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09 February 2011
Like Pinochet, Bush can't hide: Forced to cancel speech in Switzerland for fear of arrest
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IndictBushNow
George W. Bush has his back to the wall. He just cancelled a speech in Switzerland due to fear of mass protests and his arrest for authorizing the torture of detainees at Guantánamo Bay.

Bush is afraid of another Pinochet...
09 February 2011
At stake in Egypt: Reading Gaza mom
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David Swanson
The danger of permitting the Egyptians democracy, rather than replacing a dictator with his (and our) torturer lies, let us be honest, not in the possibility that Egyptian politics will approach the religiosity of our own Republican Party...
07 February 2011
Honoring Reagan's legacy
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Bob Fitrakis
In the United States, a country with the greatest spying apparatus in world history, 80% of it used against its own people without "probable cause," Reagan's legacy as a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) snitch known as "T-10" must be...
06 February 2011
Rumsfeld overheard: "War lies are cool now"
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David Swanson
Donald Rumsfeld began his new book tour with some frank comments, including these:
"War lies? Does anybody really give a rat's ass now? You know what? You know what? They do. They do because war lies are actually cool now. We began...
02 February 2011
Banquet guests and street protests
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- In the royal splendor of the Grand Palace's Chakri Throne Hall, invited dignitaries included the prime minister, a princess, a former military junta leader, America's newly arrived ambassador and others at a black-tie...
02 February 2011
Decades in the making: The U.S. police state
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David Swanson
Andrew Kolin's new book "State Power and Democracy: Before and During the Presidency of George W. Bush" actually begins with the war for independence and continues into the Obama years. A 231-page monotone recounting of endless facts, it...

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