Russ Baker

Russ Baker is editor of WhoWhatWhy.com and author of ‘Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years.’

Our Brave Men and Women … Meet the Banks

Events keep on underlining the gap between the rhetoric and the reality. Nowhere is this more true than with the disparity between the way we talk about our soldiers …

By: Russ Baker ,; WhoWhatWhy|Report

February 2, 2011

Covering The Assault On Working People

A common theme runs through a variety of news stories: there isn’t enough money around, and so working people must take a hit. But is that really the only …

By: Russ Baker ,; WhoWhatWhy.com|Op-Ed

January 27, 2011

Roads Not Taken: John F. Kennedy, Patrice Lumumba and George H. W. Bush

Bravo to the The New York Times for publishing Adam Hochschild's January 17 op-ed, An Assassination's Long Shadow. The piece marked the 50th anniversary of an event long forgotten …

By: Russ Baker ,; WhoWhatWhy.com

January 25, 2011

Obama, Afghanistan and That Infernal Drip

It is impossible to overestimate the significance of leaks from the military to the media, particularly to Bob Woodward and his paper, the Washington Post.

By: Russ Baker ,; WhoWhatWhy.com|Op-Ed

November 1, 2010

Woodward and the Military: Who’s Using Whom?

Bob Woodward's affect is that of a human tape recorder. He claims that he is no more than a passive chronicler of events. Yet, he has played a significant …

By: Russ Baker ,; Truthout

October 20, 2010

Russ Baker | “Obama’s Wars”: The Real Story Bob Woodward Won’t Tell

Just one year before the publication of “Obama’s Wars,” Bob Woodward became a player in his own book-in-progress. He morphed into his true identity: Warrior Bob. Actually, there’s an …

By: Russ Baker ,; WhoWhatWhy.com

October 6, 2010

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.

By: Russ Baker ,; WhoWhatWhy.com

April 16, 2010

What Obama Is Up Against

The first anniversary of Barack Obama's historic election finds many of his supporters already grousing. Fair enough: Obama has been more vigorous in some areas than others. But one …

By: Russ Baker ,; Truthout

November 2, 2009

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