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Keith Olbermann:
Of War and Golf
Keith Olbermann delivers a special comment on "MSNBC Countdown," addressing George Bush's policies and rhetoric.
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Tom Morello Sits Down With Truthout's Geoff Millard
While out on the Justice Tour, Tom Morello, the revolutionary guitarist of Rage Against The Machine, sat down with Truthout's Geoff Millard to discuss what the Justice Tour is and why he makes socially conscious music.
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Matt Renner Interviews
Fraud Investigator Dina Rasor
Matt Renner, of Truthout: "Dina Rasor and Robert Bauman present firsthand accounts of fraud, deception, negligence and treachery by contractors during the privatized invasion and occupation of Iraq. This is the first war that was designed to rely on contractors - private companies with profit as their top priority - for transportation, food, water, spare parts and even protection."
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Norman Solomon:
War Made Easy
Normon Solomon discusses the implications of the Pentagon's use of retired generals to issue administration talking points.
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Marc Ash:
My Chat With Donna Frye
Truthout's Executive Director Marc Ash talks to San Diego City Councilwoman Donna Frye about the intersection of community activism and political life.
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Un-"threat"-ing Iran:
An Interview With Stephen Kinzer
Truthout's Maya Schenwar interviews "All the Shah's Men" author Stephen Kinzer on Iran and the mentality behind US "regime change" operations worldwide.
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Winter Soldier 2008:
Gender in the Ranks
Truthout's "Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan" coverage continues with Part IV: Gender in the Ranks. Maya Schenwar interviews gender panel coordinator Jen Hogg, and reports on institutionalized sexism in the military. Also included are three testimonies from Winter Soldier's gender and sexuality panel.
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Interview With Tomas Young
of Film "Body of War"
Truthout's Geoffrey Millard interviews Tomas Young, Iraq veteran and subject of the new film "Body of War." Young discusses the extreme difficulties of his injuries and having incurred them in a war he feels was not worth fighting. Accompanying the interview is a review of the film by Camilla Herrera of Greenwich Time.
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Interview With Phil Donahue,
Co-Director of "Body of War"
Geoffrey Millard reviews "Body of War" and interviews Co-Director Phil Donahue. Introducing the film, Millard writes for Truthout: "With Iraq documentaries having fared poorly at the box office, a new film, 'Body of War,' could mark a turning point because it brings to the big screen a subject that has yet to be broached by a major movie."
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Winter Soldier 2008:
Profile of a Conscientious Objector
Truthout's "Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan" coverage continues with Part III: Profile of a Conscientious Objector. Matt Renner interviews Logan Laituri about his experience in Iraq, his Christian faith and how he became a conscientious objector. Also included are four additional Winter Soldier testimonies in their entirety.
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Winter Soldier 2008 | The "Rules" of War
When it comes to modern-day war, the very term "rules of engagement" can be a contradiction in terms. During the Winter Soldier testimonies, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans recounted the everyday violations of those unenforced rules, resulting in civilian casualties and needless damage and destruction. In the second installment of Truthout's Winter Soldier series, Matt Renner interviews Iraq veteran Jason Hurd, and Maya Schenwar writes on the disconnect between the rules and the realities on the ground. Seven testimonies from "Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan" are also presented in their entirety.
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Five Years Into War, Soldiers Speak
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the day President Bush announced from the Oval Office the "opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign" to invade Iraq. Five years later, more than 200 of those men and women joined last week in Silver Spring, Maryland, to speak out against that mission and to invest their government with the responsibility to end it. The event was called "Winter Soldier." In the coming weeks, Truthout will bring you in-depth video and written coverage of the issues raised in testimony at Winter Soldier. Matt Renner interviews Winter Soldier coordinator Perry O'Brien, while Maya Schenwar writes on the event's significance.
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Barack Obama:
"A More Perfect Union"
Barack Obama delivers a speech on race at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
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Interview With Congressman Peter DeFazio
Truthout's Matt Renner talks with Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon) about the Democratic presidential primary contest, the ongoing occupation of Iraq, the sudden resignation of Adm. William Fallon and the recent revelations about the Bush administration's surveillance programs.
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Keith Olbermann:
Senator, You Must Correct
the Wrong Done to Obama
On MSNBC's "Countdown," Keith Olbermann pleads for a denunciation of the racism and prejudice plaguing Senator Clinton's campaign.
