Nora Ephron, huffingtonpost.com One of the things I’ve always wondered about was what it was like to live in the United States during World War II. It was one of the things I’d have most wanted to ask my parents about if they were still alive — my own particular “What did you do in…
By Tim Golden, The New York Times A long-term hunger strike has broken out at the American detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with more than a dozen prisoners subjecting themselves to daily force-feeding to protest their treatment, military officials and lawyers for the detainees say. Lawyers for several hunger strikers said their clients’ actions…
By Robert Parry, Consortuimnews What makes George W. Bush and Dick Cheney such extraordinary threats to the future of American democracy is their readiness to tell half-truths and outright lies consistently without any apparent fear of accountability. While other politicians might spin some facts in a policy debate or tell a fib about a personal…
Capitol Hill Blue Written by Doug Thompson Monday, 26 March 2007 Bush has made it clear he has no intention of honoring the will of the overwhelming majority of people who want America out of Iraq. He has no intention of obeying the law, upholding the Constitution or even displaying an ounce of simple human…
