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The Coming Accidental War with Iran
by Lyric Hughes Hale |
How to argue with right-wing relatives
Responding to common conservative talking points without losing your mind
by ALEX PAREENE |
The Bigots and Billionaires in Ron Paul’s Orbit
by Joe Conason |
The GOP History of Hostage-Taking
by Robert Parry
"Knowing that the Democrats are hesitant to take those hits, Republicans have held the U.S. economy hostage to extract concessions from President Barack Obama on GOP priorities." |
All I Want for Christmas Is My Civil Liberties!
by Coleen Rowley |
The intellectual cowardice of Bradley Manning’s critics
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Ever since Manning was accused of being the source for the WikiLeaks disclosures, those condemning these leaks have sought to distinguish them from Ellsberg’s leak of the Pentagon Papers." |
2012
A Fraughtful Year
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson |
Arms Dealer Obama Will Win by Default
by Robert Scheer
"Barack Obama will be re-elected not as a vindication of his policies but because the Republicans are incapable of providing a reasonable challenge to his flawed performance." |
Armed With Naïvete
Time to Stop Being Cynical About Corporate Money in Politics and Start Being Angry
by Bill McKibben |
Obama (finally) plays recess hardball
The president ignores GOP obstructionism and appoints Richard Cordray as chief consumer finance watchdog
by ANDREW LEONARD |
Obama Fails On Minimum Wage Pledge
by Dave Jamieson |
Final Curtain: Obama Signs Indefinite Detention of Citizens Into Law As Final Act of 2011
by Jonathan Turley
"With Americans distracted with drinking and celebrating, Obama signed one of the greatest rollbacks of civil liberties in the history of our country . . . and citizens partied only blissfully into the New Year." |
Preparing to Attack Iran with Nuclear Weapons: "No Option can be taken off the Table."
by Michel Chossudovsky
"When a US sponsored nuclear war becomes an 'instrument of peace', condoned and accepted by the World's institutions and the highest authority, including the United Nations, there is no turning back: human society has indelibly been precipitated headlong onto the path of self-destruction." |
How can the expectation levels of this two party duopoly sink any lower?
by Ralph Nader |
Iraq: The Legacy of Deception and Its Costs
By Susan Lindauer |
Blood in my Eyes for You: The Deep Progressive Love for the Laureate's "Industrial Killing Machine"
by Chris Floyd |
Iowa: The Meaningless Sideshow Begins
by Matt Taibbi
"It takes an awful lot to rob the presidential race of this elemental appeal. But this year’s race has lost that buzz." |
It’s time to admit defeat
If we want to avoid repeating our mistakes, we need to stop whitewashing the disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan
by TOM ENGELHARDT |
Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies
by GLENN GREENWALD |
Why Ron Paul Challenges Liberals
by Matt Stoller |
End of the pro-democracy pretense
by GLENN GREENWALD
"That’s because one of the prime aims of America’s support for Arab dictators has been to ensure that the actual views and beliefs of those nations’ populations remain suppressed, because those views are often so antithetical to the perceived national interests of the U.S. government." |
Call for US intervention into Iraqi crisis
by James Cogan |
How Many U.S. Soldiers Were Wounded in Iraq? Guess Again.
by Dan Froomkin
"The death count is accurate. But the wounded figure wildly understates the number of American servicemembers who have come back from Iraq less than whole." |
New Rules for the New Year
by BILL MAHER |
Arthur Brisbane and selective stenography
by GLENN GREENWALD
"That most reporters faithfully follow the stenographer model — uncritically writing down what people say and then leaving it at that — is so obvious that it’s hardly worth the effort to demonstrate it." |
Obama’s “mission accomplished” moment?
At the Pentagon, the president whitewashes the Afghan war and looks to continue a disastrous military-first policy
by TOM ENGELHARDT
"When it came to rolling out a new 10-year plan for the future of the U.S. military, the leaks to the media began early and the message was clear. One man is in charge of your future safety and security. His name is Barack Obama. And — not to worry — he has things in hand." |
Guantanamo Prisoners Stage Peaceful Protest and Hunger Strike on 10th Anniversary of the Opening of the Prison
by Andy Worthington |
America’s dangerously removed elite
It's easy to cut public education funding when your kids go to private school. Just ask Christie and Emanuel
by DAVID SIROTA |
The Four Occupations of Planet Earth
by Tom Engelhardt
"We exist -- and even Time knows it. From Tunis in January to Moscow in December this has been, day by day, week by week, month by month, the year of the protester." |
Why a Constitutional Law Professor Cannot Sign NDAA, Allowing Military Detention of Americans
by Ralph Lopez |
Panetta: Iraq War was “worth it”
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The disastrous legacy of the Iraq War extends beyond treasure squandered and lives lost or shattered. Central to that legacy has been Washington’s decisive and seemingly irrevocable abandonment of any semblance of self-restraint regarding the use of violence as an instrument of statecraft." |
What I Want From Candidate Obama: Action, Not Promises
by Curtis Roosevelt
"Our support for 2012 should not require blind faith." |
No, the U.S. is not leaving Iraq
Thousands of armed U.S. private contractors will be based in the country, and the potential for violence is real
by JUSTIN ELLIOTT |
Solstice 2011
Dies Natalis Invicti Solis
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson |
A Hitch in Time
The world loses a philosophical giant
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson |
Politics Over Principle
NYT editorial
"The trauma of Sept. 11, 2001, gave rise to a dangerous myth that, to be safe, America had to give up basic rights and restructure its legal system." |
Three myths about the detention bill
by GLENN GREENWALD |
Vote Obama – if you want a centrist Republican for US president
Because Barack Obama has adopted so many core Republican beliefs, the US opposition race is a shambles
by Glenn Greenwald |
The Molotov Party
For the new GOP, conservative isn’t nearly radical enough.
by Frank Rich |
How to Save Iraq From Civil War
by AYAD ALLAWI, OSAMA AL-NUJAIFI and RAFE AL-ESSAWI
"IRAQ today stands on the brink of disaster. President Obama kept his campaign pledge to end the war here, but it has not ended the way anyone in Washington wanted." |
Surrendering More American Rights
by Lawrence Davidson
"More than a decade after the 9/11 attacks – even after Osama bin Laden’s death and U.S. intelligence assessments that al-Qaeda is collapsing – Congress keeps on chipping away at U.S. constitutional rights in the name of fighting terrorism, and President Obama is ready to go along..." |
The Warped Morality of a Warmonger: Why Alan Dershowitz is Wrong on Israel’s ‘Rights’
by Nima Shirazi
"Renowned torture enthusiast and perennial Israel apologist Alan Dershowitz was in Tel Aviv this month attending an annual business conference sponsored by Globes and, as usual, took the opportunity to equivocate for Israeli espionage, defend war criminals, and warmonger about Iran." |
Obama Year Three: Continuing His Rogue Agenda
by Stephen Lendman |
Obama: The conservative in 2012
by E.J. Dionne Jr.
