Yesterday on Democracy Now, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh played down the story of secret CIA prisons and torture as “not where the real game is.”
AMY GOODMAN: By the way, do you believe that the secret prisons are in Romania and Poland, as Human Rights Watch believes, that the Washington Post won’t name, but exposed?
SEYMOUR […]
The Telegraph reported Sunday on this video taken by unknown “private security contractors” as they fired machine guns randomly at people in cars as they drive around Iraq.
According to the Telegraph:
The video first appeared on the website www.aegisIraq.co.uk. The website states: “This site does not belong to Aegis Defence Ltd, it belongs to the […]
In the battle over the content on PBS, NPR, and other federally-funded media outlets, Kenneth Tomlinson pitted himself against a lot of liberal foes. In his former role as Chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), Tomlinson designated Bill Moyers as his arch nemesis and considered the PBS program show of news and opinion […]
This a.m.’s Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC discussed the disagreement between Governor George Pataki and Mayor Mike Bloomberg over the development of lower Manhattan. Along with New York Post state editor Fred Dicker and WNYC reporter Andrea Bernstein, Lehrer rehearsed the dispute and then elicited some interesting insights into the dispute:
1. The current real […]
Mayor Mike Bloomberg is stepping boldly into the Lower Manhattan development mess. The New York Times reports, and the lead local story in all papers is, that the Mayor has named 4 new people, all influential members of his administration, to the Lower Manhattan Development Board (LMDB). Governor George Pataki has responded in kind by [...]
Our Constitution prohibits the infringement of the right of the people to keep and bare arms, but I guess San Francisco voters disagree.
It was not quite the victory that some polls were predicting . . . or perhaps imagining. But 20% is pretty substantial and Bloomberg has what can be called a mandate for the next four years. So what policy initiatives are on Bloomy’s mind? He is looking to reinvigorate and take more charge of the […]
Check out Congressman Conyers’ response to Frist’s tizzy over the Democrats closing the Senate doors.
“Never have I been slapped in the face with such an affront to the leadership of this grand institution.” - Senate Majority Leader Bill FristSorry Senator Frist, but having to face questions about why we are fighting a war based on […]
So, the founding fathers are quite dead now. Why do they still get a voice?
It’s not something we see very often; take two intelligent, eloquent public speakers with abrasive wit and passionately-held opposing viewpoints and put them on a stage and point cameras at them and let them fight it out and see if you learn anything. Amy Goodman from Democracy Now did a wonderful just doing just that.
The […]