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...
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...
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.
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...
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...