"Obama is defending a tradition that sees government as an essential actor in the nation’s economy, a guarantor of fair rules of competition, a countervailing force against excessive private power, a check on the inequalities that capitalism can produce, and an instrument that can open opportunity for those born without great advantages." |
U.S. Manufacturing Competitiveness in Global Trade
by Jared Bernstein |
Snapshots of Washington’s essence
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Senior Democrats barely blink at the idea that a president from their party has assembled such a highly efficient machine for the targeted killing of suspected terrorists." |
2011 in Review: The Year Secrecy Jumped the Shark
by TREVOR TIMM
"The government has been using its secrecy system in absurd ways for decades, but 2011 was particularly egregious." |
2011: The Year the Power Went Off in Washington
by Arianna Huffington
"This year, what was happening outside Washington was much more important than the tired reruns going on inside the Beltway, however slow the media has been to catch up." |
Saving Our Democracy
by Sen. Bernie Sanders
"The Constitution of this country has served us well, but when the Supreme Court says that attempts by the federal government and states to impose reasonable restrictions on campaign ads are unconstitutional, our democracy is in grave danger." |
Obama and the Rule of Law
by Jeff Connaughton
"Long silent and now contradictory, President Obama needs to deliver a clarifying speech about our financial markets and the rule of law." |
The Bush/Obama War Against Truth
by Melvin Goodman
"Manning's inhuman and degrading treatment clearly is designed as a warning to other individuals who might be considering the unauthorized release of classified information." |
Pvt. Manning and Imperative of Truth
by Ray McGovern
"What I especially admire in Bradley Manning is this: his ability, at the age of 22, to discern that there can be a hierarchy of -- sometimes conflicting -- values, and that from a moral standpoint some values dwarf others in importance." |
Obama and Geithner: Government, Enron-Style
by Matt Taibbi
"The notion that what Wall Street firms did was merely unethical and not illegal is not just mistaken but preposterous..." |
Various matters
by GLENN GREENWALD
"A New York Times article yesterday examined the sometimes severe psychological stress experienced by the long-distance, remote-controlled operators of America’s drones." |
The media consensus on Israel is collapsing
Across the political spectrum, once-taboo criticism is now common
by JORDAN MICHAEL SMITH
"Criticism of the special relationship, once rare, is now frequent." |
Why drones aren’t game-changers
A streak of recent crashes shows just how flawed these remotely piloted aircrafts are
by NICK TURSE |
Was Iraq “worth it”?
The same cost-benefit analyses deployed against social programs should be applied to our military misadventures
by DAVID SIROTA
"Thanks to Iraq and Afghanistan, we have a basic sense of how many lives are lost and how much cash is spent in a given invasion." |
Why the Republican Crackup is Bad For America
by Robert Reich |
Is Iraq War End a New Day?
by Robert Parry
"Indeed, the U.S. departure represents a hard-fought victory for the Iraqi resistance, including anti-American Shiite leader Moktada al-Sadr whose political influence with the Maliki government was a key factor in Maliki's rejection of American requests to leave behind a 'residual' military force." |
House GOP Lays Out Its True Beliefs For All To See
by Robyn Blumner
"In one tidy package, the Republican leadership in Congress has presented their priorities to the American people: Protect millionaires, industrial polluters, gouging doctors and fossil-fuel refiners, while sacrificing the interests of federal workers and the long-term unemployed." |
The Defining Issue: Not Government's Size, But Who It's For
by Robert Reich |
Secrecy defines Obama’s drone war
WAPO with Foreign Policy article
"No new legal opinions were sought, said a former Obama official involved in the process, and there was no challenge to the CIA’s unilateral authority to choose targets and launch strikes in Pakistan." |
Can the U.S. Government close social media accounts?
by GLENN GREENWALD
"So the U.S. Government believes it may have 'legal authority' to compel Twitter to close accounts. From where does that authority derive?" |
Manning’s punishment before verdict
Are the proceedings against the Wikileaks suspect designed to send a message to would-be leakers?
by JUSTIN ELLIOTT |
A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse
by Michael Moore |
Ron Wyden: Forging Common Ground on Medicare Reform
by Menachem Rosensaft
"The Ryan-Wyden plan would offer seniors, beginning in 2022, the option of choosing from Medicare-approved private plans in addition to the existing, traditional Medicare plan." |
Anatomy of a NATO War Crime
by FRANKLIN LAMB |
Twelve biggest US lies of 2011
As 2011 draws to a close, an award-winning US magazine has handpicked a dozen of the most monstrous lies that Washington has delivered to the world over the past year.
PressTV article |
The We-Are-At-War! mentality
by GLENN GREENWALD
"So my question to defenders of Obama’s assassination powers is this: which of those four core Bush/Cheney War on Terror premises do you reject, if any?" |
Trumping the Newt
Nyuk nyuk nyuk
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson
"But at this point, the GOP needs to worry less about winning the election, and worry more about surviving this debacle as a party. In politics, you can survive having people revile you. But you can't survive if they all start laughing at you, and the GOP have turned themselves into a very tasteless but ongoing joke at this point." |
Obama to sign indefinite detention bill into law
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The ACLU said last night that the bill contains 'harmful provisions that some legislators have said could authorize the U.S. military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians, including American citizens, anywhere in the world'..." |
What if they ended a war and nobody cared?
As the Iraq war concludes, Americans need to reflect on the horror it unleashed – and vow never to repeat it
by GARY KAMIYA |
Direct elections: A threat to America!
