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.
Posted on: Feb 14, 2007, Source: King Features Syndicate
Jailed journalist Josh Wolf has remained in prison so long because he lacks the backing of a large media organization that could agitate to protect his rights -- so Congress should step in.
In her first broadcast interview, a VA nurse explains how she was investigated for 'sedition' after writing a letter that was critical of the Bush Administration.
On Nov.2, 20 college students in Virginia staged a walkout on the World Can't Wait day of action. The school administration shut down the protest and threatened to expel them.
The closed session invoked by Harry Reid yesterday was much more than a partisan tactic. It is the first step in telling the public what really happened to lead us into war.
Col. Janis Karpinski, the highest-ranking officer demoted in connection with the torture scandal, speaks out about what happened at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Col. Janis Karpinski, the highest-ranking officer demoted in connection with the torture scandal, speaks out about what happened at the Abu Ghraib prison.
In his first interview in the United States, the Venezuelan president talks about President Bush, Pat Robertson and giving cheap oil to America's poor.
A volunteer in the wake of the hurricane reports an increasingly desperate situation as patients and staff at a New Orleans hospital run out of food and water.
After four of the nation's biggest labor unions announced their plans to boycott the AFL-CIO convention in Chicago this week, the future of organized labor hangs in the balance.
Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement has sparked a battle that could last for months. In a roundtable discussion, progressive and conservative lobbying groups discuss the scary road ahead.
Iraqi blogger Faiza Jarrar says her country's fate is in the hands of an American government that knows nothing about what Iraq and its people are about.
Former army sergeant Erik Saar served as a translator at Guantanamo Bay. What he witnessed included sexual abuse, mock interrogations, the use of dogs, and worse.
In the wake of a Pentagon report that clears the U.S. of any wrongdoing in the shooting of Giuliana Sgrena and the killing of an agent, Sgrena isn't satisfied -- and neither are the Italians on the commission.
Government-supplied propaganda has become pervasive in mainstream media, from hiring journalists to write puff pieces to credentialing fake reporters to fawning reports from embedded reporters in Iraq. Where is independent media?
P.R. expert John Stauber and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Laurie Garrett comment on the Times' front page investigation of the 'fake news' scandals.
As the Italian intelligence agent who lost his life protecting Giuliana Sgrena is laid to rest, Amy Goodman speaks with a founder of Sgrena's newspaper about differing accounts, Italians' reaction and the brutality of war.
The author of the gripping new book, <i>Confessions of an Economic Hit Man</i>, reveals how the U.S. became the world's largest superpower: by forcing developing countries into debt.
Amy Goodman talks to Danny Schechter about his new documentary exploring the U.S. media's inadequate coverage of the war in Iraq from the lead-up to the fishy deaths of unembedded reporters.
Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh burst open the secret neocon plans aimed at Iran. In an interview, Hersh explains how Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are keeping America in the dark about their war games.
