Articles tagged with: “Colin Powell”
'I saw Israeli bulldozer kill Rachel Corrie'
The final moments of Rachel Corrie, the American peace activist crushed to death beneath a pile of earth and rubble in the path of an ...
The Nine Surges of Obama's War
Despite the seeming specificity of the speech, it gave little sense of just how big and how expensive this surge will be. In fact, what ...
An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore
Dear President Obama, Do you really want to be the new "war president"? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce ...
Media Activist Amy Goodman Holds Press, Politicians Accountable
By Adam Philips / Voice of AmericaEvery weekday morning, Amy Goodman brings a variety of stories to a worldwide radio, television and Internet audience as ...
Inviting George Bush to Talk Torture ...by Ray McGovern
Consortium NewsEditor’s Note: Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern is giving a lecture on July 9 in Richardson, Texas, that will touch on George W. Bush’s ...
Where Are They Now? Ex-Bush Loyalists Cash In ...by Nick Turse
TomDispatch In May, the U.S. economy lost 345,000 nonfarm jobs, pushing the unemployment rate from 8.9% to 9.4%. According to official statistics, 14.5 million Americans ...
Donald Rumsfeld in Repose
TimeFor a few months after his departure as Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld occupied a suite of government-provided transition offices in a high-rise building in ...
Confronting the CIA's Mind Maze ...by Alfred McCoy
America's Political Paralysis Over Torture TomDispatch If, like me, you've been following America's torture policies not just for the last few years, but for decades, ...
Colin Powell: No Good Samaritan ...by Ray McGovern
Consortium News Watching retired Gen. Colin Powell cite Jesus's parable of the Good Samaritan during Sunday’s Memorial Day ceremonies on the Mall in Washington, it ...
The CIA's History of Deception ...by Melvin A. Goodman
Consortium News "Let me be clear about this," CIA director Leon Panetta told his troops last week, "it was not CIA policy or practice to ...
How Torture Trapped Colin Powell ...by Ray McGovern
Consortium NewsFour days before trying to sell the invasion of Iraq to the United Nations, Secretary of State Colin Powell was ready to scrap dubious ...
Cheney said Gitmo detainees revealed Iraq-al Qaida link
By Jonathan S. Landay / McClatchy WASHINGTON — Then-Vice President Dick Cheney, defending the invasion of Iraq, asserted in 2004 that detainees interrogated at the ...
Carlyle Groups Settles in "Pay to Play" Scandal Probe
Carlyle Groups Settles in "Pay to Play" Scandal Probe By Richard Esposito and Brian Ross / ABC The Carlyle Group, a giant Wall Street firm ...
The Truth About Richard Bruce Cheney ...by Lawrence Wilkerson
Washington NoteLast night I was on Rachel Maddow's show on MSNBC at the top of the hour. But before I came on, through the earpiece ...
The Night
VarietyHere's my story for on the dinner for the print edition of Variety: The arrival of President Obama's administration undoubtedly injected a new sense of ...
Prosecutor: Drop case against Bush officials
By Al Goodman MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Prosecutors will recommend that a Spanish court drop its investigation of six former officials in the administration of ...
Some Truths About Guantanamo Bay ...by Lawrence Wilkerson
Washington Note There are several dimensions to the debate over the U.S. prison facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba that the media have largely missed and, ...
Protesters prepare for Bush's Calgary speech
CBC Peace activists in Calgary are preparing a less than warm welcome for George W. Bush, who will be at a private function next week ...
Former Australian Leader John Howard Accepts Medal of Freedom
By Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post America's most inconvenient houseguest received the presidential medal of freedom today during a White House ceremony. Former Australian prime ...
Former Reagan adviser endorses Obama
(CNN) — Former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein told CNN's Fareed Zakaria this week he intends to vote for Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday. ...
Obama ads in GOP turf; McCain says he's leftist
By Mike Glover and Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – In a bold move brimming with confidence, Democrat Barack Obama broadened his advertising ...
Shays takes swipe at McCain
(CNN) – New England's lone House Republican appears to have publicly broken with his party's standard-bearer, saying John McCain has not run a clean campaign ...
McCain targets liberals in sharpened stump speech
By Glen Johnson / Associated Press ST. CHARLES, Mo. – Republican John McCain and his supporters on Monday branded Democrat Barack Obama a liberal and ...
Cpl. Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan Was an American Soldier
"I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things ...
Powell endorses Obama for president
Republican ex-secretary of state calls Democrat ‘transformational figure’ msnbc.com and NBC News WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., ...
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