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Interview With Jim Dean of Democracy for America
Truthout's Matt Renner reports: "In our interview, Jim Dean, chair of Democracy for America (DFA), shared his thoughts about the Democratic primary election, the strategies of past Democratic campaigns and the rise of a new locally based progressive movement."
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Keith Olbermann:
Special Comment on FISA "Veto"
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, commenting on the debate over spy legislation, says: "You have subjected us, your citizens, to that greater danger! This, Mr. Bush, is simple enough for even you to understand."
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Geoffrey Millard:
Interview With Seymour Hersh
Truthout's Geoffrey Millard interviews Seymour Hersh.
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Matt Renner:
Interview With Journalist Dahr Jamail
Truthout's Matt Renner interviews Dahr Jamail on living and reporting in occupied Iraq.
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A Truthout Interview With Daniel Ellsberg
Truthout's Sari Gelzer interviews Daniel Ellsberg, perhaps the country's most famous whistleblower. Ellsberg fears that before the Bush administration leaves office they will try to attack Iran.
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Keith Olbermann:
Special Comment Regarding FISA
Keith Olbermann, on MSNBC's "Countdown," comments on FISA and President Bush's insistence that retroactive immunity be granted to telecommunication companies that assist in domestic spying.
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Marc Ash:
My Interview With
Rep. Henry Waxman
Marc Ash, Truthout's executive director, talks with House Oversight Committee chair, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-California), about ongoing government investigations and violations of federal law by the Bush administration.
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Halting the Cycle of Crime and Punishment
Truthout's Maya Schenwar interviews Congressman Danny Davis to discuss the flaws in the incarceration system and his ideas for remedying them.
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Bill Moyers:
Martin Luther King and LBJ
Bill Moyers shares his recollections of President Johnson and Martin Luther King during the civil rights struggle.
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Ongoing Problems at Walter Reed
Former Army Lt. and military nurse Doug Connor sat down for an interview with Truthout reporter Geoffrey Millard to share his experience before and after the Walter Reed Medical Center scandal broke.
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Andrew Roth on Front
Page Depictions of War
In an interview with Truthout's Geoffrey Millard, Assistant Professor of Sociology Andrew Roth discussed his recent study of pictures that appear on the front pages of major newspapers and their portrayal of the Iraq and Afghanistan occupations.
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Official Version of Naval
Incident Starts to Unravel
Gareth Porter reports for Inter Press Service, "Despite the official and media portrayal of the incident in the Strait of Hormuz early Monday morning as a serious threat to US ships from Iranian speedboats that nearly resulted in a 'battle at sea,' new information over the past three days suggests that the incident did not involve such a threat and that no US commander was on the verge of firing at the Iranian boats."
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Barack Obama:
Our Time for Change Has Come
Barack Obama tells supporters in Iowa, "Years from now, you'll look back and you'll say that this was the moment, this was the place where America remembered what it means to hope."
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Naomi Klein on
the Shock Doctrine
In a wide-ranging interview with Truthout's Geoffrey Millard, bestselling author and investigative journalist Naomi Klein discusses the catastrophic failures that has ensued from the free-market reforms that has spread throughout the world over the past few decades. Klein explains that the rise in "disaster capitalism" is also leading to an increase in worldwide violence that will only get worse. She refers to the issue as "The Shock Doctrine," which is also the title of her groundbreaking new book.
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Craig Unger on the Rise of the Christian Right and Neoconservatism
Craig Unger, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, garnered national attention with his previous book, "House of Bush, House of Saud." In "The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future," Unger turns his attention to neoconservative officials and theorists. Truthout's Jason Leopold recently sat down with Unger and discussed the influence of the religious right on our current government.
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Project Censored:
Truthout Interview
With Peter Phillips
Truthout's Geoffrey Millard talks with Peter Phillips, leader of Project Censored, a national research effort that tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters, and compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country's major national news media.
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Michael Ratner on Missing CIA Tapes,
Torture and the Supreme Court
Truthout's Matt Renner interviews acclaimed human rights lawyer Michael Ratner about the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes and his work on behalf of prisoners in the so-called War on Terror.
