Posted on June 9, 2004

No News is Bad News

By Joel Bleifuss

The Bush White House has turned hiding politically unpalatable—or embarrassing—information into an art form.

The list is long: The lies about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. The still-secret meetings of Dick Cheney’s energy task force. What exactly is going on in U.S.-run prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq.

And we would know more about Bush administration perfidy had…

Blogs

The First Stone

Déjà Violence

For all the hooha over the horror of U.S. treatment of Iraqi prisoners, the fact is such…

The ITT List

The Dazed Over 'Tomorrow'

Today, Murdoch-owned 20th Century Fox opened The Day After Tomorrow in theaters across the nation. Calling it “The Movie…

Didn’t They Hear About The Boy Who Cried Wolf?

“For the next few weeks we have reason to believe there is a heightened threat to the U.S. interests…

Culture

Tacitly Tactical

By Kathryn Rosenfeld

Heaven and Buddy are two conjoined rooftops and raw loft spaces along the stretch of Chicago’s Milwaukee…

What Rumsfeld Doesn’t Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib

By Slavoj Zizek

Does anyone still remember the unfortunate Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf? As Saddam’s information minister, he heroically would deny…

Counter Cultural Programming

By Michael Atkinson

The November firefight approaches and here we are, awash in a media flashflood of press secretary prevarication,…

Making Enemies

Politics, profit, and Bush’s North Korea policy

By Matthew Reiss

The Bush administration’s neoconservatives purport to seek security through military might. But last year, the administration surrendered its dominance over North Korea when…

When Ignorance Isn’t Bliss

By David Sirota

Between Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Chris Matthews, John Ashcroft’s terror warnings, “The Bachelor,” the final episode of “The Sopranos” and those incessant injury…

Vermont Progressives Counter GMOs

By Melissa Pavolka

Progressives scored a victory in Vermont in April when Republican Governor James Douglas signed a bill requiring labeling and registration of all genetically…

Don’t Breathe Easy

Experts link record rates of inner-city asthma to diminished air quality

By Brian H. Kehrl

The recent discovery of record numbers of asthma sufferers in several Chicago neighborhoods has underscored what experts are calling a national asthma “epidemic.”…

George’s Kids

By Naomi Klein

In 1968, the legendary U.S. labor organizer Cesar Chavez went on a 25-day hunger strike. While depriving himself of food, he condemned abusive…

Torture and Secrecy

By Steven Aftergood

The explosive report on the abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba may mark a turning point…

Altered States

New trade proposal would place local sovereignty in the hands of multinationals

By Mischa Gaus

A backdoor attempt to subject states to corporate-driven trade deals could undermine laws that rein in capitalism’s worst abuses. The Bush administration’s top…

End of the Barrel

By John R. MacArthur

Reading the mea culpas on Iraq from previously pro-invasion pundits and “experts” across the media spectrum these past few bloody months, I’ve found…

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