Why are Mitch McConnell and the rest of the GOP so terrified of a national popular vote?
BY DAVID SIROTA |
Constitutional Attorney Bruce Fein; NDAA An Unprecedented Intrusion...being used to destroy what we are as a republic and as a nation.
a rough transcript and video from interview with Rob Kall of OpedNews |
Why do people still deny climate change?
2011 was plagued by droughts, floods and tornadoes. It's high time we take global warming seriously
by GENE LYONS |
Bradley Manning deserves a medal
The prosecution of the whistleblower and alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning is an exercise in intimidation, not justice
by Glenn Greenwald
"By exposing some of the worst atrocities committed by US forces in Iraq, the documents prevented the Iraqi government from agreeing to ongoing legal immunity for US forces, and thus helped bring about the end of the war." |
White House Caves on Defense Bill Veto Threat
by Adam Serwer
"The President will not veto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) over provisions codifying the use of indefinite military detention on American soil." |
Obama: I can’t comment on Wall Street prosecutions
by GLENN GREENWALD |
The Face of the Killer Who Is Your President
by ARTHUR SILBER
"The continuing murders in Pakistan and Afghanistan are so numerous and so regular that they barely merit notice for more than a few days, at least as far as the United States government and most Americans are concerned." |
Grand Delusion: Resisting the Siren Song of Specialness
by Chris Floyd
"In the months to come, we will be subjected to an ever-growing, ever-roaring flood of rhetoric about the unique, unquestionable, divinely ordained goodness of America. (And how the "other side" would destroy or demean this precious moral specialness.)" |
The Koch Brothers, ALEC and the Savage Assault on Democracy
by John Nichols
"For the first time in decades, the United States saw a steady dismantling of the laws, regulations, programs and practices put in place to make real the promise of American democracy." |
The growing menace of domestic drones
by GLENN GREENWALD
"No matter one’s views, the escalating addition of drones — weaponized or even just surveillance — to the vast arsenal of domestic weapons that already exist is a serious, consequential development." |
On Obama, Teddy Roosevelt, And The Not-So-Fierce Urgency Of Maybe Next Term
by Arianna Huffington |
When every year is election year
6 percent of the events Obama attends involve asking for money from wealthy donors. Democracy is officially dead
by TOM ENGELHARDT |
The real definition of Terrorism
by Glenn Greenwald
"Few things better illustrate the utter meaninglessness of the word Terrorism than applying it to a citizen of an invaded country for fighting back against the invading army and aiming at purely military targets..." |
Welcome to the new Arctic
Melting ice is beginning to transform the world's shipping routes. But will it launch a new Cold War?
by DAVID FAIRHALL |
WikiLeaks wins major journalism award in Australia
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The Walkley Awards are the Australian equivalent of the Pulitzers: that nation’s most prestigious award for excellence in journalism." |
U.S. arming Egyptian military crackdown
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The US attempt to reposition itself as a supporter of democracy and human rights in the Middle East is being undermined by a growing Egyptian perception that Washington will back Egypt’s military junta unreservedly despite its increasing repressiveness." |
A Look at America's Geography Shows That the Tea Party Is Doomed
Even as the movement's grip tightens on the GOP, its influence is melting away across vast swaths of America, thanks to centuries-old regional traditions.
by Colin Woodard |
Eliot Spitzer: 5 Ways to Make Banks Pay for Their Secret $7 Trillion Free Ride
The CEOs of major banks maintained they were in good financial shape. Meanwhile, they secretly borrowed massive amounts from the government to stay afloat.
by Eliot Spitzer |
PolitiFact and the scam of neutral expertise
by GLENN GREENWALD |
Romania CIA Prison: Central Intelligence Agency Used Secret
Makeshift Prison For Its Most Valuable Detainees
by ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO |
The Most Important Economic Speech of His Presidency
by Robert Reich |
Hillary Clinton and Internet Freedom
by GLENN GREENWALD |
Words That Don't Work
by George Lakoff
"When Luntz says he is "scared to death," he means that the Republicans who hire him are scared to death and he can profit from that fear by offering them new language." |
Is this what the future of Occupy looks like?
The movement in New York pivots to a poverty-stricken neighborhood and tries to build momentum around foreclosures
by JUSTIN ELLIOTT |
Why no one’s investigating Wall Street
The government finds money to crack down on food stamp "fraud." If it wanted to go after finance crooks, it could
by DAVID SIROTA |
Playing With Fire
Obama's Risky Oil Threat to China
by Michael T. Klare
"Instead of focusing on the Greater Middle East, as has been the case for the last decade, the United States will now concentrate its power in Asia and the Pacific." |
The Winter of Our Occupation ...a proposal from Michael Moore
by Michael Moore |
NPR’s domestic drone commercial
by GLENN GREENWALD |
Twenty Examples of the Obama Administration Assault on Domestic Civil Liberties! [incomplete list]
by Bill Quigley |
The Obama Regime Has No Constitutional Scruples
by Paul Craig Roberts
"The Bush/Obama regimes have evaded the Geneva Conventions by declaring that detainees are not POWs, but 'enemy combatants,' 'terrorists,' or some other designation that removes all accountability from the US government for their treatment." |
George Orwell on the Evil Iranian Menace
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Given the extensive violence and aggression the U.S. has perpetrated, and continues to perpetrate, on numerous countries in that region, one might think that not even our political culture could sustain the propagandistic myth that it is Iran that is the aggressor state and the U.S. that is its peace-loving victim." |
Don’t celebrate the jobs report just yet
We may be headed in the right direction, but the numbers on job growth and hourly wages are troubling
by ROBERT REICH |
What Endless War looks like
U.S. officials simultaneously announce that we're defeating Al Qaeda and they'll be a major threat "for years"
by Glenn Greenwald |
Congress seeks to tame the Internet
Fearing Web censorship, the tech world unites against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act
by Nancy Scola |
