12 Articles

Friday, November 20, 2009
The Washington establishment suffers a serious defeat
(3 comments) Populist anger over elite-favoring economic policies has long been brewing on both the Right and Left (and in between), but neither political party can capitalize on it because they're both dependent upon and subservient to the same elite interests which benefit from those policies.

Sunday, October 11, 2009
Has There Been a Virtual Coup D'Etat by Wall Street? Who Own Our Government?
(7 comments) The Administration refused to break the power of the big banks, when they had the opportunity, earlier this year. And the regulatory reforms they are now pursuing will turn out to be essentially meaningless.

Friday, October 9, 2009
A historian's account of Democrats and Bush-era war crimes
This war on transparency is all culminating with a White House-backed effort -- spearheaded by key ally Joe Lieberman -- to sweep aside two federal court rulings and to write a new exemption for FOIA that has no purpose but to prevent the world from seeing new and critical evidence of systematic American war crimes.

Friday, September 25, 2009
Victory on preventive detention law: in context
Obama is continuing the unconstitutional practice begun by the Bush Administration of imprisoning "suspects" without charges and without a public trial. He recently backed down from seeking a law that would pretend to legitimize this practice. "Preventive detention" is indefensible militariliy, morally, and legally.

Sunday, August 2, 2009
GE's silencing of Olbermann and MSNBC's sleazy use of Richard Wolffe
(4 comments) We have an example of GE's forcibly silencing the top-rated commentator on MSNBC -- ordering him not to hold Fox News accountable any longer -- because, in return, News Corp. has agreed to silence its own commentators from criticizing GE. The corporations that own our largest news organizations have extensive relationships with the federal government.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Stephen Colbert on Chuck Todd and torture investigations
It was the regime itself, implemented at the highest levels of our government, that was criminal. Prosecuting only low-level interrogators who followed the torturing spirit of those policies but transgressed some bureaucratic guidelines would be a travesty.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Glenn Greenwald: The Obama Justice System
(12 comments) ...what has clearly emerged as the core "principle" of Obama justice when it comes to accused Terrorists -- namely, "due process" is pure window dressing with only one goal: to ensure that anyone the President wants to keep imprisoned will remain in prison.

Sunday, June 21, 2009
Obama, the Right and defendants' rights
This was yet another case where the Obama DOJ sided with the Bush administration and advocated the position that the conservative justices adopted. The Obama DOJ aggressively argued before the Court that convicted criminals have no constitutional right to access evidence for DNA analysis.

Friday, April 24, 2009
Democratic complicity and what "politicizing justice" really means
(16 comments) Those who make that argument are clearly projecting. They view everything in partisan and political terms -- it's why virtually all media discussions are about what David Gregory calls "the politics of the torture debate" rather than the substantive issues surrounding these serious crimes -- and they are thus incapable of understanding that not everyone is burdened by the same sad affliction that plagues them.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009
The Pulitzer-winning investigation that dare not be uttered on TV
(4 comments) The NYT David Barstow won a Pulitzer Prize for two articles that were completely suppressed by virtually every network and cable news show--tenacious reporting that revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and TV analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended.

Saturday, August 30, 2008
Massive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis
(10 comments) Protesters here in Minneapolis have been targeted by a series of highly intimidating, sweeping police raids across the city, involving teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of those suspected of planning protests, handcuffing and forcing them to lay on the floor, while law enforcement officers searched the homes, seizing computers, journals, and political pamphlets.

Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Angry, uncivil liberal bloggers
(1 comments) any talk by right wingers about the left's hatred for the right is pretty clearly balanced out by this New Republic Cover calling Judith Plame, the C Word-- and that doesn't satnd for conservative. It's time, on this issue, for the right to STFU.