From Guardian.co.uk
Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi – codenamed Curveball by the CIA – explains why he lied about Saddam’s chemical weapons capability.
Click for video: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/15/curveball-iraqi-fantasist-cia-saddam
In a small flat in the German town of Erlangen in February 2003, an … Read more »
THINK PROGRESS
The Progress Report
by Faiz Shakir, Benjamin Armbruster, George Zornick, Zaid Jilani, Alex Seitz-Wald, and Tanya Somanader
February 14, 2011
ETHICS
The ChamberLeaks Scandal
An investigation by ThinkProgress has revealed that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce explored employing … Read more »
On this Valentine’s Day, leaks from “sources” provide some early insight into the details of the president’s budget submission, while the press also reports on the specifics of the announced $100 billion in budget changes being offered by House Republicans … Read more »
THINK PROGRESS
The Progress Report
by Faiz Shakir, Benjamin Armbruster, George Zornick, Pat Garofalo, Zaid Jilani, Alex Seitz-Wald, and Tanya Somanader
February 15, 2011
BUDGET
‘Invest and Grow’ vs. ‘Slash and Burn’
The Obama administration released its fiscal year 2012 … Read more »
From ThinkProgress.org
Yesterday marked the 100th birthday of America’s 40th president, Ronald Wilson Reagan. All over the country, prominent conservatives and Republican figures are celebrating the anniversary of Reagan’s birthday, claiming that the former president was “guided by strong conservative … Read more »
By Mark Bittman — New York Times.
For decades, Americans believed that we had the world’s healthiest and safest diet. We worried little about this diet’s effect on the environment or on the lives of the animals (or even the … Read more »
by Paul Krugman. New York Times.
When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely surprised? Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this atrocity to happen?
Put me in the latter category. I’ve had a … Read more »
Published on OurFuture.org (http://www.ourfuture.org)
Today’s Visionary, Not Yesterday’s Celebrity: Martin Luther King Jr’s Words with Contemporary Images
By Richard Eskow
An Economy for All
A lot of people in the media are so afraid of offending anyone with controversial truths … Read more »
From ThinkProgress.org
The Tucson shooting last week shocked the nation. For Arizona citizens, however, the violence lays a fresh wound to a state plagued by recent tragedies. In November, Mark Price, a father of six who had been battling leukemia … Read more »
By E.J. Dionne, Jr. – TruthDig.com
At the beginning of 2009, the choice before Democrats who controlled the 111th Congress was whether they would enact historic legislation, even at the risk of their majority, or whether they would play it … Read more »