Privatization Nightmare: 5 Public Services That Should Never Be Handed Over to Greedy Corporations
by Dave Johnson |
The fruits of liberation
by GLENN GREENWALD |
Guy Fawkes
To tell the truth
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson
"In America the main problem is that the mainstream press has been neutered by corporate control, both through direct ownership and indirectly, though manipulating revenues and getting their trained lackeys in Congress to exert political pressure. As a result, TV networks and major newspapers are, at best, only sometimes trustworthy, and quite often not trustworthy at all." |
Wes Clark and the neocon dream
by GLENN GREENWALD
"As far as I can tell, there’s barely any difference in goals within the foreign policy establishment. They just disagree on the best methods to achieve the goals." |
The Republicans' Farcical Candidates
A Club of Liars, Demagogues and Ignoramuses
by Marc Pitzke |
The secrecy-loving mind of the U.S. journalist
by GLENN GREENWALD
"When it comes to the behavior of our highest and most powerful government officials, our Beltway media preaches, “'it is often best to keep the lights off.'” |
The Rebirth of Social Darwinism
by Robert Reich
"What kind of society, exactly, do modern Republicans want?" |
Lessons From the Dead in a No-Learning-Curve World
by Tom Engelhardt
"These days, the names of the dead dribble directly onto the inside pages of newspapers, or simply into the ether, in a war now opposed by 63% of Americans, according to the latest CNN/ORC opinion poll, but in truth barely remembered by anyone in this country." |
Congress endorsing military detention, a new AUMF
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The Obama administration and their Senate defenders have repeatedly made clear that their real objection to this bill is that they want Executive Branch officials — in the DOJ, CIA and Pentagon — to make these decisions, not Congress, and there is no reason to disbelieve them." |
The Media's Blackout Of The National Defense Authorization Act Is Shameful
by David Seaman
"Call it what you will: a military junta, a secret invalidation of Americans' civil rights, a Congress gone mad. Whatever it is, it needs to be covered by the press, and quickly." |
Occupy Movement: Next Step Convergence
by Joel Hirschhorn
"When it comes to political and social movements, history shows us that they usually fail not because they disappear, but rather because they become marginalized, unimportant despite a core group of committed people and groups." |
The Age of Extremism: Mammon Worshippers Launch All-Out War
by Chris Floyd
"On Wednesday -- the day before Britain's unions launched the largest strike the country has seen in almost 90 years -- the UK's coalition government finally removed its mask of "moderation" and showed its true, ravenous face." |
Liberals are not uniquely “unreasonable”
A widely discussed critique of the left's attitude toward Obama forgets some important history
by STEVE KORNACKI |
What Killed JFK
The hate that ended his presidency is eerily familiar
by Frank Rich |
US State Department not for internet freedom
The SOPA bill will help private companies cut off internet sites only to protect their profits.
by Trevor Timm |
The roots of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying
The shocking abuse of police power at UC-Davis is important precisely because it is not aberrational
by Glenn Greenwald |
The Supercommittee Fails—and That's Good for Obama
by David Corn
"In the latest twist of this never-ending saga, Obama is both calling out the Republicans and holding what appears to be a position of strength. That may all shift suddenly. This is politics. But Obama's Democratic fans should savor the moment." |
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here? ...a proposal from Michael Moore
by Michael Moore |
Chancellor Katehi’s impressive learning skills
To justify her own lack of accountability, she invokes the same mentality for which Dick Cheney today praised Obama
by Glenn Greenwald |
Newt: The ultimate Beltway swindler
Gingrich has taken money from everyone from Big Pharma to Freddie Mac. How is he leading the Republican pool?
by MICHAEL WINSHIP |
The media and Iran: familiar mindlessness
A new Post story relies on anonymous government sources to spout the latest Persian-Hitler fear-mongering
by Glenn Greenwald |
We need to reclaim the First Amendment
The horrific treatment of protesters shows how "free speech" is now reserved for corporations and the wealthy
by Robert Reich |
The boys who cry “Holocaust”
The same neocon hawks who lied us into Iraq are using the ultimate argument-stopper to push war with Iran
by Gary Kamiya |
A police raid suffused with symbolism
by GLENN GREENWALD
"A military style raid on peaceful protesters camped out in the shadow of Wall Street, ordered by a cold ruthless billionaire who bought his way into the mayor’s office." |
The GOP’s victim-blaming strategy
From Iraq to OWS, Republicans are going to increasingly absurd measures to protect the wealthy
by DAVID SIROTA
"What can we make of the leaders of the world’s richest nation pressing our impoverished victims to pay even more than they already have?" |
The Death of Occupy Wall Street?
by Guy Horton
"My suspicion is that this is, in fact, just the beginning." |
GOP and TP on Obama’s foreign policy “successes”
by GLENN GREENWALD
"So here you have Think Progress heaping praise on Obama for seizing what is literally the most radical power a President can seize: the power to target — in total secrecy and with no checks or due process — their fellow citizens for execution: specifically, assassination-by-CIA." |
Elizabeth Warren, future White House prospect
Yes, talking about 2016 is an absurd, cart-before-the-horse exercise. But let's do it just this once
by STEVE KORNACKI |
Why the Washington Post won’t fire Jennifer Rubin
by GLENN GREENWALD |
How we can succeed through supercommittee’s ‘failure’
by E.J. Dionne Jr.
"Here is a surefire way to cut $7.1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade. Do nothing." |
Now is the Winter of our Discontent
And oh, look! It's started to snow!
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson |
U.S. takes the lead on behalf of cluster bombs
by GLENN GREENWALD
"But now the Obama administration is moving far beyond a mere refusal to join the convention banning these munitions. According to The Independent, the U.S. is playing the leading role “to torpedo the global ban on cluster bombs” through a “proposal that would permit the use of cluster bombs as long as they were manufactured after 1980 and had a failure rate of less than one per cent." |
A passionless presidential race in 2012?
