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Friday, July 4, 2008
Why I Interrupted Bush at Monticello
(1 comments) More than one reason actually.

Thursday, July 3, 2008
Coalition Plans to Protest Bush in Charlottesville
Join us!

Thursday, July 3, 2008
Rep. Virgil Goode Swears He Doesn't Hate Immigrants
Really.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Some Ways You Can Help Impeach Bush
(14 comments) Devote 30 seconds or hours or your life...

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
101 Reasons Not to Resist Bush's Power Grab
(1 comments) And why they're all wrong.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Cheney to Join Bush in Celebrating Constitution (R.I.P.) on Fourth of July
(1 comments) While George Dubya will desecrate Monticello with some dishonest remarks from a podium on Friday as new citizens swear to defend the Constitution he has destroyed, this AP story has the plans of the man in charge. Dick Cheney will make his remarks on a ship named the Constitution and talk about fighting pirates rather than being one:

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Bush's July 4 Speech Transcript
The full remarks as provided by the White House.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Declaration of Impeachment
(1 comments) Everything old is new again.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Bush at Monticello: Tickets and Protests
How to get in.

Friday, June 27, 2008
The Last Fourth of July
(1 comments) How will you spend it?

Friday, June 27, 2008
Bush Fulfills His Grandfather's Dream
(2 comments) (Originally published in July 2007, and to be published every summer until the right to do so is gone.)

Friday, June 27, 2008
I Hate to Say We Saw it Coming, But
(7 comments) We'd have had to be willfully blind.

Friday, June 27, 2008
George W. Bush to Speak at Monticello on July 4
(3 comments) The Unitary Executive is scheduled to disgrace the grounds of Thomas Jefferson's house, Monticello, in Charlottesville, Va., making a speech on the morning of July 4, 2008.

Thursday, June 26, 2008
Under Penalty of Punishment
(2 comments) That's a translation of subpoena: Sub Poena: Under Punishment. And if you or I refused to obey a subpoena we would certainly be under punishment.

Thursday, June 26, 2008
War Inc Blows
I don't mean that in a good way.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
In Defense of Robert Wexler
(6 comments) Attack on him makes no sense.

Sunday, June 22, 2008
If The Opposite of Pro Is Con, Then The Opposite of Progress...
(6 comments) What's the matter with Congress?

Sunday, June 22, 2008
Common Sense Is Overrated
(3 comments) Michael Waldman, former Bill Clinton speech writer and current director of the Brennan Center, has a new book called "A Return to Common Sense: 7 Bold Ways to Revitalize Our Democracy."

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Do Democrats Like Peace?
(1 comments) The answer is not simple.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
EPA Head Must Resign
Here's why and how to make it happen!

Monday, June 16, 2008
Invisible Victims
And a book about them.

Monday, June 16, 2008
GI Bill and UI Bill: Grand Illusion with Unintended Irony
Let me explain.

Sunday, June 15, 2008
It's Just Plame Impeachable
(13 comments) At least James Madison thought so.

Sunday, June 15, 2008
If Waxman Were to Act
(1 comments) Congressman Henry Waxman, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, together with his staff, produces incredibly valuable research and analysis, with infinite patience and futility.

Sunday, June 15, 2008
The Biggest Election Story Not on Your TV
Can you guess what it is?

Saturday, June 14, 2008
Is Fascism an Impeachable Offense?
(7 comments) That depends on whether you are offended.

Friday, June 13, 2008
Death and Bases
(1 comments) Life's certainties.

Thursday, June 12, 2008
Take 2: Prosecute Bush for Murder Tonight
(4 comments) Can you help?

Thursday, June 12, 2008
7 Million Quarts of Blood for Oil: No More!
Blood up to our shoulders. Oil in our eyes.

Thursday, June 12, 2008
Bush Tried to Destroy Medicare
Remember that?

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Nixon's Reputation Restored
He was wronged!

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Three Good Reasons Not to Fund Another Year in Iraq
(5 comments) OK, more than three.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Punishing Pentagon Propaganda
(1 comments) What's appropriate?

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Local Official Caught Imprisoning Children
(1 comments) Not kidding.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Torture Is Over (if we want it)
Do we?

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Questions for Republicans, Democrats, and Others
(1 comments) Be honest!

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Katrina Meets Kucinich
(2 comments) And she'll never be the same.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Full Text of Articles of Impeachment
(23 comments) Congressman Dennis Kucinich Introduced 35 Articles of Impeachment Against President Bush on Monday Night

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Kucinich Shows How to Block War on Iran
(4 comments) It requires action.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
No Body Armor? No Presidency!
Impeach him.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Kucinich Makes Case for War Crimes Prosecution
(1 comments) The time to act has come.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Blaming Bush for His Greatest Achievement
A popular crime, but a crime.

Monday, June 9, 2008
Impeachment Happening in Congress Right Now!
(50 comments) Congressman Dennis Kucinich is on the floor of the House of Representatives right now introducing 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Al Maliki Represents Me Better Than Virgil Goode
(1 comments) I've got no strings To hold me down To make me bow to Cheney's crown I had strings But now I'm free I'm Nouri al Maliki

Monday, June 2, 2008
Will McCain Name Torture Ships for Big Donors?
(3 comments) The United States maintains secret prisons on ships in the ocean in order to detain people outside the reach or even the knowledge of any system of law, the better to torture the ever-living cheney out of them.

Sunday, June 1, 2008
Goodnight Bush
And goodnight to Dick Cheney whispering "Hush."

Sunday, June 1, 2008
Clinton Only Needs 358% of Remaining Delegates
She Can Do It!

Saturday, May 31, 2008
Clinton Only Needs 153% of Remaining Delegates
She Can Do It!

Saturday, May 31, 2008
A Veteran's Declaration of Independence for July 4, 2008
(2 comments) Dear King George III,

Saturday, May 31, 2008
Gee That's a Funny GI Bill
(1 comments) It's not even a bill.

Friday, May 30, 2008
Peace Groups Write to Congress
So should you.

Thursday, May 29, 2008
How to Make a Citizen's Arrest of a War Criminal
(3 comments) and why!

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
State and Local Prosecutors Can Take Down Bush
(7 comments) here's how

Saturday, May 24, 2008
Indictment and Trial of Bush and Cheney
(10 comments) Why and how.

Saturday, May 24, 2008
Resistance and Revolution
Now!

