Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Scoop InfoPages
This InfoPage in unregistered, if this is your news page register William Rivers Pitt for InfoPages here.
William Rivers Pitt - Latest News [Page 5]
William Rivers Pitt: The Hollow Man
Monday, 1 September 2008, 9:31 am | William Rivers Pitt
In this election, it is the character of the candidate that will matter the most. That, and pretty much that alone, has been the core campaign message Republican candidate John McCain has been peddling to all and sundry for nearly two years. His devotion ... More >>
Truthout Interview With Congressman Ron Paul
Friday, 30 May 2008, 2:28 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Despite what the mainstream news media choose to report, Senator John McCain of Arizona is not the last remaining Republican candidate for president today. Congressman Ron Paul of Texas never abandoned his run for the GOP nomination, and he fully intends ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Project Update
Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 10:53 am | William Rivers Pitt
In the Persian Gulf region, the presence of American forces, along with British and French units, has become a semi-permanent fact of life. Though the immediate mission of those forces is to enforce the no-fly zones over northern and southern ... More >>
Remember: They Are Liars
Wednesday, 9 April 2008, 9:54 am | William Rivers Pitt
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleezza Rice, along with a slew of administration underlings and a revolving-door cavalcade of brass hats from the Pentagon, have been making claims regarding Iraq for many years ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: It's a Number
Wednesday, 26 March 2008, 6:38 pm | William Rivers Pitt
You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrifice somebody else's life. They're plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congress. That's their business. They ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Why?
Thursday, 20 March 2008, 2:53 pm | William Rivers Pitt
That's 1,825 days since "Shock and Awe" lit up the skies above Baghdad, all of which was captured live and in living color by unblinking CNN cameras with unobstructed views of the carnage. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Beginning of the End
Wednesday, 30 January 2008, 11:14 am | William Rivers Pitt
George W. Bush's State of the Union speeches have been the basis for a new kind of drinking game for several years now, basically because the things have always needed some kind of actual substance from somewhere. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Real Change
Friday, 25 January 2008, 10:08 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Change, right? That's been the big buzzword since the middle of December or thereabouts. While the last days of 2007 bled away one by one, and as the pre-Iowa political bedlam became loud beyond endurance, "change" was the word on the lips of every candidate. ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Real Change
Friday, 25 January 2008, 9:38 am | William Rivers Pitt
Change, right? That's been the big buzzword since the middle of December or thereabouts. While the last days of 2007 bled away one by one, and as the pre-Iowa political bedlam became loud beyond endurance, "change" was the word on the lips of every candidate. ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Bad, Worse, Worst and Beyond
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 9:42 am | William Rivers Pitt
Once upon a time there was Bad, and there was Worse, and there was Worst, and that used to be it. Those were the only parameters necessary when the time came to assess the severity of a given situation and decide if the thing was merely wrong, actually ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: His Name Was Wellstone
Saturday, 3 November 2007, 2:00 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Five years ago, Senator Paul Wellstone (D-Minnesota) died when his plane went down in the woods of northern Minnesota. The crash also took the lives of his wife Sheila, his daughter Marcia, campaign staffers Will McLaughlin, Tom Lapic and Mary McEvoy, ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Dan Rather's Magnum Opus
Friday, 28 September 2007, 1:28 pm | William Rivers Pitt
His face was once a totem, a comforting TV-screen touchstone. His voice and inflection lent suppertime credence to the myth of American permanence, safety and dependability, night after night, for a quarter of a century. It is surpassingly strange, therefore, ... More >>
I May Have Gone Insane
Thursday, 20 September 2007, 8:26 pm | William Rivers Pitt
It is a legitimately demented phenomenon, all the more so because it all started with a joke. Not even a funny joke, either, but a sad and threadbare thing I told only to myself, and no one else. When the clustered elements of our collective national ... More >>
Burning the Law in a Riot of Treason
Tuesday, 28 August 2007, 11:28 am | William Rivers Pitt
The departure of Alberto Gonzales from the Attorney General's Office brings America to a place of definitions, and hanging in the balance is the very idea of the nation itself. The basic concepts and fundamental principles of our republic now stand as ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Forcing the Issue
Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 5:30 pm | William Rivers Pitt
It was just after 2:00 p.m. Monday afternoon when blogger Bob Geiger broke the story. "Forcing his Republican colleagues to put up or shut up on the notion of an up-or-down vote," wrote Geiger, "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) just moments ago ... More >>
We're All Gonna Die
Monday, 16 July 2007, 9:36 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Who can forget the incredible scandal that erupted back in May of 2002? Around about the middle of that month, details began to emerge about the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing that specifically warned Bush about Osama bin Laden's determination ... More >>
Was Commuting Libby an Impeachable Offense?
Wednesday, 4 July 2007, 10:47 am | William Rivers Pitt
Let me get this straight. Like a thief in the night, George W. Bush commuted the prison sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. He made no public appearance to announce the decision, but instead air-mailed a written statement after 5 p.m. at the outset ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: A Time to Reap
Thursday, 21 June 2007, 11:24 am | William Rivers Pitt
A Time to Reap By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Columnist Wednesday 20 June 2007 More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Another Long Summer
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 4:10 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Politics in the American style has never been particularly sane, to be sure. Every so often, however, the usual level of strangeness we're accustomed to reaches a new gear, and the whole show just goes right over the moon. Over the last few years, ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Double Double Toil & Trouble
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 10:52 am | William Rivers Pitt
There it was on the front page of Wednesday's edition of the Washington Post, big as life and twice as ugly: "In the West Wing, Pardon Is A Topic Too Sensitive to Mention." More >>