Americans are angry and polarized, but neither Obama nor Romney looks likely to inspire much enthusiasm
by ROBERT REICH |
NY Post’s new, crazy OWS smear
Despite utter lack of evidence, Murdoch's paper claims demonstrators vandalized the new 9/11 memorial
by JUSTIN ELLIOTT
"The Murdoch tabloid is now claiming that Occupy Wall Street demonstrators defaced the new 9/11 memorial, despite absolutely no evidence that anything of the sort happened." |
Nuclear Iran wouldn’t be the end of the world
Judged by deeds not words, the Islamic republic is cautious, and nukes wouldn't change that
by JORDAN MICHAEL SMITH |
The one indisputable triumph of Occupy Wall Street
And the million-dollar question: How vital are the actual protests now to the prominence of OWS issues?
by STEVE KORNACKI |
Bush and Blair found guilty of war crimes for Iraq attack
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Bush and Tony Blair guilty of 'crimes against peace' and other war crimes for their 2003 aggressive attack on Iraq, as well as fabricating pretexts used to justify the attack." |
Newt's Cruelest Campaign: Replace School Janitors With Child Labor
by John Nichols |
The weakness of Obama’s strength
The president's image of national security success shows how little he has changed in U.S. foreign policy
by JORDAN MICHAEL SMITH |
Bob Schieffer, Ron Paul and journalistic “objectivity”
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The overarching rule of “journalistic objectivity” is that a journalist must never resolve any part of a dispute between the Democratic and the Republican Parties, even when one side is blatantly lying." |
Top 5 Taxpayer Turkeys Fattening War Industry CEOs
by Robert Greenwald
"We're certain the war industry's Congressional allies are one among many things contractor CEOs are thankful for." |
Can Revolutionary Pacifism Deliver Peace?
by Noam Chomsky |
Here’s what attempted co-option of OWS looks like
SEIU - fresh off its Obama endorsement - decrees "Occupy Congress" to condemn the GOP and venerate Democrats
by Glenn Greenwald |
Yes, it is Wall Street’s fault
Bloomberg joins Republicans in claiming Congress "forced" banks to give bad loans. Don't buy the propaganda
by GENE LYONS |
Judge Goldstone’s offensive apology for apartheid
Don't tell me Israeli apartheid doesn't exist. My father implemented agrarian apartheid policies long before 1967
by UDI ALONI |
Time for supercommittee #fail
A "grand bargain" on the deficit is a bad deal for the 99 percent
by ROBERT BOROSAGE
"In fact, the best service the supercommittee could do for the country is to fail." |
An Iraq-WMD Replay on Iran?
by Robert Parry
"The American public is about to be inundated with another flood of “expert analysis” about a dangerous Middle Eastern country presumably hiding a secret nuclear weapons program that may require a military strike, although this time it is Iran, not Iraq." |
The myth of the progressive city
With mayors like Bloomberg and Emanuel, urban areas have become bastions of privatization and corporatist economics
by DAVID SIROTA |
Bloomberg vs. Occupy Wall Street
by Joe Conason
"More than 84 percent of the subprime mortgages in 2006, for instance, were issued by private lending institutions, including 82 percent of the subprime loans to low- and moderate-income borrowers." |
History Is Made in Australia
by Al Gore
"This is a historic moment. Australia's Parliament has put the nation's first carbon price into law." |
We need a Corporate Pledge of Allegiance
If Romney and the GOP are going to insist corporations are people, companies should start proving their patriotism
by ROBERT REICH |
This is what GOP brand poisoning looks like
In Ohio and elsewhere, Tuesday's election results offered troubling signs for Tea Party conservatism
by STEVE KORNACK |
Finding Freedom In Handcuffs
by Chris Hedges
"The wealthy and the powerful, the ones behind the glass at Goldman Sachs, laughed and snapped pictures of us as if we were a brief and odd lunchtime diversion from commodities trading, from hoarding and profit, from this collective sickness of money worship, as if we were creatures in a cage, which in fact we soon were." |
The War Against the Poor
Occupy Wall Street and the Politics of Financial Morality
by Frances Fox Piven
"Devastating as it's been, the war against the poor has gone largely unnoticed -- until now." |
How the rich rig the system
From low capital gains taxes to stock buy-backs, here are the ways the elites ensure the markets benefit them
by MICHAEL LIND
"A growing number of Americans suspect that the American economic system is rigged in favor of the rich and merely affluent. That growing number of Americans is right." |
"Shallow Throat": Has "The Revolution" Started?
by Bernard Weiner |
The human toll of the U.S. drone campaign
by GLENN GREENWALD |
The drone mentality
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Many people want to hear nothing about these victims — like Tariq — because they don’t want to accept that the leader for whom they cheer and the drone attacks they support are regularly ending the lives of large numbers of innocent people, including children." |
OWS-inspired activism
by GLENN GREENWALD
"A country cannot radically reduce quality-of-life expectations, devote itself to the interests of its super-rich, and all but eliminate its middle class without triggering sustained citizen fury." |
The Villain Occupy Wall Street Has Been Waiting For
by Robert Scheer
"In the pantheon of billionaires without shame, Michael Bloomberg, the Wall Street banker-turned-business-press-lord-turned-mayor, is now secure at the top." |
Big Change Whether We Like It Or Not
by Andrew Bacevich
"All that said, the present moment is arguably one in which the international order is, in fact, undergoing a fundamental transformation." |
The Iraq drawdown and the original promise of Obama
His campaign was rooted in a pledge to bring the troops home, which he just announced will happen by year's end
by STEVE KORNACKI |
Who won the war in Iraq? (Here's a big hint: It wasn't the United States)
by Peter Van Buren |
Palestine Enters UNESCO In 107 To 14 Vote
by James Wall
"In addition to leaving the US and Israel with a demonstratively shrinking number of friends in the international community, the UNESCO vote has far-reaching implications for the PLO's earlier request to the UN Security Council, which requested full statehood membership in the UN General Assembly." |
A Master Class In Occupation
by Chris Hedges
"The Occupy movements that have swept across the country fuse the elements vital for revolt." |
The human toll of the U.S. drone campaign
by GLENN GREENWALD
"It’s easy to cheer for a leader who regularly extinguishes the lives of innocent men, women, teeangers and young children when you can remain blissfully free of hearing about the victims." |
The disturbing truths about Rick Perry’s Texas
Local reports reveal how the governor turned a blind eye to civil rights violations and a crumbling infrastructure
by MICHAEL WINSHIP |
The Logical Outcome Of The Occupy Movement
by Timothy Gatto |
The People Versus The Police
by Naomi Wolf
"America's politicians, it seems, have had their fill of democracy." |
Whodunnit to Herman?
