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Sunday, October 18, 2009
Behind Closed Doors: Our Health-care Future
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Sens. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.) work to merge two competing versions of health-care legislation into one bill.

Sunday, October 18, 2009
Monty Python, Colin Powell and the Terror Industrial Complex
Leave it to Monty Python's Terry Gilliam - Python's 'Yank-in-the-wood-pile', director of 'Brazil', 'Twelve Monkeys' and other cinematic adventures - to pitch a zinger to Keith Olbermann. To wit, "Why didn't Colin Powell's interview about the 'Terror Industrial Complex' become a bigger story?" Indeed; Why? The answer, of course, is revealed by asking another question; why aren't US forces and contractors out of Iraq?

Saturday, October 10, 2009
Iraq War Resolution Revisited
When you hear people say: "If only we had known then what we know now," remember, some did know of the false case for war against Iraq. And since so many know now that we should not have gone to war against Iraq, then why are we still there?

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Skahill Blasts New York Times for War Propoganda
NY Times' Andy Webster Whines That 'Rethink Afghanistan' Film is Not "Balanced". The ‘paper of record' also complains that Robert Greenwald's film has no ‘sympathy' for pro-war views.

Sunday, October 4, 2009
The Framing of al-Megrahi for the Lockerbie Bombing
Only a simpleton could believe that al-Megrahi, convicted for the Lockerbie bombing, was not recently returned to his home in Libya because it suited Britain. More important than the present passing political furor over his early release is whether any aspect of the investigation that led to al-Megrahi's original conviction was about oil, or dictated by factors that should have no place in a prosecution process.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Scott Ritter Warns Against “Politically Motivated Hype”
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter joins Democracy Now! to discuss what he calls “politically motivated hype” over Iran's nuclear program. The Obama administration has warned of sanctions unless Iran allows inspections of a newly disclosed nuclear site. Iran insists the site has been used for peaceful purposes.

Friday, August 14, 2009
The Family - Totalitarianism for Christ
(5 comments) Author Jeff Sharlet exposes a most pernicious fundamentalist religious cult with power and influence in Washington which seeks a global totalitarian government with Jesus as its Supreme Leader. Sound like an L. Ron Hubbard novel? This stranger-than-fiction theocratic movement has been guiding US foreign and domestic policy for decades.

Monday, February 9, 2009
KBR: War Profiteering & Corruption Charges
Private defense contractor KBR was awarded a $35 million dollar contract for electrical work in Iraq by the Army Corps of Engineers last week. The former Halliburton subsidiary got the Pentagon contract even though it is under criminal investigation for the deaths of at least two American soldiers in Iraq caused by improperly installed or maintained electrical equipment.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Rep Conyers Calls Investigation of Bush Crimes 'Our Responsibility'
Faced with a record of widespread warrantless surveillance inside the United States, brutal interrogation policies condemned by the administration's own head of the Guantanamo Bay military commissions as torture, and flawed rendition practices that resulted in innocent men being abducted and handed to other countries to face barbaric abuse, what actions will we take to meet our commitment to the rule of law and reclaim our sta

Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Prosecute George W. Bush for Illegal Acts
The stakes are high, and the Obama administration needs to beat down the autocratic prece­­­dents left by the previous administration. The only way it can do so is by bringing criminal cases against the high level perpetrators.

Thursday, January 22, 2009
Top UN Official Calls for Indictment of Bush and Rumsfeld
(1 comments) The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak urged the indictment of outgoing US President George W. Bush and his former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld for their role in the torture and abuse of prisoners in the Guantanamo prison camp.

Thursday, January 22, 2009
DOJ Considering Special Counsel to Probe Bush's Torture Policy
(4 comments) The Department of Justice is giving "serious thought" to a recommendation proposed by a leading Democratic lawmaker to appoint a special counsel to conduct a criminal probe into the interrogation practices enacted during the Bush administration, according to three DOJ lawyers.

Thursday, January 22, 2009
Bush Used Domestic Spy Program On American Journalists
Former analyst at the National Security Agency, Russell Tice, exclusively reveals to Countdown's Keith Olbermann that American journalists where specifically targeted by the Bush administration for surveillance. Tice feared revealing this information while George Bush occupied the Oval office.