Saturday, May 24, 2008
Civil Liberties and Constitutional Rights
(1 comments) Where have they gone?

Friday, May 23, 2008
Economic Exploitation and Empire
(1 comments) and ending it

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Clinton Needs 181% of Remaining Delegates
(1 comments) Pledged delegates are awarded by voters and caucus goers. Super-delegates are antidemocratic Party control freaks who have no business deciding anything. Of pledged delegates, now that Oregon and Kentucky have had their say, Senator Obama has 1,648 and Senator Clinton 1,493. There are 86 pledged delegates remaining to be awarded in Puerto Rico, Montana, and South Dakota. This means that Clinton can still pull it out if...

Sunday, May 18, 2008
What Would We Do Without Bush?
(3 comments) Have you ever met one of those remaining 15 or 20 percent of Americans who have the kool-aid IV in their arms, and they ask you "Well, what would you DO then?"

Thursday, May 15, 2008
We Stopped the War Funding!
(9 comments) On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted No and blocked Speaker Nancy Pelosi's latest proposal to throw another $165 billion into the occupation of Iraq.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Edwards Just Put Obama Over the Top
(1 comments) It's even more over than it used to be.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Obama Needs Only 14 More Delegates to End Clinton's (and Everyone's) Misery
There are 103 delegates on the line next Tuesday in Kentucky and Oregon. There's not a single employee of any of the media outlets promoting this phony contest that believes Obama could possibly win fewer than 14 delegates in Kentucky and Oregon.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
A Fire-Breather in Congress
Could it be a liberal?

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Lincoln Chafee Calls Bush Worst President in History
(5 comments) Former Republican Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee on Tuesday evening called George W. Bush the worst president in U.S. history and the occupation of Iraq the worst foreign tragedy in U.S. history. Chafee said Bush deserved to be impeached.

Sunday, May 11, 2008
One Hundred and Eleven (111) Pro-Impeachment Candidates (!!!)
(10 comments) But who's counting?

Friday, May 9, 2008
The Last Sane Republican
(2 comments) Who do you think it was?

Friday, May 9, 2008
Steve Harrison for Congress
(2 comments) Here's why.

Thursday, May 8, 2008
We Can Stop the Iraq Funding - Here's How
(1 comments) Congress Members have received thousands of phone calls, and some of them are committing to voting no on Iraq funding. The vote won't happen until next week, so keep the calls coming: Call your Congress Member now at 202-224-3121 and tell them to vote No on the war funding.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Clinton Must Now Win 90 to 10 or Quit
(2 comments) It's reached a point that everyone has known for months it had to reach, the point at which even people paid to do so cannot keep it going with a straight face.

Monday, May 5, 2008
68% Want Troops Safely Home in 6 Months
(1 comments) The poll marks a 14% increase from 54% in September.

Saturday, May 3, 2008
Obama-Clinton Funny Math: Guam Update
(2 comments) Obama and Clinton each picked up 2 pledged delgates in Guam this weekend. Obama now has 1,493 pledged delegates. Clinton has 1,334 pledged delegates. Of the remaining 404 delegates yet to be pledged, Clinton would need to win 282 of them to beat Obama. That's a victory of 70 percent to 30 percent. There is not a single political reporter in the country who considers that a remote possibility.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tom Perriello Plans to Unseat Virgil Goode
And what will he replace him with?

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Nobel Peace Winner Visits US from Iran
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi to Answer Your Questions Online

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Funny Math, Part I, The Obama-Clinton Story
(8 comments) Can We Count?

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Funny Math, Part II: Impeachment
(3 comments) What calendar are you using?

Monday, April 28, 2008
How "Conservatives" Pick Your Pocket
(6 comments) whether or not you voted for them

Saturday, April 26, 2008
Mary Pallant Plans to Unseat Elton Gallegly
California's 24th District is grotesquely misrepresented by Cheney-Bush rubber stamper Elton Gallegly, who is ready to start his lobbying career on K Street but who was talked into running again by the Republican Party.

Friday, April 25, 2008
Sympathy for Dick Cheney
(13 comments) Unlike a rolling stone.

Thursday, April 24, 2008
War Funding, Impeachment, and Health Care
(6 comments) and what we can do

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Are Peace and Impeachment Possible?
(4 comments) YES

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Can Grandmothers End Wars?
Yes.

Saturday, April 19, 2008
The 2008 Election Will Be Stolen
(21 comments) You read it here.

Thursday, April 17, 2008
"I Am So Opposed"
How Congress opposes things.

Thursday, April 17, 2008
The Collateral Damage Is Central
(1 comments) It IS the mission.

Thursday, April 17, 2008
Wars Begin in High School Cafeterias
And they can end there.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
From Inside a Cage at Guantanamo
Articulate screams.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
CALIFORNIA IRAQ TOWN HALLS
Get involved!

Monday, April 14, 2008
Does the Constitution Require the Impeachment of Bush and Cheney?
(12 comments) What do you think?

Friday, April 11, 2008
Where Your Tax Dollar Will and Will Not Go
During an endless airplane trip from hell yesterday that included an extended stay in Chicago's scenic O'Hare airport, I had the misfortune to read one book about where our tax dollars go and another book that was, indirectly, about where they do not go.

Friday, April 11, 2008
Hell Entrance Freezes Over in Omaha
(1 comments) On Friday outside the gates of Stratcom, the strategic command center outside of Omaha, Nebraska, that controls U.S. nuclear weapons and military space technology and from which the next war of aggression will be run, a group of activists gathered from all over the world. A number of people gave speeches in the freezing bone-chilling wind and snow. This was mine:

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Talking With a Friend Who Hates Muslims
(2 comments) I recently sent the following note to a friend. The note I was replying to is pasted in below it.

Monday, April 7, 2008
Jim Webb, Roger Ebert Announce Joint Initiative
(2 comments) Senator Jim Webb, (D., Va.) and Roger Ebert, a movie reviewer with the Chicago Sun-Times have announced a joint initiative.

Monday, April 7, 2008
Colin Powell Writes to Gen. David Petraeus
letter from Powell to Petraeus

Monday, April 7, 2008
First 100 Days
A friend is drafting a proposal for the first 100 days of a new administration. I sketched out a dream scenario below. What do you think?

