A lot of media outlets are now scrutinizing some of the lies told by the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq. Yet the same news organizations are bypassing their own key roles in the marketing of those lies. A case in point is the New York Times. On...
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The strategic decision by the United States to nuke Iran was probably made long ago. Tactics adjust to unpredictable events as they unfold. There was such an event last week, when Iran's president declared that Israel must be "wiped off" the map. The surprise was not...
Lewis "Scooter" Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Richard B. Cheney and assistant to the president, has been indicted for a cover-up. As U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald made clear at the Oct. 28 press conference announcing Libby's indictment,...
I. Lewis ("Scooter") Libby, immediately praised by the president ("Scooter has worked tirelessly on behalf of the American people and sacrificed much in the service to this country"), his resignation accepted with "deep regret" by the vice president ("He has given...
Echoing recent comments by White House officials, a U.S. government report submitted to the United Nations last Friday bears a message that the brutal treatment of people held in U.S. military custody abroad is and should be legal. The report, which was submitted to...
The idea that George W. Bush is losing confidence in Dick Cheney is gaining traction, and Time magazine has the story: "'The problem is that the president doesn't want to make changes,' says a White House adviser who is not looking for a West Wing job, 'but he's lost...
NEW DELHI – Seven years after blasting its way into the world's "nuclear club," India has executed a major shift in its policy stance by jettisoning its long-standing advocacy of global nuclear disarmament in favor of nuclear non-proliferation. On...
Implosion update: And so they fall: Tom DeLay just weeks back. Harriet Miers yesterday. I. Lewis ("Scooter") Libby today. Prepare yourself. It's going to be a long, hard dive into deep waters that should, sooner or later, lead us back to the beginning. Think of...
The White House still maintains there was evidence other than crude forgeries to back its prewar charge Saddam Hussein was trying to procure uranium from Niger, giving a reed of hope to loyal defenders that the whole Iraq nuke scare wasn't an orchestrated fraud...
