By Ivan Eland
April 20, 2010
Despite all the hoopla about President Barack Obama’s summit on nuclear security and a new arms control deal, the eventual results of his laudable efforts will probably be modest and will likely be dwarfed by the damage to nuclear security done by George W. Bush’s prior administration.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Questioning the Bible
By the Rev. Howard Bess
April 18, 2010
I have always been a religious person, but not just religious. I was a Christian with a life commitment to Jesus. I have never considered any other life path.
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April 18, 2010
I have always been a religious person, but not just religious. I was a Christian with a life commitment to Jesus. I have never considered any other life path.
Read on.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Tea Partiers Protect Wall Street
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
April 17, 2010
With all due respect, we can only wish those Tea Party activists who gathered in Washington and other cities this week weren't so single-minded about just who's responsible for all their troubles, real and imagined.
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April 17, 2010
With all due respect, we can only wish those Tea Party activists who gathered in Washington and other cities this week weren't so single-minded about just who's responsible for all their troubles, real and imagined.
Read on.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Cyber-Warfare Chief's Deception
By Ray McGovern
April 16, 2010
U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander may well be harboring the proverbial thought attributed to prevaricator Oliver North upon being spared punishment -- and instead getting rewarded handsomely -- for lying about the Iran-Contra Affair: “Is this a great country or what!”
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April 16, 2010
U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander may well be harboring the proverbial thought attributed to prevaricator Oliver North upon being spared punishment -- and instead getting rewarded handsomely -- for lying about the Iran-Contra Affair: “Is this a great country or what!”
Read on.
How Greedy Deregulation Killed Miners
By Kevin Zeese
April 16, 2010
Were it not for the deliberate actions of Don Blankenship and Massey Energy the deaths of 29 miners in West Virginia would not have occurred.
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April 16, 2010
Were it not for the deliberate actions of Don Blankenship and Massey Energy the deaths of 29 miners in West Virginia would not have occurred.
Read on.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
PBS Shies from Single-Payer Debate
By Margaret Flowers
April 15, 2010
It was with a sense of déjà vu that I watched the latest PBS Frontline documentary about health care.
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April 15, 2010
It was with a sense of déjà vu that I watched the latest PBS Frontline documentary about health care.
Read on.
Ghost of 'Total Information Awareness'
By Coleen Rowley
April 15, 2010
Since we all tend to reflexively cringe whenever someone mentions the ideological “F” topic, I’m going to try and minimize some of the natural revulsion and denial by writing the full word that we usually fear to name only once: fascism.
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April 15, 2010
Since we all tend to reflexively cringe whenever someone mentions the ideological “F” topic, I’m going to try and minimize some of the natural revulsion and denial by writing the full word that we usually fear to name only once: fascism.
Read on.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Israel, the US and Propaganda's Power
By Robert Parry
April 14, 2010
Sometimes, it seems like there are only two groups on earth that don’t grasp the importance of media – the American Left and some tribe in Borneo, though the word is that the tribe may have just bought a radio transmitter, leaving only one group that doesn’t get it.
Read on.
April 14, 2010
Sometimes, it seems like there are only two groups on earth that don’t grasp the importance of media – the American Left and some tribe in Borneo, though the word is that the tribe may have just bought a radio transmitter, leaving only one group that doesn’t get it.
Read on.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Jesus's Morality v Church's Doctrine
By Gary Novak
April 13, 2010
Reverend Bess described the historical perspective on the difference between Paul's theology and that of the four Gospels of Jesus. As Bess noted, the moral message is quite different between Paul and the Gospels. Paul focused on sacrifice, while the Gospels focused on solving human problems as the basis for morality.
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April 13, 2010
Reverend Bess described the historical perspective on the difference between Paul's theology and that of the four Gospels of Jesus. As Bess noted, the moral message is quite different between Paul and the Gospels. Paul focused on sacrifice, while the Gospels focused on solving human problems as the basis for morality.
Read on.
US Media Lectures Russia on Terrorism
By Ivan Eland
April 12, 2010
On March 31, 2010, the New York Times wrote an editorial that briefly expressed horror in response to the Moscow subway terror bombings, then warned that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin might yet again use terrorist attacks to further consolidate his power, and finally lectured Russia that the only way to defeat such extremism was to deal with the underlying causes.
Read on.
April 12, 2010
On March 31, 2010, the New York Times wrote an editorial that briefly expressed horror in response to the Moscow subway terror bombings, then warned that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin might yet again use terrorist attacks to further consolidate his power, and finally lectured Russia that the only way to defeat such extremism was to deal with the underlying causes.
Read on.
Bush Officials Hyped Detainee Threats
By Jason Leopold
April 12, 2010
The Bush administration deceived the American people about the certain danger posed by Guantanamo Bay detainees – the “worst of the worst” as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called them – when many likely were innocent bystanders, according to a former top State Department official.
