Surprise! Congress Listened to the Voting Public!
By Dave Lindorff The most entertaining thing about this Wall Street crisis and the refusal of the House of Representatives (not failure but refusal) to pass a bailout bill negotiated by the Bush White...
View ArticleNancy Pelosi Is 'Very Serious' About Torture, Wiretaps, and Contempt
On Thursday, Newsweek's Howard Fineman broke huge news about Nancy Pelosi on Countdown: the news based on talking to people around her and advisers to her just this afternoon after that story broke is...
View ArticleAre Members of Congress (and Maybe Even the President) Being Blackmailed?
By Dave Lindorff For some time now, many Americans have wondered how Congress, the elected body that the nation’s Founding Fathers saw as the bulwark of liberty, could have been so thoroughly unwilling...
View ArticleCorporate Media Lies About Pelosi Torture Briefings
Republicans (led by Dick Cheney) are fighting every effort to expose the Torture Scandal, with one glaring exception: they are moving at warp speed to "prove" Nancy Pelosi approved waterboarding. Only...
View ArticleCheney Is Now At War with Pelosi
Dick Cheney may be out of the White House, but he's still doing what he loves best - waging a secret war based on deliberately distorted "intelligence." But he's no longer waging a war on Terror....
View ArticleNew Evidence Refutes Cheney's Blackmail Campaign Against Pelosi
Dick Cheney's blackmail campaign against Nancy Pelosi hit another IED yesterday when Greg Sargent asked former Sen. Bob Graham whether he was briefed by the CIA about the torture of Abu Zubaydah in...
View ArticlePelosi v. CIA
Dick Cheney's rabid dogs in the Corporate Media are drooling over the prospect of savaging Speaker Pelosi for daring to agree with Jonathan Karl's accusation that the CIA lied to her. Surprise! A...
View ArticleCIA’s Lies About Secret Program Should Have Congress In Open Revolt
By Dave Lindorff If this were the democracy that the Founding Fathers thought they were creating, word from CIA Director Leon Panetta that his agency had lied to Congress and specifically that it had...
View ArticleThe New York Times Trashes Single-Payer Health Reform
By Dave Lindorff In an article in the Sunday New York Times, headlined“Medicare for All? ‘Crazy,’ ‘Socialized’ and Unlikely,”reporter Katherine Q. Seelye did her best to damn the idea of government...
View ArticleThe Democratic Party's Plan To THROW The Next Couple Elections
Facing reality is a tough job but somebody's got to do it. And we foretell for you the events of the future NOT because we want them to happen, but to get you to act to keep them from happening. But to...
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