By Robert Parry
April 4, 2009
When reading Washington Post editorials, one often is reminded of the famous question from “Shawshank Redemption”: “How can you be so obtuse?”
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Saturday, April 04, 2009
Friday, April 03, 2009
Miss Universe's Excellent Adventure
By Michael Winship
April 3, 2009
April 3, 2009
"A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in." That was Frederick the Great of Prussia's take on the pain of being royalty.
'Torture Memo' May Finally Go Public
By Jason Leopold
April 3, 2009
The world may finally get to read the Bush administration’s infamous “torture memo,” the Aug. 1, 2002, document that provided legal cover for the brutal and humiliating treatment of detainees in George W. Bush’s “war on terror.”
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April 3, 2009
The world may finally get to read the Bush administration’s infamous “torture memo,” the Aug. 1, 2002, document that provided legal cover for the brutal and humiliating treatment of detainees in George W. Bush’s “war on terror.”
Read on.
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Leahy Faults GOP Partisanship on Bush
By Jason Leopold
April 2, 2009
April 2, 2009
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said the refusal of Republicans to act in a non-partisan way has hobbled his plan for a “truth commission” that would examine alleged Bush administration abuses.
Truth, Crimes, Commissions and Hope
By David Swanson
April 2, 2009
Good news is being taken as bad. Vermont constituents of Sen. Patrick Leahy report that he's finding very little support for his proposed truth and reconciliation commission from Republicans or Democrats in the Senate. Numerous people have taken this as bad news and cause to despair. I disagree.
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April 2, 2009
Good news is being taken as bad. Vermont constituents of Sen. Patrick Leahy report that he's finding very little support for his proposed truth and reconciliation commission from Republicans or Democrats in the Senate. Numerous people have taken this as bad news and cause to despair. I disagree.
Read on.
I.F. Stone's Son on New Izzy Award
By Jeremy Stone
April 2, 2009
Amy Goodman and Glenn Greenwald shared the first "Izzy Award" for independent journalism named for the legendary I.F. Stone.
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April 2, 2009
Amy Goodman and Glenn Greenwald shared the first "Izzy Award" for independent journalism named for the legendary I.F. Stone.
Read on.
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Leahy Bails on 'Truth Commission' Plan
By Charlotte Dennett
April 1, 2009
Those of you following the George W. Bush prosecution trail will be interested to know that Patrick Leahy’s “truth commission” is a no-go. I was in a meeting with Leahy and four other Vermonters on Monday when he broke the news to us.
Read on.
April 1, 2009
Those of you following the George W. Bush prosecution trail will be interested to know that Patrick Leahy’s “truth commission” is a no-go. I was in a meeting with Leahy and four other Vermonters on Monday when he broke the news to us.
Read on.
Bush Aides Changed Watchdog Report
By Jason Leopold
April 1, 2009
Before leaving office, senior Bush administration lawyers secured changes in a Justice Department watchdog agency’s report that reportedly was sharply critical of legal opinions granting President George W. Bush sweeping powers, including the right to abuse “war on terror” captives.
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April 1, 2009
Before leaving office, senior Bush administration lawyers secured changes in a Justice Department watchdog agency’s report that reportedly was sharply critical of legal opinions granting President George W. Bush sweeping powers, including the right to abuse “war on terror” captives.
Read on.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
To Bush's GWOT, RIP
By Robert Parry
March 31, 2009
President Barack Obama has come under some criticism for slowing his promised withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and for beefing up U.S. forces in Afghanistan, but his 70-day-old administration at least has dumped one part of George W. Bush’s bellicose foreign policy: the phrase “global war on terror.”
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March 31, 2009
President Barack Obama has come under some criticism for slowing his promised withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and for beefing up U.S. forces in Afghanistan, but his 70-day-old administration at least has dumped one part of George W. Bush’s bellicose foreign policy: the phrase “global war on terror.”
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The President's Troublesome 'Friends'
By Ivan Eland
March 31, 2009
President Warren Harding once said, “I have no trouble with my enemies,” but noted that his friends “keep me walking the floor nights.” That maxim should have applied to U.S. foreign policy since 9/11 and even before that.
