Posted on: Aug 29, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
From torture, warrantless wiretapping and the firing of U.S. attorneys to the expansion of powers of the executive branch, Gonzales has been a dogged enforcer and defender of the most egregious policies of the Bush/Cheney administration.
Jose Padilla has been found guilty in court and faces possible life in prison, but forensic psychiatrist Dr. Angela Hegarty explains after interviewing him that Padilla already paid the ultimate price through torture -- he's lost his mind.
Posted on: Aug 15, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
As Rove joins the ranks of discredited politicians who resign "in order to spend more time with family," a retrospective of his dirty tricks is in order.
Posted on: Aug 15, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
As Rove joins the ranks of discredited politicians who resign "in order to spend more time with family," a retrospective of his dirty tricks is in order.
Posted on: Aug 8, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
People are finding innovative ways to fight back against Rupert Murdoch, to demand independent, community-based media. You can join the movement to create new, full-power, noncommercial FM radio stations in the U.S.
Posted on: Jul 25, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
Congress is considering bipartisan legislation that will cover poor children in the U.S. The major obstacle? President Bush is vowing to veto the bill.
Posted on: Jul 25, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
Congress is considering bipartisan legislation that will cover poor children in the U.S. The major obstacle? President Bush is vowing to veto the bill.
Nearly half of all foreign militants targeting U.S. troops in Iraq have come from Saudi Arabia -- an inconvenient truth for the White House papered over with the lie that Iran is the chief instigator.
The proposed oil law facing the Iraqi cabinet would allow Western oil companies to take about 50% of all production as their share, an "obvious robbery of the Iraqi oil," says oil workers union heavy.
Posted on: Jun 27, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
The story of the leak of the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times is famous, but how they got published as a book, with Gravel’s face on the jacket, reads like a John Grisham novel.
Moore explains how the the obscene profits made by the CEOs of "non-profit" hospitals started with Richard Nixon in this powerful interview about his new documentary, SiCKO.
Posted on: Jun 13, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
High school students in Connecticut weren't allowed to discuss the war, so they wrote a play about it. "Voices in Conflict," was quickly banned by the school, but made it to New York where it brought the audience to tears.
Posted on: Jun 6, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
The tenet of medicine to do no harm applies to psychologists, yet they are increasingly implicated in abusive interrogations at U.S. military detention facilities like Guantanamo.
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan has announced she is stepping back from her role as a leading campaigner against the Iraq war. Amy Goodman talks with her about her decision.
Posted on: May 30, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
Listening to retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. John Batiste, you sense his intense loyalty to the military where he served 31 years. So why did CBS News fire him as a paid news consultant?
Posted on: May 9, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
The work of journalist Anthony Mitchell, who was just killed in Kenya, revealed the need for our exchange with Africa to involve more than oil, guns and secret prisons.
The Supreme Court's decision to uphold a ban on late abortions without an exception for the health of the mother sends a signal that, in many respects, the court thinks legislators, not doctors, are the ones best positioned to make health decisions.
Posted on: Apr 18, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
What is patriotism, and what is not? Howard Zinn asked recently. Fighting to stop the war in Iraq, fighting to stop gun violence at home: that is true patriotism.
An interview with two of America's leading dissidents on how the highest act of patriotism would be opposing the war in Iraq and calling for a withdrawal of our troops.
Posted on: Apr 11, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
Our airwaves, the single most important method by which Americans get information about choosing the future president, are being held hostage by corporate broadcasters.
Posted on: Mar 28, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
David Hicks pleaded guilty Monday to providing material support for terrorism. His trial gives us another opportunity to demand the closure of Guantanamo.
Posted on: Mar 14, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
As the U.S. enters its fifth year in Iraq, an increasingly powerful voice comes from soldiers and their families, who are turning grief into anti-war action.
In this interview, the author of a devastating biography of Donald Rumsfeld covers how the former defense secretary was loathed by the first Bush president and how Rummy layed the groundwork for torture in Gitmo and Iraq.
Posted on: Mar 7, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
Harry Belafonte, the first African-American to win an Emmy, is a living library of the civil-rights movement and liberation struggles worldwide. He enters his ninth decade as fearless as ever.