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ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT DELIVERED BY RADIO FROM THE WHITE HOUSE: September 6, 1936

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT: I have been on a journey of husbandry. I went primarily to see at first hand conditions in the drought states; ...

The Real Lesson of Labor Day

Welcome to the worst Labor Day in the memory of most Americans. Organized labor is down to about 7 percent of the private work force. ...

HOW THEY GOT THEIR FICTITIOUS WAR

Part I: Revving Up the Lie Machine; "... we now know that Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. Among other sources, we've ...

5 Jaw-Dropping Stories in Wikileaks' Archives Begging for National Attention

In December 2008, I received an email message from Julian Assange -- the now world-famous public face of the whistleblower organization, Wikileaks. I don’t recall ...

Hands off Social Security

The White House deficit commission is reportedly considering deep benefit cuts for Social Security, including a steep rise in the retirement age. We cannot let ...

Is WikiLeaks breaking the law?

WASHINGTON, DC – The legal pursuit of WikiLeaks, a trans-national website devoted to publishing secret government documents worldwide, is reaching a boiling point. After publishing ...

Trying to exclude WikiLeaks from shield law stinks

One of the odors emanating from Washington, D.C., these days is from journalists marking their territory. Whatever awkwardness previously existed as journalists desiring a federal ...

BP acknowledges oil washing ashore in Florida

For days, as thousands of pounds of oil washed up on the Florida coast, BP officials stuck to an "Oil? What oil?" stance. Despite howling ...

Noted anti-global-warming scientist reverses course

With scientific data piling up showing that the world has reached its hottest-ever point in recorded history, global-warming skeptics are facing a high-profile defection from ...

President Obama's Oval Office speech on Iraq -- text

Good evening. Tonight, I’d like to talk to you about the end of our combat mission in Iraq, the ongoing security challenges we face, and ...

What Created the Populist Explosion and How Democrats Can Avoid the Shrapnel in November

To say that the American people are angry is an understatement. The political brain of Americans today reflects a volatile mixture of fear and fury, ...

Message to NFL players: Proposed 18-game schedule is bad deal

Dear NFL Player: As you surely know, your league is in the process of trying to increase the regular season from 16 to 18 games ...

The Unmaking of a Company Man

Worldly ambition inhibits true learning. Ask me. I know. A young man in a hurry is nearly uneducable: He knows what he wants and where ...

90 Years After the Vote, U.S. Women Still Seek Economic Citizenship

Women won the right to vote 90 years ago today. As historian Christine Stansell points out, the seemingly “no-brainer” move to ensure women have the same ...

Foreign Policy: The Future Of Iraqi Oil

David Bender is an analyst in Eurasia Group's Middle East practice. Bush administration officials predicted that a post-war spike in Iraq's oil production would pay ...

CIA Red Cell - A Red Cell Special Memorandum - 5 February 2010

[A note from MichaelMoore.com: The following is the full text of the classified CIA 'Red Cell' document (PDF) released today by WikiLeaks.org]What If Foreigners See ...

CIA Red Cell Memorandum on United States "exporting terrorism", 2 Feb 2010

This CIA "Red Cell" report from February 2, 2010, looks at what will happen if it is internationally understood that the United States is an ...

KBR wins refinery work contracts in Iraq

Aug 24 (Reuters) - KBR Inc, a U.S. engineering and construction firm, said on Tuesday it won contracts from the Iraqi government for work on ...

The Bomb-Iran Debate From Hell

America's march to a disastrous war in Iraq began in the media, where an unprovoked U.S. invasion of an Arab country was introduced as a ...

HALLIBURTON AWARDED LETTER OF INTENT FOR DEVELOPMENT OF MAJNOON FIELD IN IRAQ

HOUSTON, TX and DUBAI, UAE – Aug. 18, 2010 – Halliburton has been awarded a letter of intent by Shell Iraq Petroleum Development B.V. for ...

Needed: a new economic paradigm

The blame game continues over who is responsible for the worst recession since the Great Depression – the financiers who did such a bad job ...

The Guns of August

In 1962, the historian Barbara Tuchman published a book about the start of World War I and called it The Guns of August. It went on ...

The National Security Mosque

The furor over the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque near Ground Zero makes me think back to one of the most important lessons I ...

VIDEO: Amir Bar-Lev, Director of 'The Tillman Story,' on The Rachel Maddow Show

You and I Can't Yield – Not Now, Not Ever

Back in March, I delivered a speech to an NAACP Freedom Fund banquet in my home state of Georgia. I drew on my personal life ...