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Bill Moyers Talks With MSNBC Host Keith Olberman
Bill Moyers says, "Welcome to the journal. We have a lot of ground to cover in this hour - from journalism and media merger mania to politics and race. First, despite the clutter and conglomeration in commercial broadcasting a new voice occasionally emerges that proves the exception to the rule. The rule is either echo right-wing ideology or bow your knee to the god of "objectivity," meaning you simply counter a pound of official propaganda with an ounce of counter spin. Jon Stewart broke this mold with his daily show on comedy central. And now MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has done the same for cable news. Olbermann leaves no doubt about what he sees."
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"The Story of Stuff With Annie Leonard" is an engaging new short film that explains the "materials economy" in 20 fun-filled minutes. Produced by Free Range Studios, which developed "The Meatrix" - an animated short about factory farming that ranks among the cleverest uses of Internet technologies to deliver a politically progressive message - The Story of Stuff features Annie Leonard, amusing graphics, lots of humor, and a complicated analysis presented in an easy-to-understand conversational tone.
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Keith Olbermann:
"Neocon Job"
Keith Olbermann on MSNBC Countdown comments about the president's "cataclysmic deception about Iran."
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John Lewis on
Iraq and Civil Rights
Civil rights pioneer and congressman, John Lewis, sat down with Truthout's Geoff Millard to talk about both Iraq and today's civil rights resurgence.
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Sheila Jackson Lee on the
Latest Iraq Spending Bill
As congress was debating the latest $50 billion Iraq spending bill, Truthout's Geoff Millard was on the Hill talking to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, an outspoken critic of the administration and the Iraq war.
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Robert Parry on the Military
Commissions Act's Hidden Wording
Twenty years after exposing Iran-Contra, Robert Parry is now exposing the hidden wording of the Military Commissions Act. Mr. Parry talked with Truthout's Geoff Millard about some of the wording and impacts of the MCA.
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Valerie Plame Wilson
Still Wants to Know ...
In an interview with Truthout, former covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson said she would still like to know the identity of the CIA official who passed her name to Vice President Dick Cheney's office in 2003, and "under what circumstances." Plame Wilson has been trying to figure several things out since senior Bush officials leaked her name to columnist Robert Novak and other journalists. That leak ended her two-decade CIA career.
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Behind Blackwater:
An Interview With Jeremy Scahill
The dangers behind Blackwater's rise to power have not been told among the hours of coverage by the mainstream media, so Truthout's Geoff Millard sat down with Jeremy Scahill, author of a new book on the mercenary firm. In this interview, Scahill delves deep into the real dangers of a private mercenary army as powerful as Blackwater.
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Keith Olbermann:
On Waterboarding and Torture
Keith Olbermann, reporting for MSNBC, writes, "It is a fact startling in its cynical simplicity and it requires cynical and simple words to be properly expressed: The presidency of George W. Bush has now devolved into a criminal conspiracy to cover the ass of George W. Bush."
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Bernie Sanders Speaks to Truthout
on Frustration With Congress
The American voters' feelings of frustration at a largely ineffective Congress have beefed up in recent polls creating a tense environment on Capital Hill. The Independent senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, sat down with Truthout's Geoff Millard to discuss this frustration.
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James Rucker on the 21st Century Civil Rights Movement
The recent outpouring of support for the Jena Six has been called the beginning of the modern day civil rights movement. Truthout's Sari Gelzer spoke with James Rucker, co-founder of ColorofChange.org, about the events in Jena and his organization's work to halt black voter suppression, support Hurricane Katrina victims and keep the fire going in what has now been declared the 21st century civil rights movement.
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Congresswoman Woolsey on Congress
and the Bush Administration
In a wide-ranging interview with Truthout's Matt Renner, Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey shared her views about many current issues facing Congress including attempts to reinstate Congressional oversight of the Bush administration's surveillance programs, the unpopular military occupation of Iraq, the ongoing fight over Congressional subpoenas and the prospect of impeachment proceedings.
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The Warrior Writers Project
By Geoffrey Millard
Geoffrey Millard writes for Truthout: "Many veterans of the Iraq war are returning home with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and turning to writing for their healing. More than 15 years ago Maxine Hong Kingston began working with Vietnam veterans in order to help them deal with their PTSD through writing. Now Lovella Calica, a staff member with Iraq Veterans Against the War, is helping today's era of veterans process their PTSD with the Warrior Writers Project."
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Tide of Resistance Could Sweep Military Again
By Geoffrey Millard, Lance Page and Troy Page
Geoffrey Millard reports for Truthout: "A major factor in the end of the Vietnam war was the resistance within the armed forces that all but halted the ground war. While at the Veterans For Peace conference this year I spoke with the next generation of GI resisters, who are being compared with the soldiers successful at shutting down the military in Vietnam."
