Jimmy Carter is proving to be one of the best ex-presidents the U.S. has known. At age 82, he's carring on a "war" against disease and poverty that should shame Bush and other world leaders.
The death penalty is "a flawed, expensive relic." It is administered unjustly and does not act as a deterrent. It is time that it was abolished once and for all.
This is the second of three parts of Jeremy Scahill's report on Bush's mercenary army made up of private "contractors." It was written for The Nation, for its March 16 issue.
The Bush administration's reliance on private contractors in the military has created a huge mercenary army with little oversight leading to many problems.
The latest example of the Bush administration's abuse of power is the firing by the Justice Department of federal prosecutors who failed to do the bidding of the administration.
More on the scandal of how the Bush administration - despite hypocrital pleas to "support our troops" - is failing to support the disabled veterans of its mismanaged and unnecessary wars.
A lesson in how NOT to support our troops centers around the Army's Walter Reed hospital and the horrendous conditions endured by wounded soldiers. The causes? Penny-pinching and privatization, the twin gods of the Bush administration.
According to Seymour Hersh, the Bush administration is now giving millions of dollars to violent Sunni groups allied with al Qaeda, aimed at stopping the threat os Shia groups and governments.
Keith Olberman dissects Condi Rice's ramblings on Fox News (sic) and suggests she might also want to appear on the new Fox series, "Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?"