THE 2008 THRASHING of the Republican Party encouraged many to hope that the Obama administration would move to prosecute the war crimes of its predecessors. There has been progress. Previously classified evidence is being released. Talk of study commissions continues. But we’re unlikely to see high Bush officials in American handcuffs any time soon. Show [...]
Dateline: April 22, 2009 AS PRESIDENT OBAMA enters his fourth month in office, two tendencies among progressive-minded Americans seem most hazardous to the political health of the country. The gist of one approach is that Obama can’t do anything seriously wrong; the other is that he can’t do anything seriously right. Among the tendencies, the first is more [...]
The Dark Core of the Empire ••• AMONG THE MAJOR OBSTACLES to both criminal prosecutions and a truth commission regarding the CIA’s torture program is the underlying reluctance of U.S. officials to focus attention on the super-secret operations of the CIA. A criminal prosecution, after all, could get out of control, especially one that is being [...]
Cyrano’s • Weekend • Dispatch NL1. Vol. 1 Government torture is finally out of the closet. Now what? SUBSCRIBE TO CYRANO’S JOURNAL. IT’S TOTALLY FREE. AND YOU CAN UNSUBSCRIBE WITH ONE CLICK, NO QUESTIONS ASKED. Fill out your e-mail address to receive our newsletter! E-mail address: ________________________________________________________________________________________ Yep. The corporate media [...]
MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS ON PRISONERS WERE ONE OF THE MOST BARBARIC UPSHOTS OF THE NAZI REGIME. SUCH PRACTICES UNDERSCORED THE APPALLING DEGREE OF DEHUMANIZATION ATTAINED BY THE HITLERITE REGIME VIA CONSTANT PROPAGANDA BASED ON OUTRAGEOUS LIES. NO ONE PUT SUCH BELIEFS IN ACTION MORE ZEALOUSLY THAN THE MURDEROUS SS. At a moment when the US itself [...]
NOTICE TO OUR READERS Due to a sitewide restructuring of Cyrano’s Journal Online, the materials normally scheduled for The Greanville Journal are being now posted on Cyrano’s main portal [http://www.bestcyrano.org/]. The Greanville Journal will soon be thematically repositioned to accommodate television commentary. Patrice Greanville Editor in Chief Cyrano’s Journal Online & Editorial Director, The Greanville [...]
THE ART OF SUSANNE STILL Specializing in fine, contemporary, iconographic arts, Susanne Still is a stage and portrait photographer, painter, and fine arts ceramicist. She is known for her museum-quality world petroglyphic reproductions. She is co-founder of Blue Jaguar Medicine Arts Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a private arts and healing center. Inquiries about [...]
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SPECIAL TO CYRANO BY SYLVAIN LAMOUREUX I am so tired of supposed ‘intelligent’ people telling me that ‘experts say’ this and ‘experts say’ that or that a ‘study’ says or suggests something. Usually these experts and studies are referring to things which could be considered ‘common sense’ or which demands a change in one’s [...]