By Frank Rizzo Blogs.courant.com | January 18, 2011 I received this interesting email from a reader that I think deserves its own blog entry. It centers on my brief account on the reading Sunday night ...
by Choire Sicha The Awl | February 22, 2010 Despite what is surely deliberate obstruction, in the form of having deleted John Yoo’s emails, the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility still found grounds ...
AFP | February 2, 2011 THE man named by President Hosni Mubarak as his first ever deputy, spy chief Omar Suleiman, reportedly orchestrated the brutal interrogation of terror suspects abducted by the CIA in its ...
By Ed O’Keefe Washington Post | January 6, 2011 Details of Donald Rumsfeld’s forthcoming book tour are out, as the former defense secretary plans to sit for a series of interviews with ABC News in early ...
” … Through the CIA and other agencies, the United States government spent millions of dollars to defeat the Italian Communists in 1948, even working with components of the Fascist regime from which they had ...
Rudy Giuliani Denies Supporting Terrorist Organization By Brian Montopoli | CBS News | January 10, 2011 Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is reportedly considering another run at the presidency, has co-written an op-ed ...
By Glenn Greenwald Salon | January 3, 2011 Imagine if a group of leading American liberals met on foreign soil with — and expressed vocal support for — supporters of a terrorist group that had ...
“… Griffin was, as BBC journalist Greg Palast reported it in 2007, ‘the hidden hand behind a scheme to wipe out the voting rights of 70,000 citizens prior to the 2004 election’ through an insidious ...
Caveat: This is arguably premature, but it does dig into John Wheeler’s connections to treacherous military contractors, a reasonable enough place to begin the investigation into his murder, and for this reason I’ve posted an excerpt. The lead suspect, as Roger Shuler ...
MSNBC | January 3, 2011 DOVER, Delaware –The body of John Wheeler III, 66, a former White House official, was discovered on New Year’s Eve when a garbage truck emptied its contents at the Cherry ...
By Alex Constantine Lockheed & the Cohen Group – Seemingly Irrelevant (But Not) Connections to the Center of the Corruption: HOWARD DEAN, DANNY SEBRIGHT & THE AFHAN WAR “Soon we’ll find out who is the real revolutionary, I don’t want ...
MSNBC | December 2, 2010 Maria Cino Former Vice President Dick Cheney “is putting his power as a Republican rainmaker behind Maria Cino, a former Bush administration official and Republican strategist, who is preparing to ...
Bay City News | December 21, 2010 A federal judge in San Francisco today awarded more than $2.5 million in damages and legal fees to compensate two lawyers for an Islamic charity for illegal wiretapping ...
“… Central America served as a kind of testing ground for the American empire following the Vietnam War, a testing ground which Reagan used to rally Christian evangelicals, paramilitaries and conservative politicians. This was rekindled ...
Cheney Asks Americans for Money to Access Nigerian Bank Account and Fight Criminal Charges, Promises to Share Portion of Funds By BC Bass Bennington Vale Press | December 10, 2010 ABUJA, Nigeria — Earlier ...
” … At the end of 2007 [Dan] Bartlett, during an interview with Evan Smith published in the January ’08 Texas Monthly, implied some conservative bloggers, such as HUGH HEWITT, were unfiltered mouthpieces for the ...
Source : Reuters News Center | December 3, 2010 Vladimir Putin rules Russia by allowing a venal elite to siphon off cash from the world’s biggest energy producer, according to a picture painted by US ...
“… Contrary to Bush’s claims, Mubarak had warned Bush and other American officials against invading Iraq, since such a step would constitute a grave breach of international law. …” Al Masry Alyoum | November 21, ...
By Rev. WILLIAM E. ALBERTS CounterPunch | November 12 – 14, 2010 The Federal Bureau of Investigation pays a black man (Ronald Wilburn) $30,000 to offer a bribe of $1,000 to a black Boston City ...
“… Most counter terrorism experts dispute these claims saying there is no evidence to substantiate that waterboarding Al- Qaida leaders helped foil specific attacks on the UK. ‘It’s unambiguous that waterboarding is torture for the ...
In an interview with Deutsche Welle, the former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture lauds the Obama administration for joining the UN Human Rights Council. But he urges Obama to deal with the legacy of his ...
By Bob Johnson OpEd News | November 1, 2010 Ralph Reed, Pat Robertson’s former right hand man and director of Pat’s Christian Coalition from 1989 to 1997, is back in politics working hard to change ...
By Roddy Newman Constantine Report Contributor While there has been much debate about the wars in Iraq, the Balkans and Afghanistan, the most important aspect of those conflicts – the clearly racist, religiously-motivated decision by the American and UK ...
” … Although Powell’s attempt to cover up the [My Lai] massacre was unsuccessful, he had at least proven his willingness to do what was necessary to please his bosses. … “ Colin Powell: Not ...
Compiled by Alex Constantine Walter Isaacson is the president of the Aspen Institute and has been the chairman and CEO of CNN and managing editor of Time Magazine. He also authored Kissinger: A Biography.” Books As ...
By Daniel Tencer Raw Story | October 14th, 2010 A psychologist whose research was used in constructing the US’s program to torture terrorism suspects has been granted a $31-million no-bid Army contract to provide “resilience ...
A closer look at the famous post-Watergate investigation into domestic spying abuses and how it led to a secret court to authorize surveillance requests. By Katelyn Epsley-Jones and Christina Frenzel Frontline | May 15, 2007 ...
By Patrick Martin World Socialst Web Site | September 11, 2010 The US Department of Defense is negotiating with a major US publisher, St. Martin’s Press, to buy and destroy all 10,000 copies of a ...
By Alex Constantine Yesterday morning, a gas rig operated in shallow water on the Continental Shelf by Mariner Energy exploded, sending 13 workers into the drink. The company is part-owned by the Texas Pacific Group. Carlyle/Riverstone also ...
Iraq inquiry accused of ignoring civilian death toll By Emma Alberici ABC News | Aug 28, 2010 The official inquiry into the Iraq war being held in London has been accused of ignoring the deaths ...
By Greg Sargent | Washington Post | August 24, 2010 Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf As you may have heard, former Bush senior adviser Karen Hughes came out against Cordoba House over the weekend. Hughes called ...
By Eileen Smith } American Politics Journal | May 23, 2001 (APJP) — Five times in just the last eighty years, conservative Republicans have assaulted the Constitution in order to grab power they couldn’t gain ...
” … Farren served in both Bush administrations, as deputy White House counsel for President George W. Bush and as President George H.W. Bush’s undersecretary for international trade. … “ Associated Press | June 8, ...
Violations of Nuremburg Code and Role of Health Professionals in Secret Torture Program Require Criminal Investigation CCR Demands New Intra-Agency Interrogation Unit Disclose Nature of “Scientific Research” Into Questioning of Suspects NEW YORK – June ...
