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30 December 2005
Rumsfeld admits to "ghosting" detainee
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David Swanson
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has admitted that he "ghosted" a detainee, meaning that he made the decision to hold a prisoner without keeping any records of the fact. 

While prisoners of war can be theoretically...
28 December 2005
A man without a country
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David Swanson
Kurt Vonnegut, at age 82, has published over two dozen books.  His latest is called "A Man Without a Country."  It's a book that is brutally honest in its hopelessness, in fact – I think – overly hopeless, and yet humorous.  It may even be...
27 December 2005
The arrogance of power, per annum
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Michael Winship
ROME, ITALY -- A slightly unreal moment this afternoon. Here in the land of Dante, as the taxi from the airport sped by the ruins of the Roman Forum and glimpses of the Coliseum up the side streets, the car radio began playing the...
27 December 2005
Rice authorized National Security Agency to spy on UN Securit
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Jason Leopold
President Bush and other top officials in his administration used the National Security Agency to secretly wiretap the home and office telephones and monitored private email accounts of members of the United Nations Security Council in...
26 December 2005
Beware Iraqization
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Mike Ferner
I half-suspected NPR to exhume Henry Kissinger (he is dead, isn't he?) the other day when they did a promo about a story on "Iraqization," but no, they spared us the sonorous tones of Doctor Strangelove, only to give us his pin-headed...
26 December 2005
Fog Facts
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David Swanson
Larry Beinhart, author of "Wag the Dog" and "The Librarian," has done us a remarkable service with the publication of a new small nonfiction book titled "Fog Facts."  He has given language to a new and critically important concept, that of...

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