As the U.S. Congress left town for its August vacation, the George W. Bush administration was congratulating itself on its legislative victories. But when Congress returns in September – aside from the confirmation hearings for Judge John Roberts to be the next...
A few days ago, the White House launched a new phase of its propaganda siege for the Iraq war. The opening salvo came on July 27, when the commander of American forces in Iraq said that continuation of recent trends would make possible "some fairly substantial...
In a recent piece, "The Media's Roving Eye," trying to establish a timeline that would offer context for the Plame case, I wrote the following: "Vice President Cheney started the administration's atomic drumbeat to war in Iraq with a series of speeches on...
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) obtained two leaked e-mails from former military prosecutors at Guantanamo Bay over the weekend. The e-mails both claim that the military committees set up to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are "rigged,...
What has become of the print and TV media watchdogs who hounded President Nixon from office because he lied about when he learned of a minor burglary of no consequence in itself? What became of the watchdog media that bayed after President Reagan because some...
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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran foreign correspondent, having covered foreign conflicts in Argentina, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Columbia, Guatemala, Bosnia, Iraq, Sudan, Algeria, India, Israel/Palestine, Turkey, and Kosovo for the New York Times, Dallas...
Neo-crazy media sycophant Judith Miller of the New York Times, an "embedded" reporter in Bush's war of aggression against Iraq – and in the subsequent futile hunt for the weapons of mass destruction she had frequently reported Saddam Hussein had –...
I stood outside the courthouse at Fort Stewart, Ga., with Camilo Mejia, his mother Maritza, Aiden Delgado, other supporters, news reporters, cameramen, and military police as we waited for Sgt. Kevin Benderman to be escorted out of the courthouse and into a van...
In this video, Congressmen Ron Paul (R-Texas) and John Duncan (R-Tenn.) discuss why true conservatives should oppose the undeclared and unnecessary war in Iraq. Speeches delivered on the House floor June 14, 2005. Windows Media Player required. Click here to watch.
