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VOLUNTEER! Do you have skills you’d like to offer? We have all kinds of needs. For more info, visit our Volunteer Page. NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Is Trump Gambling His Empire With Risky Prez Bid? By Jon Hecht Donald Trump’s success in early primary polls comes from the same focus on personal branding that has built his […]
VOLUNTEER! Do you have skills you’d like to offer? We have all kinds of needs. For more info, visit our Volunteer Page. NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Whistleblowers File $100 Million Suit against NSA, FBI By Klaus Marre In a $100 million lawsuit that has garnered virtually no public attention, five National Security Agency whistleblowers are accusing […]
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VOLUNTEER! Do you have skills you’d like to offer? We have all kinds of needs. For more info, visit our Volunteer Page. PUBLICITY NOTES: Our Editor in Chief, Russ Baker, will be on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann television show tonight, talking about our series on Hurricane Katrina. The program runs on the RT Network. We’ll post links […]
VOLUNTEER! Do you have skills you’d like to offer? We have all kinds of needs. For more info, visit our Volunteer Page. PUBLICITY NOTES: We’re getting more requests all the time for Russ and others to appear on radio shows and podcasts. In addition, we see our articles frequently picked up, cited, or linked to. For […]
More on Bush’s “Enforcer,” Joe Allbaugh, the man responsible for putting Michael Brown at the helm of FEMA prior to Hurricane Katrina
It doesn’t take an expert on the Boston Marathon Bombing to see some major discrepancies in the overall case. There are just too many things that don’t make sense.
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Why Russia Matters to the Boston Bombing Suspect’s Defense by James Henry One unanswered question about the Boston Marathon bombing persists: What did Russia tell the U.S. about the Tsarnaev brothers, and when? Here’s why Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s defense team is chipping away at the secrecy surrounding that story. WHO The Triumph of […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy MLK Also Had a Nightmare by Milicent Cranor In honor of Martin Luther King Day, WhoWhatWhy looks back through the history of American racism, at the kind of hatred and atrocities that spurred King into action. Rather than the stuff of dreams, much of it was from a living nightmare. WHO […]
U.S. banks are summarily canceling accounts of some customers with Islamic surnames. Why? They won’t say. And the trend is happening coast to coast, according to a Muslim advocacy group. Is the government behind it?
As pressure grows for military intervention in Syria, we are now hearing that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is behind alleged widespread rape in his country. Didn’t we hear the same thing about Muammar Qaddafi, followed by mounting Western calls for his ouster? As before, when you read the fine print, it gets more complicated.
One thing the media ought to do on a regular basis is provide updates on the quality of appointees a president makes. Irrespective of political philosophy, most of us can agree that people should be appointed to positions for which they appear qualified. And they should not be hired for positions where their experience runs […]