| May 20, 2015 | Rights / DemocracyJeffrey Sterling recently stood before a judge as his sentence was read. The former CIA officer, the judge declared, would spend 42 months — that’s three and half years — behind bars. The feds had convicted Sterling on nine felony charges, including seven counts...
| | Environment / HealthNewfangled carbon-capture power plants supposedly burn coal without poisoning the planet. They don’t. Extracting coal from the ground and disposing of its toxic byproducts makes a dirty mess no matter how it’s burned. But this “clean coal” ruse is conjuring up...
| | Economy / BusinessLots of folks in America today really need more money. Our kids, for starters. We ought to be investing in their futures, not stuffing them in overcrowded classrooms or forcing them to graduate from college with tens of thousands of dollars in debt. And plenty of...
| May 13, 2015 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, John Kiriakou calls for an end to impunity for the people responsible for the CIA’s use of torture and Donald Kaul pokes fun at the newfound interest among presidential hopefuls in inequality. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss the...
| | Peace / SecurityAfter I blew the whistle on the CIA’s torture program in 2007, the fallout for me was brutal. To make a long story short, I served nearly two years in federal prison and then endured a few more months of house arrest. What happened to the torture program? Nothing....
