• In farewell speech, Bush insists “war on terror” must continue

  By Bill Van Auken  In his final speech from the White House Thursday night, President George W. Bush defended his legacy...

   

• Judge: Rumsfeld sanctioned torture in Gitmo

  A top US official has for the first time publicly admitted that a suspect, incarcerated at the Guantanamo Bay prison was...

   

• Cheney hints at pardon for President Bush

  BNN | With the Bush administration in its final days questions are being asked whether the president will be investigated...

   

• Secrecy and the Bush administration

  Even in its last months, the insulated Bush administration made it harder for the public to access records. In the litany...

   

• Asked about WMDs, Bush grins: ‘Things didn’t go according to plan’

  By John Byrne | Abu Ghraib a ‘disappointment’ A confident George W. Bush took the podium Monday for what is...

   

• Secret Documents Show US Aware of Army Killings in 1990s

  By Constanza Vieira | Declassified U.S. documents show that the CIA and former U.S. ambassadors were fully aware, as far...

   

• The Promise Of Change, The Rules of The System… And The Real Revolution We Need

  Revolution | The hopes for Barack Obama’s presidency are sky-high. That’s hardly surprising. In a country where not so...

   

• Should the Torturers Go on Trial?

  By William Pfaff | The impending end of the Bush administration and the inauguration of Barack Obama, expected to repudiate...

   

• What Will Obama Do About Cannabis?

  By NORM KENT He picked for Vice President one of the major architects of the Drug War. He picked for Chief of Staff one of...

   

• Once High-Flying Developers Now Looking for Federal Aid

  By Phil Mattera Opponents of the auto industry bailout, who warned that it would prompt other business sectors to ask for...

   

• Hunger mounts in the US

  By Tom Eley     As the economic crisis deepens, its human toll is becoming more evident. A new survey of food charities...

   

• Cheney Throws Down Gauntlet, Defies Prosecution for War Crimes

  Commondreams  Dick Cheney has publicly confessed to ordering war crimes. Asked about waterboarding in an ABC News interview,...

   

• Deterring Torture Through the Law

  By Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern “First, let’s kill all the lawyers” may have made sense in that Shakespearian...

   

• Iraqi shoe thrower prompts racist rant from Bill O’Reilly

  First he says that the shoe thrower is evidence of the ingratitude, “violence” and “irrational thinking”...

   

• US Troops Open Fire On Fallujah Students at Shoe Rally

  By Jason Ditz Besides making an international celebrity out of Iraqi reporter Muntadar al-Zeidi, the now infamous shoe-throwing...

   

• Cheney Admits Authorizing Detainee’s Torture

  Outgoing VP says Guantanamo prison should stay open until end of terror war, but has no idea when that might be By David...

   

• Rumsfeld blamed in detainee abuse scandals

  A bipartisan Senate report calls decisions made by the former Defense secretary a ‘direct cause’ of inhumane...

   

• U.S. Keeps Silent as Afghan Ally Removes War Crime Evidence

  McClatchy Newspapers | DASHT-E LEILI, Afghanistan – Seven years ago, a convoy of container trucks rumbled across northern...

   

• Pentagon approves Iraq sales worth up to $6 billion

  The U.S. Defense Department on Wednesday said it had approved the sale to Iraq of weapons valued at up to $6 billion, including...

   

• HOW 2 FEDERAL JUDGES INVOKED “SECRECY” TO BLOCK ACCESS TO BUSH TORTURE DATA

  By Sherwood Ross Two Federal judges have deliberately invoked secrecy statutes to conceal the Federal government’s illegal...

   

• Starbucks Employee Sacked For Raising Health and Safety Issue

  Grand Rapids, MI  — The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found after trial that Starbucks...

   

• Congress Busts the UAW

  By Phil Mattera The United Automobile Workers has been effectively decertified as the collective bargaining representative...

   

• Blackwater shootings case moved to Washington DC

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Five Blackwater Worldwide guards charged with the unprovoked shooting that killed 14 innocent Iraqis...

   

• Mickey Z – Obama and the 2076 Election

  By Mickey Z Before we get to 2076, first things first: Hail Obama, our brilliant, articulate, eloquent, half-black savior...

   

• Bush Regime Declares Itself Above the Law

  By Paul Craig Roberts The US government does not have a monopoly on hypocrisy, but no other government can match the hypocrisy...