Last week, Scott Horton interviewed (audio) investigative journalist Joe Lauria. Lauria was one of the co-authors of the three-part (1, 2, 3) series on the case of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds for the UK's Sunday Times.
But almost immediately after the FBI leaked this theory as to when and how Ivins traveled to New Jersey undetected, it was pointed out in several online venues, including here, that this timeline made no sense whatsoever -- that, indeed, the FBI's own theories were self-contradic …
[A TomDispatch recommendation: Bill Moyers had Andrew Bacevich on his "Journal" for an hour Friday night, discussing his new book, The Limits of Power (which is now the number one bestseller at Amazon).
The Project For The New American Century, PNAC, has gone Absent Without Leave. They have seemingly vanished with the sands of time. It sounds too good to be true which means, it probably is not true.
The signing on August 14 of an agreement between the governments of the United States and Poland to deploy on Polish soil US 'interceptor missiles' is the most dangerous move towards nuclear war the world has seen since the 1962 Cuba Missile crisis.
The following three letters were recently declared classified, even though they had been considered unclassified since their creation in summer and fall 2002.
There is reason to believe that sections of the international pharmaceutical industry cartel are acting in concert with the US Government to develop a genetically modified H5N1 virus substance that could unleash a man-made pandemic, perhaps more deadly than the 1918 'Spanish In …
McCain says, "In the twenty-first century, nations don't invade other nations:" And imagine him all sweetness and light now about wanting good relations with Moscow after his rants all the past week.
Information captured by this intrusive project would be stored in a huge database for an undisclosed period of time.
Mark O'Byrne, Executive Director of Gold and Silver Investments and writing at Money Week prefers his statistics on the fundamental side, and even so, agrees with this analysis and says so in an essay titled "Why Gold and Silver are Table-Thumping Buys."
Years ago, I optimistically read AEI fellow Jeane Kirkpatrick's defense of our foreign policy hypocrisy, entitled Dictatorships and Double Standards. Even as a Cold War conservative at the time, I recall feeling that she protested too much.
"I'm in show business, why come to me?" "War is show business, that's why we're here." – "Wag the Dog" (1997 film)
On Wednesday night, Føx "News'" Bill O'Reilly continued his dishonest and deceptive attacks on websites, such as Huffington Post and Daily Kos, which he misleadingly describes as "h*te sites" which feature "vicious far-left attacks" as based on selective comments he's discov …
My column, "Putin's War Enablers: Bush and Cheney" (Russia's escalating war on Georgia reveals the consequences of the Bush administration's long assault on the international rule of law.) is now out in Salon. Excerpt:
Andrew Bacevich | The American Military Crisis | 1 To the problem of an overstretched, over-toured military, there is but one answer in Washington.
And if that was not enough, these university egghead guys actually go on to say that the poor are actually thriving, as "the range of goods consumed by poor households increased by far more than for rich households.
It's been 75 years since the federal government, on the spurious grounds of fighting the Great Depression, ordered the confiscation of all monetary gold from Americans, permitting trivial amounts for ornamental or industrial use.
The World it at a very dangerous crossroads. America in alliance with NATO and Israel has embarked upon a military adventure.
McCain's campaign strategist Randy Scheunemann was a lobbyist for Georgia until recently, and remained part of Orion Strategies until May 15. OS had signed a $2 mn. deal to provide "strategic advice" to the Georgian government.
After the Soviet Union's 1991 dissolution, Georgia's South Ossetia province broke away and declared its independence. So far it remains undiplomatically recognized by UN member states.
Inflation seems to be raging, to one degree or another, all over the world now, and in Europe as a whole it rose to 4.1%, which is (as I hear) the most inflation in 16 years.
The death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn produced predictable reactions from Western commentators.
Ryan suggested that I weigh in on the current conflict in South Ossetia and in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, which I mention in passing in my book, "Reinventing Collapse", as one of the bigger post-Soviet political fiascos. - Dmitry Orlov
Bush's demand that Russia "reverse course" on Georgia and not try to overthrow an elected government is full of special pleading. Bush has no standing to ask anyone not to go around invading countries, of course.
Apropos our article on Friday describing the "Rovian dirty tricks" that FL-24 Congressional candidate, Clint Curtis, alleges his primary opponent, former State Rep.
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