By Stewart M. Powell, Hearst Newspapers The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this year, an analysis of Pentagon deployment orders showed Monday. This “second surge” of troops in Iraq, which is being executed by extending tours for brigades already there and by deploying more…
By Glenn Greenwald, Salon The testimony yesterday from James Comey re-focuses attention on one of the long unresolved mysteries of the NSA scandal. And the new information Comey revealed, though not answering that question decisively, suggests some deeply troubling answers. Most of all, yesterday’s hearing underscores how unresolved the entire NSA matter is — how…
By Frida Berrigan, tomdispatch.com An introduction by Tom Engelhardt: Hey, aren’t we the most exceptional nation in history? George Bush and his pals thought so — and they were in a great American tradition of exceptionalism. Of course, they were imagining us as the most exceptional empire in history (or maybe at the end of…
by Dave Lindorff, Opednews.com The divide between Democratic leaders contemplating their re-election prospects in 2008 and rank-and-file Democrats is becoming a chasm–one so wide that Congressional Democrats may soon find it hard to straddle it. The issue is impeachment. …if the president is not impeached, Congress will be telegraphing that the next president, whomever that…
