Editor's Note: This is the conclusion of an original AlterNet series on the U.S. Executive Branch. Part 1 was “How The U.S. Executive Branch Threatens U.S. National…
Fred Branfman
Edward Snowden's revelations have illuminated the most critical political issue facing America today: how an authoritarian U.S. Executive Branch which has focused…
Introduction: America’s Secret Shame America has a secret. It is not discussed in polite company or at the dinner tables of the…
Henry Kissinger's quote recently released [3] by Wikileaks,"the illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer", likely brought a smile to his…
Forty-two years ago I had an unusual experience. I became friendly with a guy named Noam Chomsky. I came to know him…
Democrats were united on one issue in the 2008 presidential election: the absolute disaster that a John McCain victory would have produced.…
It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage. … [Doublethink is] to…
I sit here in shock, having just read the Boston Globe headline, "Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87."…
I sit here in shock, having just read the Boston Globe headline, "Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87."…
“Gestapo interrogation methods included: repeated near drownings of a prisoner in a bathtub.”—http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-gestapo. htm “The CIA officers say 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh…
