anti-Semitism, bias against women – or in the case of the Vatican, pedophilia.
Read on.Sunday, April 04, 2010
Making Aggressive War OK, for Some
By David Swanson
April 4, 2010
When my friend Jodie Evans recently tried to make a citizen's arrest of Karl Rove, he declared the Downing Street Minutes to be "a complete fabrication." Of course, this "complete fabrication" was actually the minutes of an official meeting held by then British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Read on.
April 4, 2010
When my friend Jodie Evans recently tried to make a citizen's arrest of Karl Rove, he declared the Downing Street Minutes to be "a complete fabrication." Of course, this "complete fabrication" was actually the minutes of an official meeting held by then British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Read on.
Friday, April 02, 2010
Forgetting Dr. King's Dream of Justice
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
April 2, 2010
Forty-two years ago, on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, gunned down in Memphis, Tennessee.
Read on.
April 2, 2010
Forty-two years ago, on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, gunned down in Memphis, Tennessee.
Read on.
The Bomb-Bomb-Iran 'Parlor Game'
By Robert Parry
April 2, 2010
Normally, if two countries with powerful nuclear arsenals were openly musing about attacking a third country over mere suspicions that it might want to join the nuclear club, we’d tend to sympathize with the non-nuclear underdog as the victim of bullying and possible aggression.
Read on.
April 2, 2010
Normally, if two countries with powerful nuclear arsenals were openly musing about attacking a third country over mere suspicions that it might want to join the nuclear club, we’d tend to sympathize with the non-nuclear underdog as the victim of bullying and possible aggression.
Read on.
Thursday, April 01, 2010
US Recants Zubaydah's Terror Charges
By Jason Leopold
April 1, 2010
April 1, 2010
The Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration made about Abu Zubaydah, the alleged al-Qaeda leader who was the first suspected terrorist subjected to the torture of waterboarding and other White House-approved “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
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