Julian Assange, embattled director of WikiLeaks and now the focus of confusing and nebulous rape and molestation charges, lashed out over what he called a "smear campaign" by the Pentagon, which is still smarting from the release of 75,000 classified war documents,...
Daniel Assange is NOT Scott Evil
Looks like producers for Dr. Phil and Montel might be waiting awhile if they think they have a celebrity dad-hating story in the making. Rupert Murdoch's New York Post seemed to have obtained a scoop yesterday rising to the level of Dr. Evil/Scott Evil proportions,...
Breaking! Gasbag commenters mull murder, fatwas against leakers
There's nothing that gets the American can-do spirit going in the morning than a rightwing scribe urging the U.S military to 'have a fire sale' (read: destroy) Wikileaks, while invoking Bruce 'Die Harder' Willis and CIA 'friends' who openly advocate 'getting' (read:...
Nixon’s Vietnam Scapegoat Finally Gets Justice
One wonders how long it will really take to get to the truth about Abu Ghraib. If a story in today's Washington Post offers any indication, it will be about 40 years before we find out who authorized the torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners in the early days of the...
Coulter unsheathes her blades on neocons. we yawn.
Ann Coulter went Jungle Red* on neoconservatives Bill Kristol and Liz Cheney this week over their demands that GOP Chair Michael Steele resign. The fun stuff comes at the back end of her WorldNetDaily column on Wednesday. First she seems shocked that her fellow...
Stan the Man and the people who own the war
UPDATE: So President Obama has decided the only way to resolve the Rolling Stone fiasco — which is really a COIN fiasco – is to put Big Daddy COIN in command. Anyone else feel like we’re on Ozzy’s Crazy Train? There were two major themes that I took away from...
What Will Senator Rand Paul Be Like?
It looks like Rand Paul, son of Rep. Ron Paul, has won the Republican Party nomination for senate against establishment candidate Trey Grayson in Kentucky tonight. The media has declared this a "big win for the Tea Party" -- because it would seem to fit the familiar...
Andy Worthington brings us “Habeas Week”
Andy Worthington, an absolutely tireless seeker of the truth as it pertains to the continuing U.S detention of terror suspects abroad, has decided the mainstream news has done such a pathetic job at covering what could be one of the most important national security...
Drug War Shame: Severely Ill Man Fired, Cut from Health Care
I just interviewed Joseph Casias, the poor man with an inoperable brain tumor and sinus cancer so bad you can barely understand him when he speaks, who was fired in November by Wal-Mart after he tested positive for marijuana. For the last four months, Casias had been...
The ADL targeting ….Gen. Petraeus?
As tensions escalate between the administration and Israel, there seems to be growing concern that the American people at large are getting wise to their own interests; an anxiousness over whether we will start looking more closely at whether Israel's national...


