By Melvin A. Goodman
August 2, 2009
The ideological partnership between the Washington Post and the Central Intelligence Agency is becoming despicable.
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Sunday, August 02, 2009
How Pay-to-Play Corrupts Washington
By Michael Winship
August 2, 2009
August 2, 2009
As we marvel over the depths of hypocrisy and greed currently plumbed in the health care reform debate, it may help to remember that even Honest Abe Lincoln had his share of tainted colleagues, one of the most notorious of whom was his first Secretary of War, Simon Cameron.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Christians Largely Mum on Torture
By Ray McGovern
July 31, 2009
Anyone harboring doubts that the institutional Church is riding shotgun for the system, even regarding heinous sin like torture, should be chastened by the results of a recent survey by the Pew Research Center.
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July 31, 2009
Anyone harboring doubts that the institutional Church is riding shotgun for the system, even regarding heinous sin like torture, should be chastened by the results of a recent survey by the Pew Research Center.
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US Judge Orders Afghan Youth Freed
By Jason Leopold
July 31, 2009
Rejecting arguments from both the Bush and Obama administrations, a federal judge has ordered the release of an Afghani who may have been as young as 12 when he was detained 6 ½ years ago for allegedly wounding two U.S. soldiers and an Afghan translator by throwing a grenade at their unmarked jeep.
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July 31, 2009
Rejecting arguments from both the Bush and Obama administrations, a federal judge has ordered the release of an Afghani who may have been as young as 12 when he was detained 6 ½ years ago for allegedly wounding two U.S. soldiers and an Afghan translator by throwing a grenade at their unmarked jeep.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Cheney's Fondness for the Dark Side
By Sherwood Ross
July 30, 2009
Some in Congress are stung by charges that former Vice President Dick Cheney ran an international assassination op from the White House without telling them about it. They say he told the CIA to withhold the facts from Congress.
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July 30, 2009
Some in Congress are stung by charges that former Vice President Dick Cheney ran an international assassination op from the White House without telling them about it. They say he told the CIA to withhold the facts from Congress.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Holder Ponders Limited Torture Probe
By Jason Leopold
July 29, 2009
Last year, in the heat of the presidential campaign, Eric Holder was a featured speaker at the American Constitution Society’s annual convention where he told a packed crowd that the “American people are owe[d] a reckoning” as a result of the “abusive” and “unlawful” policies of the Bush administration.
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July 29, 2009
Last year, in the heat of the presidential campaign, Eric Holder was a featured speaker at the American Constitution Society’s annual convention where he told a packed crowd that the “American people are owe[d] a reckoning” as a result of the “abusive” and “unlawful” policies of the Bush administration.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Obama Faces Carter/Clinton Parallels
By Robert Parry
July 29, 2009
After six months in office, Barack Obama’s presidency reveals striking parallels not only to Bill Clinton’s troubled first term, but to Jimmy Carter’s only term. And, how those dangers are reappearing show that the Democrats and American progressives have learned little over the past 30 years.
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July 29, 2009
After six months in office, Barack Obama’s presidency reveals striking parallels not only to Bill Clinton’s troubled first term, but to Jimmy Carter’s only term. And, how those dangers are reappearing show that the Democrats and American progressives have learned little over the past 30 years.
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Sudan's Lesson for Iraq, Mideast
By Ivan Eland
July 28, 2009
Sometimes you just have to shake your head and wonder how the human race has avoided self-extinction and prospered on the planet.
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July 28, 2009
Sometimes you just have to shake your head and wonder how the human race has avoided self-extinction and prospered on the planet.
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Monday, July 27, 2009
Obama, the Great Wealth Creator?
By Robert Parry
July 27m 2009
In early March, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average sank to about 6,500, CNBC stock analyst Jim Cramer blamed Barack Obama for “the greatest wealth destruction” ever, citing declines in “all indices, since the inauguration of the President,” an attack theme that resonated across the right-wing and much of the mainstream U.S. news media.
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July 27m 2009
In early March, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average sank to about 6,500, CNBC stock analyst Jim Cramer blamed Barack Obama for “the greatest wealth destruction” ever, citing declines in “all indices, since the inauguration of the President,” an attack theme that resonated across the right-wing and much of the mainstream U.S. news media.
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Saturday, July 25, 2009
Obama's Health-Care 'Waterloo'
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
July 25, 2009
July 25, 2009
Push finally came to shove in Washington this week as the battle for health care escalated from scattered sniper fire into all-out combat. If it all seems to be getting more and more confusing, join the club. It's hard to see what's happening through all the gun smoke.
Read on.US Has New Plan to Hold Afghan Youth
By Jason Leopold
July 25, 2009
Faced with impending defeat in a U.S. District Court habeas corpus case, the Obama administration devised a new strategy for continuing the detention of Mohammed Jawad, an Afghani who may have been as young as 12 in 2002 when he allegedly wounded two U.S. soldiers with a grenade.
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July 25, 2009
Faced with impending defeat in a U.S. District Court habeas corpus case, the Obama administration devised a new strategy for continuing the detention of Mohammed Jawad, an Afghani who may have been as young as 12 in 2002 when he allegedly wounded two U.S. soldiers with a grenade.
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Recalling the Downing Street Minutes
By Ray McGovern
July 24, 2009
Seven years ago this week, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair gathered his top national security advisers at 10 Downing St. to hear a report from U.K. intelligence chief Richard Dearlove, just back in London from face-to-face talks with then-CIA Director George Tenet in Washington.
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July 24, 2009
Seven years ago this week, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair gathered his top national security advisers at 10 Downing St. to hear a report from U.K. intelligence chief Richard Dearlove, just back in London from face-to-face talks with then-CIA Director George Tenet in Washington.
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Spinning Health Reform to Death
By Norman Solomon
July 24, 2009
July 24, 2009
"I want to cover everybody," President Obama said at his news conference Wednesday night. "Now, the truth is that unless you have a - what's called a single-payer system, in which everybody's automatically covered, then you're probably not going to reach every single individual ..."