by James Moore
"The sexual harassment story about Herman Cain didn't come out of nowhere." |
How the rich created the Social Security “crisis”
The Bush tax cuts coupled with a decades-long smear campaign are the real threat to the successful program
by GENE LYONS |
Washington Pre-Occupied
by Robert Reich
"The biggest question among activists now occupying Wall Street and dozens of other cities is how to strike back against the nation's almost unprecedented concentration of income, wealth, and political power in the top 1 percent." |
The importance of protests
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Though still in what I hope is its incipient stage, this protest movement proves that citizens of all different backgrounds and even ideologies (though sharing common interests) possess the ability to unite, pose a threat to seemingly invulnerable power factions, and demand change beyond the mere act of voting once every two years — and that they can endure and even grow in the face of abusive police force." |
The 99% Solution
The target isn't “the rich”
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson
"The trouble isn't that the 1% are rich. The trouble is that many of them cheat us in order to become richer without effort. |
Middle East propaganda 101
by GLENN GREENWALD |
Why inequality in America is even worse than you thought
A new study shows economic and social conditions in the U.S. rank near the bottom of the developed nations
by JUSTIN ELLIOTT |
Why the Left Won't Accept Success
by Robert Parry
"It appears that some don't want to accept that the anti-war movement has won a hard-fought victory and that Obama's election was a factor." |
Book release: With Liberty and Justice for Some
by GLENN GREENWALD |
Why can’t we say “empire”?
In order to have a real dialogue about our foreign policy, we need to admit that America is an imperial power
by DAVID SIROTA |
Iraq war: Mission failed
The political, economic and moral implications of this military disaster could haunt us for years to come
by MICHAEL LIND |
Do we need a third industrial revolution?
A new book argues that there's only one way to save life on Earth: Remake our economy
by ANDREW KEEN, BARNES & NOBLE REVIEW |
Sachs Fiend:
Goldman Attacks Occupy Wall Street's Non-Profit Bank
When Goldman got huffy at a credit union honouring OWS and pulled its anniversary dinner funding, much more was at stake
by Greg Palast |
"...Well, if you say so"
Two great mysteries edge closer to being answered
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson |
Oh Say Can you c?
The Standard Model comes under question
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson |
WikiLeaks cables and the Iraq War
by GLENN GREENWALD |
How the Obama administration bungled the Iraq withdrawal negotiations
by Josh Rogin
"But what about the extensive negotiations the administration has been engaged in for months, regarding U.S. offers to leave thousands of uniformed soldiers in Iraq past the deadline?" |
A remaining realm of American excellence
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Identically, both before and after the Awlaki killing, Americans have routinely celebrated the drone-deaths of hundreds of individuals about whom they knew nothing other than the fact that the Terrorist label had been applied to them by the U.S. Government." |
The Iraq War Ain’t Over, No Matter What Obama Says
by Spencer Ackerman
"But the fact is America’s military efforts in Iraq aren’t coming to an end. They are instead entering a new phase." |
Inside the Mideast prisoner swap
The "peace process" is dead and Hamas knows how to negotiate.
by ALI ABUNIMAH |
About that Iraq withdrawal
by GLENN GREENWALD |
The real problem for Marco Rubio
He's probably not the serial embellisher a new story makes him out to be, but it's still a sign of a deeper issue
by STEVE KORNACKI |
Process is politics at Occupy Wall Street
You can't understand the movement unless you understand its radically decentralized structure
by JUSTIN ELLIOTT |
The killing of Awlaki’s 16-year-old son
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Two weeks after the U.S. killed American citizen Anwar Awlaki with a drone strike in Yemen — far from any battlefield and with no due process — it did the same to his 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, ending the teenager’s life on Friday along with his 17-year-old cousin and seven other people." |
Could Gadhafi’s death spark a civil war?
Libya is now in the hands of the rebels, but deep division remain
by PETER GELLING, GLOBALPOST |
Occupation and realignment
How a real leftist movement could create a new center in American politics
by MICHAEL LIND |
What Happened to the Republican Party on Taxes?
by Jared Bernstein |
The austerity death trap
Ron Paul is the latest GOP candidate to propose absurd budget cuts. The government needs to spend more, not less
by ROBERT REICH
"The only way out of this vicious cycle is for the government – the spender of last resort – to boost the economy. The regressives are all calling for the opposite." |
The Movement Next Time
by Bill Zimmerman
"And in not remembering, my peers forget that mass movements do not rise all at once but grow from kernels of activism." |
The autocratic response to OWS
Mayor Bloomberg, Gov. Hickenlooper and others scramble to find ways to discourage these peaceful protests
by DAVID SIROTA |
Those hypocritical Iranians
by GLENN GREENWALD |
America: With God on our side
by Andrew J. Bacevich
"In the United States, despite a Constitution that mandates the separation of church and state, religion and politics have become inseparable." |
What are those OWS people so angry about?
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The only thing that’s surprising is that these protests didn’t happen sooner and that they’re not more widespread and intense." |
Harry Reid’s wimpy Senate reforms
Fixing the dysfunctional upper house requires more dramatic measures than the majority leader's tinkering
by JONATHAN BERNSTEIN |
America’s real death panels
By cutting food stamps and blocking smog regulations, Washington has a hand in killing thousands
by DAVID SIROTA |
The LA Times notices the “double standard” on Iran
by GLENN GREENWALD
"If the U.S. believes it has the right to assassinate enemies like Anwar Awlaki anywhere in the world in the name of a “war on terror” that has no geographical limitation, how can it then argue that other nations don’t have a similar right to track down their enemies and kill them wherever they’re found?" |
The future of Occupy: Four key questions
The answers will determine whether the economic justice movement can sustain itself
by JUSTIN ELLIOTT |
Will demonizing OWS win elections?
The GOP is trying to turn their criticism of the protesters into a campaign weapon. It's a risky move
by DAVID SIROTA |
The End of the American Era
by Stephen M. Walt
"When a state stands alone at the pinnacle of power, however, there is nowhere to go but down." |
Obama Admin Seeks Permission To Lie In Response To Freedom Of Information Requests - Even To The Courts
by Jerry Policoff
"Instead the Obama administration has exhibited what may be an unprecedented obsession with government secrecy including blocking numerous law suits by invoking the doctrine of 'State Secrets.'" |
The victory OWS has already won
The protests have helped shift the national dialogue from the deficit to the real problems Americans face
by Joshua Holland, Alternet |
Is the U.S. Really Leaving Iraq?
