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The Sessions stench: Trump AG Jeff Sessions is Trapped in the Malodorous Maelstrom of an ‘Alabama Hurricane’

dlindorff — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 20:13:05 +0000

By Linn Washington, Jr.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the target of demands for resignation due to his triggering yet another Trump Administration scandal related to lying under oath in the Senate about contacts with Russian officials, finds himself in an ‘Alabama Hurricane’ of his own making.

Republican presidential candidate’s true colors: Trump’s Bashing of Hispanic Judge Defines Bigotry

dlindorff — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:54:38 +0000

By Linn Washington, Jr.

When Donald Trump announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in June 2015 he unleashed a tirade against illegal immigrants from Mexico, libeling most of those immigrants as criminals and “rapists.”

Regime change in Chicago!: Cover-Up of a Police Murder Requires Resignation of Chicago Mayor Emanuel

dlindorff — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 01:38:48 +0000

By Linn Washington, Jr.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel made a bold yet belated move when he fired his embattled police superintendent in the wake of a national uproar surrounding the release of a chilling video that captured the police killing of a teen--a ward of the city of Chicago.

Where’s the truth, and how can you find it?: The US Corporate Media are Essentially Propaganda Organs of the US Government

dlindorff — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 22:19:39 +0000

By Dave Lindorff

Are the American corporate media largely propaganda organs, or news organizations?

Mainstreaming the Preferential Option For the Poor: Pope Francis Drops a Bomb on Washington

dlindorff — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 05:14:04 +0000

By John Grant

A political society endures when it seeks, as a vocation, to satisfy common needs by stimulating the growth of all its members, especially those in situations of greater vulnerability or risk.
-- Pope Francis speaking to the US Congress

Credit where credit's due...but only where it's due: How Can Obama Claim the Alternative to a Nuclear Deal with Iran is War?

dlindorff — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 17:47:53 +0000

By Dave Lindorff

A kudo to President Obama. But just one.

If he manages to pull off an agreement with Iran on limiting that country's nuclear fuel enrichment program in the fact of determined resistance from Republicans, Neocons, the Israel Lobby and the warmongers in both the GOP and his own Democratic Party, he will have finally earned at least some small portion of the gold in his Nobel Peace medallion.

Democracy...going, going gone: Leaving Brennan as CIA Director Means the Triumph of Secret Government

dlindorff — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 23:12:43 +0000

By Dave Lindorff

Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), head of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, says that John Brennan, the director of the CIA who has finally admitted that he lied when he angrily and repeatedly insisted that the agency did not spy on staff members of the Senate committee charged with oversight US intelligence agencies, “has a lot of work to do,” before she can forgive him for lying to and spying on her committee.

Clueless or Callous?: Philly's DA Professes Dubious Expertise on Prejudice

dlindorff — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:02:24 +0000

By Linn Washington Jr.

Philadelphia’s District Attorney, Rufus Seth Williams, the first African-American in Pennsylvania to hold a powerful top prosecutor post, persistently projects himself as an expert on racism.

Commendably Williams has acknowledged the corrosive impact of racism within the criminal justice system.

The US Department of Injustice: Harsh Prosecution for the Little People and the Big Guys Skate

dlindorff — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 19:37:53 +0000

By Dave Lindorff

The US Department of “Justice” has a distinctly nuanced concept of that term, taking a tough, no-holds-barred stance when it comes to individuals -- especially little people without much power or influence -- and trying at all costs to avoid prosecution when it comes to the powerful, and to big corporations -- especially big financial corporations. That schizoid approach to prosecution is personified in the recent actions--and inaction--of the DOJ’s man in Manhattan, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara.

Historic opportunity missed: Obama Failed To Deliver Long-Overdue Apology To Mandela

dlindorff — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 01:01:58 +0000

By Linn Washington, Jr.

When Barack Obama, the first black president of America, delivered remarks during a South African memorial service for that country’s first black president, he muffed a historic opportunity to right a grave wrong done by the American government – one that helped send Nelson Mandela to prison for nearly 30-years.

Obama, during his remarks at a Johannesburg, SA memorial service for Mandela, who died on December 5 at age 95, recalled how that world-revered leader had endured “brutal imprisonment.”