Sat 4 Jul 2009
Glenn Greenwald Salon 7/04/09
Today is the ideal day to celebrate America’s specialness, and America’s paper of record inspirationally leads the ritual:
Clark Hoyt, New York Times Public Editor, April 26, 2009:
A LINGUISTIC shift took place in this newspaper (more…)
Fri 3 Jul 2009
William Blum The Anti-Empire Report 7/03/09
What is there about the Iranian election of June 12 that has led to it being one of the leading stories in media around the world every day since? Elections whose results are seriously challenged have taken place in most countries at one time or another in recent decades. (more…)
Fri 3 Jul 2009
A Modest Proposal for Garrisoned Lands
By Chalmers Johnson TomDispatch 7/02/09
The U.S. Empire of Bases — at $102 billion a year already the world’s costliest military enterprise — just got a good deal more expensive. As a start, on May 27th, we learned that the State Department will build a new “embassy” in Islamabad, Pakistan, which at $736 million will be the second priciest ever constructed, only $4 million less, if cost overruns don’t occur, than the Vatican-City-sized one the Bush administration put up in Baghdad. (more…)
Thu 2 Jul 2009
Glenn Greenwald Salon 7/02/09
There are several noteworthy developments since I wrote on Tuesday about the refusal of NPR’s Ombdusman, Alica Shepard, to be interviewed by me about NPR’s ban on using the word “torture” to describe the Bush administration’s interrogation tactics. (more…)
Wed 1 Jul 2009
Mon 29 Jun 2009
Chris Hedges Truthdig 6/29/09
Our economic crisis—despite the corporate media circus around the death of Michael Jackson or Gov. Mark Sanford’s marital infidelity or the outfits of Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest incarnation, Brüno—barrels forward. And this crisis will lead to a period of profound political turmoil and change. Those who care about the plight of the working class and the poor must begin to mobilize quickly or we will lose our last opportunity to save our embattled democracy. (more…)
Mon 29 Jun 2009
By Jeremy Scahill Rebel Reports 6/29/09
There is a lot of great analysis circulating on the military coup against Manuel Zelaya in Honduras. I do not see a need to re-invent the wheel. (See here here here and here). However, a few key things jump out at me. First, we know that the coup was led by Gen. Romeo Vasquez, a graduate of the US Army School of the Americas.(more…)
Mon 29 Jun 2009
Most Americans believe the First Amendment is sacred and inviolate, but not since the 1950s has it been under such attack - from both the right and the left. In a unique collaboration with her father, noted First Amendment attorney Martin Garbus, Oscar® nominee Liz Garbus explores the social and political trends that have shaped America’s attitudes about free speech and how they can threaten the very tenets upon which the country was built. Premieres Monday, June 29 at 9pm (ET/PT)