Despite planned troop withdrawal, our presence there will be huge
by Adil E. Shamoo and Bonnie Bricker |
Water Wars
Alabama has a new crop of blind boys
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson |
The GOP ties itself up in knots
by E.J. Dionne Jr. |
My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street Protesters
Hit bankers where it hurts
by MATT TAIBBI
"But the time is rapidly approaching when the movement is going to have to offer concrete solutions to the problems posed by Wall Street. To do that, it will need a short but powerful list of demands. There are thousands one could make, but I'd suggest focusing on five..." |
If a Republican Were President
by Robert Scheer
"Instead we are left with a Democratic president who soothes our rage with promises of decent-paying jobs that in actuality are being vigorously exported from our shores by the president's top corporate backers." |
Can OWS be turned into a Democratic Party movement?
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Does CAP and the DCCC really believe that most of the protesters are motivated — or can be motivated — to turn themselves into a get-out-the-vote machine for Obama’s re-election and the empowerment of Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Party?" |
Petraeus' CIA Fuels Iran Murder Plot
by Ray McGovern |
Rick Perry's Revolutionary War "History"
by Robert Parry
"For people who supposedly revere the Founding Fathers and the Constitution, the Tea Party and its favored candidates seem to know little about the actual history of the Revolutionary War or why the Constitution was written." |
The “very scary” Iranian Terror plot
by GLENN GREENWALD |
Listen to the Occupy Wall Street Movement
by Mohamed A. El-Erian
"To those wondering whether to pay attention to the "Occupy Wall Street" (OWS) protests, the answer is yes. This is more than just a nascent movement that will grow in the weeks and months ahead. It is part of a worldwide drive for greater social justice." |
The Awlaki memo and Marty Lederman
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Several months after President Obama ordered Anwar Awlaki killed by the CIA, the Obama DOJ — specifically lawyers within its Office of Legal Counsel — produced a memorandum legally authorizing this action. Despite multiple requests, the Obama administration refuses to release that memo to the public." |
The Suicide of Liberty
by Paul Craig Roberts
"Financial deregulation and the consequent financial crisis, collapse of the real estate market, and evictions of millions of Americans from their homes have greatly dimmed America's economic prospects." |
The Secrets of Government Killing
by ARTHUR S. BRISBANE
"WHO can’t America kill? The answer, as a matter of law, is simply unknown right now." |
The All-American Occupation
A Century of Our Streets Vs. Wall Street
by Steve Fraser
"The fact is that the end of the world as we've known it has been taking place all around us for some time." |
Crash 2012
Fighting the coming Great Depression
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson |
The real danger from classified leaks
by GLENN GREENWALD
"This highlights a vital point: the Obama administration’s chronic, self-serving and dangerous game-playing with classified information." |
Obama's Imperial Arrogance
by Stephen Lendman |
The Son of Africa Claims a Continent's Crown Jewels
by John Pilger
"However, the main reason the US is invading Africa is no different from that which ignited the Vietnam war. It is China." |
How to Regain Our Democracy
by Cenk Uygur
"We must pass an amendment saying that corporations are not people and they do not have the right to spend money to buy our politicians." |
Various matters
by GLENN GREENWALD
"If you think about it, [Marc] Ambinder’s observation is amazing: it means that the current iteration of Obama is to the Right on national security as compared to where Romney would have been a few years ago while attacking Obama from the Right." |
Are our drone attacks legal?
Our use of these unmanned devices outside of combat zones likely conflicts with international law
by JEAN MACKENZIE, GLOBALPOST |
The Petraeus projection: The CIA director's record since the surge
Hero worship hides the military failures of the CIA director's "global killing machine"
by FRED BRANFMAN |
The creative class is a lie
The dream of a laptop-powered "knowledge class" is dead. The media is melting. Blame the economy -- and the Web
by SCOTT TIMBERG |
How conservatism conquered America
The right-wing movement has won nearly every battle it has fought. An expert explains what that means
by THOMAS ROGERS |
Occupy Wall Street
Occupy America
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson |
So much evidence, there’s no need to show it
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Now that hordes of Obama defenders are running around justifying the President’s due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizen Anwar Awlaki based on exactly the same claim and mindset — our President targeted a Very Bad Terrorist, so no due process or disclosure of evidence was needed..." |
A week that transformed the 2012 story line
by E.J. Dionne Jr.
"Finally, the anti-Wall Street demonstrators have created a new pole in politics." |
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s assignment editor
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The Occupy Wall Street protest has been growing in numbers, respectability, and media attention for several weeks now. Despite that, The New York Times‘ financial columnist who specializes in Wall Street coverage, Andrew Ross Sorkin, has neither visited the protests nor written about them — until today." |
How to stop the political insanity
Recent research shows that turbulent times reward crazy leaders. Here's what we can do to counteract that
by DAVID SIROTA |
Steve Jobs' Legacy: Think Different
by Pierre Omidyar |
OCCUPY Your City and Make History
by Robert Greenwald
"The Occupy Wall Street protest is a full bore indictment against corporate greed and dysfunctional government. It's a demand for nation building here at home." |
#OccupyWallSt, Then #OccupyKSt, Then #OccupyMainSt
by Lawrence Lessig
"What is surprising -- indeed, terrifying, given what it says about this democracy -- is what happened after the collapse." |
Execution by secret WH committee
by GLENN GREENWALD
"American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture list by a secretive panel of senior government officials, which then informs the president of its decisions..." |
Flat-Lining the Middle Class
Economic Numbers to Die For
by Andy Kroll
"In recent months, a blizzard of new data, the hardest of hard numbers, has laid bare the dilapidated condition of the American economy, and particularly of the once-mighty American middle class." |
The FBI again thwarts its own Terror plot
by GLENN GREENWALD |
The Death Penalty
Killing time
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson
"The main problem with the Troy Davis execution wasn't that the man was almost certainly innocent of the crime he was being killed for; the problem was that no civilized nation should have the death penalty in the first place." |
The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality
by GLENN GREENWALD
"What's most striking about this is not that the U.S. Government has seized and exercised exactly the power the Fifth Amendment was designed to bar ("No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law"), and did so in a way that almost certainly violates core First Amendment protections (questions that will now never be decided in a court of law)." |
Why American politics is stuck in the 1980s
Today's "bold new ideas" look a lot like the stale concepts of yesteryear
by MICHAEL LIND
"The 2012 campaign promises to be a debate about bold and contrasting ideas. Unfortunately, they are mostly the bold and contrasting ideas of the 1980s." |
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Will Transform Society (Excerpt)
by Jeremy Rifkin
"The locus of control over energy production and distribution is beginning to tilt from giant fossil fuel based centralized energy companies to millions of small producers, who are generating their own renewable energies in their dwellings and trading surpluses in info-energy commons." |
What's behind the scorn for the Wall Street protests?