Thursday, July 23, 2009
WPost Writer Weeps Again for the CIA
By Melvin A. Goodman
July 24, 2009
David Ignatius, the mainstream media’s leading apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency, has written another exculpatory brief for the CIA.
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July 24, 2009
David Ignatius, the mainstream media’s leading apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency, has written another exculpatory brief for the CIA.
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Dallas: Into the Belly of the Beast
Ray McGovern
July 23, 2009
The hellish-hot weather persuaded me that I was wise to ignore the caution expressed by a close friend who grew up in Dallas, as I set off to give talks there. Better wear a bulletproof vest, he told me.
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July 23, 2009
The hellish-hot weather persuaded me that I was wise to ignore the caution expressed by a close friend who grew up in Dallas, as I set off to give talks there. Better wear a bulletproof vest, he told me.
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Obama Lawyers Shield Cheney on Leak
By Jason Leopold
July 22, 2009
The Obama administration asserted a legal argument that a federal judge called the Jon Stewart “Daily Show exemption,” as the Justice Department continued a court fight to protect ex-Vice President Dick Cheney from disclosures about his role in the leak of a CIA officer’s identity six years ago.
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July 22, 2009
The Obama administration asserted a legal argument that a federal judge called the Jon Stewart “Daily Show exemption,” as the Justice Department continued a court fight to protect ex-Vice President Dick Cheney from disclosures about his role in the leak of a CIA officer’s identity six years ago.
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Christ's Teachings v. US Health Care
By The Rev. Howard Bess
July 21, 2009
In the fifth chapter of the Gospel of John, the writer tells the story of a man that had been crippled for 38 years. Jesus asked him a simple question: “Do you want to be healed?” Jesus told him to stand up and walk, and so he did.
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July 21, 2009
In the fifth chapter of the Gospel of John, the writer tells the story of a man that had been crippled for 38 years. Jesus asked him a simple question: “Do you want to be healed?” Jesus told him to stand up and walk, and so he did.
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Making Sense of Cheney's Madness
By Ivan Eland
July 21, 2009
July 21, 2009
The seeming irrationality behind the George W. Bush administration’s “against the grain” (and the law) policies on torture, warrantless domestic surveillance, and now notification of Congress about CIA covert operations was not irrational at all.
GOP & KAL007: 'The Key Is to Lie First'
By Robert Parry
July 20, 2009 (Originally posted in 1998)
It's not entirely clear when the Republican Party made disinformation a political weapon of choice.
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July 20, 2009 (Originally posted in 1998)
It's not entirely clear when the Republican Party made disinformation a political weapon of choice.
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To Save the Republic, Tax the Rich?
By Robert Parry
July 20, 2009
For all the laid-off “Joe the Plumbers” who share the Right’s fury about the “class warfare” of imposing higher taxes on millionaires, there is this hard truth: the rich don’t need as many of you as they once did – and taxing the rich may be the only way to make the economic system work for you.
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July 20, 2009
For all the laid-off “Joe the Plumbers” who share the Right’s fury about the “class warfare” of imposing higher taxes on millionaires, there is this hard truth: the rich don’t need as many of you as they once did – and taxing the rich may be the only way to make the economic system work for you.
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Cronkite's Unintended Legacy
By Robert Parry
July 19, 2009
With his measured calm and seriousness of purpose, Walter Cronkite set a high standard for television journalism that has rarely been met since his retirement in 1981. But the legendary CBS anchorman who died Friday also may have unintentionally contributed to the American Left’s dangerous complacency about media.
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July 19, 2009
With his measured calm and seriousness of purpose, Walter Cronkite set a high standard for television journalism that has rarely been met since his retirement in 1981. But the legendary CBS anchorman who died Friday also may have unintentionally contributed to the American Left’s dangerous complacency about media.
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
Cronkite and the Tet Turning Point
By Don North
July 18, 2009
At midnight, heading into the fateful day of Jan. 31, 1968, 15 Vietcong gathered at a greasy car repair garage at 59 Phan Thanh Gian Street in Saigon.
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July 18, 2009
At midnight, heading into the fateful day of Jan. 31, 1968, 15 Vietcong gathered at a greasy car repair garage at 59 Phan Thanh Gian Street in Saigon.
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Oysters (or Profits) for Health Care
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
July 17, 2009
This is a story of health care and two Americans; a tale of two citizens, if you will.
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July 17, 2009
This is a story of health care and two Americans; a tale of two citizens, if you will.
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WPost's Ignatius Defends CIA Crimes
By Melvin A. Goodman
July 17, 2009
The Washington Post’s David Ignatius has become the mainstream media’s apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency.
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July 17, 2009
The Washington Post’s David Ignatius has become the mainstream media’s apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
The Wedding (From the Archives)
By Robert Parry
July 15, 2009 (Originally posted Oct. 3, 2007)
The light from the setting sun streamed through the windows of the East Room after the first White House wedding in more than two decades. Guests were picking desserts from a buffet table and conversing, some gesturing with crystal champagne flutes in hand.
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July 15, 2009 (Originally posted Oct. 3, 2007)
The light from the setting sun streamed through the windows of the East Room after the first White House wedding in more than two decades. Guests were picking desserts from a buffet table and conversing, some gesturing with crystal champagne flutes in hand.
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Bush's Hit Teams
By Robert Parry
July 15, 2009
July 15, 2009
Despite the new controversy over whether a global CIA “hit team” ever went operational, there has been public evidence for years that the Bush administration approved “rules of engagement” that permitted executions and targeted killings of suspected insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Cheney Sweats Out the Summer
By Ray McGovern
July 14, 2009
So far the summer has been mild in the Washington, D.C., area. But for former Vice President Dick Cheney the temperature is well over 100 degrees. He is sweating profusely, and it is becoming increasingly clear why.