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March 31, 2009
President Warren Harding once said, “I have no trouble with my enemies,” but noted that his friends “keep me walking the floor nights.” That maxim should have applied to U.S. foreign policy since 9/11 and even before that.
Read on.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Democrats Duck Bush Torture Probe
By Jason Leopold
March 30, 2009
Despite now overwhelming evidence that ex-President George W. Bush and many top aides engaged in a systematic policy of illegal torture, national Democrats appear to be shying away from their recommendation last year for a special prosecutor to investigate these apparent war crimes.
March 30, 2009
Despite now overwhelming evidence that ex-President George W. Bush and many top aides engaged in a systematic policy of illegal torture, national Democrats appear to be shying away from their recommendation last year for a special prosecutor to investigate these apparent war crimes.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Spanish Judge Probes Bush Torture
By David Swanson
March 29, 2009
Spain has begun a criminal investigation into six of Bush and Cheney's torture lawyers, and our own Justice Department has got some 'splaining to do.
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March 29, 2009
Spain has begun a criminal investigation into six of Bush and Cheney's torture lawyers, and our own Justice Department has got some 'splaining to do.
Read on.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President
By Ray McGovern
March 28, 2009
I was wrong. I had been saying that it would be naïve to take too seriously presidential candidate Barack Obama’s rhetoric regarding the need to escalate the war in Afghanistan.
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March 28, 2009
I was wrong. I had been saying that it would be naïve to take too seriously presidential candidate Barack Obama’s rhetoric regarding the need to escalate the war in Afghanistan.
Read on.
Friday, March 27, 2009
The MSM and Swimming Naked
By Robert Parry
March 28, 2009
There’s a Wall Street saying about what happens to traders who have taken too many chances, when the stock prices ebb: “When the tide goes out,” it’s said, “you see who’s been swimming naked” – what might be called the ultimate consequence of a bear (or bare) market.
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March 28, 2009
There’s a Wall Street saying about what happens to traders who have taken too many chances, when the stock prices ebb: “When the tide goes out,” it’s said, “you see who’s been swimming naked” – what might be called the ultimate consequence of a bear (or bare) market.
Read on.
No Angry Mob, But a Movement
By Michael Winship
March 27, 2009
A college friend of mine, after much quaffing from the keg, so to speak, would start singing a faux hymn that began, “We are sliding into sin – whee!”
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March 27, 2009
A college friend of mine, after much quaffing from the keg, so to speak, would start singing a faux hymn that began, “We are sliding into sin – whee!”
Read on.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Iraqi Civil Strife Threatens US Pullout
By Ivan Eland
March 27, 2009
Bosnian Serb leaders have threatened to withdraw from Bosnia-Herzegovina, the decentralized entity created by the 1995 Dayton Accords, which ended a brutal civil war in the Balkans that killed more than 100,000 people in the early 1990s.
Read on.
March 27, 2009
Bosnian Serb leaders have threatened to withdraw from Bosnia-Herzegovina, the decentralized entity created by the 1995 Dayton Accords, which ended a brutal civil war in the Balkans that killed more than 100,000 people in the early 1990s.
Read on.
Lost History Hurts Obama's Iran Bid
By Robert Parry
March 26, 2009
March 26, 2009
President Barack Obama and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke past each other in a recent exchange partly because both countries nurse historical grievances against the other and neither has fully acknowledged that mutual history dating back three decades.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Bush's 'Lawyer-Shopping' for Torture
By Jason Leopold
March 24, 2009
March 24, 2009
In 2005, after pushing out the Justice Department lawyer who had overturned President George W. Bush’s claimed authority to abuse “war on terror” prisoners, his administration reinstated key elements of the memos granting Bush virtually unlimited powers over the detainees, according to a list of still-secret documents.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Laissez Unfair
By Brent Budowsky
March 24, 2009
This is a tale of Washington, Wall Street and wounded troops. It is a story about socialism for the few who game the system and Darwinian capitalism against the many who suffer the pain and pay the cost.
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March 24, 2009
This is a tale of Washington, Wall Street and wounded troops. It is a story about socialism for the few who game the system and Darwinian capitalism against the many who suffer the pain and pay the cost.
Read on.
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