April 15, 2011
Twenty years ago, there was a chance to expose some of the darkest secrets of Ronald Reagan’s presidency: how his men had sabotaged President Jimmy Carter’s reelection campaign and how the Iran-Contra scandal had really begun.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Interstates and States of Grief
By Phil Rockstroh
April 15, 2011
April 15, 2011
I’m in Atlanta, Georgia, at present, among the scent of pine trees and the reek of Southern denial.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Outrage Mounts over Bradley Manning
By Kevin Zeese
April 14, 2011
April 14, 2011
The eight months of solitary confinement of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning at the Quantico brig has drawn national and international criticism in the last week. Support is growing for him around the world with 500,000 writing President Barack Obama in the last few days and with hundreds of top U.S. legal scholars criticizing his conditions of confinement.
Why Pakistan Resists CIA Strikes
By Gareth Porter
April 14, 2011
April 14, 2011
The Pakistani military's recent demands on the United States to curb drone strikes and reduce the number of U.S. spies operating in Pakistan, which have raised tensions between the two countries to a new high, were a response to U.S. military and intelligence programs that had gone well beyond what the Pakistanis had agreed to in past years.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
America's 'Great Disappointment'
By Michael Winship
April 13, 2011
April 13, 2011
I was considering having myself dusted with ash and measured for sackcloth last week, so many are the current predictions of impending apocalypse.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Pity the Poor Tea Partier!
By Robert Parry
April 12, 2011
April 12, 2011
Just think for a moment about the 55-year-old Tea Party activist who today is caught up in the excitement over Rep. Paul Ryan’s “bold” Republican budget. Picture the activist adjusting his tri-corner hat, waving his yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” flag, and thrilled that finally someone is getting serious about dismantling the socialist tyranny of Medicare.
Will NATO's War in Libya Save Lives?
By Ivan Eland
April 12, 2011
April 12, 2011
There are many practical reasons why the U.S. military attack on Libya is a bad idea.
Reliving Ghosts of a Free-Market Past
By Lawrence Davidson
April 12, 2011
April 12, 2011
In Charles Dickens’s 1848 story, A Christmas Carol, the ghost of Jacob Marley roams the earth weighted down by chains symbolizing the wrongs he committed in life.
More Twists and Turns in Wisconsin
By Lisa Pease
April 12, 2011
April 12, 2011
I’m still mulling over the recent Wisconsin election in general and the actions of Waukesha County’s County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus in particular.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Why Americans Are So Easily Conned
By Phil Rockstroh
April 11, 2011
April 11, 2011
The technologies that inflicted upon the world the ongoing tragedies in both the Gulf of Mexico and Japan serve a dangerous addiction, an addiction to blind optimism, a habituation of mind that allows us to dwell within provisional comfort zones but renders vast spaces of the world into death realms.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Heeding George Kennan's Sage Advice
By Ray McGovern
April 10, 2011 (Originally published November 3, 2009)
April 10, 2011 (Originally published November 3, 2009)
I can’t remember how many times I have said that the U.S. military adventure in Afghanistan is a fool’s errand.
Judge Goldstone's Embattled Retreat
By Uri Avnery
April 10, 2011
April 10, 2011
There is something tragicomic about the persona of Richard Goldstone.
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