1. War Criminals, Including Their Lawyers, Must Be Pr
(Newsletter)

...nbsp;    The Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) has confirmed the worst fears of its creator President Harry Truman that it might degenerate into "an American Gestapo." It has ...

2. IF Stone: An Iconic Radical Journalist
(Opinions/Society)

.... Fishbein, let's get nice and rough. In view of his advocacy of compulsory health insurance, do you regard Mr. Harry Truman as a card-carrying communist, or just a deluded fellow-traveler?"After...

3. Fire McChrystal and Get Out of Afghanistan
(Opinions/Politic)

...s that are the exclusive purview of the elected civilian leadership. At great cost to his popularity, President Harry Truman cast a great blow for the critical republican principle of civilian control...

4. Empathy for ‘Adversaries’
(Opinions/Politic)

...netheless prosecuted the war anyway to avoid being accused by the Republican right-wing of “losing Vietnam,” as Harry Truman was accused of “losing China.” But LBJ only escalated the war after his Gre...

5. Mourning the Passing of an Unsung Giant in Human History
(Opinions/Society)

...he most horrendous war in U.S. history, which killed more than 600,000 Americans. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman beat back the heinous Nazi, Imperial Japanese, and Italian fascist regimes,...

6. To Escalate the Escalation?
(Opinions/op-ed)

...blicans will then bait him into staying longer by beginning to ask, “Who lost Afghanistan?”—much as they tagged Harry Truman with having lost China. Of course, on his first day in office, if Obama had...

7. David Swanson's 'Daybreak'
(Opinions/Review)

... Capitol Hill, democracy is rhetoric, not real. Profiles in courage are as rare as mild Chicago winters, and as Harry Truman famously said, "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog." ...

8. Panetta's CIA Coverup
(Opinions/Daily)

...operate above the law: to assassinate, murder, torture, kidnap, and conduct itself like the “Gestapo” President Harry Truman said he feared it would become when he signed the legislation that created ...

9. Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order
(Opinions/Review)

...ar war, an "all out conventional war (called) TOTALITY (as) drafted by General Dwight Eisenhower" per Harry Truman's order, the same man who used atomic weapons against a defeated Japan inst...

10. Obama’s First 100 Days: A Mixed Record
(Opinions/op-ed)

...n his various policies. In the Iraq War, Obama most closely resembles Dwight Eisenhower, who courageously ended Harry Truman’s stalemated Korean War. Obama gets a “B” for accelerating U.S. withdrawal ...