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FOIA At Forty: Public Service Or Potential Threat?
Sunday, 20 August 2006, 9:16 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Although the Air Force Research Laboratory million dollar grant given to Jeffrey Addicott, a professor at St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, to devise new ways to limit making information available to the public via the Freedom of Information ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Bringing on 'World War III'
Monday, 31 July 2006, 3:27 pm | Bill Berkowitz
If you thought that a global conflagration on the order of a world war was more the stuff of Biblical prophecy, science fiction and apocalyptic end-of- times novels, think again. More >>
Competitive Enterprise Inst.'s Cat. 5 Gore Bashing
Monday, 17 July 2006, 12:20 am | Bill Berkowitz
If former Vice President Al Gore eventually decides to mount another run for presidency, it may be that the bashing he received from the right during the run-up to and premiere of "An Inconvenient Truth," his new highly-acclaimed documentary film warning of ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: The Lou Dobbs Fear Factor
Tuesday, 6 June 2006, 12:25 am | Bill Berkowitz
On the May 23rd edition of Lou Dobbs' nightly CNN program "Lou Dobbs Tonight," the generally affable talk-show host, who has become the network's go-to-guy on immigration issues, repeated a racist conspiracy theory and ran a graphic provided by the white ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Is It A Massachusetts 'Miracle'?
Friday, 19 May 2006, 11:30 am | Bill Berkowitz
A few weeks back, UC Berkeley's Nicholas C. Petris Center on Healthcare Markets and Consumer Welfare (named after the former California state senator whose legislative career was marked by his deep concern with California's health care issues) sponsored ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Thinking Globally, Running Locally
Monday, 15 May 2006, 12:03 am | Bill Berkowitz
As President Bush's poll numbers continue to plummet, the Democratic Party has set its sights on taking over Congress in the fall elections. Most pundits maintain that it is a near impossible task as there are so few House seats that are truly competitive. More >>
Berkowitz: Open Season On Undocumented Immigrants
Monday, 8 May 2006, 11:35 am | Bill Berkowitz
Even as millions of people demonstrated across the United States Monday to call for amnesty for the nation's 11 million undocumented workers, other events have shed more heat than light and have turned into boisterous anti-immigrant gatherings where ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: The Rabbi And The Uber-Lobbyist
Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 2:59 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Rabbi Daniel Lapin's Toward Tradition Web site is filled with all sorts of announcements and information about the organization's various projects. The ultra-orthodox Mercer Island, Washington-based rabbi recently announced that he had signed on to host a ... More >>
Michael Ledeen's Dream, M. Elbaradei's Nightmare
Monday, 24 April 2006, 1:56 pm | Bill Berkowitz
The drumbeat in some Washington foreign policy circles for "regime change" in Iran has striking similarities to the run-up to the Iraq invasion, and is being led by some of the usual suspects -- like the American Enterprise Institute's Michael Ledeen. More >>
Pastor John Hagee & Christians United For Israel
Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 1:04 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Charismatic televangelist Pastor John Hagee thinks that the Rev. Pat Robertson's suggestion that Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was payback from God for withdrawing from Gaza was "insensitive and unnecessary." But he nevertheless ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Greenlighting Intervention In Iran
Friday, 31 March 2006, 10:54 am | Bill Berkowitz
On Thursday, March 16, President George W. Bush issued his second-term National Security Strategy, a document that outlined the administration's strategy for using diplomatic, economic, and military tools to deal with global challenges. More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Olga Talamante - Surviving torture
Thursday, 30 March 2006, 10:25 am | Bill Berkowitz
On March 27, 1976, sixteen months after being arrested, tortured and imprisoned in an Argentina jail, Olga Talamante was released. Today, she is concerned that the public doesn't understand the horror More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Rick Warren And The New Evangelism
Monday, 20 March 2006, 12:48 am | Bill Berkowitz
You may have seen him interviewed on CNN's Larry King Show; some well-intentioned person may have given you "The Purpose Driven Life," the book that has sold well over 20 million copies; you may have noted that Time magazine named him one of "15 ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Christian Right Eyes Canada
Monday, 20 February 2006, 9:52 am | Bill Berkowitz
Paul Weyrich, widely considered one of the founding fathers of the modern conservative movement, is looking North these days with hopes that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's newly elected conservative government will transform the social and political landscape ... More >>
Berkowitz: The Powerful Koch Boys From Kansas
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 11:54 am | Bill Berkowitz
Patron saints of several right wing think tanks now control the country's largest privately held company More >>
Foaming Campus Cleanser Sputters At Temple
Friday, 10 February 2006, 1:27 pm | Bill Berkowitz
This column is dedicated to the memory of Stew Albert, the Brooklyn-born anti-Vietnam War activist and co-founder -- along with Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin -- of the irreverent Yippies (Youth International Party), who kept up the fight for social ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Abramoff Affair Ripples Outward
Friday, 20 January 2006, 1:39 pm | Bill Berkowitz
On Saturday, January 7, Tom DeLay, the powerful Texas Republican, became the biggest political casualty thus far of L'Affaire Abramoff, as he was forced to resign his post as majority leader of the House of Representatives amid mounting evidence of ... More >>
The Mogul, The Movie And The Man On A Mission
Wednesday, 28 December 2005, 12:59 am | Bill Berkowitz
After two fabulous weeks at the box office, Philip Anschutz, the conservative Christian billionaire whose company co-produced the first major film adaptation of C.S. Lewis' popular children's book, "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Crony In The Bird Flu Seat
Tuesday, 6 December 2005, 2:16 pm | Bill Berkowitz
In a high-profile speech at the National Institutes of Health, surrounded by a number of cabinet officials, including Secretary of State Condi Rice, and the Secretaries of Homeland Security, Agriculture, Health & Human Services, Transportation and Veteran ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Vulnerable Venezuela
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 12:49 am | Bill Berkowitz
Two weeks ago, the Chicago White Sox, led by manager Ozzie Guillen (Oswaldo Jose Guillen Barrios as he is known in his home town of Ocumare del Tuy, Venezuela), swept the Houston Astros to win their first World Series since 1917. As popular as baseball ... More >>
