POLITRICKSThe War Secrets Senator John McCain Hides: Former POW Fights Public Access to POW/MIA Files
Sydney Schanberg: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter; subject of the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields; author The Death and Life of Dith Pran; head of the investigative team at APBnews.com
"Over the years in Washington, McCain, at times almost single-handedly, has pushed through Pentagon-desired legislation to make it impossible or much harder for the public to acquire POW/MIA information and much easier for the defense bureaucracy to keep it hidden . . . Literally thousands of documents that would otherwise have been declassified long ago have been legislated into secrecy."
Jimmy Carter and Human Rights: Behind the Media Myth
Jeff Cohen
Norman Solomon
"During his presidency, Carter proclaimed human rights to be 'the soul of our foreign policy.' Although many journalists promoted that image, the reality was quite different."
All the President’s Men: Nazis, the Attempted Assassin, and the Serial Killer
David McGowan: freelance writer; author of Derailing Democracy: The America the Media Don't Want You to See
"The truth is that the Bush family closet is so jammed with skeletons that it is a wonder that they can still get the door closed. I'm betting that come election day there will be at least three troubling stories that will remain safely locked away there. Any one of these could have posed serious problems for the Bush candidacy; a wide airing of all three would undoubtedly permanently end Little George's political career."
Oil Before Ozone: And Other Huge Problems with Al Gore
Russ Kick
"Whether you approve or disapprove of Gore's handling of the environment, abortion, Israel, and other issues is going to depend on your politics. We can also debate the importance of his personality and upbringing. But his hypocrisy, exaggerations, outright lies, unethical activities, unsavory associates (including communist spies), and lovey-dovey relationship with big-money interests should upset everyone, regardless of political views."
God Save the President!: How Britain Became the US's Lackey
Robin Ramsay: editor and publisher of Lobster magazine; author of two books
"Britain has been treated rather more like the so-called banana republics of Central America and the Caribbean than its rulers would have us realize."
Colony Kosovo: Not So Pretty
Christian Parenti: freelance writer; author of Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis
"Rather than a multiethnic democracy, Kosovo is shaping up to be a violent, corrupt, free-market colony erected on the foundation of a massive lie."
The Truth about Terrorism
Ali Abunimah: peace activist; media analyst
"The State Department's report, 'Patterns of Global Terrorism, 1999,' published on May 1, 2000, flatly contradicts the government's statements about terrorism, as well as the general public's perception of the phenomenon."
You Can't Win
James Ridgeway: Washington correspondent of the Village Voice; author of sixteen books, including Blood in the Face; producer and director of documentaries, including Feed
"Beginning in the early 1980s in Bill Clinton's Arkansas, the American blood supply was poisoned." "The feds claimed no real harm resulted from the huge, purposely-set Cerro Grande wildfire, which burned approximately 8000 acres and nearly overran a plutonium stockpile." "The US Secret Service was laying the groundwork until quite recently for a photo database of ordinary citizens collected from state motor vehicles departments."
OFFICIAL VERSIONS
Anatomy of a School Shooting
David McGowan
"On May 15, 2000, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office released the official report on the shooting deaths of fifteen people at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado . . . . Yet strangely enough, the press representatives closest to the scene, both socially and geographically, have reported facts about the case that don't appear to fit into the official scenario."
How the People Seldom Catch Intelligence: Or, How to Be a Successful Drug Dealer
Preston Peet: contributing editor at Disinformation; regular contributor to High Times magazine and Website
"One would have to intentionally not look in order to miss the copious amounts of evidence of CIA-sanctioned and -protected drug-trafficking, even in LA, that exist today in the public record; the US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence succeeds admirably, disregarding sworn testimony and government reports, and ignoring what agents on the ground at the scene have to say."
Reassessing OKC: The Truck-Bomb Hoax
Cletus Nelson: freelance writer; contributing editor at Disinformation
"From day one, a surfeit of scientific anomalies and inexplicable events have surrounded the allegedly airtight case against the two men. Indeed, despite widespread public belief that the crime has been solved, a number of looming questions remain unanswered."
Votescam
Jonathan Vankin: freelance writer; author of several books, including Conspiracies, Cover-Ups and Crimes and 70 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
"On election night, when the three major television networks announce the next president, the winner they announce is not chosen by the voters of the United States. He is the selection of the three networks themselves, through a company they own jointly with Associated Press and United Press International. That company is called News Election Service (NES) . . . The US government does not tabulate a single vote. The government has granted NES a legal monopoly, exempt from antitrust laws, to count the votes privately."
The Rabin Murder Cover-up
Barry Chamish: author of six books, including Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin and The Last Days of Israel
"Yigal Amir was not just a religious kid who got mad one night and shot a prime minister. He had an intelligence background."
What's Missing from This Picture?
Jim Marrs: author of numerous scripts, columns, and books, including the JFK classic Crossfire and the UFO classic Alien Agenda
"Missing evidence has become a hallmark of American politics. Apparently the idea is that, circumstances notwithstanding, if there's no proof then there can be no guilt."