Daily Archives: February 9, 2009 »
Military Takeover of Federal Weapons Research Labs
By Phil Leggiereon Physicist Robert Oppenheimer fought successfully to keep nuclear weapons research under civilian control and oversight, where it currently resides with the Department of Energy. Ronald Reagan fought, and failed, to bring
Read More »Condi Rice Could’ve Written Biden’s Speech
By Jim Lobe I hate to agree with Bill Kristol, but he’s right about Vice President Joe Biden’s speech at the ongoing Munich security conference when he writes that “the administration chose not to use
Read More »‘Serial abuser’ in charge of bail-out cash
By PAUL HASTE TAX justice campaigners accused the Treasury on Sunday of handing a “dodgy” former trustee of the Liechtenstein royal family’s secretive bank control over taxpayers’ money. US citizen Glen Moreno, the chairman
Read More »Pentagon warns of US military intervention in Mexico’s “war on drugs”
By Kevin Kearney The United States Joint Forces Command (USJFC), charged with anticipating global threats to US imperialism, issued a report last November entitled “Joint Operating Environment 2008 naming Pakistan and Mexico as the
Read More »How Bush Threatened Britain
The Atlantic — – In order to prevent any details of its torture record being publicly disseminated, the Bush administration threatened the British government with withdrawal of intelligence sharing if they allowed a court
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