World Boss
Dispatches From Cuba — Part One
By: Lee Brandenburg, founder and publisher of Captive American.com
December 23, 2008 | Read More
Diane Feinstein: Yet More No-Change Change
First Hillary Clinton got to run our foreign policy. Now Diane Feinstein gets to oversee our intelligence agencies. This is change?
December 16, 2008 | Read More
Torturing From The Top
The Constitution isn’t the only document the Bush administration has used as a doormat. Let’s not forget the Geneva Conventions as well.
December 15, 2008 | Read More
The Real Other Shoe Dropping In Iraq
A couple of airborne loafers didn’t stop Bush from walking all over the Constitution. Again.
December 15, 2008 | Read More
Obama Reality Check - Pentagon Waste Edition
Obama says he’ll go line-by-line to cut federal spending. He could start by killing a $65 billion Pentagon boondoggle. But he’ll have to beat back bought-off members of Congress to do it.
December 11, 2008 | Read More
Bloodlines: Obama And Torture
Barack Obama’s Kenyan grandfather was tortured by the British for aiding suspected insurgents. Will the new president inflict the same treatment on our prisoners?
December 3, 2008 | Read More
Homeland Insecurity
Our leaders in Washington are about to bring our troops home. But not in the way you think.
December 2, 2008 | Read More
War Shills
If you want to know why we invaded Iraq, why we’re still in Iraq, and why it’s costing us trillions, you have to read David Barstow’s new article in the NY Times.
December 1, 2008 | Read More
Central Embarrassment Agency
Nothing in the CIA’s name or mission says anything about shooting down suspected drug planes. Yet that is exactly what it has been doing. And, as usual, the operation has been far from a “slam dunk.”
November 21, 2008 | Read More
What’s Good for GM is Good for America
You might recall old “Engine” Charlie Wilson, the former CEO of General Motors, later the Secretary of Defense under President Dwight Eisenhower, who became known for his statement that “what’s good for GM is good for the country.” But is what’s good for GM’s top execs good for us?
November 11, 2008 | Read More
