Saturday, June 26, 2010

Finding the Financial-Reg Loopholes

By Danny Schechter
June 26, 2010

The Sturm und Drang is over. The Bank lobbyists went home to collect their bonuses as the House and Senate agreed on a 2,000-page financial “reform” quickly praised by the White House and superficially covered in the press.

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Friday, June 25, 2010

Is Financial 'Reform' a Charade?

By Danny Schechter
June 25, 2010

charade | sh əˈrād| noun, an absurd pretense intended to create a pleasant or respectable appearance : talk of unity was nothing more than a charade.

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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Obama Misses Afghan Exit Ramp

By Ray McGovern
June 24, 2010

Is President Barack Obama so dense that he could not see why Gen. Stanley McChrystal might actually have wanted to be fired — and rescued from the current March of Folly in Afghanistan, a mess much of his own making?

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The CIA/Likud Sinking of Jimmy Carter

By Robert Parry
June 24, 2010

As the Official Story of the 1980 October Surprise case crumbles – with new revelations that key evidence was hidden from investigators of a congressional task force and that internal doubts were suppressed – history must finally confront the troubling impression that remains: that disgruntled elements of the CIA and Israel’s Likud hardliners teamed up to remove a U.S. president from office.

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Obama's Truman-MacArthur Moment

By Ray McGovern
June 22, 2010

Journalist Michael Hastings has given Rolling Stone magazine a graphic account of the arrogance, disarray and ineptitude that distinguish what passes for President Barack Obama’s policy on Afghanistan. For those of us with some gray in our hair, the fiasco is infuriatingly reminiscent of Vietnam.

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Evita, the Swiss and the Nazis (from the Archive)

By Georg Hodel
June 22, 2010 (Originally published Jan. 7, 1999)

On June 6, 1947, Argentina's first lady Eva Peron left for a glittering tour of Europe.

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Hung Out to Dry (From the Archive)

By Georg Hodel
June 22, 2010 (Originally published Summer 1997)

The "Dark Alliance" contra-crack series, which I co-reported with Gary Webb, has died with less a bang or a whimper than a gloat from the mainstream press.

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Propaganda and Iran's Election

By Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
June 22, 2010

It is almost a commonplace that the flow of information, opinion, and moral indignation in the United States adapts well to the demands of state policy.

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Monday, June 21, 2010

Turkey Resists Showdown with Iran

By Ivan Eland
June 21, 2010

The sad truth is that if Iran wants a nuclear weapon, it will likely eventually get one.

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Letting Corporate Criminals Rule

By Danny Schechter
June 21, 2010

It seems clear that BP can’t seem to fix the catastrophic gusher the press calls a “leak,” and that President Obama can’t fix the economy because its problems are structural and won’t respond to soaring rhetoric emanating from his bully pulpit.

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