Cheney's CIA Secrets: We Must Fight to Get the Truth

By Marie Cocco, Washington Monthly (via Alternet). Posted July 17, 2009.

The scary part is how little we know about the Bush Administration's clandestine plans...

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Politico and the Washington Post Have Become Virtual "Escort Services" for Moneyed Elites

From Raw Story
Alternet
July 17, 2009

More and more mainstream media are brokering cozy relationships between politicians and lobbyists...

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NSA’s cyber-security grab is a major expansion of web surveillance

By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal
Jun 26, 2009

In yet another example of his going back on campaign promises, Obama has backpedaled on his commitment to privacy rights. The slide to supporting illegal and intrusive surveillance began when Obama supported immunity from lawsuits for telecommunications companies that willingly participated in the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program code named Stellar Wind...

What the Left Should be Learning From Iran

by Al Giordano
CounterPunch
June 19 - 21, 2009 (really!)

...As a journalist, I have always followed the stories that help me to learn something new and important to me. And every hour, I’m learning a new set of tricks from these brave communicators in Iran and around the world: methods and techniques that will serve us in this hemisphere, soon enough, too...

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The Disappointing Leon Panetta

By Melvin A. Goodman
Consortium News
June 19, 2009

CIA Director Leon Panetta is continuing the culture of cover-up that has plagued the Agency for the past three decades, ever since William Casey and Robert Gates collaborated in the 1980s to hide the crimes of Iran-Contra and to politicize sensitive intelligence...

The End of Impunity?

By: Tom Jacobs
Miller-McCune
June 19, 2009


An upcoming PBS documentary shows how the International Criminal Court has changed the world's approach to crimes against humanity — without, as yet, trying a case...

American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone

DemocracyNow!
June 18, 2009

Twenty years ago today, I.F. Stone died at the age of eighty-one. He was the premier investigative reporter of the twentieth century, a self-described radical journalist. I.F. Stone’s legacy of work spanned the New Deal, World War II, McCarthyism, the Cold War, Israel/Palestine, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and beyond. He scooped reporters right and left. As the FBI tracked him, he tracked down the story. He is best remembered for his self-published I.F. Stone’s Weekly. At its peak in the 1960s, the one-man publication had a circulation of about 70,000. We speak to his biographer, D.D. Guttenplan, and air historic recordings of I.F. Stone at the 1965 Vietnam teach-in in Berkeley, CA, and on The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour...