Gina Doggett, Agence France Presse. November 4, 2009. The CIA's Milan station chief at the time, Robert Seldon Lady, was sentenced to eight years in prison and othersto five years, all in their absence in the landmark trial.
Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog AlterNet: Politics. October 24, 2009. It's as if she still can't face the fact that what we need to talk about is responsibility for what happened on 9/11.
AlterNetOctober 23, 2009. Bush will be speaking along with Dr. Earl Mindell, whom the tour calls the ultimate authority on vitamins, fitness and nutrition. Career reinvention can be humiliating.
Matt Renner, TruthOut.org. October 14, 2009. Listening in on attorney-client conversations is "unlawful and unconstitutional," according to Obama. So why is the Justice Department arguing in favor of the practice?
Matt Bivens, Tomdispatch.com. October 5, 2009. For all the public money we give rich people, we can cure millions around the world of horrifying diseases.
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. September 29, 2009. In spite of this statement, Bolton, the former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, stopped short of endorsing the policy's dissolution.
Mutadhar al-Zaidi, AlterNet. September 18, 2009. The Iraqi who went to jail for shoe-tossing at Bush has been released from prison and speaks out. "Here I am, free. But my country is still a prisoner of war."
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. September 17, 2009. In one of the more dramatic departures from the previous administration, President Obama announced this morning that U.S. policy is changing course.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. September 16, 2009. Matt Latimer, a former Bush speechwriter, has penned a new book detailing the mismanaged administration.
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America AlterNet: PEEK. September 2, 2009. Politico's Ben Smith leaves out important context in his Obama's-bad-poll-number item.
Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy.com. August 28, 2009. Nemazee was much more than just a Clinton fundraiser -- he was a bipartisan financier of the influence bazaar that American politics has become.
Jim Hightower, AlterNet. August 6, 2009. Thanks to corporate-friendly policies enacted under the Bush Administration, the legal organic standard is filled with loopholes.
Roberto Lovato, AlterNet. July 29, 2009. While Obama's racial diplomacy with Skip Gates is making the headlines, rights groups say that he has expanded Bush's racist immigration policies.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. July 27, 2009. We can't just "move forward." We need to face who we've been and just how badly we've acted, if we care to become something better.
Ann Jones, Tomdispatch.com. July 20, 2009. "Fixer", a new documentary about Afghanistan, tells stories of duplicity and self-delusion that are the political currency of the embattled country.