by Dave McGill
There was a time when America stood for certain ideals. There was a time when these ideals were pursued with an unyielding consistancy. There was a time when these ideals – classically described by Superman as “truth, justice and the American way” – may have even served as an example for other nations [...]

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by Paul Craig Roberts
I had just finished reading the uncensored edition of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s book, In The First Circle (Harper Perennial, 2009), when I came across Chris Hedges article, “One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists” (Truthdig, Dec. 28, 2009). In Hedges’ description of the US government’s treatment of American citizen Syed Fahad Hashmi, I recognized [...]

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by Dave McGill
For those of you who’ve been waiting 6 ½ years to find even the slightest semblance of a reason for our preemptive invasion of Iraq, your search may be over. But, instead of uncovering a WMD, you may be looking at an EMD, or “Exxon Mobil Development.”

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by Steve Weissman
Three cheers for Dick Cheney. The former vice president has urged, however rhetorically, that the Obama administration release more of the torture memos. “One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing about this recent disclosure is they put out the legal memos, the memos that the CIA got from the [...]

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by Dave McGill
As if we didn’t have enough on our minds just trying to survive, the news of the last few days has been particularly annoying.
The nasty subject of torture has suddenly created a very poorly orchestrated soap opera in which the wagons appear to be circling as never before.  President Obama’s release of some [...]

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