Politico Gives CIA's Worst WMD Liar a Platform to Slam Seymour Hersh
Former agency spokesman admits he shouldn't have attacked <em>Newsweek</em> report that Iraq lacked WMDs.
Jon Schwarz
Before joining First Look Media, Jon Schwarz worked for Michael Moore’s Dog Eat Dog Films and was a research producer for Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.” He’s contributed to many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Slate, as well as NPR and "Saturday Night Live." In 2003, he collected on a $1,000 bet that Iraq would have no weapons of mass destruction.
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Sy Hersh's bin Laden Story First Reported in 2011 — With Seemingly Different Sources
“Everything that [Hersh] has said has been spot on,” says R.J. Hillhouse, but "You can’t help but notice that everything he is saying in the story was first broken by me."
"It Was the State:" Don't Miss The Intercept’s Investigation Into Mexico's Iguala Abduction
Why were the students stopped on September 26, 2014? Who gave the order? And what happened to the 43 who were seized by police and have never been seen again?
Video: I.F. Stone's One Weird Trick to Do Great Journalism
I.F. Stone was one of the greatest investigative journalists of the 20th century, and a hero to many in the 21st.
AP: Americans Strongly Support Different, Imaginary Drone Program
AP’s poll doesn't show, as the story claims, "broad support among the U.S. public for a targeted killing program begun under President George W. Bush and expanded dramatically under Obama." What it does show is broad support for a drone program that doesn't exist.
What Obama’s Refusal to Acknowledge the Armenian Genocide Tells Us About the U.S. — and the Rest of the World
What happened is a historical fact, and it shouldn’t be difficult to get presidents and prime ministers to say, “Today we remember the Armenian Genocide.” But it’s almost impossible, especially in the U.S. — because Turkey has made Armenian Genocide denial part of its national identity, and we’re dependent on Turkey’s support for our broader mideast policies.
Top Democrat Larry Summers: Democrats Are Crazy and Hate Trade
If you're a member of the Democratic party's elite, you simply never acknowledge any rational opposition exists to the current model of economic globalization, just as if you're a butler at Buckingham Palace, you never say, "I think the queen is just some old lady."
Don't Miss the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Series on Corporate Lobbying of State Attorneys General
You don't understand the world you live in if you haven't read Eric Lipton's three-part series in <em>The New York Times</em> on the staggering “explosion” of relentless, grimy lobbying of state attorneys general. Lipton just won a Pulitzer Prize for his work, and it's truly deserved: it’s a masterpiece of investigative reporting, built on diligent use of open records laws.
Organizing for Action Tries to Soothe Dems With Misleading Email on Fast Track Trade Authority
The millions of people who signed up to get email from Mitt Romney in 2012 would be pretty irked if they started getting messages now from his team about a super new bill in Congress that raises taxes, cuts the Pentagon's budget in half and forcibly marries every registered Republican man to Neil Patrick Harris.
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