Brian Roa, TruthOut.org. July 1, 2009. In Chicago, there's a push to replace public schools with military academies. This model may soon spread to the rest of the country.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. June 1, 2009. Time Warner Cable has changed its terms of service, making it easier for the ISP and cable giant to price-gouge Internet users.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: World. May 28, 2009. He has not been as horrid as he might have been, but that doesn't mean Gates is a straight shooter.
Lois Uttley, May 18, 2009. Meet the newest defender of reproductive rights: Frank Luntz, a GOP strategist plotting to sink health care reform with lies about "patient's rights."
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Media and Technology. March 4, 2009. When Republican officials repeat obvious falsehoods, are they deliberately trying to deceive, or are they just woefully confused?
Robert Parry, Consortium News. March 3, 2009. Republicans seem incapable of coming up with any other strategy than to seek Obama's destruction, much as they torpedoed Clinton.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet AlterNet: War on Iraq. February 7, 2009. This year, the Pentagon will employ 27,000 people just for recruitment, advertising and public relations.
Ira Chernus, Foreign Policy in Focus. January 14, 2009. Israeli intelligence concluded after Camp David that Yassir Arafat was willing to follow the Oslo process -- but that's not what they told lawmakers.
Steven Reynolds, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: PEEK. July 16, 2008. These guys say "I can't recall" enough to make you think that they have some sort of disease.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. June 30, 2008. Five years after the invasion, to speak of this urge to surge and its results as "success" or as "good news" is essentially obscene.
Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet. June 11, 2008. Political chasm between Washington and Latin America continues to deepen, as Chavez rejects FARC's armed campaign.
Daniel Denvir, NACLA. May 31, 2008. The pix suggest an intelligence agency -- either Colombia's or that of an "allied" government -- operating in Ecuador.
Josh Silver, Huffington Post. May 26, 2008. You probably didn't hear about the House voting to ban Pentagon propaganda -- since the networks have failed to cover the story.
Machetera, Machetera. May 24, 2008. The U.S. government p.r. creation, the “Ladies in White,” (Damas de Blanco) takes money from right-wing terrorists.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. May 23, 2008. The military insists that Iranian arms are fueling the Iraqi insurgency, but continue to provide little evidence to back up the claim.
Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. May 22, 2008. In the new film Iron Man, the people cast as terrorists take the fall for what the U.S. has done in the real world.
Diane Farsetta, Center for Media and Democracy. May 5, 2008. The Pentagon pundit scandal was not only a corrupt marriage of propaganda and corporate lobbying -- it was completely illegal.