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William Rivers Pitt: Torturing Children
Thursday, 22 July 2004, 5:50 pm | William Rivers Pitt
The biggest story of the Iraq war is not about missing weapons of mass destruction, or about deep-cover CIA officers getting their covers blown by vengeful White House agents, or even about 896 dead American soldiers. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Push
Monday, 12 July 2004, 2:20 pm | William Rivers Pitt
The simple awe and horror created by the policies and practices of the Bush administration has created a situation where the normally fractious base of the Democratic Party has put aside its typical internecine warfare, and rallies now under the flag of ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: What is Good
Tuesday, 6 July 2004, 12:10 am | William Rivers Pitt
The quality of sunlight in Asheville, North Carolina, on a late-summer morning. The trackless woodlands of Oregon. The Bonneville Salt Flats on a good, hot day, so the air shimmers and the mountains appear to hover in the distance. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Tuck Tail And Run
Tuesday, 29 June 2004, 1:13 pm | William Rivers Pitt
The American people are not comfortable dealing with words like ''total failure'' and ''ruined credibility'', but these are words that all of us are going to have to become accustomed to. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Freedom, Incorporated
Monday, 21 June 2004, 12:04 am | William Rivers Pitt
Freedom, Incorporated By William Rivers Pitt From: http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/062104A.shtml t r u t h o u t | Perspective Monday 21 June 2004 More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Nuremberg Revised
Wednesday, 16 June 2004, 10:25 am | William Rivers Pitt
The document is titled 'Standards of Conduct for Interrogation under U.S.C. 2340-2340A.' It is a memo dated August 1, 2002, and was written at the specific request of Alberto R. Gonzales, Counsel to the President of the United States of America. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Planet Reagan
Tuesday, 8 June 2004, 12:34 am | William Rivers Pitt
Ronald Reagan is dead now, and everyone is being nice to him. In every aspect, this is appropriate. He was a husband and a father, a beloved member of a family, and he will be missed by those he was close to. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Trickle-Down Morality
Thursday, 20 May 2004, 12:21 am | William Rivers Pitt
Back in November of 2003, retired Special Forces master sergeant Stan Goff played the role of prophet in an open letter he wrote to American soldiers engaged in the occupation of Iraq. In his letter, Goff wrote: More >>
Falluja, Najaf & the First Law of Holes
Monday, 26 April 2004, 2:59 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Anyone who believes that April has been the cruelest month of this Iraq war - 111 Americans killed with the total dead now at 718, hundreds upon hundreds of Iraqi civilians killed - should gird themselves for the reality that the worst, the very ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Fish. Barrel. Boom.
Friday, 12 March 2004, 6:43 pm | William Rivers Pitt
As we hurtle headlong into the silly season, a high colonic for the mind is in order. There is going to be a lot of back-and-forth between the candidates regarding who said what and when. Feast, in that context, upon this small collection: More >>
William Pitt: Aristide Kidnapped by U.S. Forces?
Wednesday, 3 March 2004, 11:42 am | William Rivers Pitt
The front pages of major American newspapers and the talking heads on the news channels would have you believe that the resignation of Jean-Bertrand Aristide from his presidency in Haiti was voluntary. Questions have been raised, however, about the manner in ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Passion of the Americans
Wednesday, 3 March 2004, 11:40 am | William Rivers Pitt
The television airwaves have been filled for the last several days with a lot of back-and-forth about Mel Gibson's new film, 'The Passion of The Christ.' More >>
William Rivers Pitt: A NOC at Bush's Door
Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 12:02 am | William Rivers Pitt
Her name was Valerie Plame, and she was a NOC. NOC is a designation within the Central Intelligence Agency which means "non-official cover." It denotes an agent working under such deep cover that said agent cannot be officially associated with the American ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Color of Bush’s Sky
Friday, 23 January 2004, 12:14 am | William Rivers Pitt
It took a little less than a half hour for George W. Bush to taint the 215th State of the Union address with a bald-faced lie about Iraq. It was, in the end, merely an accent in the symphony. More >>
The Five Hundred To Die In Iraq
Sunday, 11 January 2004, 2:29 pm | William Rivers Pitt
It will be upon us soon. Sometime, likely before January is out, the 500th American soldier to die in Iraq will fall. He will be killed by a roadside bomb, or a mortar, or a rifle shot from afar, or a pistol to the back of the head in a crowd, or a rocket-propelled ... More >>
Sidney Blumenthal IV with William Rivers Pitt
Thursday, 11 December 2003, 12:10 am | William Rivers Pitt
My editor and I had a series of discussions about this interview. He believes, as I do, that this administration will succeed in the upcoming election if they are allowed to use the divide-and-conquer tactics that were so successful in the 2002 ... More >>
Electronic Voting: What You Need To Know
Tuesday, 21 October 2003, 10:51 am | William Rivers Pitt
Author's Note | In July of 2003, I sat down for an extended, free-wheeling interview in Denver with three of the smartest people I have ever met. Rebecca Mercuri, Barbara Simons, and David Dill have been at the forefront of the debate surrounding the rise ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Hard Talk On Labor Day
Tuesday, 2 September 2003, 9:08 am | William Rivers Pitt
Did everyone have a nice weekend? Good. Thank a Union. I was tempted to come in here today and deliver a speech about how profoundly important unions have been to the development of this nation, and to me personally. More >>
UQ Wire: The Women Like This War
Tuesday, 13 May 2003, 1:30 pm | William Rivers Pitt
We’re proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who’s physical, who’s not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who’s president. ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Suddenly, the Democrats
Friday, 27 September 2002, 10:47 am | William Rivers Pitt
Hurricane Isidore is barreling towards the American coastline after having formed itself into a fist out in the Caribbean. Hurricane Democrat just tore across Washington D.C., after having formed itself inside the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. More >>
