Blackwater Settles Massacre Lawsuit Blackwater Settles Massacre Lawsuit
Blackwater will pay families of dead Iraqis $100,000 each, and says it is "pleased" with the outcome.
Jan 6, 2010 / Jeremy Scahill
One Lesson That We Hope Airport Security Screeners Will Learn From the Attempted Airliner Bombing on Christmas Day One Lesson That We Hope Airport Security Screeners Will Learn From the Attempted Airliner Bombing on Christmas Day
A vital lesson.
Jan 6, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Nocturnal Crossing Nocturnal Crossing
Audacity it is you who will console us least right here the animal alloy of muscle and voice in the rainy detonation of the day under the plus sign overflown by a squadron of petrels Thanks to the farmers who regale me with hatred painted on their faces days perch solely on the shoulders of women more than asleep Storm or rain the beaks that put me back between the hands of the scream will guide them laudably Covered with fresh encephalon I rise already even faster silence like the bull under the maul it is a kiss deriving lips from our clogprints (Translated from the French by A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman)
Jan 6, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Aimé Césaire
Blind in Afghanistan Blind in Afghanistan
One of the paradoxes of America's bumbling intervention in Afghanistan is that the United States knows next to nothing about the country it is occupying.
Jan 6, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Puzzle No. 653 Puzzle No. 653
ACROSS
1 Not the campfires watched, by Rebel pickets. (8,6)
Jan 6, 2010 / Frank W. Lewis
Blackwater and the Khost Bombing: Is the CIA Deceiving Congress? Blackwater and the Khost Bombing: Is the CIA Deceiving Congress?
Two Blackwater contractors died in a December 30 suicide bombing at a CIA station in Afghanistan, suggesting that the company is more enmeshed in CIA business than the agency admit...
Jan 6, 2010 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
What Happened to Obama’s Movement? What Happened to Obama’s Movement?
The Obama campaign was a massive grassroots mobilization, but a year later, has the organization that grew out of it failed to keep up the momentum?
Jan 6, 2010 / GRITtv
McCain Gets It, Obama Doesn’t McCain Gets It, Obama Doesn’t
Although Obama has blasted "fat cat bankers on Wall Street," it is time for those who elected him to ask for more than rhetoric.
Jan 6, 2010 / Column / Robert Scheer
2010 Isn’t 1994…Yet 2010 Isn’t 1994…Yet
With the revelation last night/this morning that veteran Democratic Senators Christopher Dodd(CT) and Byron Dorgan (ND) are not seeking re-electionthis year, the mainstream press...
Jan 6, 2010 / Adam Howard