Exclusive: Jeb Bush’s stumbling start to his presidential bid has refocused attention on Official Washington’s favorite excuse for the illegal, aggressive and disastrous war in Iraq that it was just a case of “bad intelligence.” But that isn’t what the…
Category: The Bush-43 Administration
Losing the American Republic
The Cruel Punishment of Jeffrey Sterling
The Obama administration’s cruel war on whistleblowers won another round, getting a 42-month sentence meted out to ex-CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling even as the prosecutors were glum that he wasn’t given an even more draconian prison term, as Norman Solomon…
Obama Panders to Gulf State Sheiks
Punishing Another Whistleblower
America as Dangerous Flailing Beast
Drone Deaths v. Broken Windows
Gifting Russia ‘Free-Market’ Extremism
US Media Shields Saudi War on Yemen
Papering Over Extra-Judicial Killings
The Obama administration, like its predecessor, holds that the “exceptional” U.S. has the right to enter other countries to kill “terrorists,” but it would never tolerate, say, Cuba targeting CIA-trained terrorists harbored in Miami, one of many double standards posing as…