Making Their Bones: The American Elite’s Bi-Partisan Murder Racket

By Chris Floyd
July 16, 2009
You want to climb to the top of this seething pit,
You got to walk and talk real nice.
But the secret price of power here is
Human sacrifice.
Yesterday we wrote about the sudden-onset amnesia of our media-political class concerning the officially confirmed operations of American death squads. As we noted, [...]

Cheney admits there was never any evidence tying Iraq, 9/11

By John Byrne
Oops.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney wants a do-over. After being party to an administration that repeatedly sought to tie the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks with Saddam Hussein, he’s ready to let that assertion go.
In an interview with Fox News’ Greta van Susteren Monday, Cheney said there was no evidence tying Iraq and [...]

Cheney ‘94: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire C-SPAN

In this interview from April 15th, 1994 Dick Cheney reveals the reasons why invading Baghdad and toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime wouldn’t be a great idea. He also stipulates that “not very many” American soldiers’ lives were worth losing to take out Saddam during the Gulf War.

The 13 people who made torture possible

The Bush administration’s Torture 13. They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it.
By Marcy Wheeler
May 18, 2009 | On April 16, the Obama administration released four memos that were used to authorize torture in interrogations during the Bush administration. When President Obama released the [...]

Video – Jesse Ventura on the issue of torture

Countdown: Special Comment to President Obama, You’re Wrong on Torture Prosecutions

Has Cheney been Murdering Americans?

By Jim Fetzer
Madison, WI (OpEdNews) April 12, 2009 –The stunning revelation from our nation’s premiere investigative reporter, Seymour Hersh, that Vice President Dick Cheney was running an “executive assassination ring” directly under his control and outside of the normal chain of command has raised the specter that the Vice President of the United States may [...]

US accused of causing one million Iraqi deaths

PACIFICA – UN General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann is calling for an independent probe into human rights violations as a result of the US invasion of Iraq, Democracy Now! reported Thursday.
“Independent experts estimate that over one million Iraqis have lost their lives as a direct result of the illegal invasion of their [...]

Hersh: ‘Executive assassination ring’ reported directly to Cheney

By Muriel Kane
Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that the military was running an “executive assassination ring” throughout the Bush years which reported directly to former Vice President Dick Cheney.
The remark came out seemingly inadvertently when Hersh was asked by the moderator [...]

Was a Covert Attempt to Bomb Iran with Nuclear Weapons foiled by a Military Leak?

By Michael Salla
Critically exploring whether or not there was a covert attempt to instigate a catastrophic nuclear war against Iran is illuminated through an introduction using the recent B-52 Incident. On August 30, a B-52 bomber armed with five nuclear-tipped Advanced Cruise missiles travelled from Minot Air Force base, North Dakota, to Barksdale Air Force [...]