To understand the philosophy of government that Dick Cheney brought to Washington over the past seven years, it is most instructive to see "Frost/Nixon," with Frank Langella's remarkable reanimation of Tricky Dick for a generation that never knew him.
But Tasers weren't included in the study.
This past year, Somalis have experienced the worst violence in a decade. In a new report, Human Rights Watch says the United States is only making the crisis worse.
And finally, on this Christmas Eve, I'm joined by a man who makes a compelling environmental case for a non-consumptive Christmas. Colin Beavan is also known as the No Impact Man.
Asha Hagi is the co-founder and current chair of the non-profit, Save Somali Women and Children. During the Somali peace talks in 2000, Hagi founded the Sixth Clan, the clan of women, to complement the traditional five male-dominated Somali Clans.
His name might not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world. Today, a journey through the life and work of Yip Harburg, the Broadway lyricist who wrote such hits as "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" and who put the music into The Wizard of Oz.
Breyten Breytenbach is one of South Africa's most famous poets. He's also an award-winning writer and painter, and well-known as an anti-apartheid activist and outspoken advocate for justice around the world.
As George W.
Despite Barack Obama's election and a broad Democratic victory, there is slim chance for real change unless Washington gets a much bigger makeover, says Robert Parry.
When Republicans lawyer up, that's just preserving the sanctity of the vote; when Dems do it, they're 'stealing' ... something.
Corporate media swerved faster from the meaning of the flying footwear than Bush did from the shoe itself.
"At the highest levels of the agency, there seems to be a belief that you can mandate reality ..."
America garrisons the globe in ways that are truly unprecedented, but if you live in the United States, you rarely hear a word about it.
It's high time we cast "free market" economic theory into the dustbin of history.
Is the organized legal profession through their bar associations in challenge mode? Are law professors churning over this mockery of the legislature and executive branch administrative law? Are conservative groups – always upset about judicial activism – going into high gear …
Of Republicans: Partisan politics defines them -- the unhealthy embrace of the purely political has been their sole reason for being ever since they convinced the ungrounded multitudes that they could have it all, without paying for or even regulating it.
In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger reaches back into the history of the Democratic Party and describes the tradition of war-making and expansionism that Barack Obama has now left little doubt he will honour.
Over the next several months there will be a battle for hearts and minds, but not in Iraq or Afghanistan.
All change in the world comes either from rot or from new growth. Ford's pardon of Nixon might have been expedient at the time, but it has allowed the rot to fester.
Dear friends, We are at a crucial historic juncture. We cannot sit back and expect that change will just happen now. In order to make real change, people must be mobilized and organized. Otherwise, all of the hopes for a new direction can be quickly diverted.
Cheney hints that one more vote was needed on the Supreme Court to fully implement the absolute powers of his unitary executive George W. Bush. Cheney also argued that the President's wartime powers trump laws passed by Congress.
Members of the Bush administration and George W. Bush personally conspired to violate the Geneva Convention, the Nuremberg Principles and US obligations to both.
Nobody cares if the wives like it...
Approximately 500 million gallons of coal ash sludge has broken through a holding pond at a coal-fired plant.
If you click through the links, you'll see some pretty shocking revelations - proof that suggests official 2004 election night reporting was tampered with between midnight and 2AM when Kerry's lead turned into a Bush lead after the flow of data was intercepted from official state …
To understand the philosophy of government that Dick Cheney brought to Washington over the past seven years, it is most instructive to see "Frost/Nixon," with Frank Langella's remarkable reanimation of Tricky Dick for a generation that never knew him.
But Tasers weren't included in the study.
This past year, Somalis have experienced the worst violence in a decade. In a new report, Human Rights Watch says the United States is only making the crisis worse.
And finally, on this Christmas Eve, I'm joined by a man who makes a compelling environmental case for a non-consumptive Christmas. Colin Beavan is also known as the No Impact Man.
Asha Hagi is the co-founder and current chair of the non-profit, Save Somali Women and Children. During the Somali peace talks in 2000, Hagi founded the Sixth Clan, the clan of women, to complement the traditional five male-dominated Somali Clans.
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