Eagle: Temple Mormons By Definition, Cannot Swear an Oath to Uphold the Consitution — Prophet Ubber Alles

Romney: Why It’s OK to Stick It to Him for Being a Mormon Weekend Edition April 6-8, 2012 CounterPunch Diary by ALEXANDER COCKBURN Mitt Romney will be the Republican to face President Obama in the fall.  Tuesday night was the clincher, as the Mormon zealot won in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington DC. He may stumble …

David Isenberg: Thomas Powers on Ike Eisenhower – He Got the Big Things Right

He Got the Big Things Right Thomas Powers New York Times, April 26, 2012 Eisenhower: The White House Years by Jim Newton Doubleday, 451 pp., $29.95 Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith Random House, 950 pp., $40.00 Bettmann/Corbis When the youngest man to be elected president of the United States was inaugurated …

Winslow Wheeler: The Jet That Ate the Pentagon (and the Integrity of Everyone Serving in The Pentagon, in OMB and GAO, in Congress, and in the White House)

This new commentary on the F-35 appears at the website for Foreign Policy at .  It is a short piece that does not need to be summarized by me.  The editors at Foreign Policy gave it a wonderfully insightful title: The Jet That Ate the Pentagon BY WINSLOW WHEELER | APRIL 26, 2012 The United States is …

Review (Guest): TRAITOR: The Whistleblower and the “American Taliban”

Jesselyn Radack 5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely Important,February 8, 2012 David C N Swanson (Charlottesville VA United States) – See all my reviews (REAL NAME) It began with that monstrous young man so evil we needed to blindfold him and strap him to a board, that confusing young man who looked like Christ but …

David Swanson: Nobel Laureate Rejects State Department Event & Agenda

Nobel Peace Laureate Rejects U.S. State Department – NATO – Chicago Agenda FROM: MAIREAD MAGUIRE Dear Friends, I write to let you know that I have decided not to attend the 12th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates on 23rd-25th April, 2012, in Chicago, USA. On 10th April, Sec. of State H. Clinton appeared on …

Chuck Spinney: Analysis of Cost of Neo-Con Idiocy on Iran

The attached essay by investigative journalist Robert Parry is an excellent — and important — summary of the trashing of the Iranian nuke deal in 2010. CS How Neocons Sank Iran Nuke Deal Exclusive: Iran is resuming talks over its nuclear program with leading international powers – the United States, Britain, Russia, China, France and …