9/11 Press for Truth was first released in September of '06. The film reports the battles of the 9/11 Families for the 9/11 investigation along with Paul Thompson's independent development of the 9/11 Timeline. The comparison is a convincing indictment of the failure of both the 9/11 Commission and the media to do their jobs.
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Frank Rich Delivers a Sterling Analysis of BushCO
Today's NYT column by Frank Rich, Iraq Is the Ultimate Aphrodisiac, is a gem of analysis on the multiple fiascos in the history of the Bush administration, beginning and continuing with a scale of cronyism that Boss Tweed and others never dreamed of.
America: More Guns or Mental Health Care?
America is again debating the issues of psychotic killers and guns. The gun control and gun freedom groups started in almost immediately. So far there is no anti mental health argument that I am aware of. (That doesn't mean WaPo or FOX won't feature someone arguing against any day now.)
America: Angry, Violent and Depressed
The Virginia Tech shooting evoked a great deal of personal emotion since my son was a senior in a Jefferson County high school on April 20th, 1999. It was pure chance that it was not Columbine. He had wrestled and been to a band competition there. He played the same video games and listened to the same music as the perpetrators. He was a jock who spent a lot of time in the library. His name is Daniel.
US Income Gap Close to 1928 Levels in 2005
A preliminary analysis of 2005 IRS data by two economics professors is reported by David Cay Johnston in the New York Times Business section Thursday. Prof. Emmanuel Saez, UC, Berkeley and Prof. Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics, consider the growing disparities in American income “significant in terms of social and political stability.”
Former US Attorney in DoJ Voting Section Reveals Pattern of Bush Interference on Political Cases
Joseph D. Rich, chief of the voting section in the Justice Department's civil rights division from 1999 to 2005, writes in the LA Times today on "Bush's long history of tilting Justice". In what has to be yet another card falling from the GOP/BushCO house, Rich reveals the all too familiar pattern of Bush's political appointees interfering with the work of long term civil servants for political power.
Michael Barone and the Default Assumption
Michael Barone writes today in Real Clear Politics about what he labels the 'default assumption' of The Blame-America-First Crowd. I find his assumption to be lacking in objectivity.
Mistrial for Watada Court Martial
Truthout reports from the Ehren Watada court martial that the military judge has ruled it a mistrial.
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