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Truthdig’s James Harris and Josh Scheer speak with Harry Helms, author of “Top Secret Tourism: Your Travel Guide to Germ Warfare Laboratories, Clandestine Aircraft Bases and Other Places in the United States You’re Not Supposed to Know About.”
Posted on Aug 30, 2007
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AP Photo / Mark Lennihan
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By Robert Fisk — Since the terrorist attacks on the U.S., many prominent journalists have repeatedly been asked the same questions, as The Independent’s Robert Fisk describes in this piece: “Why, if you believe you’re a free journalist, don’t you report what you really know about 9/11? ... Why don’t you reveal the secrets behind 9/11?” Here, Fisk carefully poses some questions of his own—after addressing a familiar figure he calls the “raver.”
Posted on Aug 30, 2007
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By Marie Cocco — With Labor Day approaching, it must not go unnoticed that Angelo Mozilo, chief executive of Countrywide Financial—the company that has helped drive world markets into turmoil with its lending—raked in $42.9 million last year. The Nobel laureate Harold Varmus, chief executive of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, was paid $2.5 million.
Posted on Aug 30, 2007
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By Amy Goodman — It was among the worst nightmares of U.S. history, and it sprang from the brutal thinking that Attorney General Gonzales trafficked in.
Posted on Aug 28, 2007
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AP Photo / Charles Dharapak
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By Robert Scheer — President Bush lamented Alberto Gonzales’ resignation and insisted that the “good name” of the attorney general had been besmirched for partisan purposes. Good name? Robert Scheer reviews the highlights (or, rather, the low points) of Gonzales’ tenure and looks at the troubling legacy he leaves behind.
Posted on Aug 28, 2007
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The GOP spin machine is revving up with the news of Alberto Gonzales’ departure. Some Republicans are suggesting that tracking down wrongdoing in Gonzales’ Justice Department would bring not peace but extreme disruption. In other words: Can’t we all be buddies and forget these trivialities?
Posted on Aug 27, 2007
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By Marie Cocco — With Alberto Gonzales’ resignation, the president has lost not only a buddy willing to humiliate himself before Congress but a loyal agent who, whether knowingly or not, helped co-opt the federal government.
Posted on Aug 27, 2007
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By Larry Gross — The not-so-secret gay sex life of Merv Griffin has once again raised the specter of the obituary outing, not to mention the power of prejudice to intimidate even the rich and famous.
Posted on Aug 27, 2007
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By Andy Borowitz — The satirist opines that the Bush adviser had some help from steroids in setting records as a divider and dirty trickster.
Posted on Aug 26, 2007
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AP Photo / Charlie Niebergall
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By Bill Boyarsky — If a Democrat wins the next presidential election, she or he will have to tackle battles abroad—and, no less significantly, at home. Boyarsky predicts that, after ending the Iraq war, a Democratic president would “immediately be confronted with domestic issues that have no Democratic consensus, issues in which debate is charged with deep feelings about national, ethnic and racial identity.”
Posted on Aug 24, 2007
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Maybe the Iraqi prime minister should just enter our primaries next year and Americans could vote up or down on whether he should remain in office.
Posted on Aug 24, 2007
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By Joe Conason — As Karl Rove exits stage right with his ruined dreams of rightist hegemony, all the political signs and portents tell us that America is turning the other way.
Posted on Aug 23, 2007
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By Marie Cocco — The Democratic candidates have paid much attention to the president’s horrendous foreign policy, but what of his tax cuts, which have crippled the treasury for the sake of the yachting class?
Posted on Aug 23, 2007
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By Ellen Goodman — The columnist honors the anniversary of women’s suffrage by recognizing those who have done their worst to turn back the clock on women’s rights.
Posted on Aug 23, 2007
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By Scott Ritter — Although Karl Rove is stepping down, the real menace in the White House is staying on. Dick Cheney, Ritter argues, more than Kim Jung Il or Osama bin Laden, is the greatest threat to American and international security in the world today.
Posted on Aug 21, 2007
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Three Questions Left Unanswered by Obama’s Counterterrorism Speech
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