Stories by David Corn
David Corn is the Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones and the co-author of Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War and is the author of The Lies of George W. Bush. He writes a blog at davidcorn.com.
Once the Taliban is decimated, what will Bush do to keep his promise that the War on Terrorism must be waged for years to come?
Posted on Nov 26, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The U.S. was notably absent from this week's landmark agreement, reached by 165 counties, on climate control. If Bush can demand the world fight terrorism with us, can't the world demand us to fight global warming with them?
Posted on Nov 16, 2001, Source: AlterNet
If this War on Terrorism is a "good war," wouldn't that be self-evident, with no media manipulation required? Then why is the Bush administration plowing millions into PR campaigns?
Posted on Nov 9, 2001, Source: AlterNet
After media warhawks declared the U.S. was "losing the first round of the war," bombing raids intensified. Coincidence, or pandering to the blow-'em-to-bits crowd?
Posted on Nov 2, 2001, Source: AlterNet
What sacrifice can Bush ask of Americans? None. Instead the war greases the skids for corporate America. CEOs across the country can say, Thank you, bin Laden. And we can be couch potatoes.
Posted on Oct 26, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Short-sighted D.C. policy wonks led us into bed with the mujaheddin and fostered Osama bin Laden's rise to power. Do they feel guilty for the anthrax wafting through Washington?
Posted on Oct 19, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The American public should lobby for a limited military action, but a wider "war" that will really neutralize terrorism -- a crackdown on weapon sales, support of internationl courts, beefing up public health plans, support of solar power and much more.
Posted on Oct 12, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Now that we've launched a war, our leaders should stop their phony attempts at assuaging our anxieties, and they should admit that American life isn't normal at all anymore.
Posted on Oct 8, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Normally hawkish terrorism wonks are now questioning the use of military force, and are urging policy makers to understand the root causes of terrorism.
Posted on Sep 28, 2001, Source: AlterNet
We cannot win a war on terrorism, because such a war has no natural finale, no terms of victory. We can only suffer great loses at the hands of more terrorist attacks.
Posted on Sep 21, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Extremism reigns in post-WTC America as calls for action emanate from television sets and op-ed pages denying all a full understanding of the event and what led to it.
Posted on Sep 14, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The Bush administration's fuzzy budget economics has put policy and program on a spending collision course, landing the Social Security surplus in peril.
Posted on Aug 27, 2001, Source: AlterNet
New economic projections have caught Bush red-handed in his lies about the budget surplus, Social Security and tax cuts.
Posted on Aug 24, 2001, Source: AlterNet
CNN has suggested giving Rush Limbaugh an on-air news position. If they do, what would Election Night 2004 look like? Take a trip into a conservative fantasy ...
Posted on Aug 21, 2001, Source: AlterNet
'Tis the season of image-rebuilding, as Bush tries to move centrist and Gore returns -- with a beard! -- to teach campaign strategy. But with his $10 million book advance, Bill Clinton could attempt the biggest makeover of them all.
Posted on Aug 10, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Once a week, Bush should feed the press a new, sunny headline that reflects his new, sunny strategery. How about, "Another Day Passes Without Nuclear War," or "HMO Negligence Kills Only A Few Unlucky Americans a Year"?
Posted on Aug 6, 2001, Source: AlterNet
When Henry Kissinger gave a eulogy at Katherine Graham's funeral, the crowd should have either gagged or guffawed, because Henry was the enemy of what Graham stood for.
Posted on Jul 31, 2001, Source: AlterNet
A new privacy bill in the Senate would ban companies from tracking your location through your cell phone. For paranoiacs like me, that's just another reason to fret.
Posted on Jul 24, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The Gary Condit-Chandra Levy scandal highlights the hierarchy of what the media considers newsworthy. In descending and simplistic order: people, politics and policy.
Posted on Jul 17, 2001, Source: AlterNet
If opponents of embryonic stem-cell research truly believe their own arguments, they ought to be storming fertility clinics to "liberate" frozen human embryos.
