By Brent Budowsky
March 21, 2009
Let’s ban political contributions to any candidate, of any party, for any office by any company that receives bailout money, until the money is paid back in full.
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
CIA Has 3,000 Docs on Torture Tapes
By Jason Leopold
March 21, 2009
The CIA has about 3,000 documents related to the 92 destroyed videotapes that showed “war on terror” detainees being subjected to harsh interrogations, the Justice Department has disclosed, suggesting an extensive back-and-forth between CIA field operatives and officials of the Bush administration.
Read on.
March 21, 2009
The CIA has about 3,000 documents related to the 92 destroyed videotapes that showed “war on terror” detainees being subjected to harsh interrogations, the Justice Department has disclosed, suggesting an extensive back-and-forth between CIA field operatives and officials of the Bush administration.
Read on.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Good News, Bad News
By Robert Parry
March 20, 2009
The good news is that – thanks to our readers – we did meet the grant challenge from a donor.
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March 20, 2009
The good news is that – thanks to our readers – we did meet the grant challenge from a donor.
Read on.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Losing the Oxygen of Journalism
By Gray Brechin
March 19, 2009
We seldom think of oxygen unless it’s absent. You’d think about it a lot if it suddenly exited this room; you’d start gasping and writhing, your eardrums would burst, you and your neighbors would do a lot of bleeding on each other, then you’d die.
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March 19, 2009
We seldom think of oxygen unless it’s absent. You’d think about it a lot if it suddenly exited this room; you’d start gasping and writhing, your eardrums would burst, you and your neighbors would do a lot of bleeding on each other, then you’d die.
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Framing Obama -- by the WPost
By Robert Parry
March 19, 2009
March 19, 2009
An insidious power of a propagandistic newspaper – especially one with great influence – is how it can “frame” an issue so the assumptions behind a story guide the readers to a preordained conclusion under the guise of presenting a fair journalistic account.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Torture Revealed Yet Again
By David Swanson
March 19, 2009
As with the evidence that Bush, Cheney and gang intentionally lied us into a war, or the evidence of illegal and unconstitutional spying, each time a major new piece of evidence of torture emerges, it is impossible not to hope that this is the one that will compel the Justice Department or Congress or the courts or the American people to act decisively.
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March 19, 2009
As with the evidence that Bush, Cheney and gang intentionally lied us into a war, or the evidence of illegal and unconstitutional spying, each time a major new piece of evidence of torture emerges, it is impossible not to hope that this is the one that will compel the Justice Department or Congress or the courts or the American people to act decisively.
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CIA's Panetta Is Falling Short
By Melvin A. Goodman
March 18, 2009
President Barack Obama’s CIA director, Leon Panetta, needed only one month to establish that he lacks the courage, contrariness, judgment, and political and intellectual independence to reform the Central Intelligence Agency.
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March 18, 2009
President Barack Obama’s CIA director, Leon Panetta, needed only one month to establish that he lacks the courage, contrariness, judgment, and political and intellectual independence to reform the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Indentured Servants, Circa 2009
By Barbara Koeppel
March 18, 2009
The immigration imbroglio is the gorilla in the room that won’t go away.
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March 18, 2009
The immigration imbroglio is the gorilla in the room that won’t go away.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
New Evidence of Bush Torture Crimes
By Jason Leopold
March 17, 2009
As more pieces of a very ugly mosaic fall into place – including new details from a confidential 2007 report by the International Committee of the Red Cross about interrogations at CIA “black sites” – any remaining doubt that the Bush administration engaged in a conscious policy of torture is disappearing.
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March 17, 2009
As more pieces of a very ugly mosaic fall into place – including new details from a confidential 2007 report by the International Committee of the Red Cross about interrogations at CIA “black sites” – any remaining doubt that the Bush administration engaged in a conscious policy of torture is disappearing.