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Attorney Talks About Lawsuit
Against Bush, NSA Over Wiretaps
Truthout's Jason Leopold writes: "Recently, I sat down with attorney Jon Eisenberg who sued George W. Bush, the National Security Administration (NSA), and other federal agencies, on behalf of two Washington DC-based lawyers who allege their telephone calls were illegally monitored by the NSA in March 2004. The lawyers, Wendell Belew and Asim Ghafoor, appear to be the only American citizens who say they have hard evidence that proves the government spied on them."
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Kelpie Wilson:
Bush Gets Dinner
While Protesters Fast
Truthout's Kelpie Wilson writes: "More than 80 heads of state met at the UN on Monday to discuss the launch of post-Kyoto climate negotiations. Although this was the most high-level UN meeting yet held on the global climate emergency, President Bush refused to attend. He did, however, assent to an invitation from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to attend a private dinner afterward.... While Bush was eating his dinner with Ban ki-Moon, a half-dozen American climate change activists continued a weeks-long fast to protest American inaction on climate, 'so that others might eat.'"
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Marc Ash:
My Chat With Bob Filner
I recently had the opportunity to travel to California's 51st Congressional District to interview Democrat Bob Filner. I wanted to know how progressive politics seemed to be prospering in a district the mainstream media calls conservative. Representative Filner broke it down for us.
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Olbermann:
Bush Used Bogus Terror Threat to Scare Votes for FISA Bill
Logan Murphy writes for Crooks and Liars, "Keith Olbermann has been tracking the Bush Administration's use of trumped up terror alerts to manipulate the American people for the past two years, but in this latest Nexus of Politics and Terror report on Countdown, it appears the president stooped to a new low by using a bogus terror threat that specifically targeted Capitol Hill to manipulate members of Congress just hours before a crucial vote on the FISA bill last August."
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Olbermann to Bush:
"Your Hypocrisy Is So Vast"
Keith Olbermann says on "MSNBC Countdown": "in pimping General David Petraeus and in the violation of everything this country has been assiduously and vigilantly against for 220 years, you have tried to blur the gleaming radioactive demarcation between the military and the political, and to portray your party as the one associated with the military, and your opponents as the ones somehow antithetical to it. You did it again today and you need to know how history will judge the line you just crossed. It is a line thankfully only the first of a series that makes the military political, and the political, military. It is a line which history shows is always the first one crossed when a democratic government in some other country has started down the long, slippery, suicidal slope towards a Military Junta."
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Body of War
John DeFore, writing for Reuters, reports, "A matter-of-fact but pointedly critical commentary on the Iraq War, "Body of War" focuses on how soldiers got sent to Iraq and the shape in which they're coming back.
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Keith Olbermann:
The Promotion of Failure in the Bush Administration
Keith Olbermann, on "MSNBC Countdown," delivers a stinging critique of the Bush administration and its continued practice of linking the tragedy of 9/11 with the war waged in Iraq.
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Naomi Klein:
The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein writes for naomiklein.org: "When I finished The Shock Doctrine, I sent it to Alfonso Cuaron because I adore his films and felt that the future he created for Children of Men was very close to the present I was seeing in disaster zones. I was hoping he would send me a quote for the book jacket and instead he pulled together this amazing team of artists - including Jonas Cuaron who directed and edited - to make The Shock Doctrine short film."
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Military Sexual Violence:
Command Rape Sara Rich, the mother of Suzanne Swift, sat down with Truthout's Geoffrey Millard to discuss the command rape her daughter experienced while stationed in Iraq during 2004-2005. Sara is joined by retired Army Colonel Ann Wright, who provides contextual insight into the military.
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Keith Olbermann:
Bush Playing Us With "Withdrawal"
Keith Olbermann comments for MSNBC's Countdown: "President Bush told troops in Iraq some of them may be able to come home. To a country dying of thirst, the president seemed to vaguely promise a drink from a full canteen -- a promise predicated on the assumption that he is not lying. Yet you are lying, Mr. Bush. Again. But now, we know why."
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Phyllis Bennis:
Turning Public Opinion Into Policy
Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Washington, DC think tank the Institute for Policy Studies, sat down recently with Truthout's Geoffrey Millard to discuss politics, policies and the war in Iraq.