Saturday, January 17, 2009
Bush's Farewell Address: Still Delusional After All These Years
Thursday night's valedictory speech was quintessential Bush: delusional from beginning to end.

Saturday, January 17, 2009
Bush's Original Farewell Address Leaked to Press
Lee Camp, in a remarkable coup of investigative journalism, shares W's self-penned farewell address. It was written in blue crayon.

Thursday, January 15, 2009
Slate's Farewell to Bush
All the valedictory articles about the 43rd president. Long may he wave.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Mass. Law School Plans to Prosecute Bush
(4 comments) The Massachusetts School of Law at Andover will convene a conference in September to lay plans for the war-crimes prosecutions of President Bush and other high administration officials.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009
"An Unconscionable Legacy" - Veteran White House Correspondent Helen Thomas on the Bush Presidency
(2 comments) Helen Thomas, served as White House correspondent for United Press International for almost sixty years and has covered every president since Kennedy. She is the most senior member of the White House press corps and is commonly referred to as "The First Lady of the Press." Helen is currently a syndicated columnist for Hearst Newspapers. Her latest column is called "History Cannot Save Him."

Wednesday, January 14, 2009
History Cannot Save Him - Helen Thomas
...Bush says he isn't concerned about how history will view his militant eight years in the White House, telling ABC News that he "won't be around to read it." Well, they say that journalism is the first draft of history. So I am going to predict that those future historians will not deal kindly with the Bush presidency.

Monday, January 12, 2009
Israel should get out of Gaza now: Jerusalem Post
(2 comments) Israel should turn its troops, tanks and fighter planes around and get them out of Gaza right now.

Sunday, January 11, 2009
Bush's Place in History
An informal survey of 109 historians earlier this year by the History News Network found 98 per cent consider Bush's presidency a failure, while 61 per cent believe his presidency is the worst ever.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Helen Thomas Tears into White House Press Secretary over Gaza
On Monday, the veteran correspondent Helen Thomas questioned White House Press Secretary Dana Perino and tore her a new you-know-what.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Helen Thomas Tears into White House Press Secretary over Gaza
On Monday, the veteran correspondent Helen Thomas questioned White House Press Secretary Dana Perino and tore her a new you-know-what.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Helen Thomas Tears into White House Press Secretary over Gaza
On Monday, the veteran correspondent Helen Thomas questioned White House Press Secretary Dana Perino and tore her a new you-know-what.

Monday, January 5, 2009
U.S. Blocks UN Security Council Vote Calling For Immediate Cease-Fire In Gaza
(1 comments) On Saturday the United States blocked a U.N. Security Council statement calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. Egypt meanwhile is hosting meetings for a European-backed ceasefire today. The Security Council is meeting again today to discuss the crisis, after Sunday's emergency session did not produce a ceasefire resolution.

Sunday, January 4, 2009
Ron Paul Discusses the Invasion of Gaza
(3 comments) Dr. Paul discusses the invasion of Gaza on January 3, 2009 and its implications for America.

Sunday, January 4, 2009
Demonstration in Tel Aviv Against Gaza Assault
Amid cries of "Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies!" and banners reading, "Enough!" thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday night to protest against the country's war on Gaza. Protesters called for an immediate end to the Israeli attacks, in which more than 450 Palestinians have been killed and around 2,100 injured since air assaults on Gaza began last Saturday.

Monday, December 29, 2008
Israeli Troops and Armor massed at Gaza border
After three days of air attacks, the Israeli Army is poised for a land assault of the Gaza Strip.

Monday, December 29, 2008
Israeli Attacks Kill Over 310 in Gaza
Amidst worldwide protests, Israel is continuing its bombing campaign against the people living in Gaza for the third consecutive day and preparing to launch a possible ground invasion.

Saturday, December 27, 2008
Two Dangerous Bush-Cheney Myths
(1 comments) As George W. Bush and Dick Cheney make their case for some positive legacy from the past eight years, two arguments are playing key roles: the notion that torturing terror suspects saved American lives and the belief that Bush's Iraq troop "surge" transformed a disaster into something close to "victory."

