By Michael Collins Rebekah Brooks is a witness for her own prosecution and that of Jeremy Hunt  based on her testimony last Friday before the Leveson Inquiry on the relationship between press and politicians.  Criminal charges against the Rupert Murdoch insider and favorite may be a prelude to looming charges arising out of Brooks' testimony before the Leveson Inquiry last week. Crown Prosecution Services c ...

By Michael Collins When things don't work out, doing business with Murdoch can be the kiss of death. No matter how hard you try, how loyal you are, if something goes wrong, you can be sure it will be your fault. Reporting has failed to lay the proper foundation for understanding Rupert Murdoch's remarkable testimony before the Leveson Inquiry in London and his behavior of late. Rupert Murdoch is a nihilist. ...

By Michael Collins Rupert Murdoch's reign over the $33 billion News Corporation hinges on events surrounding the company's ownership share of Britain's dominant pay TV network, BSkyB (Sky). As Business Insider said, "it's the only asset that really matters" in the News Corp collection of media properties. As a result of Murdoch scandals, News Corp lost the chance to buy 100% of Sky's shares. More troubling ...

"My colleagues were entitled to ignore my views," he [Zelikow] continued. "They did more than that: The [2006] White House attempted to collect and destroy all copies of my memo. I expect that one or two are still at least in the State Department's archives." Phillip D. Zelikow, State Department Counselor, 2005-2007, to Congress, May 13, 2009 Former legal counsel to the Department of State, Phillip Zelikow, ...

By Michael Collins Foreign Policy just published a roundup of weapons contributed to the Libyan rebels in the regime change effort.  The e-Journal is a publication of the Washington Post.  Colum Lynch's April 4 article relies on the March 20 UN report to the UN Security Council by a panel of experts appointed to track the UN resolutions and responses from the start of the conflict. These two paragraphs, non ...

By Michael Collins There was something tawdry and disgusting about the phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch's News of the World. The News Corporation owned tabloid hacked the phone mails of several thousand citizens of Great Britain. Victims included celebrities, politicians, and even a murdered eleven year old kidnap victim. But that wasn't enough to generate type of criminal investigation of News Corporation t ...

By Michael Collins Ray Adams is a name you will hear more frequently as the latest and perhaps most fatal Murdoch - News Corp. scandal emerges. When Murdoch was setting up his BSKYB cable network in England, he had some serious competition.  ITV had a digital service called ITV Digital.  The British broadcaster was prepared to go head to head with Murdoch's network.  As the services rolled out, ITV Digital ...

By Michael Collins Bad things are happening in Arizona … again. Good things too! The extremist Arizona legislature enacted a law that just recently caused the banning of nearly 100 books from Tucson public schools. The list includes prominent Latino authors, plus Shakespeare, Thoreau, and James Baldwin. They even banned Zorro! The real goal was to totally dismantle the Tucson school district's Mexican Ameri ...

By Michael Collins What a lovely photo of the two well-heeled leaders of the free world. Previously, it was the American cowboy president and the supposedly left leaning Prime Minister Tony Blair. That buddy act helped drag United States into the worst foreign policy disaster in its history. (Image full size) This working partnership between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron portends l ...

By Michael Collins (Washington, DC) Senator Rick Santorum knows something many of us do not. Satan is waging war on the United States. This is no scruffy terrorist group carrying explosives in their underwear or shoes. It is Satan himself, also known as the Devil, Mephistopheles, the Beast, etc. (Image one, two) How does the senator know so much about this attack? Santorum hears voices. Four years ago, he a ...