Friday, April 4, 2008
How the Associated Press Lies About the Occupation of Iraq
(1 comments) This typical pre-Petraeus II article shows well the habit that the AP and most of the rest of the US corporate media have of lying about the funding of the occupation of Iraq:

Thursday, April 3, 2008
We're Sitting In at the House Judiciary Committee Office Right Now
(15 comments) A dozen of us have begun a sit-in at the House Judiciary Committee office. Come join us at Rayburn 2138.

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Conyers Threatens Impeachment if Iran Attacked
(22 comments) Coming out of today's meeting with John Conyers, these seem to be the significant developments:

Monday, March 31, 2008
Prodigal Petraeus
This week's sermon is from the book of Luke.

Monday, March 31, 2008
Pelosi Preparing to Refuse Further Iraq Funding
(13 comments) This is the most encouraging thing I've seen in many months.

Sunday, March 30, 2008
Building a New World
The first international conference of the World Prout Assembly, entitled, "Building a New World," committed to ending imperialist wars and affirming models of cooperative, community-based economies and political activism, will be held May 22-25 at Radford University, Radford, Virginia.

Sunday, March 30, 2008
Successes Sneaking Up on Us?
(4 comments) Were you aware that...?

Saturday, March 29, 2008
You're Two
(3 comments) You're two today and you're napping.

Friday, March 28, 2008
A Serious Peace Strategy Emerges
(1 comments) In 2006 we elected a Congress to end the occupation of Iraq. If we don't hold that Congress to it, we will not have the power in 2008 to elect anyone for any stated purpose. Fulfillment of campaign promises will be entirely optional in 2009. Our last chance to hold the current Congress to its commitment is in the coming month of April, when the House takes up Bush's request for another $102 billion of our grandchildren's money

Friday, March 28, 2008
Using People's Lives to Win (or Lose) Elections
How would you like to vote for a political party that sacrifices hundreds of thousands of lives to win elections? Yeah, neither would I. So, how can they be so sure they will win elections?

Friday, March 28, 2008
Donna Edwards Moves Right, Falls into Line
(2 comments) Donna Edwards worked wonders by nearly beating Al Wynn in a Maryland congressional primary in 2006 and threatening to run again.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
The Dangerous Theism of Chris Hedges
(13 comments) Chris Hedges recently published an article called "The Dangerous Atheism of Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris," but he failed to include in it any indication of what he thinks is dangerous about their atheism.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
4,000 Deaths - 435 Town Halls
(1 comments) We just passed another tragic milestone with the 4,000th death of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, while the uncounted death toll of innocent Iraqis climbs beyond 1 million.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Senator Byrd Wants to End the Occupation: Ask Him to Filibuster the Funding
(4 comments) Below is what Senator Robert Byrd (D., West Virginia) has to say about ending the occupation. Please call him 202 224-3954 and ask him to show he is serious by announcing his intention to filibuster the funding.

Monday, March 24, 2008
Healthcare Or Warfare: It's time to Choose
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world is, by no coincidence, also the wealthiest nation in the world that does not provide its people with health coverage. About one in six Americans has no health coverage at all, and another two or three out of those six lack adequate coverage even though they pay more than enough to receive it and to provide it to those who lack it as well.

Sunday, March 23, 2008
Building an Activist Movement to End the Occupation of Iraq
Robert Dreyfuss's presentation that I now have to follow was tremendous and I learned a lot, but I disagree with his pessimism. I am fond of the saying "Let's save our pessimism for better times." It's a choice to be a pessimist, and it is a wrong one, always.

Thursday, March 20, 2008
About the "Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq"
Several Democratic House candidates have backed what they call the "Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq".

Thursday, March 20, 2008
No War - No Warming - Blocking Traffic at American Petroleum Institute (VIDEO)
(1 comments) The videos below show exactly how much fun it can be to interrupt the day of war profiteering oil barrons and educate the public about an occupation that we said six years ago would be blood for oil and that we say now is blood for oil.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
American Petroleum Institute To Grant Congress Permission to Stop Funding Iraq War and Occupation
The activist group No War, No Warming today announced that they will be celebrating outside the headquarters of the American Petroleum Institute Wednesday morning beginning at 8:30 a.m. The API is located at 1220 L St. NW, at the corner of 13th and L.

Monday, March 17, 2008
AUDIO: General William Odom Says Congress Should Impeach and Stop Funding the Occupation
(1 comments) In a wide-ranging hour-long discussion on live radio, General William Odom said he sees two useful things Congress can do: cease funding the occupation of Iraq, and impeach Bush and Cheney.

Friday, March 14, 2008
12 Year Olds Know Government Better Than Adults
(2 comments) A pair of new polls may suggest the power of falsehoods repeated ad infinitum on our televisions and in our newspapers.

Friday, March 14, 2008
German Buys 3 Pages of NY Times to Explain War to Americans
(3 comments) Jürgen Todenhöfer says on his website that he has drafted 10 theses to be printed in 3 parts. The first 2 parts, containing the first 5 theses, were printed on two full pages of today's New York Times, pages 6 and 7, and in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Al-Quds Al-Arabi. The third part is to be printed on Sunday.

Thursday, March 13, 2008
Students Shut Down Capitol Hill
(1 comments) Today was the day for Stop-Loss Congress. We notified every Congress Member and Senator over the past two days that they were being stop-lossed and denied permission to leave until they end the occupation of Iraq.

Thursday, March 13, 2008
The Day After the Bombing of Iran
Imagine yourself sitting down transfixed and watching video footage of U.S. bombs hitting Iran. You see children ripped limb from limb, mothers screaming and wailing, people panicked, tortured, traumatized, and killed. Imagine asking yourself at that point: What was I doing these past many months that I thought was more important than preventing this?

Thursday, March 13, 2008
Make McCain Choose
What if Senator John McCain were forced to choose an extremely and increasingly unpopular position and stand by it for months as it became less and less popular?

Saturday, March 8, 2008
Video Indictment and Audio Impeachment
Impeach and Indict!

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Vermont Towns Vote to Indict Bush and Cheney
(11 comments) Brattleboro, Vt., voted today in support of a measure calling on the town's police force to arrest and indict Bush and Cheney. The vote was 2012-1795.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
You Don't Need a Weatherman
Many of us fear, I think, that it is not our place as Americans to ask Iraqis to put their lives at risk through nonviolence.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Rep. Pete Stark Signs onto Cheney Articles of Impeachment
(3 comments) This makes 26 cosponsors, or 27 total members including the orginal sponsor of H Res 333, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who won his reelection primary today.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
New Hampshire Catches Impeachment Fever
New Hampshire State Representative Betty Hall is the chief sponsor of a resolution to be voted on this week in the state legislature, a resolution to petition Congress to impeach Bush and Cheney. Hall asked people to Email her their thoughts, and she is receiving more than one Email per minute, almost all of them from New Hampshire, but some from other states and countries, and every single one of them supportive.