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Janis Karpinski:
They Knew What They Were Doing - Part I
In June 2003, during the US-led occupation of Iraq, Gen. Janis Karpinski was given command of the 800th Military Police Brigade, putting her in charge of the fifteen detention facilities in southern and central Iraq run by Coalition forces, including Abu Ghraib. Truthout's Geoffrey Millard recently sat down with Karpinski to get her side of the story of how the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib was allowed to happen.
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Janis Karpinski:
They Knew What They Were Doing - Part II
In June 2003, during the US-led occupation of Iraq, Gen. Janis Karpinski was given command of the 800th Military Police Brigade, putting her in charge of the fifteen detention facilities in southern and central Iraq run by Coalition forces, including Abu Ghraib. Truthout's Geoffrey Millard recently sat down with Karpinski to get her side of the story of how the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib was allowed to happen.
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Marc Ash Interviews Ann Wright
I interviewed Ann Wright in June of this year. Ann has, in fact, been interviewed by TO's Geoffrey Millard before, although, I said at the beginning of this interview that it was her first on camera interview with TO. Ann is terrific, very knowledgeable and incredibly committed. Sacrifice comes naturally to this lady; she's a real inspiration. ma/TO
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Leahy:
Bush Administration "In Contempt" of Congress
Today in a press briefing, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) revealed that the White House had missed its 2:30 p.m. deadline to turn over documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding legal justifications for the National Security Agency's eavesdropping program.
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Bill Moyers:
Farewell to Karl Rove
The Bill Moyers Journal says good-bye to Karl Rove, who "figured out a long time ago that the way to take an intellectually incurious draft-averse naughty playboy in a flight jacket with chewing tobacco in his back pocket and make him governor of Texas, was to sell him as God's anointed in a state where preachers and televangelists outnumber even oil derricks and jack rabbits."
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Matt Renner Interviews
Glenn W. Smith
Truthout's Matt Renner interviews Glenn W. Smith on the framing of Congress. Smith, a Senior Fellow at the Rockridge Institute, explains how Congress has allowed the media and conservatives to frame the debate. Smith asserts the reason the Democrats are afraid to take control of the occupation of Iraq is a fear of backlash if the situation worsens. He goes on to say he believes they are wrong, and explains what he thinks they should do to re-frame the debate.
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Kelpie Wilson:
Leonardo DiCaprio's Hour
Truthout's environmental editor, Kelpie Wilson, speaks with Nadia Conners, a co-producer of Leonardo DiCaprio's new film, "The 11th Hour," opening on August 17 in New York and Los Angeles.
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Matt Renner:
Interview With George Lakoff
Truthout's Matt Renner interviews George Lakoff at the Rockridge Institute. Lakoff discusses progressives and their position in American politics.
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Marc Ash Interviews Father Louis Vitale
Truthout's Executive Director Marc Ash sat down with Father Louis Vitale, a Franciscan priest who has been active in the anti-war movement for decades. Father Vitale, an Air Force veteran, was arrested at Fort Huachuca in Arizona protesting the training of interrogators, who he believes are involved in torture.
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Video, Report Details Evangelism
at Highest Levels of US Military
Truthout's Jason Leopold reports, "A report released publicly on Thursday by the Defense Department's (DOD) inspector general has found high-ranking Army and Air Force personnel violated long-standing military regulations when they participated in a promotional video for an evangelical Christian organization while in uniform and on active duty."
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Health Care for All
By Geoffey Millard, Lance Page and Scott Galindez
The Campaign for America's Future, sponsors of the annual "Take Back America Conference," announced that they are launching a campaign called "Health Care for All." Truthout was there and we interviewed Ned Lamont and Congressional candidate Donna Edwards who were part of the launching of the campaign.
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Progressive Democrats Defend Party Leaders
By Geoffey Millard, Lance Page, and Scott Galindez
At this year's Take Back America Conference, Congressman Keith Ellison took aim at a debate that is dividing Progressives when he told them not to allow their frustrations with Congress' inability to stop the war in Iraq divide them. "You might be mad at the Congress because they didn't end the war in six months, but I'm here to ask you for us to not fall out over tactics and strategies." Ellison said that it is right that Progressives should be impatient with the pace of change, particularly when it comes to Iraq, "but don't turn your dissatisfaction into a cannibalistic enterprise."