Posted on Jul 10, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The ideological warriors of Washington are clashing once more over ancient history -- this time, the Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill confrontation of ten years ago.
Posted on Jul 3, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Should Al Gore decide to run for president again, we might be in for one weird show: Gore, the born-to-be-a-Democratic-insider, mounting a bitter race against his party establishment, as an outsider.
Posted on Jun 25, 2001, Source: AlterNet
George W. claims that global warming theory isn't based on "sound science." How long can he pull off this act -- until Coppertone stock splits and New Orleans is underwater?
Posted on Jun 19, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Would you trade control of the Senate by one cranky vote for several trillion dollars? George W. Bush sure did.
Posted on Jun 8, 2001, Source: AlterNet
If the Bushies can get their latest nominee, psuedo-scientist John Graham, into a powerful White House position, they will have won a significant (and damn too easy) battle against workers, consumers and environmental standards.
Posted on Jun 5, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Now that Democrats rule the Senate, thanks to cranky Yankee Jim Jeffords, they should go to town with a tactic the Republican have bashed them with forever -- the subpoena.
Posted on May 25, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The FBI fouled up Timothy McVeigh's case, and it now offers ammunition to those who decry capital punishment. If only McVeigh's execution -- should it come to pass -- were publicly broadcasted.
Posted on May 22, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) already knows that increasing pressure on cocaine smugglers in order to force a price hike doesn't necessarily decrease cocaine use in the long run, says one federal ONDCP analyst.
Posted on May 15, 2001, Source: AlterNet
For the $200 billion Bush proposes to spend on a fuzzy-science missile defense system, we could support fuel cell technology and put solar panels on a huge portion of American homes.
Posted on May 4, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Bush was forced to speak without notes in interviews during his First 100 Days media blitz. While doing so, he nearly got the country into a war in China, claimed to have a solution to global warming without revealing it, and took credit for single-handedly transforming the tone of Washington.
Posted on Apr 27, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Could any current rock star rival the hard-hitting political songs of the recently deceased Joey Ramone? Might the misdeeds of George W. arouse such passions today?
Posted on Apr 24, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Washington is a lovely town, easy on the eyes, full of interesting folks, some of whom -- in government and out -- do try to do the right thing. But so much of the output of official Washington -- particularly what's seen in the papers and on television -- warrants scorn.
Posted on Apr 17, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The big political news of the week: Barbra Streisand is upset with Republicans and disappointed by Democrats.
Posted on Apr 10, 2001, Source: AlterNet
The Democrats want to give Bill Gates a three hundred dollars tax rebate. Why? They're hoping he'll run out and spend it and that will help stimulate the sluggish economy.
Posted on Apr 3, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Conservatives often rail against government projects they deem wasteful, like shrimp farms in Arizona. But wouldn't you rather see taxpayer dollars misspent on shrimp than on the murder plots, biased analyses and cloak-and-dagger tomfoolery of the CIA?
Posted on Mar 27, 2001, Source: AlterNet
If George W. Bush committed billions of dollars to colonizing space for American interests, would we consider him a visionary? What if he committed to a much grander and more attainable goal -- saving Africa from AIDS?
Posted on Mar 16, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Pundits say Gore's last-ditch populist appeal cost him the election. But if America is really sick of class warfare, why is the public so open to Bush's brand of it?
Posted on Mar 13, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Redemption may seem beyond reach for the first couple of our favorite national soap opera. But there are measures the Clintons could take to slow or even reverse their descent into post-presidency hell.
Posted on Mar 2, 2001, Source: AlterNet
I suspect the Right resents Clinton because in the war between his hip (or ex-hippie) culture and the square, conservative culture of yesteryear, Clinton won.
Posted on Feb 27, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Instead of news, the mainstream media has been churning out a new political soap opera -- "As the Clintons Turn." Will Bill and Hillary survive or be voted off? Will they succumb to temptation? What will those rascals do next?
Posted on Feb 16, 2001, Source: AlterNet
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