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Haiti: WikiLeaks Cables Expose How U.S. Blocked Aristide's Return After 2004 Coup

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Aug. 11 (Investigative Report) - A new exposé on Haiti reveals how the United States led a vast international campaign to prevent former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from returning to his country while he was exiled in South Africa. It’s part of a series of reports by The Nation magazine and the Haitian weekly Haïti Liberté that draw from almost 2,000 U.S. diplomatic cables on Haiti released by WikiLeaks. The cables show that high-level U.S. and U.N. officials coordinated a politically motivated prosecution of Aristide to prevent him from "gaining more traction with the Haitian population and returning to Haiti."

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AFL-CIO's Trumka Calls for Labor Movement Separate from Parties: 'I've Had a Snootful of This S---!"

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By John Nichols - Jun. 14 (News Report) - “We can’t simply build the power of any political party or any candidate. For too long we’ve been left after the election holding a canceled check and asking someone to pay attention to us. No more! No more!” the federation president, a former United Mineworkers union chief, shouted above the cheers of the nurses.

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WikiLeaks Haiti: Cable Depicts Fraudulent Haiti Election

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Dan Coughlin, Kim Ives - Jun. 10 (News Report) - Confirming what Haitians already knew, a WikiLeaks document shows how US and international donors staged the phony presidential election.

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WikiLeaks Cables Reveal "Secret History" of U.S. Bullying in Haiti at Oil Companies' Behest

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - Jun. 03 (News Report) - The Nation magazine, in partnership with the Haitian weekly newspaper, Haïti Liberté, has launched a series of reports based on more than 19,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. Called "The PetroCaribe Files," the series begins with an exposé of how the United States—with pressure from Exxon and Chevron—tried to interfere with an oil agreement between Haiti and Venezuela that would save Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, $100 million per year. "It is really amazing to see an ambassador pushing around a president, and all his officials telling them what to do, trying to tell them what Haiti's interests are. It is the epitome of arrogance," says the report’s co-author, Kim Ives. We are also joined by veteran Haiti correspondent, Dan Coughlin.

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Increasing Numbers of Women Face Jail Time for Wanting an Abortion

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Michelle Goldberg - Apr. 28 (News Report) - Utah prosecutors and conservative politicians are determined to lock up the young woman known in court filings as J.M.S. for the crime of trying to end her pregnancy. Her grim journey through the legal system began in 2009, when she was 17 and pregnant by a convicted felon named Brandon Gale

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Koch Brothers Caught Telling 50,000 Employees How to Vote

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - Apr. 21 (News Report) - The Nation magazine has revealed that Koch Industries sent a letter to most of its 50,000 employees on the eve of the November elections, advising them on whom to vote for and warning them of the dire consequences should they choose to vote otherwise. As a result of the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling last year, Koch Industries and other corporations are now legally allowed to pressure their workers to adopt their political views. Koch Industries is run by the billionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch, who have helped bankroll the Tea Party movement and dozens of other right-wing causes, including the recent attacks on public sector employees and unions going on in many states.

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Obama vs. Ryan: Who's Winning the Deficit Debate?

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Ari Berman - Apr. 20 (Opinion) - Democratic strategists believe that House Republicans committed political suicide by voting to approve Representative Paul Ryan’s budget plan last week. “When we win back the majority, people will look back at this vote as a defining one that secured the majority for Democrats,” Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel told Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent.

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What Social Network?

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Nation - By Chris Hayes - Mar. 03 (Opinion) - This disconnect between the jobs crisis in the country and the blithe dismissal thereof in Washington is the most incomprehensible aspect of the political moment.

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The End of New Deal Liberalism

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Nation - By William Greider - Jan. 05 (Comment) - Society faces dreadful prospects and profound transformation. When both parties are aligned with corporate power, who will stand up for the people? Who will protect them from the insatiable appetites of capitalist enterprise and help them get through the hard passage ahead? One thing we know for sure from history: there is no natural limit to what capitalism will seek in terms of power and profit. If government does not stand up and apply the brakes, society is defenseless.

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Tax Cuts Forever?

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Nation - By Christopher Hayes - Dec. 09 (Opinion) - It's the standard bribery model of legislating that has come to characterize Washington in the era of oligarchy: if you want to put food on the table of the unemployed, you must lavishly wine and dine the CEOs and bankers who laid them off. Obama didn't create this system, but he is making it stronger before our very eyes.

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Obama Without Tears

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Nation - By William Greider - Nov. 15 (Opinion) - Given the election results, the question Barack Obama has to decide for himself is whether he really wants to be president in the fullest sense.

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Matt Lauer Fails to Burn Bush

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Nation - By Greg Mitchell - Nov. 09 (News Analysis) - Time after time Bush would offer a whopper and Lauer either said nothing, or expressed sympathy for the poor man who was subjected o such harsh criticism. It went that way, from Bush saying there was "no intelligence" prior to 9/11 about terrorists maybe wanting to fly planes into buildings to stating flatly that lack of regulations had anything to do with the financial meltdown.

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Lou Dobbs Hired Illegal Immigrants

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jack Mirkinson - Oct. 07 (News Report) - Lou Dobbs has become notorious for his hard-line stance on undocumented immigrants--and the people who hire them. Yet, as an explosive investigation released Thursday in The Nation uncovered, Dobbs has been relying on undocumented workers for years to maintain the upkeep of his homes and of the horses he bought for his daughter.

