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HOLLYWOOD AND THE CIA — Film historian Ed Rampell details Hollywood’s entangled relationship with the CIA and the Pentagon; HOUSES OF THE DEAD: Nancy Kurshan exposes the cruel human rights offenses taking place inside America’s vast gulag of Control Unit Prisons; BROTHERHOOD OF SUMMER: David Macaray charts the history of the most powerful union in the US: the Baseball Players Association; TAR SANDS COME TO AMERICA: Steve Horn explains how the Keystone Pipeline debates have diverted attention from Big Oil’s other plans to transport Alberta’s oil into the US. PLUS: Jeffrey St. Clair on CONSTITUTIONAL ENTROPY; Mike Whitney on HOW THE BANKS TARGETED BLACKS; Chris Floyd on THE RISE OF BRITAIN’S TEA PARTY; Kristin Kolb on THE NEEDLE AND THE DAMAGE DONE; Kim Nicolini on the FILMS OF WILLIAM FRIEDKIN; and Lee Ballinger on POETS VS. THE ONE PERCENT.
Archives from February 2005
I never met Oregon’s gadfly senator of the mid-20th century, Wayne Morse. I’m told he never squirmed. But today he might be squirming in his grave. In some ways, were Morse with us, he would be having a field day. He’d be his old self, ang...
We’re working hard chasing down signatures out here in California, but in support of the wrong ballot measures. Instead of backing initiatives to ban genetically modified crops, we should be forcing a vote on whether to require all agriculture to be organic ...
My local paper reprinted an L. A. Times’ pie...
So Ward Churchill is the latest target of right-wing outrage, and all over the online punditosphere liberals are taking up the banners of free inquiry and leaping to his defense. Oh, wait. No they’re not. I’ve read the specific instance o...
Most Americans don’t know much about what has been called "Charlie Wilson’s War," America’s secret war in Afghanistan. Engineered by the CIA during the 1980s, the Afghan mujahadeen fought a bloody proxy war against the former USSR after...
In 1999, an ex-Marine in his late 30s pays a web designer to build him a web site advertising his services as a male prostitute, emphasizing the military-fetish aspect, replete with lots of ...
Dublin. In a peaceful corner of ...
Probably in July King Mswati III of Swaziland, who just added a $690,000 Daimler-Chrysler Maybach 62 to his fleet, will to attempt to impose a constitution, unilaterally, on terms to suit himself. This after 31 years of a "State of Emergency" and 21 year...
On February 10, 2005, the Foreign Ministry of North Korea made its most explicit statement yet concerning nuclear weapons. The announcement was treated in the West as a bolt out of the blue and a slap in the face after what was regarded as President Bush’s c...
Veteran defense attorney and civil liberties advocate Lynne Stewart is facing 20 years in prison as the latest victim of the U.S. government’s "war on terror." After a seven-month-long trial, Stewart and two codefendants were found guilty of federa...
The nomination by President George Bush of John Negroponte for the new post of director of national intelligence, in charge of overseeing all the burgeoning intelligence operations of the United States, is both obscene and predictable. Negroponte, currently...
During three hours of conversation several weeks before 9/11 with a key Washington insider familiar with the national security establishment, I learned that one of the "founding fathers" of U.S. National Security sexually molested his own children....
Saturday 12 February: Last Monday, 7 February, the East Timorese newspaper Suara Timor Loro Sa’e reported that at least 53 people had died of starvation in the village of Hatabuiliko since October 2004. "There is absolutely nothing to eat," reporte...
Yesterday President Bush named John Negroponte to be the new director of national intelligence. As the man responsible for managing 15 intelligence agencies, we find this appointment extremely alarming due to major unsavory aspects of his professional history cent...
"What is wrong with a country where war is glorified and fighting for peace is cowardly?" –Monica Benderman When I saw the recent news report about the U.S. military moving toward the use of robot soldiers, I...
Bogotá. Born and raised i...
As is often the case with AP’s coverage of news having to do with Israel, there’s a serious omission in its reporting on the Russia-Israel connection even when it involves oil and the United States. The day after the State of the Union Address, ...
The Independent Beirut. Neve...
From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move. ...
"A parent who’s too busy or doesn’t realize the importance of tuning in to his or her child often expresses surprise when the child gets into trouble or drops out of school. The child knows, but can’t explain, that those "b...
The conservative media will never recover from its role as Chief Sycophant for the Bush administration. Journalists who demanded that Clinton be held accountable for a minor sex scandal (Monica Lewinsky) and a minor financial scandal (Whitewater) now serve as apol...
M. Shahid Alam. Is There an Islamic Problem? Essays on Islamicate Societies, the US and Israel (Kuala Lumpur: Th...
"Don’t say unconscious No don’t say doom If you got to say it Let me leave this room" -Television, See No Evil The Democrats have finally accomplished something. Yes, I’m talking about...
Editors’ Note: This is the second of a three part interview SAUL LANDAU conducted in Havana last month with Ricardo Alarcon Quesada Cuba’s Vice President and President of its National Assembly. Click here to ...
The attack on the U.S. by al-Qaeda was a result of U.S. imperialism and interventionism in the Middle East. And interventionism is the cause not the result of terrorism. Another rhetorical fussilade from Ward Churchill? No, that was Churchil...