DhafirTrial

By 2080, anyone with a direct interest in learning how Dr. David Kelly died, will themselves be dead. (more…)

Petra Bartosiewicz Time 1/23/10

In the overflow room this week I met journalists from Pakistan with United Nations and U.S. State Department issued press credentials. They work for some of the biggest outlets in their countries, including BBC Urdu, the Associated Press in Pakistan, Jang, Dawn, Geo and Haj TV. None were issued credentials for the trial, though some had applied weeks ago. (more…)

John Dean Truthdig 1/21/10

The conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court has given a monumental victory to special interests–i.e., the big money corporations, the folks who already dominate Washington politics  (more…)

Infamous for penning the “Torture Memos” under the Bush administration, where he justified torture under the Bush administration by virtually defining torture out of existence, Yoo’s book contends presidential powers are unlimited: “The executive was, rather, the servant of necessity, bound to act in accordance with, in the absence of, or in extraordinary emergencies, in defense of the republic, even contrary to regularly constituted law.”  (more…)

Glenn Greenwald Salon 1/22/10

One of the most intense controversies of the Bush years was the administration’s indefinite imprisoning of “War on Terror” detainees without charges of any kind.  So absolute was the consensus among progressives and Democrats against this policy (more…)

The Baseline Scenario

Over the past year, there has been much discussion about how the financial crisis exposed weaknesses in free-market theory.  What has attracted less discussion is the extent to which the high priests of free-market theory themselves destroyed meaningful contracts and other bedrocks of functioning markets and, in the process, created the conditions for the theory’s weaknesses to emerge.  (more…)

TomDispatch 1/15/10

A country programmatically gripped by fear — yes, that’s us for more than eight years now.  Fear of terrorism to be exact, even as truly terrible things happened in this land and elsewhere, from hurricane Katrina in 2005 to last week’s devastating Haitian earthquake, which should have put our fears into perspective.  But no such luck. (more…)

By Paul Craig Roberts January 19, 2010 “Information Clearing House”

What is the greatest human achievement? Many would answer in terms of some architectural or engineering feat: The Great Pyramids, skyscrapers, a bridge span, or sending men to the moon. Others might say the subduing of some deadly disease or Einstein’s theory of relativity. (more…)