Thursday, December 25, 2008
The Globalization Tapes
Directed and Written by Rank-And-File Members of the Plantation Workers' Union of Sumatra "The global economy works for about 20% of the world, for about 80%, it doesn't."

Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) Calls for Independent Counsel to Investigate Cheney and Rumsfeld for Violating Torture Laws
Democratic Congressman Jerrold Nadler of New York has urged Attorney General Michael Mukasey to appoint an independent counsel to investigate Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and other senior Bush administration officials for violations of the law relating to the torture of prisoners in US custody. Nadler is the chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Ci

Saturday, December 20, 2008
Cheney all but admits to War Crimes on TV
According to all established legal precedence, water-boarding in any form is torture - a war crime. Everyone's favorite 'Dick' Cheney has publicly admitted to his involvement in this war crime. Time to indict and prosecute this man and his associates.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Bush Lies About Al Qaeda in Iraq, Is Called On It, Says "So What?"
More arrogant disregard of truth from Dubya in an interview with ABC News. Long may he and his accomplices in Crimes against Humanity rot in jail.

Saturday, October 25, 2008
McCarthyism Alive in Well; Bachmann Ain't the Only One
Buchanan ain't the only one spouting the bile of 'un-Americanism' and rampant, unsubstantiated accusation. HuffPo writer, William Friedkin shares a threatening letter from a Right-wing vigilante and his response.

Friday, October 24, 2008
Greenspan Recants his Belief in the 'Invisible Hand'
Former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan appeared before lawmakers Thursday and admitted his long-held anti-regulation views are flawed.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Real Change Trickles Up: Eugene Jarecki
Filmmaker and author, Eugene Jarecki in HuffPo urges citizens to engage themselves in the process and wrest control of the republic from the corporatocracy.

Saturday, October 18, 2008
Cleese on Obama, Bush and the Funniest Palin
Monty Python comedian John Cleese thinks Sarah Palin is like a parrot - albeit a very good one - the way she's been able to memorize and regurgitate Republican talking points without fully understanding them.

Friday, October 17, 2008
Fact Checking the 3rd Presidential Squabblefest
Spin and hype were apparent, once again, at the third and final 'debate' between McCain and Obama. FactCheck.org sorting out fact and fiction, the topsy from the turvy, the gaff from the slip-up.

Friday, October 17, 2008
Third-Party Candidates Ralph Nader & Cynthia McKinney Respond to Final McCain-Obama Debate
As with the other debates, third-party candidates were not invited to participate. Democracy Now! broke the sound barrier and arranged for Green Party presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney and independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader to join the 'debate'.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Chomsky Weighs in on Bail-out
Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed

Saturday, October 11, 2008
US Probe Determines Palin Abused Power as Governor
A legislative committee has determined that Sarah Palin, US Republican vice-presidential candidate, abused her power as Alaska's governor when she fired the state's public safety commissioner,

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Fact Checking the 2nd Presidential Q&A
In an effort to keep everybody honest - a long, up-hill struggle - here's a run-down of who said what and how far off-base each one was. Get your score-card ready...

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
KEATING 5: John McCain & The Making of a Financial Crisis
What should be known about McCain's selling his office to Keating and how the Maverick has acted outside of the law.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Bailout "Largest Single Act of Class Warfare" in US History
Sweetened with an additional $150 Billion in PORK, the Bail-out/Sell-out is passed by legislators clearly bought and paid for.

Saturday, October 4, 2008
Iraq a 'Hell Disaster'; Pakistan is Next to Go
There is one nation in Southwest Asia, which is packed with Taliban supporters and al-Qaeda supporters, it's got a bomb, and it's totally corrupted, from the shoeshine boy to the president, via its intelligence services and army, and it's called Pakistan.

Saturday, October 4, 2008
Nobel Laureate Weighs in on Bailout
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says the measure is severely flawed and that it fails to address the root of the problem.

Saturday, October 4, 2008
You Call This a Democracy?
How Democratic & Republican lobbyists control the debates and exclude all other viable candidates.