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Keith Olbermann:
Go to Iraq and Fight, Mr. President
Keith Olbermann lambastes President Bush for choosing Hillary Clinton as a scapegoat for the quagmire in Iraq on his nightly MSNBC Countdown.
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Bill Moyers:
On Impeachment
Bill Moyers Journal says, "Impeachment ... the word feared and loathed by every sitting president is back. It's in the air and on your computer screen, a growing clamor aimed at both President Bush and Vice-President Cheney. This week's news only agitated the clamor."
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Keith Olbermann:
All Hail the Prophetic Gut!
Keith Olbermann of MSNBC offers a new, special comment on Michael Chertoff's "gut feeling" report on terror threats to the US stating: "I have pondered this supreme expression of diminished expectations for parts of three days now. I have concluded that there are only five possible explanations for Mr. Chertoff's remarkable revelations about his transcendently important counterterrorism stomach."
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Olbermann:
Bush, Cheney Should Resign
Keith Olbermann's impassioned plea to President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney Tuesday evening, during the "special comment" segment of his news show "Countdown," was succinct: "resign."
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Olbermann
Joe Wilson: Administration Is "Corrupt to the Core"
Keith Olbermann interviews Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, husband of outed CIA operative Valerie Plame, regarding Bush's decision to commute the prison sentence of Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
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Jason Leopold:
What Paul Charlton Said in Our Interview
Jason Leopold of Truthout reports, "Paul Charlton, one of eight US attorneys fired last year under questionable circumstances, said an internal Justice Department probe to determine whether the dismissals were politically motivated may conclude that a special prosecutor needs to be appointed to further investigate the attorney firings."
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"SiCKO" Goes
to Washington
Just one week before the release of Michael Moore's new documentary about the American health care industry, Moore traveled to Washington to push for universal health care. Truthout's Geoffrey Millard followed Moore as he testified before Congress, and provided a screening of the film to health care lobbyists. SiCKO premieres around the country on Friday June 29th.
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Liam Madden Speaks to Truthout
By Geoffrey Millard, Lance Page, and Scott Galindez
While Adam Kokesh was dominating the headlines, another former Marine, Sgt. Liam Madden was also being targeted by the Marine Corps. The free speech issues are more apparent in Madden's case: He is being investigated for statements that he made at anti-war events. Madden traveled with Kokesh to Kansas City for Kokesh's separation board hearing. The day before the hearing Truthout's Geoffrey Millard sat down with Sergeant Madden.
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Jason Leopold:
My Interview With Former US Attorney Bud Cummins
Jason Leopold interviews former US Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas Bud Cummins, who was forced out of his position last year to make room for a protege of Karl Rove. Cummins is a staunch Republican who is vocal about his loyalty to GOP causes and President Bush, but believes that the fallout from the US attorney scandal will continue to affect the integrity and credibility of the Justice Department unless the White House replaces embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
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Truthout Speaks to Adam Kokesh
By Geoffrey Millard,
Scott Galindez, and Lance Page
Corporal Adam Kokesh thought, when he received his discharge papers in November of 2006, that he was a civilian. Then he got a letter from the Marine Corps telling him he was under investigation for wearing a partial military uniform at a political rally. On June 4, the United States Marine Corps Mobilization Command held a hearing in Kansas City, Missouri. The three-officer panel that presided over the hearing recommended a general discharge under honorable conditions for Kokesh, a step down from the honorable discharge he received last November. The day before the hearing, Truthout's Geoffrey Millard sat down with Kokesh.
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Kokesh to Marines: "This Is Not Going Away"
By Geoffrey Millard and Scott Galindez
The Marine Corps is removing Adam Kokesh from the Individual Ready Reserve just days before his military commitment would have expired. He will be receiving a "general" discharge, which is less than he received last November when leaving active duty. Truthout's Geoffrey Millard and Scott Galindez followed Kokesh from a press conference in Washington, DC on June first, to his hearing in Kansas City, Missouri on June fourth. Stay tuned for interviews with Adam Kokesh and Liam Madden, who is facing similar action.
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Jason Leopold:
My Interview With Mikey Weinstein
Jason Leopold reports: "More than two years ago, Mikey Weinstein launched the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a nonprofit government watchdog group that aims to keep a close eye on the military to ensure its adherence to the law mandating the separation between church and state, after his son, a student at the Air Force Academy in Boulder, Colorado, was harassed about his Jewish faith and urged by other cadets and Air Force officials to convert to Christianity."