Monday, March 3, 2008
Nixon, Cheney, and Le Deluge
(3 comments) Congressman Dennis Kucinich's resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney now has more cosponsors signed onto it than any resolution to impeach President Richard Nixon ever had. But separate resolutions to impeach Nixon, some with a handful of cosponsors, many with no cosponsors at all, were filed by the dozens. Today, Kucinich's resolution stands alone.

Sunday, March 2, 2008
Will Police from Brattleboro, Vt., Arrest Bush and Cheney?
(6 comments) When citizens and voters go to the town meeting and primaries in Brattleboro, Vermont, on Tuesday, there will be a question on the back of all ballots, and a circle to mark Yes and one to mark No:

Saturday, March 1, 2008
Building Our Own Media
(3 comments) We will never succeed without media, and we will never succeed at media by criticism and legislation alone. We must build our own.

Friday, February 29, 2008
Zogby Poll a Disappointment
(12 comments) The latest poll on impeachment comissioned from Zogby by OpEdNews is quite a disappointment. The numbers are so low as to be, to my mind, not credible. But we paid for it, they did it, and there's no undoing it.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
VIDEOS: 911 Rescue Workers Need Health Care
(4 comments) Yesterday in the rain in front of the U.S. Capitol hundreds of 911 rescue workers who risked their lives in a toxic mess they were told was safe piled off buses from New York. They held a rally with a handful of Congress Members and asked Congress to get them health care so that they can stop suffering every day while we slaughter people abroad in their names and in the name of those who died that day.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Halliburton/ State Dept. Rape Stories Get Worse and Worse
(2 comments) This story is the worst I've heard and far worse than I had thought before conducting the interview.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Petards of Mass Destruction
Is it possible to convict a group of people of the highest possible crime simply by editing together public statements that they made while planning it?

Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Sex, Halliburton, and the State Department
(4 comments) Tracy Barker was sexually assaulted by Halliburton employees and - in one instance - by a U.S. State Department employee in Basra, Iraq. The State Department employee has confessed to part of what Barker alleges, but remains at the State Department, and has never been charged with any crime.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Cleveland Corporate Media vs. Dennis Kucinich
Cleveland, Ohio's corporate media has passionately opposed the progressive populist efforts of Dennis Kucinich for decades. This week marks the climax of its most ferocious crusade to remove him from Congress.

Monday, February 25, 2008
Indicting Bush in His Family's Home Town
(1 comments) US Senate Candidate Laurie Dobson to Deliver "The Bush-Cheney Indictment Resolution"

Monday, February 25, 2008
Rep. Zoe Lofgren Not Sure Bush and Cheney Have Done Anything Wrong
(4 comments) Report on SVIC Meeting with Rep. Zoe Lofgren for Impeachment Hearings, 22 February 2008

Sunday, February 24, 2008
Chief Billy "Red Wing" Tayac of the Piscataway Nation
(3 comments) On Sunday, February 24th, Chief Billy "Red Wing" Tayac of the Piscataway Nation spoke at the University of Virginia.

Saturday, February 23, 2008
Foreclose on the White House
(2 comments) If you've lost your house to a predatory lender and you ask your congress member to impeach Bush and Cheney for your loss, will they look at you like you're crazy? That depends entirely on how many of you are asking.

Friday, February 22, 2008
Video: David Earnhardt on Stolen Elections
(1 comments) On Thursday, February 21st, David Earnhardt, the writer, director, and producer of the best film yet released on election fraud, "Uncounted," showed the film and spoke about it in Charlottesville, Va.

Friday, February 22, 2008
Public Forum Planned on Vermont Proposal to Arrest Bush and Cheney
(4 comments) Why Indict? A Forum on Brattleboro's Indictment Resolution

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Thursday Feb. 21: You Are NOT A Lapdog Call-In Day
Call Speaker Pelosi at 202-225-0100 and Majority Leader Hoyer at 202-225-4131. Tell them to stay strong against warrantless wiretapping and billions more for the Iraq war.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
19 Percent Approve of Bush
(8 comments) George W. Bush has set a record for unpopularity that may stand for all time: He now has a 19 percent approval rating.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Voting on Faith
The real answer is hand-counted paper ballots.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Feingold Sets Up Republicans to Win Two More Filibusters
(2 comments) Senator Russ Feingold (D., Wisc.) is preparing to give the Republicans in the Senate two more opportunities next week to grandstand and filibuster in favor of the occupation of Iraq. They will, of course, do so; and they will, of course, win.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
The Constitution of the Homeland of America: Revised Abridged Edition
(3 comments) We the people of the Homeland, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, kill the terrorists, lock up the immigrants, and honor our Commander in Chief, do promise to vote, and shop, and watch the television news sometimes, and definitely to vote.

Monday, February 18, 2008
Happy Presidents' Day
Today we celebrate Washington, Lincoln, and all our presidents, dead, living, and among the living dead.

Sunday, February 17, 2008
Rep. Leonard Boswell Signs onto Cheney Impeachment
(4 comments) Congressman Leonard Boswell, right-wing Democrat from Iowa'a third district, would apparently like to avoid the fate of Congressman Al Wynn in Maryland. Al Wynn nearly lost a primary in 2006 to a challenger from his left, Donna Edwards. He transformed himself from one of the most corporate and militaristic members of Congress into one of the most responsive to his constituents, reversing his position on the occupation of Iraq

Sunday, February 17, 2008
Leslie Angeline Meets With John Conyers on Impeachment, Continues Fast
(1 comments) Dozens of people around the country are now fasting for impeachment. New Hampshire State Representative Betty Hall, who will lead a public hearing this week on a resolution to urge Congress to impeach, is 87 and fasting, and has said she would consider dying in this fast a good way to end a full life. Below is a report from the woman who began the fast. She met with House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers on Friday.

Sunday, February 17, 2008
Still Praying for America
(1 comments) Dennis Kucinich: Today is the sixth anniversary of my "Prayer for America" speech. Please take a moment to read the speech or watch it on Google.

Saturday, February 16, 2008
Zoe Lofgren, Closet Impeacher
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren wants Cheney and Bush impeached, removed from office, prosecuted, and incarcerated, and she won't admit it.