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July 14, 2009
So far the summer has been mild in the Washington, D.C., area. But for former Vice President Dick Cheney the temperature is well over 100 degrees. He is sweating profusely, and it is becoming increasingly clear why.
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The CIA's Ghosts of Tegucigalpa
By Jerry Meldon
July 14, 2009
Billy Joya, security adviser to Honduras’s post-coup-d’etat President Roberto Micheletti, offered the following explanation for the armed forces’ June 28 insurrection ousting democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya:
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July 14, 2009
Billy Joya, security adviser to Honduras’s post-coup-d’etat President Roberto Micheletti, offered the following explanation for the armed forces’ June 28 insurrection ousting democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya:
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
Bush Spying Relied on Faulty Theories
By Jason Leopold
July 12, 2009
George W. Bush justified his warrantless wiretapping by relying on Justice Department attorney John Yoo’s theories of unlimited presidential wartime powers, and started the spying operation even before Yoo issued a formal opinion, a government investigation discovered.
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July 12, 2009
George W. Bush justified his warrantless wiretapping by relying on Justice Department attorney John Yoo’s theories of unlimited presidential wartime powers, and started the spying operation even before Yoo issued a formal opinion, a government investigation discovered.
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Honduran Coup Blamed on Militarism
By Sherwood Ross
July 12, 2009
Oscar Arias, the president of Costa Rica and the man who will serve as mediator of the crisis in Honduras, wrote in a July 10 op-ed in the Miami Herald, “This coup demonstrates, once more, that the combination of powerful militaries and fragile democracies creates a terrible risk.”
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July 12, 2009
Oscar Arias, the president of Costa Rica and the man who will serve as mediator of the crisis in Honduras, wrote in a July 10 op-ed in the Miami Herald, “This coup demonstrates, once more, that the combination of powerful militaries and fragile democracies creates a terrible risk.”
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WPost's 'Select Few' Dine on Health Bill
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
July 11, 2009
July 11, 2009
If you want to know what really matters in Washington, don't go to Capitol Hill for one of those hearings, or pay attention to those staged White House "town meetings." They're just for show.
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CIA's History of Lying to Congress
By Lisa Pease
July 10, 2009
On TV this week, with a measure of disbelief in their voices, the pundits ask, did the CIA lie to or deliberately mislead Congress? How is that not a rhetorical question?
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July 10, 2009
On TV this week, with a measure of disbelief in their voices, the pundits ask, did the CIA lie to or deliberately mislead Congress? How is that not a rhetorical question?
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Ancient Israeli Myths Deter Peace
By Robert Parry
July 9, 2009
The rationale for formally designating Israel a Jewish state – as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now demands – rests on three religious-political pillars: God’s purported covenant with Moses instructing the ancient Israelites to conquer the land, the injustice of the Roman-era Diaspora that supposedly removed them centuries later, and the brutal persecution of European Jews in the Holocaust.
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July 9, 2009
The rationale for formally designating Israel a Jewish state – as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now demands – rests on three religious-political pillars: God’s purported covenant with Moses instructing the ancient Israelites to conquer the land, the injustice of the Roman-era Diaspora that supposedly removed them centuries later, and the brutal persecution of European Jews in the Holocaust.
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Confronting a Torture Judge
By Cynthia Papermaster and Susan Harman
July 8, 2009
It's a problem that Jay Bybee is a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. How can he serve as a judge when he seriously violated the laws against inhumane treatment of detainees and gave legal approval to interrogation techniques that amount to torture.
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July 8, 2009
It's a problem that Jay Bybee is a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. How can he serve as a judge when he seriously violated the laws against inhumane treatment of detainees and gave legal approval to interrogation techniques that amount to torture.
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Inviting George Bush to Talk Torture
By Ray McGovern
July 8, 2009 (Letter was sent July 2, 2009)
Dear President Bush,
With this note I hope to make sure you know that I have been invited by the Dallas Peace Center to lecture next Thursday evening, July 9, at a dinner at FunAsia in Richardson. You and Mrs. Bush are cordially invited.
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July 8, 2009 (Letter was sent July 2, 2009)
Dear President Bush,
With this note I hope to make sure you know that I have been invited by the Dallas Peace Center to lecture next Thursday evening, July 9, at a dinner at FunAsia in Richardson. You and Mrs. Bush are cordially invited.
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Is Texas Harboring Torture Decider?
By Ray McGovern
July 7, 2009
Seldom does a crime scene have so clear a smoking gun. A two-page presidential memorandum of Feb. 7, 2002, leaves no room for uncertainty regarding the “decider” on torture. His broad-stroke signature made torture official policy.
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July 7, 2009
Seldom does a crime scene have so clear a smoking gun. A two-page presidential memorandum of Feb. 7, 2002, leaves no room for uncertainty regarding the “decider” on torture. His broad-stroke signature made torture official policy.
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Obama's Iran Peace Talk Dilemma
By Robert Parry
July 7, 2009
Before the disputed June 12 election, Iran’s senior leadership – speaking through backchannel intermediaries – outlined a possible framework for Middle East peace that foresaw a significant role for Russia and that raised hopes within the Obama administration.
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July 7, 2009
Before the disputed June 12 election, Iran’s senior leadership – speaking through backchannel intermediaries – outlined a possible framework for Middle East peace that foresaw a significant role for Russia and that raised hopes within the Obama administration.
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Monday, July 06, 2009
Iraq Still Facing the Abyss
By Ivan Eland
July 7, 2009
The Iraq War has been long forgotten and treated as a “mission abolished” after the new President pledged to withdraw U.S. forces and the American media, public and Congress turned their attention back to a war even liberals could love (or at least support) — Afghanistan.
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July 7, 2009
The Iraq War has been long forgotten and treated as a “mission abolished” after the new President pledged to withdraw U.S. forces and the American media, public and Congress turned their attention back to a war even liberals could love (or at least support) — Afghanistan.
