Bush Boasts of Waterboard Order

By Ray McGovern
November 7, 2010

Former President George W. Bush continues to be beyond shame. Those favored with an advance copy of Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, say it paints a picture of a totally unapologetic Bush bragging, for example, about authorizing the CIA to waterboard 9/11 “mastermind,” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

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Can Dems Reenergize Youth Vote?

By William John Cox
November 6, 2010

In one of the most striking political comebacks in U.S. history, the Republican Party marched in lockstep to victory in the midterm elections and seized control of the House of Representatives and state houses across the nation.

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Weak Left Led to Democratic Defeat

By Lawrence Davidson
November 6, 2010

It has only been a few days since the Nov. 2 elections and already the media in all its forms is awash with analyses expressing hallelujahs and curses.

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Zenyatta Races for History

By Lisa Pease
November 6, 2010

The horseracing world is holding its collective breath for a true superstar.

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America, Losing Hearts and Minds

By Jada Thacker
November 5, 2010

The current cover of The Nation sports a tagline: “Losing Hearts and Minds – a Report from Afghanistan.”

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Taking America Back to the Gilded Age

By William Loren Katz
November 5, 2010

In 2010, with the blessing of a five-to-four U.S. Supreme Court decision, unlimited money from anonymous corporate sources was allowed to call the nation’s political tune and decide the fate of American candidates for office.

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A Radical Change in Conservatism

By Daniel C. Maguire
November 4, 2010

"Conservative" can mean a lot of things, even good things, but today "conservative" has sunk to the moral basement.

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Why JFK Would Disdain Yemen Raid

By Lisa Pease
November 4, 2010

It was rather horrifying to wake to hear that the Obama administration is considering sending hunter-killer teams into Yemen in hopes of seeking out and killing suspected terrorists.

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Petraeus Winked at Iraq War Abuses

By Gareth Porter
November 4, 2010

The revelation by Wikileaks of a U.S. military order directing U.S. forces not to investigate cases of torture of detainees by Iraqis has been treated in news reports as yet another case of lack of concern by the U.S. military about detainee abuse.

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Darker Economic Days Likely Ahead

By Danny Schechter
November 3, 2010

The Election is over. The Dems were thumped. They lost the House, even if they still have the Senate by a hair. Barney Frank will be back but not Alan Grayson or Russ Feingold.

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US Voters Drink Reaganism's Kool-Aid

By Robert Parry
November 3, 2010

Already weakened by three decades of slow arsenic poisoning from Reaganism, the United States ordered up a new dose of Ronald Reagan’s special “government is the problem” elixir in Election 2010 – and it is hard to envision how this willing victim will soon, if ever, recover.

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Putting a Brake on Unwise US Wars

By Ivan Eland
November 2, 2010

For proponents of American liberty, a volunteer military has always been preferable to conscription.

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Jon Stewart's Movement for Sanity

By Michael Winship
November 2, 2010

Mistakes were made.

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Election Day 2010: Some Past Stories

Comment on our reprise of some recent election-themed stories.

The Seduction of Susan Rice

By Lawrence Davidson
November 1, 2010

Dr. Susan Elizabeth Rice, who earned a doctorate of philosophy at Oxford in 1990, is United States Ambassador at the United Nations. She is a professional diplomat and foreign policy consultant as well as a protégée of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

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Taking a Stand for Sanity

By Robert Parry
November 1, 2010

Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” drew one of the largest crowds in the recent history of Washington – packing 11 city blocks of the National Mall and spilling over into side streets that were nearly impassable – yet it was treated by the mainstream U.S. news media as something of an annoying joke.

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