Saturday, July 18, 2009

Cronkite and the Tet Turning Point

By Don North
July 18, 2009

At midnight, heading into the fateful day of Jan. 31, 1968, 15 Vietcong gathered at a greasy car repair garage at 59 Phan Thanh Gian Street in Saigon.

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Friday, July 17, 2009

Oysters (or Profits) for Health Care

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
July 17, 2009

This is a story of health care and two Americans; a tale of two citizens, if you will.

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WPost's Ignatius Defends CIA Crimes

By Melvin A. Goodman
July 17, 2009

The Washington Post’s David Ignatius has become the mainstream media’s apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

The Wedding (From the Archives)

By Robert Parry
July 15, 2009 (Originally posted Oct. 3, 2007)

The light from the setting sun streamed through the windows of the East Room after the first White House wedding in more than two decades. Guests were picking desserts from a buffet table and conversing, some gesturing with crystal champagne flutes in hand.

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Bush's Hit Teams

By Robert Parry
July 15, 2009

Despite the new controversy over whether a global CIA “hit team” ever went operational, there has been public evidence for years that the Bush administration approved “rules of engagement” that permitted executions and targeted killings of suspected insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Cheney Sweats Out the Summer

By Ray McGovern
July 14, 2009

So far the summer has been mild in the Washington, D.C., area. But for former Vice President Dick Cheney the temperature is well over 100 degrees. He is sweating profusely, and it is becoming increasingly clear why.

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The CIA's Ghosts of Tegucigalpa

By Jerry Meldon
July 14, 2009

Billy Joya, security adviser to Honduras’s post-coup-d’etat President Roberto Micheletti, offered the following explanation for the armed forces’ June 28 insurrection ousting democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya:

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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Bush Spying Relied on Faulty Theories

By Jason Leopold
July 12, 2009

George W. Bush justified his warrantless wiretapping by relying on Justice Department attorney John Yoo’s theories of unlimited presidential wartime powers, and started the spying operation even before Yoo issued a formal opinion, a government investigation discovered.

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Honduran Coup Blamed on Militarism

By Sherwood Ross
July 12, 2009

Oscar Arias, the president of Costa Rica and the man who will serve as mediator of the crisis in Honduras, wrote in a July 10 op-ed in the Miami Herald, “This coup demonstrates, once more, that the combination of powerful militaries and fragile democracies creates a terrible risk.”

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WPost's 'Select Few' Dine on Health Bill

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
July 11, 2009

If you want to know what really matters in Washington, don't go to Capitol Hill for one of those hearings, or pay attention to those staged White House "town meetings." They're just for show.

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