The Budget Battle's Moral Dimension

By the Rev. Howard Bess
March 12, 2011

Government budgets are as much moral statements as the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount. The language is different, but the essence is the same. Budgets reveal the values of the nation.

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Bradley Manning's Kafkaesque World

By Kevin Zeese
March 12, 2011

Bradley Manning’s appeal of the refusal to relax his conditions of confinement makes a strong case that he has been a model prisoner who is being unjustly abused. He also explains how his inhumane treatment violates his due process rights and constitutes cruel and certainly unusual punishment.

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In Defense of NPR

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
March 11, 2011

Come on now: Let’s take a breath and put this NPR fracas into perspective.

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How the US Press Corps Lost Its Way

By Robert Parry
March 11, 2011

The eulogies for Washington Post columnist David Broder and the chaos surrounding National Public Radio have coincided as an unintended commentary on what went wrong with the U.S. news media.

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Ex-CIA Analyst Decries Manning Abuse

By David C. MacMichael
March 10, 2011

I write to you in your capacity as the commander-in-chief of the armed services of the United States to express my concern, indeed my outrage, at the way in which the prosecution of U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning is being conducted.

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Manning's Abuse Reveals US Hypocrisy

By Kevin Zeese
March 9, 2011

Reports that Bradley Manning is being held nude every night at the Quantico Brig, then forced to stand naked in the hallway while he waits for his clothes, shows the inconsistency of the treatment of Manning with basic American values of due process, fair trial and human dignity.

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How Two Elections Changed America

By Robert Parry
March 9, 2011 (Originally published November 4, 2009)

Two clandestine operations during hard-fought presidential elections of the past half century shaped the modern American political era, but they remain little known to the general public and mostly ignored by historians. One unfolded in the weeks before Election 1968 and the other over a full year before Election 1980.

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Kissinger Backs Israel on Pollard Case

By Lawrence Davidson
March 9, 2011

The gods protect us, Henry Kissinger is back!

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Misjudgments Led to Hijacking Tragedy

By Ivan Eland
March 8, 2011

The killing of four Americans by Somali pirates was tragic. No excuse exists for murder. But at the risk of seeming harsh, I believe there is much contributory negligence to go around.

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CNBC Advocates Unbridled Capitalism

By Robert Parry
March 7, 2011

CNBC, the top U.S. business news channel, is running propaganda ads in support of unbridled capitalism, including a 1979 clip of right-wing economist Milton Friedman besting talk show host Phil Donahue in a debate over the merits of greed.

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The Other Side of the 'Marshall Plan'

By William Blum
March 7, 2011

Amidst all the stirring political upheavals in North Africa and the Middle East, the name "Marshall Plan" keeps being repeated by political figures and media around the world as the key to rebuilding the economies of those societies to complement the political advances, which hopefully will be somewhat progressive.

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How the NFL Can Solve 18-Game Impasse

By Robert Parry
March 6, 2011

Okay, I know we don’t write much about sports, but I had a thought about how to resolve one of the sticking points in the NFL negotiations with the players’ union – the issue of expanding the regular season schedule to 18 from 16 games.

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'Class Warfare' Finds America

By Danny Schechter
March 6, 2011

The term “class war” has been extricated from the archives of another era, while divisions over the future of the economy have become a battleground in which the adversaries yell at each other, but rarely engage in any discourse with each other in a shared language.

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