About Sidney Blumenthal
Sidney Blumenthal is an author and journalist. He is former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton.
Articles by Sidney Blumenthal
The secret passion of George W Bush
The White House's radical ambitions for the president's second term are in ruins. Only one thing remains, says Sidney Blumenthal.
Bush's truth
George W Bush's verbal convolutions over his role in leaking classified information are part of the White House's dance of deception, says Sidney Blumenthal.
Bush's world of illusion
George W Bush, still trapped by the faith that inspired the Iraq war, is at odds with his own key officials, says Sidney Blumenthal.
The imprisoned president
Republicans representative of their permanent establishment have recently and quietly sent emissaries to President Bush, like diplomats to a foreign ruler isolated in his forbidden city, to probe whether he could be persuaded to become politically flexible. These ambassadors were not connected to the elder Bush or his closest associate, former national security advisor Brent Scowcroft, who was purged in 2005 from the president's foreign intelligence advisory board and scorned by the current president.
The rules of the game
How the American public came to know about Dick Cheney's shooting of a hunting companion reveals the nexus of political power and financial interest within George W Bush's White House, says Sidney Blumenthal.
George W Bush: running on empty
Its flaccid language and tepid delivery made the United States president’s fifth State of the Union speech a declaration of failure, says Sidney Blumenthal.
The Republican system
The career of disgraced super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff is a lesson in the debasement of the Republican political machine and the culmination of the post-1994 "revolution" it proclaimed, says Sidney Blumenthal.
Bush's shadow government exposed
The American president’s fervent attacks on whistleblowers and the press suggest his secret government cannot bear the light of day, says Sidney Blumenthal.
Bush's surveillance network
The Bushites’ systematic intrusion into citizens’ private lives is the latest example of its unaccountable departure from American norms of governance, says Sidney Blumenthal.
Condoleezza Rice's troubling journey
Condoleezza Rice's visit to Europe did nothing to dispel the falsehoods, distortions and evasions in which United States policy on torture is now enmeshed, writes Sidney Blumenthal.
Dick Cheney's shadow play
The United States vice-president’s march through the institutions of state is a career-long service to power.
Dick Cheney's day of reckoning
When I Lewis “Scooter” Libby enters the courtroom on perjury charges, the behaviour of his former patron, United States vice-president Dick Cheney, will also be on trial, says Sidney Blumenthal.
George W Bush: home alone
The Bush administration’s degradation of American politics can be measured in the judgment of former senior Republican colleagues, writes Sidney Blumenthal.
Republican tremors
A toxic mix of money and power has sustained Republicans in the United States for a generation. Sidney Blumenthal exposes a corrupt system approaching legal nemesis.
Bush's Potemkin village presidency
A shrinking domestic president, a failing war president – all George W Bush has left is faith and fantasy, writes Sidney Blumenthal.
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