By Danny Schechter
June 26, 2010
The Sturm und Drang is over. The Bank lobbyists went home to collect their bonuses as the House and Senate agreed on a 2,000-page financial “reform” quickly praised by the White House and superficially covered in the press.
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Saturday, June 26, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
Is Financial 'Reform' a Charade?
By Danny Schechter
June 25, 2010
charade | sh əˈrād| noun, an absurd pretense intended to create a pleasant or respectable appearance : talk of unity was nothing more than a charade.
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June 25, 2010
charade | sh əˈrād| noun, an absurd pretense intended to create a pleasant or respectable appearance : talk of unity was nothing more than a charade.
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
Obama Misses Afghan Exit Ramp
By Ray McGovern
June 24, 2010
Is President Barack Obama so dense that he could not see why Gen. Stanley McChrystal might actually have wanted to be fired — and rescued from the current March of Folly in Afghanistan, a mess much of his own making?
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June 24, 2010
Is President Barack Obama so dense that he could not see why Gen. Stanley McChrystal might actually have wanted to be fired — and rescued from the current March of Folly in Afghanistan, a mess much of his own making?
Read on.
The CIA/Likud Sinking of Jimmy Carter
By Robert Parry
June 24, 2010
As the Official Story of the 1980 October Surprise case crumbles – with new revelations that key evidence was hidden from investigators of a congressional task force and that internal doubts were suppressed – history must finally confront the troubling impression that remains: that disgruntled elements of the CIA and Israel’s Likud hardliners teamed up to remove a U.S. president from office.
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June 24, 2010
As the Official Story of the 1980 October Surprise case crumbles – with new revelations that key evidence was hidden from investigators of a congressional task force and that internal doubts were suppressed – history must finally confront the troubling impression that remains: that disgruntled elements of the CIA and Israel’s Likud hardliners teamed up to remove a U.S. president from office.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Obama's Truman-MacArthur Moment
By Ray McGovern
June 22, 2010
Journalist Michael Hastings has given Rolling Stone magazine a graphic account of the arrogance, disarray and ineptitude that distinguish what passes for President Barack Obama’s policy on Afghanistan. For those of us with some gray in our hair, the fiasco is infuriatingly reminiscent of Vietnam.
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June 22, 2010
Journalist Michael Hastings has given Rolling Stone magazine a graphic account of the arrogance, disarray and ineptitude that distinguish what passes for President Barack Obama’s policy on Afghanistan. For those of us with some gray in our hair, the fiasco is infuriatingly reminiscent of Vietnam.
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Evita, the Swiss and the Nazis (from the Archive)
By Georg Hodel
June 22, 2010 (Originally published Jan. 7, 1999)
On June 6, 1947, Argentina's first lady Eva Peron left for a glittering tour of Europe.
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June 22, 2010 (Originally published Jan. 7, 1999)
On June 6, 1947, Argentina's first lady Eva Peron left for a glittering tour of Europe.
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Hung Out to Dry (From the Archive)
By Georg Hodel
June 22, 2010 (Originally published Summer 1997)
The "Dark Alliance" contra-crack series, which I co-reported with Gary Webb, has died with less a bang or a whimper than a gloat from the mainstream press.
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June 22, 2010 (Originally published Summer 1997)
The "Dark Alliance" contra-crack series, which I co-reported with Gary Webb, has died with less a bang or a whimper than a gloat from the mainstream press.
Read on.
Propaganda and Iran's Election
By Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
June 22, 2010
It is almost a commonplace that the flow of information, opinion, and moral indignation in the United States adapts well to the demands of state policy.
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June 22, 2010
It is almost a commonplace that the flow of information, opinion, and moral indignation in the United States adapts well to the demands of state policy.
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Monday, June 21, 2010
Turkey Resists Showdown with Iran
By Ivan Eland
June 21, 2010
The sad truth is that if Iran wants a nuclear weapon, it will likely eventually get one.
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June 21, 2010
The sad truth is that if Iran wants a nuclear weapon, it will likely eventually get one.
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Letting Corporate Criminals Rule
By Danny Schechter
June 21, 2010
It seems clear that BP can’t seem to fix the catastrophic gusher the press calls a “leak,” and that President Obama can’t fix the economy because its problems are structural and won’t respond to soaring rhetoric emanating from his bully pulpit.
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June 21, 2010
It seems clear that BP can’t seem to fix the catastrophic gusher the press calls a “leak,” and that President Obama can’t fix the economy because its problems are structural and won’t respond to soaring rhetoric emanating from his bully pulpit.
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
Christians and the Environment
By Rev. Howard Bess
June 19, 2010
With few exceptions Christians are keeping their mouths shut about the impending disaster that we and our world face. Collectively, we have created a life-style that cannot be sustained on the globe on which we live.
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June 19, 2010
With few exceptions Christians are keeping their mouths shut about the impending disaster that we and our world face. Collectively, we have created a life-style that cannot be sustained on the globe on which we live.
