Judith Miller has just spent 85 days in prison for refusing to tell Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald what her neo-crazy "handlers" in the Bush-Cheney administration told her to do next, following her service as their "embedded" media sycophant in...
Media at a Huge Crossroads, 25 Years After Reagan’s Triumph
By a twist of political fate, the Oct. 28 deadline for special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to take action on the Plamegate matter is exactly 25 years after the only debate of the presidential race between Ronald Reagan and incumbent Jimmy Carter. How the major media...
Two Years Later, U.S. Still Can’t Keep the Lights On
The reconstruction of Iraq is failing rapidly despite repeated claims of progress by the George W. Bush administration, according to a number of U.S. officials and reports released here this week. Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman issued a report that found...
Fitzgerald Expands Probe to Prewar Intel
As Antiwar.com readers found out on Wednesday, prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgeralds investigation into the Plame leak case has broadened to include a probe into the catalyzing event that set off the "outing" of CIA agent Valerie Plame to begin with: the Niger...
Iraq Is Deadliest Beat for Reporters Since WWII
In its annual survey of press freedom around the world, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) once again ranked North Korea in last place of the 167 countries evaluated, closely preceded by Eritrea and Turkmenistan. The World Press Freedom Index calls these countries...
Interval of Uncertainty
It is hardly impossible, but it won't be easy. Iraqis who don't want their country to be either torn apart by continuing insurgent violence or occupied permanently by U.S. military forces have a few weeks to get their act together. To be sure, despite the fact that he...
Don’t Play Innocent, Democrats
On Sept. 24, Washington, D.C., saw a huge rally calling for an end to the war in Iraq and for bringing the troops home. I marched with a contingent of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace, Gold Star Families, and Military Families Speak Out, the group...
Playing Into the Insurgents’ Hands
The following is a transcript of the exchange between Senator Russ Feingold and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Thursday during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. FEINGOLD: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Welcome, Secretary Rice. We always appreciate your...
Serious Lapses Taint Probes of Detainee Deaths
Despite repeated vows by the Pentagon to fully investigate the deaths of all detainees in U.S. custody in Iraq and elsewhere in the "war on terror," a major human rights group has found a pattern of "grossly inadequate and flawed investigations" that have made it...
Was Plame Outed
by a Foreign Spy?
For a good many years, I have been writing about the tremendous influence of the neoconservatives in formulating and implementing U.S. foreign policy, and maintaining that their role has not just been important it has been decisive. For underscoring the...


