By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
April 2, 2010
Forty-two years ago, on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, gunned down in Memphis, Tennessee.
Read on.
Friday, April 02, 2010
The Bomb-Bomb-Iran 'Parlor Game'
By Robert Parry
April 2, 2010
Normally, if two countries with powerful nuclear arsenals were openly musing about attacking a third country over mere suspicions that it might want to join the nuclear club, we’d tend to sympathize with the non-nuclear underdog as the victim of bullying and possible aggression.
Read on.
April 2, 2010
Normally, if two countries with powerful nuclear arsenals were openly musing about attacking a third country over mere suspicions that it might want to join the nuclear club, we’d tend to sympathize with the non-nuclear underdog as the victim of bullying and possible aggression.
Read on.
Thursday, April 01, 2010
US Recants Zubaydah's Terror Charges
By Jason Leopold
April 1, 2010
April 1, 2010
The Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration made about Abu Zubaydah, the alleged al-Qaeda leader who was the first suspected terrorist subjected to the torture of waterboarding and other White House-approved “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
A Method to Republican 'Madness'
By Robert Parry
March 31, 2010
Washington’s conventional wisdom for explaining the intensity of Republican obstructionism toward President Barack Obama breaks down one of two ways: either it’s a philosophical disagreement over the role of government or a desperate need to stay in line with a radicalized right-wing base.
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March 31, 2010
Washington’s conventional wisdom for explaining the intensity of Republican obstructionism toward President Barack Obama breaks down one of two ways: either it’s a philosophical disagreement over the role of government or a desperate need to stay in line with a radicalized right-wing base.
Read on.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
King's Prophetic Words of Peace
By Gary G. Kohls
March 30, 2010
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death,” warned Martin Luther King Jr. in his famous speech at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967, 43 years ago this Easter Sunday.
Read on.
March 30, 2010
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death,” warned Martin Luther King Jr. in his famous speech at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967, 43 years ago this Easter Sunday.
Read on.
Why Pope Benedict Must Resign
By Daniel C. Maguire
March 28, 2010
Milwaukee has now replaced Boston and other competing centers as the epicenter of priest sexual crimes against children.
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March 28, 2010
Milwaukee has now replaced Boston and other competing centers as the epicenter of priest sexual crimes against children.
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
A Surprise Tea-Party Confrontation
By Richard L. Fricker
March 28, 2010
When I visited the Capitol grounds on March 21, the day the House of Representatives passed healthcare reform, I was aware that some protesters there had been directing violence, threats and insults against members of Congress, but I was surprised when I ended up on the receiving end of some abuse myself.
Read on.
March 28, 2010
When I visited the Capitol grounds on March 21, the day the House of Representatives passed healthcare reform, I was aware that some protesters there had been directing violence, threats and insults against members of Congress, but I was surprised when I ended up on the receiving end of some abuse myself.
Read on.
US-Israeli Relations at a Crossroads
By Melvin A. Goodman
March 28, 2010
Former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban once said that the Palestinians "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." Well, the same can be said for the Israelis and particularly their prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
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March 28, 2010
Former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban once said that the Palestinians "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." Well, the same can be said for the Israelis and particularly their prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Read on.
Welcoming a CIA Official at Fordham
By Debra Sweet
March 28, 2010
March 28, 2010
I'm not sure what was worse; sitting in an auditorium for a speech by the head of CIA clandestine operations, or having most of the audience give a standing ovation afterward. There were some low points in between, too.
Read on.Saturday, March 27, 2010
The GOP's Double Standard on Anger
By Nat Parry
March 27, 2010
In the wake of the bitter health-care debate and some ugly incidents of violence against Democratic members of Congress, there have been some belated – and halfhearted – appeals from Republican leaders to tamp down the fiery rhetoric on the Right.
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March 27, 2010
In the wake of the bitter health-care debate and some ugly incidents of violence against Democratic members of Congress, there have been some belated – and halfhearted – appeals from Republican leaders to tamp down the fiery rhetoric on the Right.
