Saturday, May 08, 2010

The Dangers of Madcap Capitalism

By Danny Schechter
May 8, 2010

The Wall Street Journal headline on the day after we almost lost the U.S. stock market reported that the wise men on the Street were “baffled” by the big drop Thursday. The Financial Times called the event “Shambolic” as if only a shaman can decode it.

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Kent State & the Left's Lack of Resolve

By Michael Winship
May 8, 2010

I was a freshman at Georgetown University when it happened, 40 years ago on May 4.

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Thursday, May 06, 2010

Key October Surprise Evidence Hidden

By Robert Parry
May 6, 2010

A Russian government report, which corroborated allegations that Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign interfered with President Jimmy Carter’s Iran-hostage negotiations in 1980, was apparently kept from the Democratic chairman of a congressional task force that investigated the charges a dozen years later.

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The Original Anti-War Mother's Day

By Gary G. Kohls
May 6, 2010

In 1870 – 140 years ago – the disastrous human consequences of the American Civil War were becoming increasingly apparent, especially to the mothers of sons and the wives of husbands who had watched as these men proudly and patriotically marched off to “glorious” war a decade earlier.

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Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Loose Lips on Iran Can Sink America

By Ray McGovern
May 5, 2010

The omnipresent World War II-era poster with the words “Loose Lips Sink Ships” served as a warning to members of the U.S. military to take heed lest they divulge information that could tip off the enemy and result in defeat in battle.

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BP Flouted US Safety Rules

By Jason Leopold
May 5, 2010

The troubles of oil giant BP are not limited to its Gulf of Mexico operations, where a deadly blast aboard a drilling rig two weeks ago ruptured an oil well 5,000 feet below the sea's surface and triggered a massive oil leak that is now the size of a small country.

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Tuesday, May 04, 2010

The Tea Party's Blind Eye on Torture

By Ivan Eland
May 4, 2010

In an op-ed piece in the Christian Science Monitor, James Bovard points out that the love of liberty by the Tea Party crowd usually takes a backseat to a hatred of President Obama and the Left.

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Did Kent State Have to Happen?

By Robert Parry
May 4, 2010

Forty years ago, the United States took a very ugly turn as President Richard Nixon’s escalated the war in Indochina by invading Cambodia, prompting angry college protests, including a confrontation at Kent State which ended with National Guardsmen killing four students on May 4, 1970.

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Monday, May 03, 2010

The Death of a Cynical WPost Editor

By Robert Parry
May 3, 2010

The death of former Washington Post editorial writer Stephen Rosenfeld at age 77 has prompted the usual praise heaped on any well-respected insider at his passing. But little note has been made of Rosenfeld’s role in steering the Post to the neoconservative harbor where it’s now anchored.

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Fraud: America's New Watchword

By Mark Ames
May 3, 2010

Ever since I got kicked out of Russia and forced back home, I’ve been collecting all kinds of news articles about fraud, in a document file titled “America Is Russia.” Here’s a little taste of the wonderful world of American Fraud:

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Explaining the Plunder and the Crime

By Danny Schecter
May 3, 2010

In politics, it’s always all about the narrative, about how issues are framed.

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Sunday, May 02, 2010

Does Obama Know the War He's In?

By Robert Parry
May 2, 2010

In addressing the University of Michigan graduating class, President Barack Obama pleaded for increased “civility” in American politics and in the media, faulting extremes of the Left and the Right for the ugly acrimony that is sapping the nation’s ability to address serious problems.

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