by Charley James
It was bound to happen sooner or later to poor Erick Erickson.
He runs the fringe, right-wing website RedState.com and, after 10 months of increasingly pulsating throbs like a character in an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon at every move the Obama Administration has made, Friday morning Erickson’s head absolutely exploded.
Why?
Because the Obama Administration has [...]

by Charley James
Thanks to the movie website Corona Coming Attractions, there’s an advance review of the new film Fair Game, based on the book by Valerie Plame, the CIA case officer who was “outed” by the Bush Administration when her husband called the president a liar in The New York Times in July, 2003, for [...]

UPDATED: By Denis Campbell
Rhodri Morgan could be moments away from officially announcing his retirement as Welsh 1st Minister. The rumour mill buzzes with anticipation. It could occur today during the annual Labour Party Conference kicking off today in Brighton (Gordon Brown desperately needs his pre-election conference to end on a collegial high note). Back home [...]

(We welcome back veteran Chicago journalist Monroe Anderson after an extended summer break.)
by Monoe Anderson
Watching today’s commemorations of the eight anniversary of the 9/11 terrorists attacks, I am reminded of how badly the Bush Administration blew it. The most incompetent presidency in our nation’s history presided over the worst failure in national security since Pearl [...]

The desperate have become maniacal. The US Republican Party is well beyond clutching at straws, it is about to disappear underneath the surface of the water for the third time and everyone from Dick Cheney to John Boehner to RNC Chair Michael Steele is desperately clinging to the highest masthead as party leader radio host [...]

by Charley James
Guess who’s contritely telling al-Jazeera he should have resigned from his senior State Dept. post when he and Colin Powell lost their battle with Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, John Ashcroft and Don Rumsfeld over observing the Geneva Conventions in America’s two wars, one illegal and the other totally botched?
Yup, [...]

 
Coast-to-coast across the USA tent city shanty-towns reminiscent of 1930s Hoovervilles are springing up everywhere as the recession’s bite deepens. While W sits in his comfy suburban house in Dallas, makes speeches and flies down to the ranch in Crawford, safely inside a Secret Service bubble for 10 more years, the thousands who were literally [...]

 
With George Bush, Dick Cheney and several surrogates telling interviewers that the 9/11 attacks couldn’t be anticipated, they were – not surprisingly – lying. As a result, this article Charley James first published in April 2005 at The Dissident Voice bears repeating as the outgoing administration tries rewriting history. The article reveals that a CIA “mole” [...]

 
by Charley James
Overlooked in the frothing about Dick Cheney’s interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl is a simple truth. Shotgun Dick, Darth Vadar, The Man Who Never Was, Richard Bruce Cheney confessed freely and openly to committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Vice President who spent eight years avoiding interviews used what may be [...]

 
by Charley James
Where is a pair of dirty, old shoes when I need them?
I want to hurl a pair after it became official yesterday when reality was confirmed by no less a reliable White House source than the president himself. George Bush summed up his view of how his policies affected the world over the [...]