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Judging the Iranian Election
By William Blum
July 6, 2009
What is there about the Iranian election of June 12 that has led to it being one of the leading stories in media around the world every day since? Elections whose results are seriously challenged have taken place in most countries at one time or another in recent decades.
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July 6, 2009
What is there about the Iranian election of June 12 that has led to it being one of the leading stories in media around the world every day since? Elections whose results are seriously challenged have taken place in most countries at one time or another in recent decades.
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Sunday, July 05, 2009
Republicans, a Threat to the Republic?
By Robert Parry
July 5, 2009
Sarah Palin’s abrupt decision to resign as Alaska’s governor – and her rambling explanation – underscore again how the Republican Party over the past dozen years has put up candidates for top national offices who are unqualified or ill-suited for those sensitive positions.
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July 5, 2009
Sarah Palin’s abrupt decision to resign as Alaska’s governor – and her rambling explanation – underscore again how the Republican Party over the past dozen years has put up candidates for top national offices who are unqualified or ill-suited for those sensitive positions.
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Saturday, July 04, 2009
Declaration of Indictment
By David Swanson
July 4, 2009
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 2009
The unanimous Declaration of the fifty united States of America
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July 4, 2009
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 2009
The unanimous Declaration of the fifty united States of America
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Wealth Inequality Destroys US Ideals
By Don Monkerud
July 4, 2009
In June 2009, the U.S. economy saw its second steepest decline in 27 years. New jobless claims increased, business inventories fell and exports plunged as bad economic news persisted.
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July 4, 2009
In June 2009, the U.S. economy saw its second steepest decline in 27 years. New jobless claims increased, business inventories fell and exports plunged as bad economic news persisted.
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Friday, July 03, 2009
Bush-Cheney Linked to CIA Leak Case
By Jason Leopold
July 3, 2009
In early fall 2003, as the scandal over leaking a covert CIA officer’s identity was exploding, President George W. Bush claimed not to know anything about the leak and called on anyone in his administration who had knowledge to come “forward with the information so we can find out whether or not these allegations are true.”
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July 3, 2009
In early fall 2003, as the scandal over leaking a covert CIA officer’s identity was exploding, President George W. Bush claimed not to know anything about the leak and called on anyone in his administration who had knowledge to come “forward with the information so we can find out whether or not these allegations are true.”
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A Buy-Democracy Independence Day
By Graham Rankin
July 3, 2009
The recession is making clearer every day, especially with the latest job loss figures of almost half a million in the US in June alone, how difficult rebuilding Western manufacturing industry is going to be. It would be bad enough in a boom, but in a bust when weaker sales can drive even big firms under, we need to look long and hard at consumerism itself.
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July 3, 2009
The recession is making clearer every day, especially with the latest job loss figures of almost half a million in the US in June alone, how difficult rebuilding Western manufacturing industry is going to be. It would be bad enough in a boom, but in a bust when weaker sales can drive even big firms under, we need to look long and hard at consumerism itself.
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Thursday, July 02, 2009
Coast-to-Coast Political Gridlock
By Michael Winship
July 2, 2009
California should just be done with it and rename the entire state "Neverland Ranch."
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July 2, 2009
California should just be done with it and rename the entire state "Neverland Ranch."
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FBI Ignored Bush-Hussein Ties
By Robert Parry
July 2, 2009
The FBI has released reports on 20 interviews and five conversations conducted with Iraq’s deposed dictator Saddam Hussein before he was put to death, but none of the disclosed Q and A deals with the role of the Reagan administration in delivering key components for Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons in the 1980s.
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July 2, 2009
The FBI has released reports on 20 interviews and five conversations conducted with Iraq’s deposed dictator Saddam Hussein before he was put to death, but none of the disclosed Q and A deals with the role of the Reagan administration in delivering key components for Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons in the 1980s.
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The Bible's Odd Idea of Marriage
By the Rev. Howard Bess
July 2, 2009
“Marriage is a cultural thing.” So began a very good sermon that I recently heard by the Rev. Diane O’Connell at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Anchorage, Alaska.
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July 2, 2009
“Marriage is a cultural thing.” So began a very good sermon that I recently heard by the Rev. Diane O’Connell at Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Who Sits at the Health-Reform Table?
By Tom Klammer
July 1, 2009
President Obama held a town hall on Health Care Reform last week, broadcast nationwide on ABC with Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer. Once again, even though a majority of the public and now even a majority of doctors in the US favor a single-payer system, single payer was still off the table.Read on.
July 1, 2009
President Obama held a town hall on Health Care Reform last week, broadcast nationwide on ABC with Charlie Gibson and Diane Sawyer. Once again, even though a majority of the public and now even a majority of doctors in the US favor a single-payer system, single payer was still off the table.Read on.
America's Matrix
By Robert Parry
July 1, 1009 (Originally posted June 2, 2003)
“The Matrix” and its sequel, “The Matrix Reloaded,” offer a useful analogy for anyone trying to make sense of the chasm that has opened between what’s real and what Americans perceive is real.
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July 1, 1009 (Originally posted June 2, 2003)
“The Matrix” and its sequel, “The Matrix Reloaded,” offer a useful analogy for anyone trying to make sense of the chasm that has opened between what’s real and what Americans perceive is real.
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Iraq: A Bitter Strategic Failure
By Robert Parry
July 1, 2009
President Barack Obama and Iraqi leaders may try to sugarcoat the bitter pill for the United States by talking up the achievements of the six-year occupation, but the public celebrations by Iraqis marking the American pullout from Iraq’s cities tell the painful story of a U.S. strategic failure.
