Who Has the Most to Gain From Blowing the Whistle on Trump?
Reading Time: < 1 minute President Donald Trump is looking for the whistleblower in all the wrong places.
Could Donald Trump Launch Another War to Save His Skin?
Reading Time: 2 minutes WhoWhatWhy founder and Editor-in-Chief Russ Baker talks with radio host Tom Hartmann about the itchy trigger fingers of past presidents, and whether Trump could launch another war to both distract and make himself look tough.
Revenge of the Neocons
Reading Time: 2 minutes President Donald Trump’s cabinet is starting to look more and more like a Bush-Cheney war room.The irony is thick, considering candidate Trump’s promises to “drain the swamp,” his claimed opposition to foreign intervention, and his apparent antagonism to the Bush dynasty in the lead up to election day.Just days ago, Trump fired Secretary of State Read More
Billy Graham, Willing Pawn for Politicians
Reading Time: 27 minutes With the passing of Billy Graham, we can expect all the usual homilies and hagiographies. But there’s another side to the role of such very public “men of God” in America’s cynical politics.
Memo to CBS on George W. Bush: Dan Rather Got It (Mostly) Right
Reading Time: 23 minutes Dan Rather might have made some journalistic errors in pursuing the story of George W. Bush’s National Guard duty, but he got the underlying narrative right.
The Link Between Roy Moore, George W. Bush and Voter Suppression
Reading Time: 13 minutes The campaign chairman of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore has been a long time dirty tricks operative in the business of voter “caging” and voter suppression.
The Calm Before the Iraqi Storm: 15th Anniversary
Reading Time: 6 minutes Fifteen years ago, the House authorized President George W. Bush to invade Iraq. Will President Donald Trump also “achieve” the power to make war… somewhere in the world?
Trump is Right: How Jeb’s Big Bro Seized Private Land to Get Rich
Reading Time: 17 minutes The other day, Trump accused Jeb Bush’s brother of being a hypocrite, and using eminent domain to seize private land. For once, Trump isn’t blowing smoke. Here are the details that Jeb claims not to know.
PODCAST: Russ Baker with Pat Thurston on RatherGate
Reading Time: 2 minutes WhoWhatWhy Editor in Chief Russ Baker chats with Pat Thurston, talk show host on the megastation KGO, about what is — and is not — in the new movie “Truth.” The film, which features Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett, explores the events in 2004 when CBS News reported on George W. Bush’s failure to complete his required military service during the Vietnam War. Instead of Bush facing the music, it was CBS’s journalists whose heads ended up on the chopping block. Russ goes deep for some surprising insights.
Secret Email Leaked from Hillary’s Server: The Real Story of Bush, Blair and Big Oil’s Iraq Agenda
Reading Time: 5 minutes A secret email of a White House memo found on Hillary Clinton’s private server, reveals that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was ready to back a US-led invasion of Iraq long before previously known. What that memo, or stories about it, don’t reveal is … why. Why were Bush and Blair champing at the bit to start a war and accept the inevitable carnage? It wasn’t all about business — but then it mostly was.