Headlines from DemocracyNow.org, a daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 650 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the US. Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist Sentenced to 3 Years The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at Presid...

I'm not sure I've ever witnessed a more disgraceful performance by a so-called journalist than what transpired on Wednesday's "Hardball."  In fact, from the moment MSNBC's Chris Matthews introduced his guest, former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, the "Hardball" host ...

Chas Freeman has been forced to pull his name out of consideration for the chairmanship of the National Intelligence Council. I knew it was too good to be true. Pressure from pro-Israel members of Congress, AIPAC, and the Israeli leadership turned out to be too much. Once again Israel has shown that...

Als Osama er in geslaagd was nog één stevige aanslag in de VS te plegen ergens begin 2002, dan waren de Verenigde Staten echt hun vrijheid en grondwet kwijt geraakt. Op deze en veel andere plekken is regelmatige afgegeven op het beleid van Bush in reactie op het terrorisme. Bush bashen kreeg het a...

CRITICAL UPDATE at end of post: former Clinton pollster wrote in depth about this in September 2006! If it's unpatriotic and supposedly treasonous for conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh to want Barack Obama's policies to fail in the middle of a serious recession, is it similarly so for Democ...

In today's Pot Calling the Kettle Black Moment, Bill Maher thinks CNBC's Jim Cramer isn't helping by suggesting that President Barack Obama is Lenin. This coming from a man who built an entire weekly television program on HBO savagely attacking George W. Bush and anyone associated with his Administr...

On the December 9, 2008, Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann charged that Bush administration members – whom he did not specify by name but presumably President Bush was meant to be included – deserve to be "in hell," as he cited a report that a post-war insurgency in Iraq using...

The International Criminal Court recently issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, a move Sudanese officials denounced as politically motivated. Will it ever be the case that the ICC takes former U.S. President George W. Bush to task? READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries March ...

A consistent media meme since Election Day has been that Barack Obama was inheriting a recession that some believe began as far back as December 2007. Since then, despite various rescue plans from his Administration, and the passage of a $787 billion stimulus package, the stock market has continued ...

You can put away your cowboy boots and ten gallon hats. The fake southern drawl no longer has to strain your tongue. Forget the cattle show in Dallas/Fort Worth. You can stop attempting to line dance and two step. Kiss off the oil men of West Texas. Don't try to memorize "The Eyes of Texas ...