People Whose Names and Ideas I Wish Were Not in the News Right Now
Fortunately, the 8 year long nightmare that was the George W. Bush administration ended when President Obama was sworn in. The economy was a mess and we were involved in two unpopular wars--Iraq and...
View ArticleSpeaking of Iraq, Them Architects of Are as "Experts"
How many are following or even heard a trial is taking place involving our very own, very expensive and all still borrowed, private corporate army!The extremely, no bid contracts, expensive, in more...
View ArticleTomgram: Engelhardt, The Guns of Folly
This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here.[Note for TomDispatch Readers:As you know, our third Dispatch Book, Rebecca...
View ArticleHeather Zichal, Former Obama Energy Aide, Named to Board of Fracked Gas...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogHeather Zichal, former Obama White House Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, may soon walk out of the government-industry revolving door to...
View ArticleRevealed: Heather Zichal Met with Cheniere Executives as Obama Energy Aide...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogHeather Zichal, former deputy assistant for energy and climate change to President Barack Obama and nominee to sit on the board of directors of LNG export company Cheniere...
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Dick Cheney is back to tell you decade-old lies
The Washington Post has a very long fact-checking piece on Sith Lord Cheney and Darth Cheney Jr.'s latest spewings upon the public stage, and I am terribly sorry for the uncivil description of the...
View ArticleThe REAL Reason the CIA Destroyed 92 Videos of Detainees Being Tortured
And you can bet it's the same reason the Senate report on Torture hasn't yet been released. The CIA far exceeded their own definition of 'waterboarding' with at least two or more high-profile...
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Presidential Policy Directive 62: Wherein the Clinton Adm. Gave us the...
Thanks, Bill... no really. If nothing else, I guess it's a step up from 'Fatherland.'But not much of one.A newly declassified White House policy directive regarding counterterrorism policies pre-Bush...
View Article"Today I learned I got my freedoms back": 7 Americans ALLOWED off No-Fly List.
Government's Secretive "No-Fly List" Regime Crumbling, says ACLUMarking the first major victory against the U.S. government's secretive 'No Fly List' on Friday, seven people who challenged their...
View ArticleIntroducing "Natural Gas Exports: Washington's Revolving Door Fuels Climate...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogDeSmogBlog’s Steve Horn and Republic Report’s Lee Fang have co-written an in-depth report on the influence the government-industry revolving door has had on Big Oil’s...
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Our nation will torture again. Let these conservatives explain why.
"We’ll use enhanced interrogation techniques which go beyond those that are in the military handbook right now."— Mitt Romney, vowing to reinstitute the program during the 2012 campaign. There will be...
View ArticleThis I don't Believe: The CIA Misled The White House
Go on pull the other one its got manacles on.The CIA misled the White House and Congress over its harsh interrogation programme for terrorism suspects, and its methods, which included waterboarding,...
View ArticleA massive and systematic violation of human rights
Not only by the US that is for sure there was a great deal of complicity from its allies in Europe and beyond. The torture program being just one part.The complicity in allowing the invasion of Iraq...
View ArticleReminder: Emergencies and Imminent Threats are Not Justifications for Torture
Since the release of the report on the torture program conducted by the CIA and the Bush administration in the wake of 9/11, one of the arguments we keep hearing from people trying to defend the...
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Why Do We Punish Lawbreakers In the First Place?
The arguments coming from the ACLU's Executive Director Anthony Romero and others saying that President Obama should formally pardon the officials who approved the US's torture program under the Bush...
View ArticleToday: Senator Levin (D-MI) To Open Pandora's Box On Iraq War Lies
In a press release today, Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced plans to introduce into the Congressional Record some damning new information about how Bush...
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Dick Cheney on CIA torture: 'I'd do it again in a minute'
The former Vice President and one of the chief proponents of America's Bush-regime torture programs was invited to the Sunday shows yesterday to explain once again that screw national and...
View ArticleThe "Poor" Terrorists were Tortured?
The toxic political climate in America today dictates that as soon as one end of the political spectrum says or does anything, the other end feels pressure to instantly reply. This article is an...
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Dick Cheney: 'I have no problem' using torture program against innocent persons
Yesterday, the former vice president of the United States and one of the architects of the American torture program explained why he was unconcerned about the torture of innocent prisoners.CHUCK TODD:...
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A majority of Americans support CIA torture program
Fifty-two percent say it was wrong for the Senate to release the torture report. Most or all of these people probably also go to church on Sundays.A majority of Americans believe that the harsh...
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