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Freedom Isn’t Free at the State Department
On the same day that more than 250,000 unredacted State Department cables hemorrhaged out onto the Internet, I was interrogated for the first time in my 23-year State Department …
Is Scott Walker John Doe?
Wisconsin has been riveted in recent days by reports that more of Governor Scott Walker's top aides may be implicated in a secret “John Doe” investigation into potentially illegal …
Hey, We’re Number … Uh … 36!
Fidelia Perez sits in a hospital room after receiving emergency dialysis treatment at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, in this October 13, 2009, file photo. (Photo: David Walter …
Digital Art and Culture: A 21st-Century Paradigm Shift
“The Ever Evolving Egg” by Max Eternity. Click to view larger. At a time when extreme, economic austerity measures are being considered and/or enacted by a number …
How McChrystal and Petraeus Built an Indiscriminate “Killing Machine“
Gen. Stanley McChrystal describes his strategy going forward in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama announced he will increase the US troop presence by 30,000 beginning in early 2010. (Photo: …
The Terrible Post-9/11 Truth: Our Government’s Been Hijacked
Democracy has been commandeered by a self-interested gang. About a year after the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building, I visited Oklahoma City and went to …
Wages of Fear: Lockdowns and the IMF on Occupied Wall Street
I walked around lower Manhattan for a long time last Friday looking for the #OccupyWallStreet protests. It was an experiment: Had Mayor Bloomberg and the forces of “security” hidden …
The Corporate Takeover of the 2012 Presidential Election
The unregulated energy hucksters behind the infamous Enron scandals of a decade ago created an array of dummy financial funds to evade public scrutiny and perpetrate fraud. To disguise …
Beyond Troy Davis: How Race Colors Death Row “Justice“
The state of Georgia ignored a mountain of evidence and killed Troy Davis on Wednesday night. But the movement that grew out of the effort to save his life …
The West and the Rest in a One-Model-Fits-All World
More than 10 years ago, before 9/11, Goldman Sachs was predicting that the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) would make the world economy’s top ten — but not …