Monday Morning with the Pundits

Obama vows to prosecute torture, but there's a catch

Use it as a whip against others - not as a restraint on US actions.  All hail the 'World Sheriff' : that was a Reagan cartoon.

Negroponte applauds U.S. for joining UN Human Rights Council

Obama edging towards Bush view ending Habeas Corpus

There's your real 'terrorist threat : unlike the 'Taliban', the government is here, corrupt, and swollen with stolen taxpayer dollars wasted as quickly as possible...or faster !

40 years later, still second-class Americans

Hersch : US has a covert operation in Iran

U.S. shifts anti drug focus to fresh fields

NATO's new Columbian adventure in Afghanistan

Goliath vs the Ants : what Opium 'Eradication' in Afghanistan tells us about the West and the rest

Big Oil's answer to carbon law may be fuel imports

In a society organized passively by Free Markets and Free Elections, organized greed always beats disorganized Democracy

Recovery threatened by Toxic Assets  still hidden in key banks

Madoff sentenced to 150 years for Ponzi scheme (The official 'fall guy' for deregulation ? )

The Archdruid Report : The Thermodynamic Economy

Betraying the Planet