Murdoch's Muckraker Invents Iranian Invasion

Murdoch's Muckraker Invents Iranian Invasion

The Bushites Have Outsourced Our Government to Their Pals

The Bushites Have Outsourced Our Government to Their Pals

Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) Probe Widens into orgainzed crime-like activities

Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) Probe Widens into orgainzed crime-like activities

Former Capitol Hill aides to Sen. Ted Stevens are being questioned by the FBI as part of an investigation into the senator's relationship with a wealthy contractor.

It is the latest indication the Justice Department is scrutinizing the seven-term Alaska Republican in a public corruption investigation that has led to charges against state lawmakers and contractors.

A lawyer close to the case, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation is still under way, confirmed the FBI had recently questioned former Stevens aides about Bill Allen, a contractor who has pleaded guilty to bribing Alaska legislators....

For more than a year, the investigation seemed to begin and end in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. But federal prosecutors recently began presenting evidence before a Washington grand jury in the federal courthouse across the street from the U.S. Capitol.

Is the New York Times Cheer leading for a War with Iran

Is the New York Times Cheer leading for a War with Iran

Things You Should Know About Corporate Crime

Twenty Things You Should Know About Corporate Crime

Great Wall

A Question of Power

Lies, Sighs and Politics

Lies, Sighs and Politics

Now fast forward to last Tuesday. Asked whether we should have invaded Iraq, Mr. Romney said that war could only have been avoided if Saddam "had opened up his country to I.A.E.A. inspectors, and they'd come in and they'd found that there were no weapons of mass destruction." He dismissed this as an "unreasonable hypothetical."

Except that Saddam did, in fact, allow inspectors in. Remember Hans Blix? When those inspectors failed to find nonexistent W.M.D., Mr. Bush ordered them out so that he could invade. Mr. Romney's remark should have been the central story in news reports about Tuesday's debate. But it wasn't.

Gop Presidential Candidates Fear that a Gay Soldier Might Save America

Kicking Gays Out of the Military Imperils Our National Security, So ALL the Republican Candidates are Committed to Making Our Military Weaker and Our National Security More Vulnerable. As Jon Stewart Quipped the Other Night (paraphrase): "The Worst Nightmare for a GOP Candidate is a Future Terrorist Attack Prevented by a Gay Hero."

Big Apple at Night

Commanders Say Push in Baghdad Is Short of Goal

BAGHDAD, June 3 — Three months after the start of the Baghdad security plan that has added thousands of American and Iraqi troops to the capital, they control fewer than one-third of the city’s neighborhoods, far short of the initial goal for the operation, according to some commanders and an internal military assessment.

The American assessment, completed in late May, found that American and Iraqi forces were able to “protect the population” and “maintain physical influence over” only 146 of the 457 Baghdad neighborhoods.