Sidney Blumenthal
latest news & developmentsFear was the key
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/140248/USA2.GIF" align=left>The Democrats surprised themselves by their ability to raise tens of millions, inspire hundreds of…
An orthodoxy in shreds
At a conservative think tank in downtown Washington, and across the Potomac at the Pentagon, FBI agents have begun paying quiet calls on prominent neo-conservatives, who are…
The US has created a new gulag
It was "unacceptable" and "un-American", but was it torture? "My impression is that what has been charged thus far is abuse, which I believe technically is different from…
US media miss the point
"I’m the commander — see, I don’t need to explain — I do not need to explain why I say things," Bush told Bob Woodward in <i>Bush at War</i>. "That’s the interesting thing about…