By Bill Boyarsky —While Rick Perry was denouncing the federal government at Wednesday's debate, he was also accepting all the financial assistance President Obama could offer his burning state.
This week on “Left, Right & Center,” Tony Blankley, Matt Miller and Robert Scheer discuss President Obama’s jobs speech, Rick Perry’s performance at the GOP debate and the state of things 10 years after the Sept. 11 attacks.
This week on Truthdig Radio, in collaboration with KPFK, we hear about Agent Orange and the continuing devastation from America’s chemical warfare; the Justice Department’s recent move to hold big banks accountable; the efforts of a pioneering Spanish broadcaster; and the economic outlook on jobs.
Before NBC’s Brian Williams could even finish asking Rick Perry on Wednesday if he had any trouble sleeping after having allowed the executions of more people than any other modern governor, the crowd at the Reagan Library debate erupted in joyous whistles and applause for the Texan. They did it again when Perry said criminals in Texas face “the ultimate justice.”
As I mentioned to friends when I started reading Dick Cheney’s memoir, I was doing it so others would not have to. And, as a precaution, I did it alone in case my head exploded. It did not. This book is a bomb, but not the exploding kind.
A crane being used in repairing earthquake damage to the main tower of the Washington National Cathedral toppled Wednesday, damaging two adjacent buildings at the historic place of worship. (more)
Mike Rose notes that no one in power is asking fundamental questions about the purpose of education and whether much-hyped reforms might do more harm than good.
Retired Republican congressional staffer Mike Lofgren outed the “political terrorism” of the lunatics and crackpots who make up the GOP today, and that’s why he’s our Truthdigger of the Week.
Hear the one about Rick Perry’s appointees who run Medicaid in Texas allowing hundreds of millions of dollars to be misspent on orthodontic braces for children who don’t need them—with huge profits for private dental clinics owned by Wall Street hedge funds? There’s more.
By far the most stirring line in the president’s jobs speech Thursday was his acknowledgment that “the next election is 14 months away and the people who sent us here—the people who hired us to work for them—they don’t have the luxury of waiting 14 months.”
For a decade, the main questions about 9/11 have gone unanswered while the alleged perpetrators who survived the attacks have never been publicly cross-examined as to their methods and motives.
While Rick Perry was denouncing the federal government at Wednesday’s debate, he was also accepting all the financial assistance President Obama could offer his burning state.
U.S. and European markets played follow the leader Friday, as the three main stock indexes in both regions tumbled downward nearly 3 percent together. Among other events, analysts pointed fingers at the euro, uncertainty over President Obama’s jobs speech and doubt over Greece’s ability to address its financial problems.
Seven years into the Soviet Union’s fatal adventure in Afghanistan, U.S. President Ronald Reagan stood before the international community in West Berlin and demanded that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev tear down the wall that separated East Germany from the West. (more)
New York and Washington, D.C., police officers are ramping up security measures Friday in response to what intelligence officials are calling a specific, credible terrorist threat planned for the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
The prime minister of Turkey will visit Egypt for the first time in 15 years Monday, potentially to forge an alliance between the two countries that could ultimately isolate neighboring Israel.
Twice yearly, the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch assemble a crowd of wealthy libertarian sympathizers to raise funds for their efforts to influence government and the American public. (more)
More than 400 angry longshoremen forced their way into a grain shipping facility in Longview, Wash., on Thursday where they held security guards captive and attacked a cargo train.
In a report released this week, marine scientists from around the world said industrial deep-sea fishing should be banned because it takes much longer for those fish to repopulate than species that live closer to shore.
‘Left, Right & Center’: Jobs, the Republican Party and the Legacy of 9/11
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