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NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy BOSTON BOMBING: Feds Admit Triple Murder Wasn’t Tsarnaevs by James Henry When it came to Whodunnit for any crime around the time of the Boston Bombing, law enforcement’s answer always was “the Tsarnaev brothers.” In a shocking reversal, prosecutors now admit there’s barely any evidence they took part in a 2011 […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy MediaFail—Women in Saudi Arabia, Alcohol Surge, Presidential Shooters, Amazon Workers by Russ Baker In our inaugural MediaFail column, Russ Baker calls out four articles that fall flat. Read on for a look at how the media gets it wrong, fawns over its subjects or fails to check basic facts. WHO Who […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy BOSTON UPDATE: Tsarnaev Tries To Move Bombing Trial Again by Andy Thibault Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers are again trying to get his looming trial moved out of Boston. Despite a stream of potentially prejudicial publicity and polls showing the majority of Bostonians think he’s guilty, there’s little chance the judge will agree. […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Who Really Used Chemical Weapons in Syria? by Reese Erlich Journalist Reese Erlich digs into that question in this exclusive excerpt from his new book “Inside Syria: the Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect”. WHO Who came out with their hands up? Players for the St. […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Will One Man’s Drug-Crazed Rampage Change Canada’s History? by Peter Dale Scott The murder of a Canadian soldier in Ottawa and the subsequent shootings at Canada’s parliament were the work of a drug-crazed man who was Muslim. Yet the government quickly framed it as a terrorist action, and an excuse to […]
The murder of a Canadian soldier in Ottawa and the subsequent shootings at Canada’s parliament were the work of a drug-crazed man who was Muslim. Yet the government quickly framed it as a terrorist action, and an excuse to boost the state’s powers. Will it send Canada down an American path to reduced rights and increased surveillance?
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy VideoWHO: Another George Bush Rises in Texas VISIT: The newly redesigned WhoWhatWhy Who Who is President Obama’s new pen-pal? According to reports, it is Iran’s Supreme Leader. And GOP Hawks are predictably upset about the letter that reportedly outlined a broader rapprochement and cooperation against the Islamic State. Who else is […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy VideoWHO: Another George Bush Rises in Texas With a third George Bush winning elected office—George P. Bush is now the Texas land commissioner—what are the next electoral conquests the Bush family is planning? Russ Baker explains the secret recipe behind the Bush dynasty’s enduring power during an interview with RT. Who […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Our fresh new design, which we hope you like. Still the same great stories and insight. Who …benefits from GOP’s Midterm win? According to former Republican Congressman Ron Paul, it is the NeoCons. Once the GOP officially won a majority in the Senate, Paul tweeted: “Republican control of the Senate = expanded […]
NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy Read RUSS BAKER on America’s Double Government: “The secret is out: there’s a whole second government residing in the American national security apparatus that’s powerful enough to resist presidential orders. But don’t take our word for it. That comes courtesy of two recent pieces in the mainstream Boston Globe.” Who …is the terrorist […]
When describing threats to American national security, the go-to word for U.S. officials is “imminent.” The definition behind that term of art isn’t a standard one, though. And it often amounts to a license to kill.
If you’d invested a trillion dollars in something, you’d definitely want a positive return. Yet the latest iteration of the military industrial complex, exemplified by the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, seems only to have produced more war, more terrorism, more surveillance and more presidential protection blunders. You can blame it on 9/11, but the blueprints were already there.