Friday, February 15, 2008
Join Us for a Live Interview With "Uncounted" Director David Earnhardt
As we muddle our way through primary elections fraught with errors, fraud, and suppression, it's useful to look back at the elections of 2004 and 2006. So, on Wednesday February 20th, from 8 to 9 p.m. ET I'll be interviewing David Earnhardt live online, and you can phone in with your questions.

Friday, February 15, 2008
Obamessives and Obamicans
(2 comments) A friend just described to me the scene last weekend in Richmond, Va., prior to the Tuesday Virginia primary in which Obama trounced Clinton. Both of them spoke at a Democratic Party dinner in Richmond, and a huge crowd outside and inside cheered and screamed, reportedly mostly for Obama.

Friday, February 15, 2008
Crucial Week for Impeachment
(9 comments) Something very important happened in Congress on Thursday. After 7 years of cowering in fear of every dictatorial demand from Bush and Cheney, House Democrats finally rose up and said NO.

Thursday, February 14, 2008
Democrats Pass Contempt, Republicans Leave the Room
(4 comments) I know a lot of you may hold Congress in contempt, but on Thursday Congress voted to hold someone else in contempt. Here's what happened:

Wednesday, February 13, 2008
A New National Poll on Impeachment Is Possible
(26 comments) Widely respected polling company Zogby International has agreed to allow OpEdNews.com to commission a poll question in a national telephone poll.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Conyers' Phone Rings Steadily for Two Days
(3 comments) There's a new rule on Capitol Hill: the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee can remove impeachment from the Constitution, but cannot also use telephones, Email, or fax machines, because the flood of pro-impeachment communications from outraged citizens is overwhelming each of those devices. Don't believe me? Try phoning, Emailing, or faxing John Conyers' office.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Iraq Occupation Worse Than Ever
(1 comments) Two weeks ago an article in the Cville Weekly by Josh Levy ( http://tinyurl.com/3ckznf ) told us that the "surge" was going to win the "war" in Iraq. "Victory has not yet arrived," he cautioned, "and it may be years before we can mark its arrival with confidence, but we can reasonably hope to see it."

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren Writes to John Conyers About Impeachment
(2 comments) Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D., Calif.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, has written a letter to Committee Chairman John Conyers (D., Mich.) on the topic of impeachment. Lofgren refers to the possibility of opening impeachment hearings on Vice President Cheney, President Bush, or a federal judge.

Monday, February 11, 2008
Kucinich: "The Incident Did Not Happen"
(29 comments) I find the Congressman's denial of the incident entirely credible.

Sunday, February 10, 2008
Call Conyers Monday and Tuesday
(6 comments) On Thursday, Chairman John Conyers' House Judiciary Committee held a hearing at which Attorney General Michael Mukasey said that he would not investigate torture or warrantless spying, he would not enforce contempt citations, and he would treat Justice Department opinions as providing immunity for crimes.

Saturday, February 9, 2008
Taibbi Gets It Halfway Right
(1 comments) In "Chicken Doves" Matt Taibbi correctly denounces the phony, monied, Democratic-front antiwar movement without acknowledging the real one. United for Peace and Justice, and other organizations serious about peace, struggle against a corrupt Congress, a pseudo peace movement with lots more money than we have, and reporters like Taibbi who pretend that a major movement that is actually working for peace with projects like this

Friday, February 8, 2008
Impeach Dick Cheney, If You Will
(3 comments) A recent national poll on impeachment, conducted by the American Research Group last November, found that 52 percent of Americans believed Vice President Dick Cheney had committed impeachable offenses.

Thursday, February 7, 2008
Why Obama Will Win and May Have Already
(1 comments) Money, Media, Momentum, Mobilization, Madness

Thursday, February 7, 2008
The Speech McCain Should Give
I may be a United States Senator and a candidate for President and the Republican frontrunner. But I am, more importantly (assuming you'll take my word for it) a man who has been tortured.

Thursday, February 7, 2008
Conyers Says He's on Edge of Starting Impeachment
(12 comments) Conyers asked "So how would it look if I allowed two women to push me over the edge?" Conyers leaned out of his chair for dramatic effect.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Can Your Town Ban the Military from Recruiting Anyone Under 18?
(3 comments) Of course, Americans must be 18 to serve in the military, but much of the military's recruiting work is directed at those who have not yet turned 18.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Not Eating Until Impeachment
(1 comments) Leslie Angeline began a fast yesterday, Rosa Park's birthday.

Monday, February 4, 2008
Talk With 1972 Presidential Nominee George McGovern Online Tonight
(1 comments) Tonight from 7 to 7:30 p.m. ET I'll be interviewing 1972 Democratic nominee for president George McGovern.

Monday, February 4, 2008
Vote Against Clinton
(3 comments) Vote in the primaries on Tuesday for the corporate mediocrity with the charismatic and vacuous platitudes. It's important.

Sunday, February 3, 2008
Editorial Pages Report the News
Increasingly, all the news that's fit to print does not include the news that editorial writers deem significant. The New York Times and many other newspapers have developed the habit of writing lengthy editorials about news stories that never make it into the news section. One example of this trend is the story of last Monday's presidential signing statement. If you don't know what a signing statement is, you should consider

Friday, February 1, 2008
Omaha: Root of All Evil?
(2 comments) What if a single nation on this planet were to pour more resources into its military than the rest of the nations combined, set up military bases in 80 percent of the other nations, stockpile more nuclear weapons than all other nations combined, develop new nuclear weapons intended for aggressive first-strike use, completely dominate the militarization of space, erase any policy lines between space and ground warfare and

Friday, February 1, 2008
Congress Members Call for Hearing on Signing Statement
(2 comments) Barbara Lee Calls For Aggressive Oversight on Bush Move Towards Permanent Military Presence in Iraq

Thursday, January 31, 2008
Liveblogging Obama v. Clinton v. CNN
Hillary Is blaming the Iraqis. I flip on the debate and that's the first thing I have to hear. Sheesh.

Thursday, January 31, 2008
Your Vote Will Be Thoughtful, But Will It Be Counted?
By the time November 2008 rolls around, you will have endured over two years of breathless horse-race election coverage. (I, for one, am going to spend the next few days pushing Obama over Clinton, and then tune back in on Halloween to decide whether to vote for Obama, Nader, or McKinney. There are too many important things to work on in between.) But the big question (and one of the important things to work on) is this:

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Signing Statement Silence
(6 comments) This week President Bush signed the Defense Authorization bill into law, and then added a statement announcing his right to violate these four provisions. And the silence is deafening.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
One of Key SOTU Lies Was a Rerun
(3 comments) And did you notice that even in the 2008 State of the Union, when Bush claims new powers, Congress cheers?

