By Alex Constantine We all have our heroes, but somehow Joe McCarthy is not widely lionized in this backward society. This is the cry of Bruce Walker, wringing his hands in last month’s New American. Walker once wrote a ...
Right-wing media are howling over “recent” (decade-old, actually) revelations of Saudi royal family participation in 9/11 … but shield the sensitive eyes of their conservative audience from the blinding glare of connections much closer to home. ...
PDF of Letter Sent in 2004 by Senators Leahy and Kennedy to Attorney General John Ashcroft Seeking Investigation of Nathan Sproul Firm for Potential Voter Registration Fraud Text version: ORRIN G. HATCH, UTAH, CHAIRMAN CHARLESE. ...
By Justice For Josiah On February 21, 2014, the San Jose State University Police Department (UPD) murdered a community member, an undocumented Mexican immigrant. UPD Sgt. Michael “Mike” Santos shot him in the back, twice, in ...
By Andy Kroll Mother Jones | Apr. 27, 2010 If there was any lingering doubt about why Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) voted against opening the debate on financial reform, the identity of Nelson’s top donor ...
The Most Interesting Gubernatorial Candidate in the World Neil Livingstone has partied with pirates, been stalked by Nazis, and tried (unsuccessfully) to spring Moammar Qaddafi from Libya. His latest adventure? Running for governor of Montana. ...
NATO Pushes for War by Encircling Russia – French Newspaper 16:20 14.02.2015 (updated 16:33 14.02.2015) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) desperately wants to get involved in the Ukrainian conflict, French newspaper Le Point reports. Making Ukraine a ...
June 9, 2015 FORT LAUDERDALE — On the fifth anniversary of Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein‘s sentencing to 50 years in a federal prison, Gossip Extra can reveal exclusively that the government just seized money that ...
“… Fuller was nominated to the bench in 2002 by President George W. Bush and has been a controversial figure in Alabama politics, largely for his role in the Siegelman trial. … One of the ...
By Norman Pollack (Norman Pollack has written on Populism. His interests are social theory and the structural analysis of capitalism and fascism. He can be reached at pollackn@msu.edu.) The NATO summit in Wales is over. It marked ...
“… Baumgardner said that he was referring to ‘hot springs,’ which he said his grandmother called ‘burning waters’ …” By Jason Plautz National Journal, August 14, 2014 A Colorado state legislator has dismissed concerns about hydraulic fracturing ...
Frazier Glenn Cross, who is also known as Frazier Glenn Miller, looks around April 24 after being wheeled into a Johnson County courtroom for a scheduling session in Olathe, Kansas. Sen. Jerry Moran sent a ...
10 January 2014 Senate Bill 14 defines ‘crimes against nature’ as knowing ‘any male or female person by the anus or by or with the mouth’ Consenting adults who perform these sex acts in private ...
Agents searched the home of Senator Lamar Alexander’s chief of staff CapitalComment, December 11, 2013 Senator Lamar Alexander’s chief of staff, Ryan Loskarn, is being investigated by law enforcement agents concerning child pornography, Alexander’s office announced. Loskarn was placed ...
Also see: “Rand Paul’s plagiarism allegations, and why they matter,” Washington Post, November 4, 2013: ” … Paul hasn’t denied that the language was borrowed. Instead, he has argued that he is the victim of ‘haters‘ out to destroy ...
1950s Political Blackmail Caused Senate Suicide, Impeded Gay Rights Progress In 1954, Joe McCarthy threatened to reveal Sen. Lester Hunt’s son was a homosexual unless he withdrew from his reelection bid. Two weeks later the ...
An overwhelming majority in the Senate rushed to approve a massive military incursion founded on a fabricated provocation. Obviously, America hasn’t learned a thing since — the nation’s capitol is still manned by insensate military-corporate mannequins in three-piece suits with no ...
Note from People Against the National Defense Authorization Act (PANDA): On March 26th, we asked you to contact Representative Tobin of Arizona, who was blocking HB 2573 from coming up for a vote. The response ...
EDITORIAL: A question of lethal force Wyden wants answers from Obama’s CIA nominee January 15, 2013Sen. Ron Wyden has a simple, chilling question for John Brennan, President Obama’s nominee to be director of the Central ...
By Philip Jankowski Killeen Daily Herald, July 13, 2012 The casket containing the body of Fort Hood shooting victim Capt. John Paul. (Ignelzi/AP ) U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, called on the FBI Friday to ...
By Tom Peters Colombia Reports | May 11, 2011 Accused: Jose Miguel Narvaez A former deputy director of Colombia’s intelligence agency DAS ordered the assassination of a leftist politician by paramilitaries, the Prosecutor General’s Office said ...
May 5, 2011 The Bin Laden operation was a success. But the spin control has been a total muddle. After intoning that the terrorist leader died in a “firefight” late Sunday, the White House has been ...
Also see: “Audio Clips of Senator Chris Buttars ‘Black Baby’ Controversy” By Eric Ethington LGBTQNATION | January 16, 2011 SALT LAKE CITY — Utah State Senator Chris Buttars is proposing a new resolution designed to ...
By Rick Piltz Climate Science Watch | December 24, 2010 A single Republican Senator, using the egregious parliamentary tactic of placing an anonymous ‘hold’ without having the integrity to offer a public justification, killed a major whistleblower protection ...
“… Deal’s troubles with ethics, money and honesty make him completely unfit to run this state. …” By Trey Alverson Fayette County News | 2010-09-30 I can’t get over the governor’s race. A few weeks ...
By Steven Harmon San Jose Mercury News | August 23m 2010 SACRAMENTO — Welfare advocates are criticizing Meg Whitman for ratcheting up her rhetoric against welfare recipients as she rails against waste, fraud and abuse ...
NATO’s Secret Armies – by Stephen Lendman OpEd News | September 15, 2010 In his book, “NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe,” Daniele Ganser described their clandestine Cold War operations, run ...
” … A search of the web forum Stormfront demonstrates longtime support for Nathan Deal in the white supremacist and Nazi community. … “ By Cynthia Tucker Atlanta Journal-Constitution | August 11, 2010 Nathan Deal? ...
Paladino: House Poor People In Prisons By Ken Lovett | Gothamist | August 22, 2010 Former city Comptroller Bill Thompson just called to rip Republican Carl Paladino’s recent proposal to run job and hygiene training ...
Sweden Rescinds Warrant for WikiLeaks Founder By JOHN F. BURNS and ERIC SCHMITT NY Times | August 21, 2010 LONDON — Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blower Web site WikiLeaks who has been embroiled in ...
In one of the more controversial interviews on Midweek Politics, racist Senate candidate from Missouri Glenn Miller called host David Pakman a “jew liar” and “kike-a-like,” and said he personally hates David although he’s never ...
By Rick Rozoff International | July 29, 2010 The 15th biennial African Union summit in Kampala, Uganda ended on July 27 with mixed results regarding support for U.S. and Western European plans to escalate foreign ...
By Phil Stewart Reuters | May 26, 2010 WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) – A top NATO commander said on Wednesday he aimed to reduce the day-to-day governing role of Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s half brother, ...
By Brad Friedman | Brad’s Blog | May 27, 2010 Remember the disingenuous snit fits that Rightwing con-man Andrew Breitbart and his Tea Bag Boyz were on about when the original reports broke of “a ...
Also see: “The O’Keefe Telephone Squad’s Intelligence Ties” Associated Press | May 26, 2010 NEW ORLEANS — Four conservative activists accused of trying to tamper with the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office have pleaded ...
