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GOP Attacks Supreme Court Nominee…Whoever It Is
Regardless of whom Obama nominates to succeed soon-to-retire Justice David H. Souter, Republicans have already stockpiled ammunition against possible nominees. According to Gary Marx, executive director of the conservative Judicial Confirmation Ne... read more
What’s In the Photos Obama Won’t Release?
Whether it’s because of the potential ramifications for U.S. soldiers overseas or for his important upcoming speech to the Muslim world in Cairo on June 4, President Barack Obama is now refusing to release photos of detainees captured in disturbin... read more
Judge Orders Release of another Guantánamo Prisoner after Seven Years
While President Barack Obama has given the go-ahead, once again, for military tribunals to try suspected terrorists, U.S. federal courts continue to find serious problems with the legal cases that the government has built against Guantánamo detain... read more
Health Industry Passes Financial Sector in Lobbying Race
For months, Americans sat by and watched as the banking and finance industry, in the wake of their self-induced meltdown, got just about everything they wanted from both the Bush administration and the Obama administration. Now it’s the turn of th... read more
FBI Terror Interrogator Didn’t Need Torture
Torture saved America. That’s essentially what former Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials want everyone to believe. But according to Ali Soufan, one of the FBI’s top experts on al Qaeda—a man who personally interroga... read more
Medicare…8 Years to Go
If President Barack Obama manages to serve two terms in office, he will leave the White House just as the nation’s most important health care program collapses—based on current projections and if nothing is done to shore up Medicare. It’s not exac... read more
Reversing the Outsourcing of Government Work
After 110 days in office, President Obama is trying to take a big step in reversing an important trend that he opposed during the presidential election campaign. The new proposed federal budget, which was released last week, outlines the administr... read more
Source for Colin Powell’s Fake UN Claim of Iraq-al-Qaeda Connection Dies in Libyan Prison
Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, the man who told of a phony connection between former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda while being tortured, has died in a Libyan prison, allegedly of suicide. Al-Libi was the unnamed source that former Secretary o... read more
White Phosphorus: War of Blame Escalates in Afghanistan
The U.S. military has launched a full-scale public relations battle over an attack in Afghanistan last week that apparently involved a chemical outlawed by international treaties. At issue is who used white phosphorus on the people of Farah provin... read more
Not Just Your Everyday Sleep Deprivation
Of all the torture techniques banned by President Barack Obama, the one that CIA leaders wanted most to retain was sleep deprivation. The reason was two-fold: sleep deprivation was both effective in getting suspected terrorists to talk, and it was... read more
Memorial to a Massacre in Utah
After rejecting similar appeals for the past 10 years, the Mormon Church has agreed to encourage the Department of the Interior to grant National Historic Landmark status for Mountain Meadows, the southern Utah site where 120 pioneers were massacr... read more
Pentagon Wary of Giving Israel Access to Stealth Jet Computers
Disagreements between the Israeli Defense Ministry and the Pentagon about access to computers continue to stall Israel’s order of 75 new F-35 stealth fighter jets manufactured by Lockheed Martin. Access to the F-35’s computer remains at the hear... read more
Obama Backs Bush on Limiting Protection of Polar Bears
Much to the dismay of environmentalists, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) will not be employed by the Interior Department to protect the polar bear, whose habitat is rapidly disappearing as a result of global warming. The announcement by Interior ... read more
First Obama-Era Military Commission Trial Scheduled
So much for giving Guantánamo detainees their day in federal court. In spite of President Barack Obama’s pledge to do things differently from the Bush administration when it comes to suspected terrorists, the Pentagon’s legal system has quietly mo... read more
Does the Obama Administration Need a Lesson in Afghan History?
Sometimes it pays to study a bit of history before sending troops to a foreign land. The Bush administration learned this the hard way when they invaded Iraq without taking into account the fact that Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq had been in conflict... read more
Is a Female Workforce Majority on the Horizon?
By late summer, it is possible that for the first time in American history, women will make up a majority of the labor force. When the recession began in December 2007, there were 138.2 million nonfarm payroll jobs, 48.7 percent were held by women... read more