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Jason Leopold Interview With Fired US Attorney John McKay
In a wide-ranging, exclusive interview with Truthout, John McKay, the US attorney for western Washington state, who was fired in December, said he believes he was ousted because he did not convene a federal grand jury to pursue allegations of voter fraud related to the 2004 governor's election in the state in which Democrat Christine Gregoire defeated Republican Dino Rossi by a margin of 129 votes.
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Keith Olbermann:
Restoring Habeas Corpus
Keith Olbermann applauds the Senate Judiciary Committee's efforts to restore habeas corpus and discusses this issue with Jonathan Turley, professor of constitutional law at George Washington University.
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Jason Leopold:
An Interview With Joseph Wilson
Jason Leopold reports: "In a recent interview, former US Ambassador Joseph Wilson told me that he and his wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, both strongly feel that Vice President Dick Cheney is behind efforts to block her from discussing her work for the Central Intelligence Agency before 2002 in a memoir to be published in October titled 'Fair Game.' Plame Wilson's undercover CIA identity was leaked to a handful of reporters by senior Bush administration officials. She and her husband believe the leak was in retaliation after he spoke out against the White House concerning Iraq."
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Jason Leopold:
An Interview With David Iglesias
In an exclusive, wide-ranging interview with Truthout, David Iglesias, the former US attorney for New Mexico, who was fired in December along with seven other US attorneys for reasons that appear to have been motivated by partisan politics, said he believes a "smoking gun" exists that will lead directly to Karl Rove and blow the scandal wide open. "I believe somewhere on an RNC computer, on some server somewhere there's an email from Karl Rove stating why we need to be axed," Iglesias told Truthout.
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Bill Moyers Interviews Maxine Hong Kingston
Bill Moyers writes: "For all the words Maxine Hong Kingston has poured onto the page from her own life and mind, for the many years Maxine Hong Kingston has been coaxing words from others. In 1993 she put out a call to veterans to join her in workshops devoted to turning their experiences into poems, novels, and essays. Here in the hills of Northern California, over 500 veterans...from every war since World War II have taken part, and some of their finest work has now been published in this book, 'Veterans of War; Veterans of Peace.' For many of them it has been a life-changing, even life-saving, experience."
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Keith Olbermann:
The Entire Government
Has Failed Us on Iraq
Keith Olbermann presents a special comment on betrayal saying, "For the president - and the majority leaders and candidates and rank-and-file congressmen and senators of either party - there is only blame for this shameful and bi-partisan betrayal."
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Cate Woodruff:
Margaret Lazarus Documents
Cate Woodruff interviews Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Margaret Lazarus, who has been confronting issues and encouraging social consciousness in documentary films for over 25 years, about her film "Rape Is...."
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Former Deputy AG on Wiretaps:
"White House Tried to Coerce Ashcroft"
Responding to questions by Senator Chuck Schumer, former Deputy Attorney General Comey said Justice Department officials had concerns about the legality of the warrantless wiretapping and that the DOJ had refused to certify the practice even when White House officials attempted to coerce John Ashcroft in his hospital room. Members of the committee have stated that comments in Comey's testimony were shocking.
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Senate Revisits Military Commissions Act
By Geoffrey Millard, Lance Page and Scott Galindez
The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing in preparation for an expected showdown with the Bush administration over the Military Commissions Act, which was narrowly passed last year. Congressional Democrats are expected to pass legislation this year to amend provisions in the act such as the denial of habeas corpus, the narrowing of the accepted definitions of "cruel and inhuman treatment," and the shielding of senior administration officials from accountability for detainee abuses. Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, was the first witness, and called the current treatment of detainees "un-American."
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Bill Moyers: The Cost of War
Bill Moyers Journal addresses the cost of the Iraq war. Moyers tells us: "As Democrats and Republicans in Washington wrangle over a strategy, there is speculation that no matter what agreement they reach ... American troops will be in Iraq at least a decade to come. We are not finished with the costs of this war."
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Olbermann:
General Batiste Asked to Leave CBS Over Ad
Keith Olbermann interviews retired Major General John Batiste to discuss why he resigned from the Army in protest of the handling of the war, the goal of the new ads, and what he thinks needs to be done to get the US out of Iraq.