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
State of the Union Came With a Signing Statement
(2 comments) On the day of the State of the Union, apparently hoping nobody would notice, President George W. Bush posted a statement on the White House website announcing his intention to violate major sections of the Defense Authorization bill that he just signed into law.

Monday, January 28, 2008
Road to Impeachment and Peace Runs Through Cleveland
(5 comments) Congressman Dennis Kucinich is facing a tough primary in five weeks in his working class district in Cleveland, Ohio. He's up against better funded opponents and the concerted effort of the corporate and media powers of Cleveland that have opposed him since long before he took that seat away from a Republican.

Saturday, January 26, 2008
No More Investigations Please
(6 comments) In a December 31, 2007, editorial, the New York Times faulted the current president and vice president of the United States for kidnapping innocent people, denying justice to prisoners, torturing, murdering, circumventing U.S. and international law, spying in violation of the Fourth Amendment, and basing their actions on "imperial fantasies."

Saturday, January 26, 2008
The Whisper Was for Romney
Some of you may recall the powerful evidence in 2004 that George W. Bush was cheating in the debates by wearing an earpiece. The New York Times famously (well, at least somewhat famously) documented the evidence and then refused to print it because it might have had an effect on the election:

Friday, January 25, 2008
March 18 Action Day to Take Back the Constitution
CODE PINK is leading a day of action in Washington, D.C., to demand impeachment on March 18, 2008.

Friday, January 25, 2008
Let War Resisters Stay in Canada
(1 comments) On Friday at 3 p.m. in front of the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., a group of veterans and other citizens is expected to make a demand that Canada allow hudreds of U.S. resisters to the occupation of Iraq to remain in Canada.

Friday, January 25, 2008
Who's Worse, Clinton or Paul?
(39 comments) Let's assume, just for the sake of masochism or preparedness, that the Republicans nominate McCain or somebody similar, that the Democrats nominate Clinton, and that Paul runs as an independent or libertarian. Here's a question for those who care about peace and justice: Who's worse, Clinton or Paul?

Friday, January 25, 2008
ROMNEY WHISPER: MSNBC Claims It Was the Audience, I'm Not Kidding
(3 comments) Having ruled out the possibility that one of the other candidates was whispering to himself, MSNBC has added an update to its blog post concluding that someone in the audience must have been whispering near an "open mic."

Thursday, January 24, 2008
Is Slavery In Our Future?
(5 comments) John Bowe's terrific new book called "Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy" takes the reader on a journey ending in the question I've placed above this essay.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Cheney Impeachment News
(1 comments) Wexler is now accepting non-Judiciary Committee members signatures on his letter to Conyers urging Cheney impeachment hearings.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Wexler Meets With Conyers, Still Wants Cheney Impeachment Hearings
(2 comments) Kucinich to Introduce Bush Articles of Impeachment

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Nadler Is Blocking Impeachment
(40 comments) A private off-the-record meeting was held on Capitol Hill on Wednesday that included House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Subcommittee on the Constitution Chairman Jerrold Nadler, Judiciary Committee Member and advocate for opening Cheney impeachment hearings Robert Wexler, and several other committee members, activists, staffers, and former staffers from the Watergate days. I wasn't there, so I'm free to talk...

Monday, January 21, 2008
National Lawyers Guild President on Impeaching Cheney
(3 comments) Nine out of 23 Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee favor starting impeachment hearings against Vice-President Dick Cheney. Six of the nine are co-sponsors of H.R. 799, which contains three articles of impeachment.

Sunday, January 20, 2008
A Letter from the Lurch
(3 comments) The lurch was first mentioned in Dante's "Purgatorio," and I had always wanted to go there. What can I say? I'm an adventurer. That's one reason I joined the military in the first place. Well, that and all the lies about money and college and not having to serve in Iraq. When I'd completed my third tour in Iraq and they stop-lossed me, it felt at least as bad as a ticket to purgatory. How could I stay still longer...

Sunday, January 20, 2008
Plans in the Works to Stop-Loss Congress
(3 comments) The peace movement is planning 10 days of resistance in March 2008.

Saturday, January 19, 2008
A Solution for the Peace Movement
Congress has the power to bring all troops, mercenaries, and contractors home safely this year. The cost of bringing them home is minimal and already covered by funds appropriated for wars and for a military budget that eats up over half of every tax dollar. We cannot afford another year of damaged world relations, of dead bodies, and of enormous financial expense. Representatives can commit to voting No...

Friday, January 18, 2008
Peace Movement's Options in 2008
(3 comments) What should the peace movement do in 2008 to speed the end of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, bring home the troops and mercenaries and contractors, and stop draining trillions of dollars out of Americans' pockets for an expense that most of us do not want? And what should all organizations do whose domestic missions are devastated by the occupations' drain on the national treasury?

Thursday, January 17, 2008
Hangin' in the Office with Nancy P.
(1 comments) I had been to Nancy Pelosi's office in the Cannon House Office Building before. In fact, I'd been there several times and usually had a pleasant stay, often very quick and efficient, other times prolonged by everyone's enjoyment of the songs my friends in pink were singing, and as often as not resulting in new friendships with fine officers of the Capitol Police who accompanied us out. This time was going to be different.

Thursday, January 17, 2008
Randi Rhodes Puts Robert Wexler Over 200,000
(8 comments) The Randi Rhodes Show worked its magic today just as it used to do for www.afterdowningstreet.org almost three years ago. Congressman Robert Wexler came on and discussed the need for Cheney impeachment hearings. His petition at http://wexlerwantshearings.com passed the 200,000 mark before the show was over.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
What MLK Said About Change
(2 comments) These are some of the words of Martin Luther King Jr.

Monday, January 14, 2008
Halliburton Gang Rape Victim Finds No Justice
(2 comments) What does one say to a young woman gang raped by men paid by us to work for a company from which our vice president profits, men who have yet to be charged with any crime, a company yet to make amends in any way, and a presidential administration effectively granted immunity by our representatives in Congress?