by GLENN GREENWALD |
Losing Afghanistan, Losing Central Asia
by Craig Murray
"Unfortunately, by promoting evil dictatorship in Central Asia, the United States and NATO are not advancing their own long term interests." |
Welcome to Boston, Mr. Rumsfeld. You Are Under Arrest.
by Ralph Lopez
"Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been stripped of legal immunity for acts of torture against US citizens authorized while he was in office." |
Question about America's enemies
by GLENN GREENWALD |
A President who is helpless in the face of Middle East reality
Obama's UN speech insists Israelis and Palestinians are equal parties to conflict
by Robert Fisk |
When Will Wall Street Call for More Federal Spending?
by Robert Reich |
The terrible post-9/11 truth: Our government's been hijacked
Democracy has been commandeered by a self-interested gang
by MICHAEL WINSHIP |
What media coverage omits about U.S. hikers released by Iran
by GLENN GREENWALD |
The origins of Occupy Wall Street explained
Salon talks to the editor of Adbusters about the practical and philosophical roots of the movement
by JUSTIN ELLIOTT |
Reagan's "Greed Is Good" Folly
by Robert Parry
"So, it turns out that greed isn't good after all -- at least not for the vast majority of the American people. But this is a lesson that many U.S. opinion leaders still resist." |
Dennis G. Jacobs: Case study in judicial pathology
by GLENN GREENWALD
"The last decade has spawned a massive expansion of the domestic Surveillance State. Worse, the U.S. Government has vested itself with the virtually unchallenged ability to operate this surveillance regime in full secrecy and even beyond the reach of judicial review, which is another way of saying: above and beyond the rule of law." |
Obama should support Palestinian statehood
If the president wants to foster peace and be on the right side of history, he must back the Palestinian U.N. bid
BY HDS GREENWAY, GLOBALPOST |
A Decade After 9/11: We Are What We Loathe
by Chris Hedges |
U.S. not "standing idly by" in Bahrain
by GLENN GREENWALD |
Grim Realities in the Obama Budget Plan
by Jeffrey Sachs
"Obama may be leaning against the right-wing juggernaut, but he is not changing its direction, only slightly blunting its force." |
The Geithner mystery solved
by GLENN GREENWALD |
Teabags
No longer just under the eyes
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson |
How the two-party duopoly operates
The behavior of two Colorado politicians shows how superficial the differences between the parties are
by DAVID SIROTA |
How Rick Perry courts the Zionist vote
Appearing with Jewish extremists is designed to win over apocalyptic Christians
by SARAH POSNER |
U.S. to build new massive prison in Bagram
by GLENN GREENWALD |
The greatest elected body that money can buy (UPDATED)
by Stephen M. Walt |
Obama Tells Palestinians to Stay in Back of Bus
by STEVE CLEMONS
"Perhaps most disappointing is that President Obama, who in earlier years at the UN chastised Mahmoud Abbas, Benjamin Netanyahu, and George Mitchell for not getting more quickly on a constructive peace track, who felt that achieving an Israel-Palestine two state deal was of such strategic significance to the United States that he made it one of the very first out-of-the gate priorities of his administration, has not only offered nothing new to break the Israel-Palestine negotiations deep freeze but has acquiesced to the very narrative that on the negotiations that Israel embraces." |
Jose Padilla and how American justice functions
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Needless to say, none of the government officials responsible for this abuse of a U.S. citizen on American soil has been held accountable in any way." |
For Voters to Believe Obama's Second Term Will Bring About Change, He Needs to Acknowledge What Needs to Change in Himself
by Arianna Huffington |
A real Wall Street takeover threat
Hundreds of the young and disenfranchised settle into lower Manhattan to send a message to Wall Street -- and Obama
by DAVID TALBOT |
The mainstreaming of Walt and Mearsheimer
by GLENN GREENWALD
"But American politicians won't be entertaining that debate as they exercise their veto because, as The Israel Lobby documented and Tom Friedman today put it, 'the powerful pro-Israel lobby . . . can force the administration to defend Israel at the U.N., even when it knows Israel is pursuing policies not in its own interest or America's.'" |
The theft of the American pension
In the last decade, the country's biggest companies have raided worker benefits for profit. An expert explains how
by THOMAS ROGERS |
Veto a State, Lose an Ally
by TURKI AL-FAISAL
"The United States must support the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations this month or risk losing the little credibility it has in the Arab world." |
The lessons of Solyndra
The controversy shows what Germany knows: Renewable energy needs to be funded wisely
by ALYSSA BATTISTONI |
Major discovery: a purpose of the war in Afghanistan
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Reintegration is at the heart of U.S. and Afghan government strategies to wind down the war, with schooling and employment being offered to coax fighters away from the insurgency." |
Endless War and the culture of unrestrained power
by GLENN GREENWALD
"Far worse is what is being done to prosecute that war, the transformation of government institutions and their relationship to the citizenry to sustain it, and, most enduringly of all, the mentality that it has spawned and entrenched." |
What we should have done after 9/11
by NOAM CHOMSKY |
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
by Naomi Wolf |
The end of evidence
It's hard to determine the goals of 9/11 conspiracists -- but the movement reflects our changing ideas about belief
by ALEXANDER COCKBURN |
