CLOSEREADING—About that “surprise” attack: Ka-Bull!

Everyone’s pointing fingers about the failure to anticipate that spectacular surprise attack on Kabul by the newest flavor of Afghan threat. Could there be some deeper intrigue going on? You can bet your business on it.

Will Political Ads Destroy Public Broadcasting’s “Uniqueness”?

A court decision says that public broadcasting outlets need not avoid political ads and the related sludgefest. Defenders of the sanctity of those outlets say they need to remain pure. But how pure, really, are they?

Tennessee Decides It is Not Backward Enough

Tennessee decides students should hear doubts about evolution. That’s a great way to make America competitive again! (er…not)

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Russ Baker on KGO San Francisco

Russ Baker and KGO AM talk radio host Pat Thurston cover the waterfront - March 24, 2012, Click "Read More" to listen.

ClassicWHO: US Government on Rights of Foreigners…Vs. Americans

Video powerfully contrasts US government rhetoric about “the people” in other countries and their right to peacefully protest, and the crackdown on similar protest at home.

TVWhoWhatWhy: Russ Baker on Human Rights Groups’ Syria Reporting

WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker talks with RT’s Liz Wahl about Syria, and about how we should treat human rights groups’ reports on the situation there. April 12, 2012

Smart ALECs Get Their Due

Reformers have had a victory over the corruption-spreading business group ALEC by pivoting off anger from the Trayvon Martin case—but the deeper rot perpetrated by ALEC remains the big issue.

Someone Would Have Talked? Someone Would Be Crazy

The common refrain that no unknown domestic plots exist, because “someone would have talked” and we would know about them…is plain wrong. People do talk—and suffer the consequences. So there aren’t many of them.

VIDEO: The Execution of Martin Luther King: non-textbook version

VIDEO. This talk by Dr. William F. Pepper, a friend to Martin Luther King who became James Earl Ray’s final attorney, is long, but well worth sitting through. Pepper powerfully and chillingly presents history and facts few of us know about—and forces us to rethink the explanation of King’s death which the establishment insists on perpetuating.

TVWhoWhatWhy: Russ Baker interviewed on the David Pakman Show regarding the GOP nomination. March 29, 2012

TVWhoWhatWhy: Russ Baker interviewed on the David Pakman Show regarding the GOP nomination. March 29, 2012, click "Read More" to watch.