Friday, January 11, 2008
The Speech McCain Should Give
(6 comments) I am not a United States Senator today. I am not a candidate for President. Today, on the 6th anniversary of the first incarcerations at Guantanamo, I am a man who has been tortured.

Thursday, January 10, 2008
Veteran Jailed for Speaking
(6 comments) Mike Ferner was found guilty today in District of Columbia Superior Court. He has just been sentenced.

Thursday, January 10, 2008
To Nancy With All Due Respect
Dear Nancy. Cindy asked me to write you a letter and promised she would deliver it. So I picture the two of you in your home over tea as you peruse this and a four-foot stack of similar missives, and I hope mine catches your eye, and I hope there are no more of those annoying poor people out front, or that you're able to have them arrested quickly and quietly.

Monday, January 7, 2008
Impeachment on New Hampshire Table
(2 comments) On Sunday evening, two days before the New Hampshire Primaries, with a presidential candidate spouting vacuous dreamy rhetoric behind every snow bank, the good people of New Hampshire took the time to hold two forums on the question of how we can remove the current president and vice president BEFORE January 2009.

Monday, January 7, 2008
Rethinking Labor Union Endorsements
Labor unions declined to send a message on their issues or to move other candidates to their positions by backing Kucinich, but it has now become clear that they could have backed Kucinich, and he could have failed just as badly, and labor would have accomplished no less (possibly more) than it accomplished by lining up behind Clinton, Edwards, and Dodd, all of whom have lost to Obama.

Saturday, January 5, 2008
Florida ACLU for Impeachment
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida has followed the lead of the ACLU of Central Florida, the ACLU of Monroe County Florida, and the ACLU of the Treasure Coast (Florida), all of which followed the lead of the ACLU of Southern California in backing impeachment and calling for the National ACLU to do the same.

Friday, January 4, 2008
Remembering the Separation of Powers
(1 comments) In a December 31, 2007, editorial, the New York Times faulted the current president and vice president of the United States for kidnapping innocent people, denying justice to prisoners, torturing, murdering, circumventing U.S. and international law, spying in violation of the Fourth Amendment, and basing their actions on "imperial fantasies." Um, thanks for finally noticing. What would you suggest we do about it?

Thursday, January 3, 2008
Peace Organizations Plan Week of Actions to Mark 5th Anniversary of Occupation of Iraq
(1 comments) Numerous peace and justice organizations, including student groups taking advantage of Spring Break, are making plans for a week of actions from March 12th to 19th to mark the end of the fifth year of U.S. occupation in Iraq.

Thursday, January 3, 2008
Rep. Mike Michaud Writes to Conyers Calling for Cheney Impeachment Hearings
(1 comments) Congressman Mike Michaud, a conservative and Blue Dog Democrat from Maine sent a letter over the holiday break to House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers calling for impeachment hearings of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Citizens Are Sitting In at Nadler's, Request Support
(2 comments) Several activists from World Can't Wait, joined by other antiwar activists are at Jerold Nadler's Brooklyn office today. They don't intend to leave until they get a commitment from Nadler to get impeachment started in the House Judiciary Committee. They are requesting that you put out the word, asking people to call Nadler's offices to make the same demand.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Dear Iowa, Vote for Dennis But Don't Listen to Him
(8 comments) I love Dennis Kucinich and think he is far and away the best candidate running for president. He and I are speaking together on a panel in New Hampshire this weekend. But asking his supporters in Iowa to vote for Obama as their second choice makes no sense to me.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Pelosi's New Chief of Staff
(4 comments) In a surprise and apparently sudden decision Tuesday evening, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the hiring of a new Chief of Staff for her DC office. The choice of someone without any experience on Capitol Hill surprised many observers, leading to speculation as to what changes Pelosi may have in store for the new year.

Monday, December 31, 2007
Death By Election
(5 comments) There must be a Star Trek episode (if there's not, there should be) in which all the best minds in the leftist political opposition on some planet are diverted into an obsession with a virtual reality game, leaving all the right-wingers free to drive the planet into inevitable war and destruction.

Friday, December 28, 2007
Kucinich Wins Virginia Democratic Party Poll
(5 comments) Congressman Dennis Kucinich has won the Virginia Democratic Party's online presidential primary straw poll. Candidates in the poll included the six Democrats who have qualified to appear on the primary ballot in Virginia on February 12.

Friday, December 28, 2007
2007: The Year in Evidence
The past year has seen the public exposure of enough evidence of old, ongoing, and new crimes, abuses of power, and impeachable offenses by George Bush and Dick Cheney that in any remotely representative democracy, these two thugs would be out of office and behind bars. The chief reason this does not shock us is that the same could be said, and was said, of each of the previous six years.

Thursday, December 27, 2007
Hate Us for Our WHAT?
(9 comments) Of course we've long since established that they do not hate us for the reasons they say they hate us.

Thursday, December 27, 2007
Cheney Impeachment: Mainstream Media Wakes Up
(2 comments) Rep. Wexler: As we prepare to celebrate the New Year, my resolution is to hold George Bush and Dick Cheney accountable for their abuses of power.

Thursday, December 20, 2007
Rep. Weiner Joins Call for Cheney Impeachment Hearings
On Thursday, Congressman Anthony Weiner told Bob Fertik of Democrats.com that he would sign onto Congressman Robert Wexler's letter to Chairman John Conyers urging the commencement of impeachment hearings for Dick Cheney. Wexler, together with Congress Members Luis Gutierrez and Tammy Baldwin, hopes to have a majority of Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee sign the letter.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007
March 2008 Demonstration and Resistance
We call on people from throughout the United States, in solidarity with those planning similar events around the world, to come together in massive numbers on March 15th and 19th, 2008, to demand an immediate end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Momentum Building for Cheney Impeachment
(2 comments) In the space of a few days, nearly 100,000 people have already signed onto a call by Congressman Robert Wexler to begin impeachment hearings for Dick Cheney.

Monday, December 17, 2007
Italians Block Construction of US Military Base
(2 comments) The people of the northern Italian city of Vicenza, with help from activists around Italy, the rest of Europe, and even in the United States, are continuing to block the proposed construction of a new U.S. military base on their soil.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Kucinich Says He's Preparing 50-Page Bush Articles of Impeachment
(9 comments) "On the way over here, I was reading a 50-page document that relates to Articles of Impeachment for the President of the United States," Kucinich said to a standing ovation. "And I want you to know that I'm actually preparing this document for submission to the House."

