Stories by Mark Ames

Deconstructing Russia coverage on the Washington Post editorial page.

In light of all of the corruption and cronyism that have marked the career of Lawrence Summers, why is Obama considering him for treasury secretary?

Deconstructing the NYT fairy tale of the poor innocent small democracy of Georgia attacked by a cruel Cold War Russian monster.

John McCain's critical of the bailout of AIG. But it turns out the insurance giant is one of the largest donors to his pet think tank.

Bracket this massacre as the work of a lunatic on drugs, and you miss the chance to consider the horrors of life in middle America.

By hyping the so-called first massive cyberstrike by a superpower on a tiny, defenseless neighbor, the Western media have played into a sleazy Estonian PR stunt, designed to deflect the world's attention from the country's mistreatment of its Russian-speaking minority.

Nothing could make America's decline as a global power more embarrassing for the national psyche than the fact that Russia is on the rise -- and USA's patriotic press going bezerk in the process.

A disgruntled and bullied Safeway employee is the latest to commit a workplace massacre. The press and co-workers are blaming the attacker -- but the real culprit is a corporate culture gone bad.

Western countries are shrieking about Vladimir Putin's crackdown on foreign NGOs, but in the case of Freedom House, it is an act of self-defense.

It wasn't Marilyn Manson or lax gun control laws that prompted Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold to open fire at Columbine High School. It was life at Columbine.