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July 1, 2009
President Barack Obama and Iraqi leaders may try to sugarcoat the bitter pill for the United States by talking up the achievements of the six-year occupation, but the public celebrations by Iraqis marking the American pullout from Iraq’s cities tell the painful story of a U.S. strategic failure.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Key Bush Torture Lawyers Still at Work
By David Swanson
June 30, 2009
We've heard of John Yoo and Alberto Gonzales, and maybe even Jay Bybee. Some of us recall John Ashcroft, Michael Mukasey and even David Addington. Michael Haynes, Stephen Bradbury, and Douglas Feith occasionally make the news.
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June 30, 2009
We've heard of John Yoo and Alberto Gonzales, and maybe even Jay Bybee. Some of us recall John Ashcroft, Michael Mukasey and even David Addington. Michael Haynes, Stephen Bradbury, and Douglas Feith occasionally make the news.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Obama's 'Realism' on Iran
By Ivan Eland
June 30, 2009
Barack Obama’s reaction to the mass protests and violence in Iran shows he is following through on his pledge to be more like George H.W. Bush rather than his son, George W. Bush.
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June 30, 2009
Barack Obama’s reaction to the mass protests and violence in Iran shows he is following through on his pledge to be more like George H.W. Bush rather than his son, George W. Bush.
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Obama's Torture Hypocrisy
By Jason Leopold
June 29, 2009
President Barack Obama just announced that the U.S. government "must stand against torture wherever it takes place," but it’s clear that his pledge does not apply to torture committed by officials from the Bush administration.
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June 29, 2009
President Barack Obama just announced that the U.S. government "must stand against torture wherever it takes place," but it’s clear that his pledge does not apply to torture committed by officials from the Bush administration.
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Giving Diplomacy a Chance
By Haviland Smith
June 29, 2009
Since the Second World War, the Republicans have said consistently that the Democrats’ main foreign policy problem is that they are either unable or unwilling to successfully and purposefully project American power abroad.
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June 29, 2009
Since the Second World War, the Republicans have said consistently that the Democrats’ main foreign policy problem is that they are either unable or unwilling to successfully and purposefully project American power abroad.
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Obama's Troubling Caution on Torture
By Diana Gibson and Ray McGovern
June 29, 2009
Anniversaries can be important. Last Friday marked the 22nd anniversary of the U.N. Convention against Torture, ratified and signed under President Reagan.
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June 29, 2009
Anniversaries can be important. Last Friday marked the 22nd anniversary of the U.N. Convention against Torture, ratified and signed under President Reagan.
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Obama, They Want You to Fail
By Robert Parry
June 29, 2009
After last year’s elections, a Democratic operative told me that if the Democrats got to 59 seats in the Senate, it would be easy to peel off one or two Republicans to pass key legislation like serious health care reform. I was left wondering what political planet he'd been living on for the past three decades.
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June 29, 2009
After last year’s elections, a Democratic operative told me that if the Democrats got to 59 seats in the Senate, it would be easy to peel off one or two Republicans to pass key legislation like serious health care reform. I was left wondering what political planet he'd been living on for the past three decades.
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WP's Connolly Back, on Health Reform
By Robert Parry
June 29, 2009
Ceci Connolly, the Washington Post reporter whose snide (and erroneous) coverage of Al Gore’s 2000 campaign contributed to George W. Bush becoming President, is back with more snarky coverage of “liberal activists” pushing for a “public option” on health-care reform.
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June 29, 2009
Ceci Connolly, the Washington Post reporter whose snide (and erroneous) coverage of Al Gore’s 2000 campaign contributed to George W. Bush becoming President, is back with more snarky coverage of “liberal activists” pushing for a “public option” on health-care reform.
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Sunday, June 28, 2009
Waking Up Is Hard to Do
By Pablo Ouziel
June 28, 2009
We wake up in the morning to hear and watch the newest tragedy that has swept the world¹s media attention.
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June 28, 2009
We wake up in the morning to hear and watch the newest tragedy that has swept the world¹s media attention.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Dissent as 'Low-Level Terrorism'
By Emily Spence
June 26, 2009
Recently, an American Civil Liberties Union report pointed out, "Anti-terrorism training materials currently being used by the Department of Defense (DoD) teach its personnel that free expression in the form of public protests should be regarded as ‘low level terrorism’.”
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June 26, 2009
Recently, an American Civil Liberties Union report pointed out, "Anti-terrorism training materials currently being used by the Department of Defense (DoD) teach its personnel that free expression in the form of public protests should be regarded as ‘low level terrorism’.”
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Who to Trust on a Truth Commission?
By Robert Parry
June 26, 2009
While a truth commission to examine the crimes of the Bush administration has a certain appeal – especially if there’s not going to be a tough special prosecutor bringing criminal charges – there still would be the issue of who could fill the job of getting at the truth.
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June 26, 2009
While a truth commission to examine the crimes of the Bush administration has a certain appeal – especially if there’s not going to be a tough special prosecutor bringing criminal charges – there still would be the issue of who could fill the job of getting at the truth.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
False Health-Scare Ad on CNN
By Robert Parry
June 25, 2009
A right-wing group called Conservatives for Patients’ Rights is airing a political attack ad against the idea of a public option for health insurance by turning upside down an analysis showing that 119 million Americans would jump from their private health insurer to a government plan if one existed.
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June 25, 2009
A right-wing group called Conservatives for Patients’ Rights is airing a political attack ad against the idea of a public option for health insurance by turning upside down an analysis showing that 119 million Americans would jump from their private health insurer to a government plan if one existed.
Read on.
Treading Softly with the CIA's PanettaT
By Melvin A. Goodman
June 25, 2009
For the past several years, we have been indebted to tough-minded reporters such as Jane Mayer, whose articles in the New Yorker and her excellent book The Dark Side have provided us with the necessary details of the transgressions of the Bush administration and the Central Intelligence Agency.
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June 25, 2009
For the past several years, we have been indebted to tough-minded reporters such as Jane Mayer, whose articles in the New Yorker and her excellent book The Dark Side have provided us with the necessary details of the transgressions of the Bush administration and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Read on.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Divided Iran & the 'October Surprise'
By Robert Parry
June 24, 2009
Iran’s current political divisions can be traced back to a controversy nearly three decades ago when Iran faced war with Iraq and became entwined with U.S. and Israeli political maneuvers that set all three countries on a dangerous course that continues to this day.