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April 12, 2010
The Bush administration deceived the American people about the certain danger posed by Guantanamo Bay detainees – the “worst of the worst” as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called them – when many likely were innocent bystanders, according to a former top State Department official.
Read on.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
How Christianity Lost Jesus
By the Rev. Howard Bess
April 10, 2010
We call Chapters 5, 6 and 7 of the Matthew Gospel the Sermon on the Mount. It is without question our finest summary of the teachings of Jesus.
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April 10, 2010
We call Chapters 5, 6 and 7 of the Matthew Gospel the Sermon on the Mount. It is without question our finest summary of the teachings of Jesus.
Read on.
Friday, April 09, 2010
Letting Coal Miners Die in West Virginia
By Michael Winship
April 9, 2010
April 9, 2010
The high cost of energy in America was paid in human lives this week, with the deaths of more than two dozen miners in a massive explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia. It's the worst mine disaster in a quarter of a century.
Watching Innocent Iraqis Die
By Robert Parry
April 9, 2010
The next time CNN’s Wolf Blitzer boasts about George W. Bush’s “successful surge” in Iraq or Newsweek hails “Victory at Last,” you should think of the video released by Wikileaks.org this week showing the killing of a group of Iraqi men, including two Reuters newsmen, as they walked nonchalantly through the streets of Baghdad.
Read on.
April 9, 2010
The next time CNN’s Wolf Blitzer boasts about George W. Bush’s “successful surge” in Iraq or Newsweek hails “Victory at Last,” you should think of the video released by Wikileaks.org this week showing the killing of a group of Iraqi men, including two Reuters newsmen, as they walked nonchalantly through the streets of Baghdad.
Read on.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Murder Replaces Torture, Brilliant!
By David Swanson
April 8, 2010
I've been reading about the history of torture, including John T. Parry's new book Understanding Torture: Law, Violence, and Political Identity. Parry gives a history of torture in Europe and the United States through the twentieth century, establishing its pervasiveness, and the repetitiveness of the excuses and legalistic machinations used to allow it.
Read on.
April 8, 2010
I've been reading about the history of torture, including John T. Parry's new book Understanding Torture: Law, Violence, and Political Identity. Parry gives a history of torture in Europe and the United States through the twentieth century, establishing its pervasiveness, and the repetitiveness of the excuses and legalistic machinations used to allow it.
Read on.
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Obama, NYT Keep Israeli Nuke Secrets
By Robert Parry
April 7, 2010
Overall, the New York Times praises President Barack Obama’s revised policy on when to launch nuclear attacks, though agreeing with some critics that it was a mistake to continue brandishing nukes at Iran, the only non-nuclear-armed state still being threatened.
Read on.
April 7, 2010
Overall, the New York Times praises President Barack Obama’s revised policy on when to launch nuclear attacks, though agreeing with some critics that it was a mistake to continue brandishing nukes at Iran, the only non-nuclear-armed state still being threatened.
Read on.
CIA Assigned to Kill US Citizen
By Jason Leopold
April 7, 2010
The Obama administration has lowered another legal barrier shielding Americans from extrajudicial punitive action by their own government, in this case authorizing the CIA to kill a U.S. citizen suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda in Yemen and links to two attacks inside the United States last year.
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April 7, 2010
The Obama administration has lowered another legal barrier shielding Americans from extrajudicial punitive action by their own government, in this case authorizing the CIA to kill a U.S. citizen suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda in Yemen and links to two attacks inside the United States last year.
Read on.
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Obama Threatens Iran with Nukes
By Robert Parry
April 6, 2010
April 6, 2010
In readjusting U.S. policy on when to launch a nuclear strike, President Barack Obama has repudiated the use of nukes against non-nuclear states with the exception of Iran, which he termed an “outlier” along with North Korea.
Monday, April 05, 2010
Is Vatican Guilty in Child-Sex Scandal?
By Robert Parry
April 5, 2010
April 5, 2010
Often the worst scandals are ones that have become engrained as business as usual within an organization or a society, not entirely accepted but tolerated by the Old Boys Network in command, like racial segregation, anti-Semitism, bias against women – or in the case of the Vatican, pedophilia.
Read on.Sunday, April 04, 2010
Making Aggressive War OK, for Some
By David Swanson
April 4, 2010
When my friend Jodie Evans recently tried to make a citizen's arrest of Karl Rove, he declared the Downing Street Minutes to be "a complete fabrication." Of course, this "complete fabrication" was actually the minutes of an official meeting held by then British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Read on.
April 4, 2010
When my friend Jodie Evans recently tried to make a citizen's arrest of Karl Rove, he declared the Downing Street Minutes to be "a complete fabrication." Of course, this "complete fabrication" was actually the minutes of an official meeting held by then British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Read on.
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