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11 GOP Congressmen to Bush: "You've Lost Credibility"
11 Congressional Republicans told President Bush that he has no credibility left over the war in Iraq. "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann talks with Dana Milbank of The Washington Post.
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Major General John Batiste (Ret.):
"Mr. President, You Did Not Listen"
The anti-war veterans group, VoteVets.org, which has been influential with Capitol Hill Democrats, is launching a half-million-dollar TV ad campaign featuring Major General John Batiste (Ret.), former commanding general of the first infantry division in Iraq. The ad begins with a clip of President George Bush saying, "I have always said that I will listen to the requests of our commanders on the ground." Batiste then appears, saying, "Mr. President, you did not listen."
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Keith Olbermann:
Where Does the Politicization of Justice End?
Keith Olbermann says: "It was at first a disturbing story about political servitude violating the sanctity of the offices of federal prosecutors. Then it was a story about employees in those offices being hired only if they were political adherents, something that rang of the old Soviet Politburo. But the Alberto Gonzales/US Attorney Firings scandal has now reshaped itself - like some governmental Andromeda Strain - into what looks like an attempt to deprive Democrats of the right to vote."
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Democrats Not Backing Down on Iraq Bill
House Democratic leaders are indicating that they are not ready to back down in their confrontation with President Bush over Iraq. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other party leaders are considering a bill that would fund the war as Bush wants, but only guarantee the money through July. After that, Congress could block additional money from being sent if the Iraqi government does not meet certain political and security goals.
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LA Police Attack Crowd at Pro-Immigration Rights Rally
One day after several reporters and camera operators were injured while covering an altercation at an immigrant rights rally in MacArthur Park, news organizations condemned the Los Angeles Police Department for its use of batons and riot guns against members of the media, and some said they were considering legal options.
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Pelosi: Congress Will Not Give the President a Blank Check
Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded to President Bush's veto of the Iraq supplemental bill: "Earlier today, the leader and I sent to the president a bill that made a strong commitment to support our men and women in uniform, and a strong commitment to honor our promises to our veterans. This was a bill that was worthy of the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform. It was a bill that honored and respected the wishes of the American people to have benchmarks, to have guidelines, to have standards for what is happening in Iraq.... The president vetoed the bill outright and, frankly, misrepresented what this legislation does."
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Bill Moyers Talks With Jon Stewart
Bill Moyers talks with comedian Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show since 1999, about how faking the news can reveal more of the truth than all of the Sunday-morning talk shows put together.
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Bill Moyers Journal
"Buying the War"
"Buying the War," a documentary film from Bill Moyers, examines the press coverage in the lead-up to the war as evidence of a paradigm shift in the role of journalists in democracy and asks, four years after the invasion, what's changed?
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Keith Olbermann:
Republicans Equal Life;
Democrats Equal Death?
Keith Olberman delivers a special comment about Rudolph Giuliani's remarks at a Lincoln Day dinner in New Hampshire, stating, "Rather than a reasoned discussion - rather than a political campaign advocating your own causes and extolling your own qualifications - you have bypassed all the intermediate steps, and moved directly to trying to terrorize the electorate into viewing a vote for a Democrat, not as a reasonable alternative and an inalienable right ... but as an act of suicide."
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Climate Change in the Courts
A Report by Sari Gelzer and Kelpie Wilson
In the first high court decision on global warming, the Supreme Court has ruled that it is the job of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gases emitted from cars. This landmark ruling in the case of Massachusetts v. EPA has set a new precedent that will allow a plethora of global warming litigation cases to move forward. This decision will directly influence a current court case in which automakers are trying to block a California law that requires new cars and trucks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 22 percent by 2012 and 30 percent by 2016. This law has been adopted by ten other states, and if successfully implemented, would drastically transform the environmental standards of the auto industry. These court cases are an example of how litigation that attempts to force governments and corporations to act to combat global warming is gaining momentum.
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Bill Moyers Journal: "Buying the War"
Bill Moyers and his team piece together reporting that shows how the media was complicit in shaping the "public mind" toward the war, and ask what has happened to the media's role as skeptical "watchdog" over government power.
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Depleted Uranium:
Poisoning Our Planet
By Geoffrey Millard and Lance Page
On April 14, an event was held at Portland State University that was titled, "Our Poison Planet." One of the main focuses of the event was the effects of depleted uranium. Truthout's Geoffrey Millard and Lance Page were there and filed this story.
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