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June 24, 2009
Iran’s current political divisions can be traced back to a controversy nearly three decades ago when Iran faced war with Iraq and became entwined with U.S. and Israeli political maneuvers that set all three countries on a dangerous course that continues to this day.
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El Salvador: Ghosts at the Polls
By Don North
June 24, 2009
“If they kill me, I shall arise again in the Salvadoran people,” said Archbishop Oscar Romero 29 years ago, just two weeks before he was gunned down by a sniper while saying mass.
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June 24, 2009
“If they kill me, I shall arise again in the Salvadoran people,” said Archbishop Oscar Romero 29 years ago, just two weeks before he was gunned down by a sniper while saying mass.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Pushing Obama to Confront Iran
By Ivan Eland
June 22, 2009
When massive turmoil occurs in an important country, U.S. policymakers struggle to make heads or tails of it and arrive at an appropriate reaction. Kibitzers and pundits, however, have no trouble reaching immediate and sweeping conclusions and egging on the policymakers to further their own agendas.
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June 22, 2009
When massive turmoil occurs in an important country, U.S. policymakers struggle to make heads or tails of it and arrive at an appropriate reaction. Kibitzers and pundits, however, have no trouble reaching immediate and sweeping conclusions and egging on the policymakers to further their own agendas.
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Serving the Medical-Industrial Complex
By Robert Parry
June 22, 2009
The usual knock on government programs is that they’re not as efficient as the private sector, which we’re told can provide the same product for less money and with higher quality. Thus, it should be no big deal when the public and private collide because the private sector should prevail.
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June 22, 2009
The usual knock on government programs is that they’re not as efficient as the private sector, which we’re told can provide the same product for less money and with higher quality. Thus, it should be no big deal when the public and private collide because the private sector should prevail.
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
Obama Opposes Plame-gate Release
By Jason Leopold
June 20, 2009
In another case of protecting Bush administration secrets, Barack Obama’s Justice Department is opposing the release of a transcript of Vice President Dick Cheney explaining his role in blowing the cover of CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson in 2003 while the White House was seeking to discredit her husband, a critic of the Iraq invasion.
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June 20, 2009
In another case of protecting Bush administration secrets, Barack Obama’s Justice Department is opposing the release of a transcript of Vice President Dick Cheney explaining his role in blowing the cover of CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson in 2003 while the White House was seeking to discredit her husband, a critic of the Iraq invasion.
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Should the Airbus Be Grounded?
By William John Cox
June 20, 2009
Since entering service in 1974 with many technological innovations, such as computerized fly-by-wire control systems, user-friendly cockpits and extended use of composite materials, 5,717 aircraft have been manufactured by Airbus, an European aerospace company. More than 5,100 Airbuses remain in service.
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June 20, 2009
Since entering service in 1974 with many technological innovations, such as computerized fly-by-wire control systems, user-friendly cockpits and extended use of composite materials, 5,717 aircraft have been manufactured by Airbus, an European aerospace company. More than 5,100 Airbuses remain in service.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Ray McGovern on Illness and Health
By Ray McGovern
June 18, 2009
At first I thought the BEFORE picture of the arteries around my heart may have been doctored. There it was big as life...or imminent death — the circumflex artery was 90 to 99 percent blocked.
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June 18, 2009
At first I thought the BEFORE picture of the arteries around my heart may have been doctored. There it was big as life...or imminent death — the circumflex artery was 90 to 99 percent blocked.
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Taking Sides in Iran
By Robert Parry
June 18, 2009
There are lots of good reasons for wishing that the bombastic Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be toppled by the political struggle playing out on the streets of Tehran, but there is still that troubling question of whether he actually won the election.
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June 18, 2009
There are lots of good reasons for wishing that the bombastic Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be toppled by the political struggle playing out on the streets of Tehran, but there is still that troubling question of whether he actually won the election.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
CIA Secret File Tests Obama's Pledge
By Jason Leopold
June 18, 2009
President Barack Obama’s promise of a more open government faces a new test this week as his administration weighs whether to release details of a May 2004 internal CIA report about the agency’s use of torture, including how at least three detainees were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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June 18, 2009
President Barack Obama’s promise of a more open government faces a new test this week as his administration weighs whether to release details of a May 2004 internal CIA report about the agency’s use of torture, including how at least three detainees were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Flawed Elections: US and Iran
By Lisa Pease
June 17, 2009
The Right has been bashing President Obama for not calling the Iranian elections a fraud. Perhaps Obama understands that you can’t tell someone to fix a problem you haven’t first fixed in your own house.
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June 17, 2009
The Right has been bashing President Obama for not calling the Iranian elections a fraud. Perhaps Obama understands that you can’t tell someone to fix a problem you haven’t first fixed in your own house.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Rev. Moon, North Korea & the Bushes
By Robert Parry
June 16, 2009 (Originally posted Oct. 11, 2000)
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon's business empire, which includes the conservative Washington Times, paid millions of dollars to North Korea's communist leaders in the early 1990s when the hard-line government needed foreign currency to finance its weapons programs, according to U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency documents.
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June 16, 2009 (Originally posted Oct. 11, 2000)
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon's business empire, which includes the conservative Washington Times, paid millions of dollars to North Korea's communist leaders in the early 1990s when the hard-line government needed foreign currency to finance its weapons programs, according to U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency documents.
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Taking a Rational Look at Iran
By Ivan Eland
June 15, 2009
One election in Iran will not significantly change U.S.-Iran relations — only a change in U.S. thinking and policy will do so.
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June 15, 2009
One election in Iran will not significantly change U.S.-Iran relations — only a change in U.S. thinking and policy will do so.
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What If Ahmadinejad Really Won?
