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Conyers Calls For Firing of FBI Officials
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Michigan) has called for the FBI to fire agency officials who violated privacy laws and wrongfully obtained the telephone records of individuals by …
The Game That Goes on and on: A Swiss Bank, a President and the Permanent Government
A little-noted presidential golf outing opens the door to an intrigue-filled world of financiers, murky international interests, money-laundering, tax evasion, and politics as not-so-usual.
Frontline Fronts for Corporations, Not the Public
It was with a sense of deja vu that I watched the latest Frontline documentary about health care. “Obama's Deal” endeavored to reveal the significant influence of health industry …
Eugene Robinson | No Place to Fight a War
Washington - The Korengal Valley in eastern Afghanistan was a transit route and occasional haven for insurgents, so U.S. commanders decided to drive out the enemy and turn the …
NSA Whistleblower Indicted for Leaking Classified Information to Reporter
A former senior National Security Agency (NSA) official was indicted Thursday on charges he leaked classified information to and served as a source for a reporter who wrote a …
Arizona Passes Restrictive Immigration Bill
A bill approved Tuesday by Arizona lawmakers may be one of the most restrictive pieces of state-level immigration enforcement legislation in the country, making it illegal to be in …
Happy Tax Day: Are Americans Getting Our Money’s Worth?
Most Americans seem to regard April 15 - the day income tax returns are due to the Internal Revenue Service - as a recurring tragedy akin to a Biblical …
US Foreign Policy: Sixty Years of Disaster
On August 19, 1953, pro-Shah supporters in Iran staged a coup on the Iranian government that was planned, organized and supported by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) …
Prison-Based Gerrymandering Creates Phantom Voters
Anyone who is in prison on the first of April, 2010, will remain there for the next ten years - according to the US census. When the census counts …
McChrystal Backtracks on Troop Veto for Kandahar Shuras
The U.S. military has now officially backtracked from its earlier suggestion that it would seek the consent of local shuras, or consultative conferences with those elders, to carry out …