Saturday, October 23, 2010

A Perjurer on the US Supreme Court

By Robert Parry
October 23, 2010

In late 1998, when the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to impeach President Bill Clinton for lying under oath about a sexual affair, many on the Right insisted that the issue wasn’t the sex but the perjury. They are now confronted with a parallel case in which U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas quite clearly perjured himself to get his seat on the bench.

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Mystery of American Political Madness

By Bernard Weiner
October 23, 2010

Your recent e-mail, wondering "what the f--- is going on" these days, questioning whether we Americans have taken "more than your usual amount of stupid pills," is well deserving of a considered response.

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Friday, October 22, 2010

The Financial Puzzle Behind 9/11

By David DeGraw
October 22, 2010

During the 1980s and early ’90s, the CIA worked in partnership with BCCI in what was, at the time, the agency’s largest covert operation ever, pumping an estimated $10 billion into funding the Afghan mujahedeen. Through this operation, Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network was formed. Bin Laden had accounts in BCCI and ran CIA/BCCI-funded camps.

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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Is Israel Poisoning the Peace Talks?

By Lawrence Davidson
October 21, 2010

Michael Oren is the Israeli ambassador to the United States. This means he stands in a line of foreign diplomats who are often quite out of the ordinary.

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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Tea Party Thuggery as Election Nears

By Michael Winship
October 20, 2010

One of the most memorable moments in television coverage of American politics came during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968.

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A Clash Over 'Lesser-Evil' Voting

By Robert Parry
October 20, 2010

It seems I upset a lot of people with my recent article looking at the four previous times in modern U.S. politics when many on the Left chose to punish the Democrats by casting ballots for third parties or not voting, a tactic under consideration again this year.

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Obama's Feckless Afghan Escalation

By Ivan Eland
October 19, 2010

The talk in Washington of late has been Bob Woodward’s book Obama’s Wars. The books are piled in the front of every bookstore in town, and people are whispering in the usual “inside baseball” way, about who in the Washington security bureaucracies dissed whom to Woodward.

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Monday, October 18, 2010

Who Will Save Trapped Americans?

By Danny Schechter
October 18, 2010

In all of our current economic issues, there is always a “back story, a deeper context” that is usually missing, “disappeared” like those Salvador Allende supporters in Chile in the l970’s who wanted to empower workers, not just rescue them when they get buried in a deep hole.

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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Could a Leak Have Stopped 9/11?

By Coleen Rowley and Bogdan Dzakovic
October 17, 2010

There were a lot of us in the run-up to Sept. 11 who had seen warning signs that something devastating might be in the planning stages. But we worked for ossified bureaucracies incapable of acting quickly and decisively.

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California Voters Take on the Drug War

By Kevin Zeese
October 17, 2010

The great divide between politicians and the people is showing itself in California where polls show the voters support Proposition 19 and where the mainstream politicians mostly oppose it.

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