By Robert Parry
June 15, 2009
It’s fast congealing into conventional wisdom that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stole re-election through fraud and that the so-called “green revolution” of Mir-Hossein Mousavi – which was based in the country’s intelligentsia and middle class – got robbed.
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June 15, 2009
It’s fast congealing into conventional wisdom that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stole re-election through fraud and that the so-called “green revolution” of Mir-Hossein Mousavi – which was based in the country’s intelligentsia and middle class – got robbed.
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Extremism and Suffering Children
By William John Cox
June 15, 2009
What does a shootout at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., the confessions of a Khmer Rouge jailer and the murder of a Kansas medical doctor have in common? The answer is “children,” and how they suffer from being targeted and used by extremists to advance their own hateful agendas.
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June 15, 2009
What does a shootout at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., the confessions of a Khmer Rouge jailer and the murder of a Kansas medical doctor have in common? The answer is “children,” and how they suffer from being targeted and used by extremists to advance their own hateful agendas.
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Excusing Outrages of the Right
By Robert Parry
June 15, 2009
Part of America’s ongoing political crisis is that Official Washington remains cowed by the angry Right, even as it engages in subtle and not-so-subtle appeals to bigotry and invitations to violence. As the outrages mount, most of the national press corps prefers to look the other way, a pattern that now stretches back many years.
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June 15, 2009
Part of America’s ongoing political crisis is that Official Washington remains cowed by the angry Right, even as it engages in subtle and not-so-subtle appeals to bigotry and invitations to violence. As the outrages mount, most of the national press corps prefers to look the other way, a pattern that now stretches back many years.
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Saturday, June 13, 2009
'Emergent Church' v. Fundamentalism
By the Rev. Howard Bess
June 13, 2009
Three weeks ago I wrote a column about the emergent churches in America. I wrote the column as a report, not as an opinion. I credited Professor Scott McKnight of North Park University in Chicago and cited his eight characteristics of the emergent church.
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June 13, 2009
Three weeks ago I wrote a column about the emergent churches in America. I wrote the column as a report, not as an opinion. I credited Professor Scott McKnight of North Park University in Chicago and cited his eight characteristics of the emergent church.
Read on.
The Silence About Guns
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
June 13, 2009
June 13, 2009
You know by now that in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, an elderly white supremacist and anti-Semite named James W. von Brunn allegedly walked into the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum with a .22-caliber rifle and killed a security guard before being brought down himself.
Read on.Friday, June 12, 2009
Computer Piloting & Air France Crash
By William John Cox
June 12, 2009
How the Air France Flight 447’s Airbus A330 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean remains a mystery, but what is known is that Airbus’ heavy reliance on computerized piloting has a history of some bizarre or unexplained crashes when the technology failed, misread the circumstances, or complicated efforts by human pilots to react to an emergency.
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June 12, 2009
How the Air France Flight 447’s Airbus A330 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean remains a mystery, but what is known is that Airbus’ heavy reliance on computerized piloting has a history of some bizarre or unexplained crashes when the technology failed, misread the circumstances, or complicated efforts by human pilots to react to an emergency.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Two Key Health-Care Numbers
By Robert Parry
June 11, 2009
June 11, 2009
To understand the financial stakes involved in the battle over U.S. health-care reform, it’s useful to keep two numbers in mind: 50 million and 119 million.
Obama Aids Bush's Torture Cover-up
By Jason Leopold
June 11, 2009
By opposing release of photographic and other evidence of prisoner abuse, President Barack Obama is furthering a long-running cover-up that has protected senior Bush administration officials who set the harsh interrogation policies that led to torture and other misconduct.
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June 11, 2009
By opposing release of photographic and other evidence of prisoner abuse, President Barack Obama is furthering a long-running cover-up that has protected senior Bush administration officials who set the harsh interrogation policies that led to torture and other misconduct.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
GOP's Civil Liberties Hypocrisy
By Nat Parry
June 10, 2009 (Originally posted April 20, 2009)
Editor's Note: Amid a surge of right-wing terrorism and intimidation -- including the murder of a Kansas abortion doctor and a fatal assault on Washington's Holocaust Museum -- we are re-posting an article from April that examined the Republican fury over a Homeland Security report that warned of exactly such possibilities:
Just as Republicans have refashioned themselves as fiscal conservatives in the age of Obama, apparently forgetting that they allowed a budget surplus to be transformed into a record deficit while George W. Bush was President, they now seem to be taking up the cause of civil liberties – at least as far as right-wing groups are concerned.
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June 10, 2009 (Originally posted April 20, 2009)
Editor's Note: Amid a surge of right-wing terrorism and intimidation -- including the murder of a Kansas abortion doctor and a fatal assault on Washington's Holocaust Museum -- we are re-posting an article from April that examined the Republican fury over a Homeland Security report that warned of exactly such possibilities:
Just as Republicans have refashioned themselves as fiscal conservatives in the age of Obama, apparently forgetting that they allowed a budget surplus to be transformed into a record deficit while George W. Bush was President, they now seem to be taking up the cause of civil liberties – at least as far as right-wing groups are concerned.
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Tying Obama to Bush's Budget Mess
By Robert Parry
June 10, 2009
Some people say that George W. Bush didn’t solve any national problems during his eight years in office, but that’s not exactly right.
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June 10, 2009
Some people say that George W. Bush didn’t solve any national problems during his eight years in office, but that’s not exactly right.
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America's Toxic 'Innocence'
By Phil Rockstroh
June 10, 2009
Even as President Barrack Obama waxed eloquent in Cairo, Egypt, on the moral imperatives of the community of nations, public opinion polls released in the United States revealed that, by a substantial percentage, its citizens believe torture is an acceptable option for interrogation of suspects deemed terrorists by various U.S. governmental agencies.