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Lou Dobbs, American Hypocrite

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Isabel Macdonald - Oct. 07 (Investigative Report) - In Lou Dobbs's heyday at CNN, when he commanded more than 800,000 viewers and a reported $6 million a year for "his fearless reporting and commentary," in the words of former CNN president Jonathan Klein, the host became notorious for his angry rants against "illegal aliens." But Dobbs reserved a special venom for the employers who hire them, railing against "the employer who is so shamelessly exploiting the illegal alien and so shamelessly flouting US law" and even proposing, on one April 2006 show, that "illegal employers who hire illegal aliens" should face felony charges.

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Sex and the GOP

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Betsy Reed - Sep. 29 (Opinion) - Has the party truly cultivated and supported its women candidates, and is it, as a result, poised to bring more women to Washington and more women voters into the fold? Or, as it lurches to the right, is the GOP in fact alienating women, including voters and potential leaders, who tend to be less conservative than men in their partisan identification and ideological views? Is the party's embrace of the current array of female candidates really about enhancing its appeal to men?

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The Nation: Docs Reveals Blackwater-Linked Companies Provided Intel & Security to Multinationals Like Monsanto, Chevron

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Jeremy Scahill, Amy Goodman - Sep. 16 (Investigative Report) - "Blackwater’s Black Ops"—that’s the title of an explosive new article in The Nation magazine that reveals how entities closely linked with the private security firm Blackwater have provided security and intelligence services to a range of powerful corporations over the past several years. The companies include Monsanto, Chevron, Deutsche Bank and others. Blackwater has also provided intelligence and training services to foreign governments, including Jordan, the Canadian military and the Dutch police. We speak with investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill.

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The Liberal Media: Money Well Spent

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Eric Alterman - Sep. 12 (Special Report) - We are all well aware of the success of the likes of Rupert Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, the editors of the Wall Street Journal, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, etc., in reorienting the media in a right-wing, xenophobic direction. But to focus exclusively on the conservative media—as I sometimes do—is a bit like worrying only about the oil slicks on the surface of a river and ignoring the gushers underneath.

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Dennis Kucinich Makes a Serious Push to Ban Govt. Assassinations of US Citizens

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Jeremy Scahill - Aug. 12 (News Report) - Most lawmakers have been mute about the Obama administration's policy to target a US citizen for assassination.

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Key Provisions of Arizona Immigration Law Blocked by Federal Judge

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By John Nichols - Jul. 29 (Opinion) - The most reactionary conservatives, many of them clutching unread copies of U.S. Constitution, are already screaming about the decision of Arizona Federal Judge Susan Bolton to block immediate implementation of central components of the state's new anti-immigrant laws.

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WikiLeaks Bombshell on Afghan War HIghlighted by 'NYT," Hit By White House

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Greg Mitchell - Jul. 25 (Comment) - Despite advance claims of secret documents coming soon, it still felt like this bombshell arrived almost out of nowhere Sunday afternoon: WikiLeaks not only released more than 90,000 docs related to the U.S. and the war in Afghanistan, but The New York TImes played it for all it was worth (as it turns out, quite a lot). In fact, the Times, The Guardiian in London and Der Spiegel had been studying the documents and preparing for this for weeks.

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'Reverse Racism' Is a Weapon of Mass Distraction

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Leslie Savan - Jul. 22 (Opinion) - Let’s be clear about the media hoopla over reverse racism this past month, from Rush Limbaugh’s claim that Obama is causing high unemployment as a “payback” for black slavery to Michelle Bachmann’s assertion that Obama is creating “a nation of slaves” to Fox host Megyn Kelly’s eye-popping claims that the New Black Panther Party is somehow immune to prosecution by the Obama justice department: We are not in a race relations crisis. We are in an economic crisis. And these manufactured racial melodramas are meant to frighten Vilsackian Democrats to never dare do anything that might ruffle Tea Party feathers, like push through a desperately needed second stimulus or nominate Elizabeth Warren as head of the consumer protection agency.

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Unjust Spoils

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Robert Reich - Jul. 11 (Editorial) - If nothing more is done, America's three-decade-long lurch toward widening inequality is an open invitation to a future demagogue who misconnects the dots, blaming immigrants, the poor, government, foreign nations, "socialists" or "intellectual elites" for the growing frustrations of the middle class.

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When Teen Pregnancy Is No Accident

Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Lynn Harris - May. 28 (Investigative Report) - “It’s likely that there are women who try to get pregnant on purpose in order to maintain or change a relationship. But now we can also say that there is another part of this story that we have not paid enough attention to: men’s direct role in promoting pregnancy against women’s wishes."

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General Petraeus' Secret Ops

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Robert Dreyfuss - May. 25 (Opinion) - The gung-ho Special Ops folks at the Pentagon have been pushing hard to become a kind of uniformed covert operations unit of the U.S. government, even though military operations aren’t governed by the same sort of restrictive Congressional oversight that the CIA operates under. And, according to Mazzetti, the Petraeus order is intended to accomplish things that the CIA “will not” do.

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Grayson's Bill Makes War Costs Real

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By John Nichols - May. 25 (News Analysis) - The congressman is betting—with good reason—that the key to opening up a real debate about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is to make real the cost of these occupations to American families.

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