Read on.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Incredible Lightness of Reform
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
March 26, 2010
That wickedly satirical Ambrose Bierce described politics as "the conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
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March 26, 2010
That wickedly satirical Ambrose Bierce described politics as "the conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
Read on.
The Right Finds Virtue in Extremism
By Lisa Pease
March 26, 2010
During his acceptance speech at the 1964 Republican convention, presidential candidate Barry Goldwater famously said, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.” But was he correct?
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March 26, 2010
During his acceptance speech at the 1964 Republican convention, presidential candidate Barry Goldwater famously said, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.” But was he correct?
Read on.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
The Politics of 'Corrections'
By Robert Parry
March 25, 2010
Perhaps nothing measures the imbalance of media and political power in the United States better than the decision-making by major news organizations about when to issue “corrections.”
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March 25, 2010
Perhaps nothing measures the imbalance of media and political power in the United States better than the decision-making by major news organizations about when to issue “corrections.”
Read on.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The Politics of Media
By Robert Parry
March 24, 2010
If you believed what you saw on Tuesday’s NBC evening news or what you read in the Washington Post’s lead editorial on Wednesday, you wouldn’t have a clue that Republicans are engaged in a scorched-earth political strategy to destroy the Obama administration.
Read on.
March 24, 2010
If you believed what you saw on Tuesday’s NBC evening news or what you read in the Washington Post’s lead editorial on Wednesday, you wouldn’t have a clue that Republicans are engaged in a scorched-earth political strategy to destroy the Obama administration.
Read on.
El Salvador: Ghosts at the Polls
By Don North
March 24, 2010 (Originally published June 24, 2009)
“If they kill me, I shall arise again in the Salvadoran people,” said Archbishop Oscar Romero in March 1980, just two weeks before he was gunned down by a sniper while saying Mass.
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March 24, 2010 (Originally published June 24, 2009)
“If they kill me, I shall arise again in the Salvadoran people,” said Archbishop Oscar Romero in March 1980, just two weeks before he was gunned down by a sniper while saying Mass.
Read on.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Making Unneeded Enemies in Somalia
By Ivan Eland
March 23, 2010
Although the Clinton administration’s debacle in Somalia in the early 1990s is most famous — as depicted in the Hollywood blockbuster “Black Hawk Down” — more recent American meddling by the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations may have worse long-term effects.
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March 23, 2010
Although the Clinton administration’s debacle in Somalia in the early 1990s is most famous — as depicted in the Hollywood blockbuster “Black Hawk Down” — more recent American meddling by the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations may have worse long-term effects.
Read on.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Obama, Free at Last on Health Care
By Robert Parry
March 22, 2010
The long-delayed passage of health-care reform may indeed be a historic moment for the United States, but it also marks something else – the moment when President Barack Obama has been freed, finally, to pursue a more innovative foreign policy, including a more aggressive approach to Middle East peace.
Read on.
March 22, 2010
The long-delayed passage of health-care reform may indeed be a historic moment for the United States, but it also marks something else – the moment when President Barack Obama has been freed, finally, to pursue a more innovative foreign policy, including a more aggressive approach to Middle East peace.
Read on.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Calling Out Yoo on Presidential Power
By David Swanson
March 21, 2010
I had the opportunity to ask war lawyer John Yoo a couple of questions on Friday. The situation was not ideal, with someone else holding the microphone and deferring to the witness, and other people heckling, and other people shouting at the hecklers.
Read on.
March 21, 2010
I had the opportunity to ask war lawyer John Yoo a couple of questions on Friday. The situation was not ideal, with someone else holding the microphone and deferring to the witness, and other people heckling, and other people shouting at the hecklers.
Read on.
NYT Admits Getting Duped on ACORN
By Robert Parry
March 21, 2010
March 21, 2010
The New York Times admits, sort of, that it got duped by right-wing propagandists who appear to have succeeded in a plot to destroy ACORN, an organization that for four decades has aided and defended the poor and powerless across the United States.
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