Read on.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
WPost Is a Neocon Propaganda Sheet
By Robert Parry
March 15, 2009
For Americans who hear the name Washington Post and still think of “All the President’s Men” – brave journalists and editors facing down a corrupt President – today’s version of the newspaper would be a sad disappointment, a betrayal of a noble past.
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March 15, 2009
For Americans who hear the name Washington Post and still think of “All the President’s Men” – brave journalists and editors facing down a corrupt President – today’s version of the newspaper would be a sad disappointment, a betrayal of a noble past.
Read on.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
The Brave, Living and Dead
By Michael Winship
March 14, 2009
In this bicentennial year of Abraham Lincoln's birth, I recently was re-reading part of Doris Kearns Goodwin's epic history, Team of Rivals.
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March 14, 2009
In this bicentennial year of Abraham Lincoln's birth, I recently was re-reading part of Doris Kearns Goodwin's epic history, Team of Rivals.
Read on.
Gates Carries Over Iraq-WMD Lie
By Melvin A. Goodman
March 14, 2009
March 14, 2009
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Robert Gates to be Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), but he was denied confirmation because a majority of members on the Senate Intelligence Committee believed he was lying about his knowledge and role in the Iran-Contra Affair.
Friday, March 13, 2009
War Crimes & American Rejectionism
By Peter Dyer
March 13, 2009
On June 13, 1899, one of the largest battles of the Philippine-American war took place on the southern outskirts of Manila.
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March 13, 2009
On June 13, 1899, one of the largest battles of the Philippine-American war took place on the southern outskirts of Manila.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
Israel Lobby Knocks Out Freeman
By Melvin A. Goodman
March 12, 2009
March 12, 2009
Israel is capable of debating sensitive national security issues dealing with a variety of Israeli-Arab issues, but this does not appear to be possible in the United States.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Oh, What a Lovely Class War!
By Michael Winship
March 11, 2009
My goodness, how they howl when the proverbial shoe is on the proverbial other foot. You'd think the Red Army had just left Moscow and was preparing a frontal assault on the Federal Reserve.
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March 11, 2009
My goodness, how they howl when the proverbial shoe is on the proverbial other foot. You'd think the Red Army had just left Moscow and was preparing a frontal assault on the Federal Reserve.
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Timidity Derails Obama Intel Choice
By Ray McGovern
March 11, 2009
On Tuesday morning, Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis Blair, employed the indicative mood in describing the high value that Chas Freeman, his appointee to head the National Intelligence Council (NIC), will bring to the job — “his long experience and inventive mind,” for example.
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March 11, 2009
On Tuesday morning, Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis Blair, employed the indicative mood in describing the high value that Chas Freeman, his appointee to head the National Intelligence Council (NIC), will bring to the job — “his long experience and inventive mind,” for example.
Read on.
The Neocons Strike Back
By Robert Parry
March 11, 2009
The neoconservatives have demonstrated that their power in Washington remains strong as they have succeeded in keeping veteran diplomat Chas Freeman out of a top intelligence job.
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March 11, 2009
The neoconservatives have demonstrated that their power in Washington remains strong as they have succeeded in keeping veteran diplomat Chas Freeman out of a top intelligence job.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Can Obama's Change Find El Salvador?
By Don North
March 11, 2009
More than a quarter century ago, the U.S. government under Ronald Reagan drew a Cold War line in El Salvador and made the defeat of the leftist Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (the FMLN) a major foreign policy goal.
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March 11, 2009
More than a quarter century ago, the U.S. government under Ronald Reagan drew a Cold War line in El Salvador and made the defeat of the leftist Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (the FMLN) a major foreign policy goal.
Read on.
Finally, Putting Country First
By Brent Budowsky
March 10, 2009
We Americans have our backs against the financial wall. We are in a war against fear, greed and corruption of the marketplace.
Read on.
March 10, 2009
We Americans have our backs against the financial wall. We are in a war against fear, greed and corruption of the marketplace.
Read on.
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