BP Flouted US Safety Rules
By Jason Leopold May 5, 2010 Editor’s Note: A common thread through recent disasters – the Wall Street financial collapse, the fatal West Virginia coal mine explosion and the huge oil spill from one of BP’s offshore rigs – has been a lack of effective government oversight. Indeed, over the past three decades as Republicans […]
Saturday Night show, May 8, 2010 – 9pmEST 6pmPST
Segment 1 – Media Matters Segment 2 – Barking from the Floor – Audio from Wall Street Segment 3 – Audio from CSPAN-Debate on Prosecuting Detainees Segment 4 – Interview with Col. Morris Davis Segment 5 – Interview with Jason Leopold on BP/Halliburton catastrophe Listen NowWe hope you’ll join us on our debut show here […]
Col. Morris Davis-Perfecting a More Perfect Union
(editors note: I want to thank Col. Morris Davis for letting us reprint his words here for you to share.) My father was a 100 percent disabled veteran of World War II. He left home a healthy man in the prime of life and returned seriously disabled by a broken back during a training accident. […]
All About The Staffers
Voting isn’t the end of a process, but a sort of beginning. So why do so many voters treat it as a finishline instead of a hiring date? Imagine if employers in other fields did this. You start your job after a rigorous process with interviewers, fill out elaborate forms, turn in your resume, buy […]
New CSPAN video library and its impact on blogging and research
I’ve been recording television news for over a decade. The greatest bulk of recordings are from CSPAN. With hundreds of hours of hearings, press conferences, speeches, and special presentations, CSPAN has kept my VCRs, DVDRs, and computers busy for so long I can’t fathom the time. What started as a need to gather actualities from […]
Conservative and Liberal Pillagers Master the Art of Pandering
By Morris Davis Reprinted from AndyWorthington.co.uk If it was a crime to misappropriate a word or phrase — to treat it like you own it and toss it around arbitrarily whenever it suits your purposes — then some prominent conservatives and liberals would be serving hard time. Of course there don’t seem to be any […]
Center for Constitutional Rights- The Torture Team
This site is a must see for accountability resources. Thanks to the Center for Constitutional Rights for this work.
Cheney’s best was “go f— yourself”
When Dick Cheney spouted off to Patrick Leahy, he accomplished the best thing he ever did. Who says so? Dick says so. “That’s sort of the best thing I ever did.”, he exclaimed to Dennis “I lost my principles and backbone on 9/11” Miller. When put into perspective on the entirety of his career, his […]
A little bit of reality about Texas secession
I was born in Missouri. I’m not really someone who thinks about who I am in terms of Missouri when I consider the “show me” slogan, then I can say I like that I was born there. However, I grew up in Texas where the majority of my family was from. We have been living […]
Worthington: Judge in Slahi case demolished US al-Qaida claims.
Andy Worthington has a new article: Mohamedou Ould Salahi: How a Judge Demolished the US Government’s Al-Qaeda Claims He points out the stack of cards that is the Bush/Cheney administration’s detainee terrorism policy. Basically, take in prisoners on bounties, give them no chance to hear what they are accused of, arrange for them to be […]