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US Soldier Alleges '360' Firing in Iraq
By Ralph Lopez
June 19, 2010
If even a small fraction of what former Bravo Company 2-16 soldier Ethan McCord is saying is true, that orders were given at a battalion level in Iraq for "360 rotational fire" against civilians in order to "kill every motherfucker in the street," upon being hit by an IED, then Congress must investigate.
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June 19, 2010
If even a small fraction of what former Bravo Company 2-16 soldier Ethan McCord is saying is true, that orders were given at a battalion level in Iraq for "360 rotational fire" against civilians in order to "kill every motherfucker in the street," upon being hit by an IED, then Congress must investigate.
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Friday, June 18, 2010
The Challenge of Being Miley
By Michael Winship
June 18, 2010
Amidst all the news of petrochemical malfeasance in the Gulf - and thank you Rep. Joe Barton, pride of Texas, for your apology to BP, demonstrating everything that's wrong with a Congress jammed too snugly in the pocket of big business - I watched teen sensation Miley Cyrus on David Letterman Thursday night.
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June 18, 2010
Amidst all the news of petrochemical malfeasance in the Gulf - and thank you Rep. Joe Barton, pride of Texas, for your apology to BP, demonstrating everything that's wrong with a Congress jammed too snugly in the pocket of big business - I watched teen sensation Miley Cyrus on David Letterman Thursday night.
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Witness: US Agent Aimed at Mexican
By Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss
June 18, 2010
An eyewitness to the June 7 shooting death of a 14-year-old Mexican youth said a U.S. Border Patrol agent took aim at the boy for several seconds after the boy emerged from behind a pillar of a bridge on the Juarez side of the border near El Paso, Texas.
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June 18, 2010
An eyewitness to the June 7 shooting death of a 14-year-old Mexican youth said a U.S. Border Patrol agent took aim at the boy for several seconds after the boy emerged from behind a pillar of a bridge on the Juarez side of the border near El Paso, Texas.
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
The Tricky October Surprise Report
By Robert Parry
June 17, 2010
A congressional report on a turning point of modern U.S. political history – whether candidate Ronald Reagan struck a treacherous deal with Iranian radicals to help win the White House in 1980 – was written haphazardly and deceptively, including an apparently false claim that Reagan’s innocence was approved unanimously by a House task force.
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June 17, 2010
A congressional report on a turning point of modern U.S. political history – whether candidate Ronald Reagan struck a treacherous deal with Iranian radicals to help win the White House in 1980 – was written haphazardly and deceptively, including an apparently false claim that Reagan’s innocence was approved unanimously by a House task force.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
How US Media Botched Iran's Election
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
June 17, 2010
June 17, 2010
Foreign Policy's seven-part series, "Misreading Tehran," is, for the most part, a disappointing example of the phenomenon it purports to explain -- inaccurate interpretations of Iranian politics surrounding the Islamic Republic's June 12, 2009, presidential election. Such misinterpretation has had a deeply corrosive effect on the debate about America's Iran policy.
Zionism and a Dreamscape of Ghosts
By Phil Rockstroh
June 16, 2010
Although my mother fled Nazi Germany, as a child, on a Kindertransport, with a few family valuables sown into her clothing, and I was brought up on the myths and hagiography of the Zionist state, I, over time, came to recognize the folly of the whole colonialist enterprise — the folly of ethnic exclusion and expulsion, the inherent tragedy of nationalism based on the delusion of religious birthright.
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June 16, 2010
Although my mother fled Nazi Germany, as a child, on a Kindertransport, with a few family valuables sown into her clothing, and I was brought up on the myths and hagiography of the Zionist state, I, over time, came to recognize the folly of the whole colonialist enterprise — the folly of ethnic exclusion and expulsion, the inherent tragedy of nationalism based on the delusion of religious birthright.
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Prudhoe Bay, BP's Other Ticking Bomb
By Jason Leopold
June 16, 2010
Nearly 5,000 miles from the oil-spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, BP and its culture of cost-cutting are contributing to another environmental mess in the Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska’s north shore, according to internal BP documents and more than a dozen employees interviewed over the past month.
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June 16, 2010
Nearly 5,000 miles from the oil-spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, BP and its culture of cost-cutting are contributing to another environmental mess in the Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska’s north shore, according to internal BP documents and more than a dozen employees interviewed over the past month.
Read on.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Wikileak Case Echoes Pentagon Papers
By Coleen Rowley and Robert Parry
June 15, 2010
Almost four decades after Defense Department insider Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers – thus exposing the lies that led the United States into the Vietnam War – another courageous “national security leaker” has stepped forward and now is facing retaliation similar to what the U.S. government tried to inflict on Ellsberg.
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June 15, 2010
Almost four decades after Defense Department insider Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers – thus exposing the lies that led the United States into the Vietnam War – another courageous “national security leaker” has stepped forward and now is facing retaliation similar to what the U.S. government tried to inflict on Ellsberg.
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