Tag: Bush Administration

Court Pulls Curtain Over White House E-mails

by Chris George May 19, 2009 OMBwatch.org The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled today that the White House Office of Administration (OA) does not need to respond to Freedom of...

America’s Afghanistan: Heroin-ravaged State

by Prof. Peter Dale ScottMay 8, 2009GlobalResearch.ca One of the most frustrating features of observing American foreign policy is to see the gap between the encapsulated thinking of the national security bureaucracy and the sensible...

Democrats not without fault, either

Following are portions of three important pieces from RawStory.com addressing Congressional Democrats' previous knowledge of torture, despite their cries to the contrary, followed by the separate reposting of an excellent, extensive summary of Obama's positions on torture, rendition, and habeus corpus, from Dennis Loo at World Can't Wait.

Torture, War and the Imperial Project: The Fatal Thread

April 22, 2009 By Chris Floyd Counterpunch.org With the release of the U.S. Senate's report on the Bush Administration torture program, it is now incontrovertibly clear -- and officially established by the highest, most respectable Establishment institutions...

Are Members of Congress (and Maybe Even the President) Being Blackmailed?

Two articles with more details on the Harman wiretap follow Lindorff's piece.

Darkness Renewed: Terror as a Tool of Empire

Here's a purely hypothetical scenario. Let's say you were a dedicated imperial militarist who believed that your country's security, prestige and financial interests could best be served by war and the ever-present threat of...