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McClatchy and other reporters are abruptly pulling the curtain away from the Bush team’s illegal practices in arresting people arbitrarily, declining to offer proof that they were guilty of anything, detaining them indefinitely without trial or charges, and deliberately torturing them to the extent of leaving long-term scars and disabilities. The torture practices originated not […]

McCain is arguing for offshore drilling to lower US petroleum prices in the “short term.” It is all a big lie, and a dangerous one at that. Our marine environment and our fisheries are already at risk. And the devastation in Wisconsin, Iowa and Mississipi from extreme weather events like flooding is where the US, […]

John McCain’s attack on the Supreme Court for upholding the right of Habeas Corpus even for Guantanamo detainees was self-serving and hypocritical. But it was also ethically wrong, because the Guantanamo system is ethically wrong. Tom Lasseter of McClatchy reports that the news service has done extensive interviewing with 66 prisoners released from Guantanamo and […]

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday threatened to send Afghan troops on hot pursuit of Taliban readicals right into Pakistani territory. That threat doesn’t strike me as a good development for the US in Afghanistan.

Breaking News: Guerrillas in western Afghanistan deployed a roadside bomb to kill 4 US Marines on Saturday. Pushtun guerrillas mounting an insurgency against the Karzai government and against NATO troops in the Pushtun areas of Afghanistan staged a daring prison break on Friday. They set off bombs at a prison in Qandahar, killing 15 prison […]

A wave of anger has washed over Pakistan because the US hit Pakistani troops along with the Taliban to whom it was giving hot pursuit. I don’t think a lot of the development aid given Afghanistan is reaching its intended objects. Farideh Farhi at our Global Affairs blog on how Iran’s Iraq policy is not […]

Kucinich on articles of impeachment of Bush:

The following excerpt is mirrored from Tomdispatch.com in celebration of the publication of Engelhardt’s latest edited book, The World According to TomDispatch: America in the New Age of Empire. The book contains my essay, “Bush’s Napoleonic Folly,” which compares Bush in Iraq to Bonaparte in Egypt, based on my book on that subject. Engelhardt notes: […]

Fox Producer Porter Barry ambushes Bill Moyers at National Conference for Media Reform 2008, insisting that the NCMR is a partisan organization (it is not) and harassing him with silly questions about coming on Bill O’Reilly’s television show. Afterward, reporters at NCMR do to Barry Porter as he had done to Moyers. Moyers said he […]