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Stories by William Rivers Pitt

William Rivers Pitt is the author of "War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know" and "The Greatest Sedition Is Silence."

Every Mother's Son

Why Cindy Sheehan won't leave Crawford until she gets some answers from George W. Bush -- the man who sent her son needlessly to die in Iraq.
Posted on Aug 9, 2005

After Downing Street

The Minutes now stand as irrefutable proof that the road to war in Iraq was paved, with absolute intent, with lies and deceit and misdirection and fraud.
Posted on Jun 10, 2005

Take the Long Way Home

It's been a long and tiring haul for those who oppose the war in Iraq. But hope remains resilient.
Posted on May 26, 2005

Hunter S. Thompson, R.I.P.

With Thompson's suicide, journalism lost a deeply flawed and unconventional practitioner – but one who always sought the truth with his highball.
Posted on Feb 22, 2005

Will Vote For Food

The American media is painting Iraqi voters as flush with the thrill of casting a ballot. However, some other more pressing motivations lay behind their rush to the polls.
Posted on Feb 1, 2005

Worse Than 2000?

Even if Bush did really win, Nov. 2 was a voting disaster. It's not too late for there to be an accurate count, but how to get the tallies from the black boxes?
Posted on Nov 9, 2004

Wrestling with a Gorilla

If Bush's first four years are any indication of what is to come, and if the movement continues to hammer him, history will remember him single worst President the nation has ever known.
Posted on Nov 6, 2004

Promises to Keep

After a thousand days of fear, doubt, anger and set-jawed patriotism in the face of everything we as a nation have been forced to deal with, we are down to a single week to decide the new direction of this country.
Posted on Oct 27, 2004

Fabricating Terror

A three-year-old blizzard of warnings about looming terror attacks, gathered on the Internet, was delivered to the American people in tones of doom, as if the hammer were about to fall at any moment.
Posted on Aug 3, 2004

Three Days in Spain

There are a number of lessons to be taken from the incredible turn of events in Spain, few of which are comforting.
Posted on Mar 14, 2004

Two Loud Words

September 11 could have and should have been prevented. Why? Because Bush knew.
Posted on Jan 5, 2004

We Caught the Wrong Guy

For all the pomp and circumstance that has surrounded the extraction of the former Iraqi dictator from a hole in the ground, the reality is that the United States is not safer now that the man is in chains.
Posted on Dec 15, 2003

The Dog Ate My WMDs

With no Iraqi WMD to be found, the Bush administration is coming up with excuses as creative as any heard in high school.
Posted on Jun 16, 2003

Osama Rallies Muslims, Condemns Hussein

In a taped statement, bin Laden told the Iraqi people to rise up against Saddam Hussein. Yet Colin Powell claimed that Hussein and bin Laden are working together, and MSNBC omitted the reference in its news report.
Posted on Feb 12, 2003

All He Left Unsaid

The State of the Union address left gaping holes where answers belonged. For instance, not once did Bush mention the name Osama bin Laden.
Posted on Jan 29, 2003

Bush Nominates Himself to Chair 9/11 Investigation

By tapping Thomas Kean, Bush has nominated someone who will be easily controlled by the administration.
Posted on Dec 19, 2002

Here. Now. Do Something.

A sign in your yard, a button in the lapel of your coat, an email sent around to friends -- even the smallest effort can make a difference.
Posted on Nov 28, 2002

Osama Is Under Your Bed

As the Bush administration rams the Homeland Security bill through the Senate, Osama bin Laden makes one of his rare appearances. Just coincidence?
Posted on Nov 18, 2002

Bomb Saddam, Save the G.O.P.

Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter claims the impending American war against Iraq isn't about terrorism, it's about the November elections.
Posted on Jul 30, 2002