Stories by William Rivers Pitt
William Rivers Pitt is the author of "War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know" and "The Greatest Sedition Is Silence."
Posted on Oct 10, 2011, Source: TruthOut.org
OWS has bloomed in more than a dozen major cities all across the country. It stopped being a protest a while ago. It's a movement now. And they're scared.
Posted on Jul 23, 2009, Source: TruthOut.org
Stimulus-funded infrastructure projects are patching together beantown's crumbling facade.
Posted on Feb 18, 2009, Source: TruthOut.org
We can finally dream of incurable diseases being cured. Welcome, at last, to the 21st century.
Posted on Aug 9, 2005, Source: TruthOut.org
Why Cindy Sheehan won't leave Crawford until she gets some answers from George W. Bush -- the man who sent her son needlessly to die in Iraq.
Posted on Jun 10, 2005, Source: TruthOut.org
The Minutes now stand as irrefutable proof that the road to war in Iraq was paved, with absolute intent, with lies and deceit and misdirection and fraud.
Posted on May 26, 2005, Source: TruthOut.org
It's been a long and tiring haul for those who oppose the war in Iraq. But hope remains resilient.
Posted on Feb 22, 2005, Source: TruthOut.org
With Thompson's suicide, journalism lost a deeply flawed and unconventional practitioner – but one who always sought the truth with his highball.
Posted on Feb 1, 2005, Source: TruthOut.org
The American media is painting Iraqi voters as flush with the thrill of casting a ballot. However, some other more pressing motivations lay behind their rush to the polls.
Posted on Nov 9, 2004, Source: TruthOut.org
Even if Bush did really win, Nov. 2 was a voting disaster. It's not too late for there to be an accurate count, but how to get the tallies from the black boxes?
Posted on Nov 6, 2004, Source: TruthOut.org
If Bush's first four years are any indication of what is to come, and if the movement continues to hammer him, history will remember him single worst President the nation has ever known.
Posted on Oct 27, 2004, Source: TruthOut.org
After a thousand days of fear, doubt, anger and set-jawed patriotism in the face of everything we as a nation have been forced to deal with, we are down to a single week to decide the new direction of this country.
Posted on Aug 3, 2004, Source: TruthOut.org
A three-year-old blizzard of warnings about looming terror attacks, gathered on the Internet, was delivered to the American people in tones of doom, as if the hammer were about to fall at any moment.
Posted on Mar 14, 2004, Source: TruthOut.org
There are a number of lessons to be taken from the incredible turn of events in Spain, few of which are comforting.
Posted on Jan 5, 2004, Source: TruthOut.org
September 11 could have and should have been prevented. Why? Because Bush knew.
Posted on Dec 15, 2003, Source: TruthOut.org
For all the pomp and circumstance that has surrounded the extraction of the former Iraqi dictator from a hole in the ground, the reality is that the United States is not safer now that the man is in chains.
Posted on Jun 16, 2003, Source: TruthOut.org
With no Iraqi WMD to be found, the Bush administration is coming up with excuses as creative as any heard in high school.
Posted on Feb 12, 2003, Source: TruthOut.org
In a taped statement, bin Laden told the Iraqi people to rise up against Saddam Hussein. Yet Colin Powell claimed that Hussein and bin Laden are working together, and MSNBC omitted the reference in its news report.
Posted on Jan 29, 2003, Source: TruthOut.org
The State of the Union address left gaping holes where answers belonged. For instance, not once did Bush mention the name Osama bin Laden.
Posted on Dec 19, 2002, Source: TruthOut.org
By tapping Thomas Kean, Bush has nominated someone who will be easily controlled by the administration.
Posted on Nov 28, 2002, Source: TruthOut.org
A sign in your yard, a button in the lapel of your coat, an email sent around to friends -- even the smallest effort can make a difference.
Posted on Nov 18, 2002, Source: TruthOut.org
As the Bush administration rams the Homeland Security bill through the Senate, Osama bin Laden makes one of his rare appearances. Just coincidence?
Posted on Jul 30, 2002, Source: TruthOut.org
Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter claims the impending American war against Iraq isn't about terrorism, it's about the November elections.