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June 10, 2009
Even as President Barrack Obama waxed eloquent in Cairo, Egypt, on the moral imperatives of the community of nations, public opinion polls released in the United States revealed that, by a substantial percentage, its citizens believe torture is an acceptable option for interrogation of suspects deemed terrorists by various U.S. governmental agencies.
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009
CIA Shifts Reasons for Torture Secrets
By Jason Leopold
June 10, 2009
Last month, the CIA told a federal court judge it could not abide by a court order and turn over detailed documents about the destruction of 92 interrogation videotapes because it would compromise the integrity of a special prosecutor’s criminal investigation into the matter.
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June 10, 2009
Last month, the CIA told a federal court judge it could not abide by a court order and turn over detailed documents about the destruction of 92 interrogation videotapes because it would compromise the integrity of a special prosecutor’s criminal investigation into the matter.
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Obama's Era of Openness Is Closed
By Robert Parry
June 9, 2009
June 9, 2009
An “era” used to last, but not so much anymore. We’ve already heard GOP Chairman Michael Steele proclaim that “the era of apologizing for Republican mistakes” was over (when many of us didn’t know it had begun), and now it appears that Barack Obama’s era of openness has closed, too.
Read on.Monday, June 08, 2009
Al Qaeda Adjusts to Obama
By Ivan Eland
June 8, 2009
Fearing a new, more formidable opponent than the often buffoonish and macho cowboy George W. Bush, the two leaders of al Qaeda have tag teamed Barack Obama with twin audiotapes condemning him.
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June 8, 2009
Fearing a new, more formidable opponent than the often buffoonish and macho cowboy George W. Bush, the two leaders of al Qaeda have tag teamed Barack Obama with twin audiotapes condemning him.
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Bush/Cheney Pushed Torture on DOJ
By Jason Leopold
June 8, 2009
In 2005, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales bent to demands from President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to push through new legal opinions sanctioning harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects, according to e-mails written by then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey.
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June 8, 2009
In 2005, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales bent to demands from President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to push through new legal opinions sanctioning harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects, according to e-mails written by then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey.
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Two Colombian Generals Face Charges
By Sherwood Ross
June 8, 2009
June 8, 2009
Two Colombian generals, both of whom received training at the U.S. Army's "School of The Americas"(SOA) at Ft. Benning, Ga., have been accused by authorities there of crimes involving narcotics and collaborating with criminal paramilitary groups, according to a report in the June 15th issue of The Nation magazine.
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Privatizing 'Obama's War'
By Michael Winship
June 5, 2009
The sudden reappearance of former Vice President Dick Cheney over the last few months - seeming to emerge from his famous undisclosed location more frequently now than he ever did when he was in office - does not mean six more weeks of winter.
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June 5, 2009
The sudden reappearance of former Vice President Dick Cheney over the last few months - seeming to emerge from his famous undisclosed location more frequently now than he ever did when he was in office - does not mean six more weeks of winter.
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Obama Fuzzed Up Reality in Speech
By David Swanson
June 5, 2009
President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo probably did a world of good. It was packed with noble sentiments and some truth-telling. But imagine how much more good would be done if all the best parts of it corresponded to reality.
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June 5, 2009
President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo probably did a world of good. It was packed with noble sentiments and some truth-telling. But imagine how much more good would be done if all the best parts of it corresponded to reality.
Read on.
119 Million Americans Must Be Wrong
By Robert Parry
June 5, 2009
As the health insurance industry and its defenders in Congress lay out their case against permitting a public option in a reform bill, perhaps their most curious argument is that some 119 million Americans are ready to dump their private plans and jump to something more like Medicare – and that’s why the choice can’t be permitted.
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June 5, 2009
As the health insurance industry and its defenders in Congress lay out their case against permitting a public option in a reform bill, perhaps their most curious argument is that some 119 million Americans are ready to dump their private plans and jump to something more like Medicare – and that’s why the choice can’t be permitted.
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Thursday, June 04, 2009
Baucus Still Shuns Single-Payer Option
By David Swanson
June 4, 2009
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Montana, met Wednesday with advocates for single-payer healthcare, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and told them that he might drop criminal charges against 13 people arrested for speaking up in his hearings, but that he would not include any supporters of single-payer health coverage in any future hearings.
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June 4, 2009
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Montana, met Wednesday with advocates for single-payer healthcare, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and told them that he might drop criminal charges against 13 people arrested for speaking up in his hearings, but that he would not include any supporters of single-payer health coverage in any future hearings.
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever?
By Robert Parry
June 3, 2009
June 3, 2009
There’s been talk that George W. Bush was so inept that he should trademark the phrase “Worst President Ever,” though some historians would bestow that title on pre-Civil War President James Buchanan. Still, a case could be made for putting Ronald Reagan in the competition.
Read on.The Intel-Journo Alliance
By Robert Parry
June 2, 2009
Amid all the recent negatives in the worlds of intelligence and journalism, one encouraging development has been the recognition of common ground between two beleaguered groups, honest U.S. intelligence analysts and honest American journalists, two groups that previously had been on opposite sides of the secrecy divide.
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June 2, 2009
Amid all the recent negatives in the worlds of intelligence and journalism, one encouraging development has been the recognition of common ground between two beleaguered groups, honest U.S. intelligence analysts and honest American journalists, two groups that previously had been on opposite sides of the secrecy divide.
Read on.
Monday, June 01, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
America's Political/Media Kabuki
By Robert Parry
June 1, 2009
Kabuki is defined as a highly stylized form of classical Japanese dance-drama in which actors often wear elaborate makeup and engage in precisely dictated movements, a useful metaphor for the current American political process which can’t seem to break out of old patterns even as the nation hurtles from crisis to crisis.
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June 1, 2009
Kabuki is defined as a highly stylized form of classical Japanese dance-drama in which actors often wear elaborate makeup and engage in precisely dictated movements, a useful metaphor for the current American political process which can’t seem to break out of old patterns even as the nation hurtles from crisis to crisis.
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