Saturday, October 4, 2008
$700 Billion? No, thanks. $850 Billion? Sure, thing!
"The Congress and the Senate are daring the American people to get mad and throw them out. They're daring you. They're daring you to turn out in five weeks and, in essence, support challengers against incumbents, because the incumbents are the ones responsible for doing this bill."

Thursday, October 2, 2008
Mad Dog Palin": Rolling Stone
The scariest thing about John McCain's running mate isn't how unqualified she is - it's what her candidacy says about America.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Top 10 Reasons Sarah Palin Will Cancel the Debate
Top 10 Reasons... what else do have to know...

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
ANOTHER $700 Billion?
(2 comments) The Senate cleared the fiscal 2009 defense authorization bill Saturday, sending the measure to President Bush for his signature. The massive measure would authorize about $611 billion for national-security programs in the Defense and Energy departments in the fiscal year that begins Oct.1. It also includes about $68 billion for expenses related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the initial months of the fiscal year.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
It Can't Happen here? It nearly DID in 1934.
A half-hour BBC documentary on an attempted coup in 1934 nearly turned the US into a fascist state. Marine Major General Smedley Butler told Congress that a group of wealthy industrialists had plotted a military coup known as the Business Plot to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
"We must return to the rule of law!" Sen Feingold
September 25, 2008 C-SPAN; Senator Russ Feingold runs down the list of unlawful Bush activities offering recommendations for a return to the Rule of Law under the Constitution.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Kucinich Rejects $700 Billion Bailout
"Is this the United States Congress or the Board of Directors of Goldman Sachs?" Rep. Dennis Kucinich Rejects $700 Billion Bailout in interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Who's Lobbying Congress On The Bailout?
Among the armies of well-heeled lobbyists pressuring Congress on the size and structure of the financial bailout this week are a number of familiar faces. CBS News found 21 former staffers from the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and House Financial Services Committees are now lobbyists for financial firms.

Monday, September 29, 2008
The Rich Are Staging a Coup This Morning
No matter what they say, no matter how many scare words they use, they are up to their old tricks of creating fear and confusion in order to make and keep themselves and the upper one percent filthy rich.

Sunday, September 28, 2008
Bailout Section 8: Out and Out Fascism
Section 8 of the Bailout Plan provides absolute dictatorial decision-making powers over all aspects of the estimated trillion-dollar bailout, It is straight-out fascism.

Sunday, September 28, 2008
Fareed Zakaria: Palin Is Ready? Please.
McCain says that he always puts country first. In this important case, that is simply not true.

Sunday, September 28, 2008
Reich on the Blunders of Bernanke and Paulson
Robert Reich points out the political blunders made by Benjamin Bernake and Henry Paulson over the past week.

Sunday, September 28, 2008
Reich: Bail-Out May Be Beginning of the End
(2 comments) The 22nd Secretary of Labor and a professor at UC Berkeley, Robert Reich says the Ben Bernanke and Henry Paulson Wall Street bailout plan is a bad idea.

Sunday, September 28, 2008
There IS a Plan B for the Bailout
Lyndon LaRouche today reiterated that the trillion dollar taxpayers bailout scheme, being peddled by Hank Paulson, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, et al. is doomed to fail. ''If the bailout is passed, this will not solve anything. It will trigger Weimar hyperinflation immediately, will bring down the whole banking system, and, contrary to Gordon Brown's fantasies, will not save the hopelessly bankrupt British banking system.''

Saturday, September 27, 2008
Nader Speaks on Bail-out
2008 Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader discusses the proposed Wall Street Bailout and his solutions.

Friday, September 26, 2008
Ralph Nader Asks, "Why Is There Need for a Bailout?"
Presidential candidate, Ralph Nader calls Democratic claims of White House concessions "wish fulfillment" and says the bailout might not be needed in the first place.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
Bush Admin Faces Congressional Skeptics on $700B Wall St. Bailout
Both Democratic and Republican members of the Senate Banking Committee lambasted the Bush administration's proposed $700 billion bailout plan Tuesday.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
Democracy Now! Interview with Naomi Klein: "Wall Street's Shock Doctrine"
(1 comments) While the collapse of this country's financial system continues to send shock waves around the world, we speak to the bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. Naomi Klein says the public should be wary of the Bush administration trying to use the crisis to push through more of the radical pro-corporate policies that helped cause it in the first place.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
UN Press conference: Bolivia president Evo Morales "The combat of our people is a historic struggle against empire"
Bolivian President Evo Morales Ayma, speaking at a Headquarters press conference this evening, said there was a "great feeling" of liberation sweeping across Latin America that could not be stopped.

Monday, September 22, 2008
Bugliosi and Dennett Pledge to Prosecute Bush
Prosecute these high criminals to the fullest extent of the law; Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Rove, Libby, Black, Addington, Gonzales, Scalia, Pelosi, etc Clean house and make the message clear: No one is above the law. Criminals in high office are accountable and will not be tolerated.

Sunday, September 21, 2008
'They Shot the Children'
(3 comments) Personal accounts from the survivors of the Pando Massacre in Bolivia.

Sunday, September 21, 2008
An Open Letter to the U.S. State Department Re: Recent Violence in Bolivia
(2 comments) USAID spent $89 million in Bolivia last year. This is a significant sum relative to the size of Bolivia's economy; proportionally in the U.S. economy it would be equivalent to about $100 billion, or close to what the United States is currently spending on military operations in Iraq. U.S. taxpayers, as well as the Bolivian government and people, have a right to know what U.S. funds are supporting in Bolivia.

Saturday, September 20, 2008
The Wall Street Debacle and the American Worker
(2 comments) While the press has extensively covered the Wall Street meltdown, little attention has been paid to what this means to the American worker - what McCain has called 'the fundamental' of the American economy.

Friday, September 19, 2008
WTP Brings Federal Lawsuit to Stop AIG Bailout
'We The People' Chairman and constitutional activist Robert Schulz today filed a federal lawsuit in United States District Court in Albany seeking to halt the execution of the emergency bailout of American International Group, Inc. (AIG) by the United States Government and the Federal Reserve.

Thursday, September 18, 2008
McCain Invented the Blackberry? Say what?
Inventing the Blackberry is quite a feat for techno-doofus who can't even boot up a PC.

Saturday, September 13, 2008
Bolivia declares martial law in protest-hit region
(2 comments) Bolivia's government declared martial law on Friday in Pando, a remote Amazon region where at least 15 people were killed in a wave of political violence. Almost all of the dead were pro-government peasant farmers, ambushed by gunmen armed with machine guns.

Thursday, September 11, 2008
Bush Admin Ignored Warnings Against Pakistani Air Strikes
A new article by investigative journalist Gareth Porter reveals that the Bush administration ignored warnings against such raids from the American intelligence community. They said that such raids could benefit the Taliban and destabilize the Pakistani military.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008
US Bails Out Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac
The US government has seized control of the mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in what could become the largest corporate bailout ever.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008
US Military Trained Georgian Commandos
The US military provided combat training to 80 Georgian special forces commandos only months prior to Georgia's army assault in South Ossetia in August.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Meet the War Profiteer Prosecutor Who Wants to Prosecute Bush
Alan Grayson prosecutes war profiteers in Iraq. In 2006, he ran for Congress in Orlando, and lost the Democratic primary by 3000 votes. This year, he ran for Congress again, and beat the same primary opponent by 7000 votes. Here's why this time is different...

Tuesday, September 9, 2008
U.S. Sided With Georgia in South Ossetian War
U.S. sided With Georgia in South Ossetian War - By helping deliver Georgian military from Iraq, the United States has created a precedent of co-participation in the conflict on the side of Tbilisi, Russia's General Staff Deputy Chief General-Colonel Anatoly Nogovitsyn announced Tuesday, during the briefing attended by ambassadors and military attaches of more than 100 nations.

Thursday, July 24, 2008
Mike Wallace mis-represents President Ahmadinejad
(1 comments) President Ahmadinejad Calls for Democracy, Free and Fair Elections for Palestinians and a Durable Peace in the Middle-East. Mike Wallace saw fit to edit out all but the most inflammatory remarks and won an Emmy for his deception.