Monday, December 10, 2007
Wexler Urges Hearings on Cheney Impeachment
(14 comments) What do higher fuel-efficiency standards, expanded children's health care and improved relations with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono have in common? According to U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Delray Beach, those are just a few of the benefits America can reap if Congress holds hearings on the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Sunday, December 9, 2007
How to Vote in Primaries and Not Be an Idiot
(1 comments) Virtually nobody votes in primaries (or caucuses) compared to general elections. Therefore, each individual primary vote is worth many times what it is in the general election. And, it's more likely to be counted, since there's typically less fraud and abuse of the system in primaries. So, if you vote in general elections, you pretty much have to vote in primaries in order to not be an idiot.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Largest Civil Disobedience Movement in US History Underway
(3 comments) I am of the opinion that there has never been a movement in U.S. history with the number of arrests which have taken place in opposition to the Iraq War.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Kucinich Wins PDA Straw Poll
Dennis Kucinich (41%) and John Edwards (26%)

Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Kucinich on What He'd Do
(7 comments) If you were elected president, what do you think would be the first thing you would do in office?

Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Enough Heroes to Fill a Book
Resisters of the occupation of Iraq in the U.S., British, and Australian governments and militaries are plentiful enough to fill a book, and they've filled a good one.

Sunday, December 2, 2007
The Two Biggest Public Secrets, and How Bush Just Signing Statemented Iraq
As noted by the uniquely vigilant Charlie Savage in the Boston Globe, President Bush in November issued a signing statement unconstitutionally overturning 10 sections of H.R. 3222, the "Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2008." Among the little technical details Bush just erased was the requirement that he not take funds appropriated to the Pentagon for one thing and use them for something else.

Thursday, November 29, 2007
Talking with Two Who Walk the Walk
I recently interviewed, for 60 minutes each, two individuals who have walked the walk. Eve Tetaz at age 76 has gone to jail for protesting the occupation of Iraq. Aidan Delgado laid down his weapon in Iraq and declared himself a conscientious objector.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Kucinich Town Hall on Impeachment Televised Live Tonight
Broadcast available throughout New Hampshire and nationally

Monday, November 26, 2007
Kucinich in Virginia
Dennis Kucinich will be in Charlottesville VA on Friday, December 7th. This will be his Virginia event, and we'll promote it statewide.

Friday, November 23, 2007
Nukes' Seventh Decade
Jonathan Schell's latest book "The Seventh Decade" places our current situation in the context of the past 62 years of the nuclear age, or the past 68 years as Schell might prefer to date it. It was 68 years ago that scientists concluded a nuclear bomb was possible. Scientists and politicians immediately began trying to develop nukes out of fear that someone else would do so first.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Two Chances to Change the World
(1 comments) We're headed rapidly toward a disastrous attack on Iran, an acceptance of permanent occupation of Iraq, over 1,000 US military bases in other people's countries, and the point of no turning back on global warming.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007
The Trouble with Thankfulness
(1 comments) Like most Americans, I'm appreciative of all the wonderful people and experiences in my life, and I like the idea of taking a day off from lamenting all the painful, tragic, and humiliating experiences in my life and the many more in the lives of so many people around the world impacted by my government (even if we are now losing an innocent life in Iraq alone at the rate of one every 10 minutes, or 144 in the day I take off.

Monday, November 19, 2007
Pelosi, Cheney, and the Fertilized Eggs
(4 comments) For the past year or so, every month the moon gets full, and I suddenly get a couple of hundred emails telling me that Nancy Pelosi has announced that she will allow impeachment hearings if she gets enough emails or phone calls or handwritten letters.

Thursday, November 15, 2007
ACLU of Southern California Calls for Impeachment of Bush and Cheney -- Will National Follow?
The ACLU of Southern California has called for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for High Crimes and Misdemeanors arising out of their abuse of power and numerous violations of the Constitution.

Thursday, November 15, 2007
Wolf Blitzer Loses Democratic Debate
(5 comments) That does it. It's time for the Democratic Party to stage its own debate, ask its own questions, and offer the video to networks as a completed package. Allowing CNN to not just air a debate but to ask the questions proved on Thursday night (even more dramatically than in the past) to be a soul sickening disaster.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Online Townhall with Kucinich Wednesday Night
(1 comments) New Constitutional Convention Initiative Town Hall Meeting

Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Waxman Falsely Claims Impeachment Requires 2/3 Vote in House
(4 comments) Rep. Henry Waxman Falsely Claims Impeachment Requires 2/3 Vote in House, Scraps Constitution Before Reading It

Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Another Clinton Campaign Fraud
(1 comments) It sounds silly, but for a long time it just didn't occur to me what the implications would be. Thus spake a college student who agreed to ask Senator Clinton a planted question. And thus, alas, must I speak as well.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan Investigation
They saw it for themselves, now --with your support-- they'll tell it for themselves.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
House Dem. Taking Points on Iraq Bill
(1 comments) Here's the Iraq bill the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on, on Wednesday:

Monday, November 12, 2007
The Reverse Shock Doctrine
I wonder what would happen if the people and their representatives were to shock the powerful and their funders for a change?

Friday, November 9, 2007
Understanding the Next War Money Vote
I pledge to vote No on any bill, and to vote No on bringing to the floor for a vote any bill, that includes any funding to extend the occupation of Iraq. This pledge does not prevent me from voting for funding for a withdrawal, although such funding is clearly not needed by the Pentagon. It does not prevent me from voting for funding for veterans' services or for the reconstruction of Iraq by Iraqis, or for relief for...

Thursday, November 8, 2007
Mukasey and Digby Give Postmodernism a Bad Name
I've often seen Bush compared to a child and Cheney to a monster, which I think is incredibly unfair to children and monsters. The following is a commentary on a blog posting by Digby that compares the Bush-Cheney crime gang to postmodernists and "relativists", which I think is entirely unfair to postmodernists and "relativists". In fact, I think the Bush-Cheney gang's defense of cruel and criminal actions fits seamlessly with

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
John Bruhns: A Veteran's Story
John Bruhns came back from Iraq strongly opposed to the occupation he'd been a part of, believing the Bush administration had misused his patriotism. He began speaking out, and after he won Moveon.org's Video Vets contest he was hired as the Legislative Representative of Americans Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEI). Bruhns met with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He spoke at events with

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Pelosi Senza Cuore
"Look," Pelosi said, "I had, for five months, people sitting outside my home, going into my garden in San Francisco, angering neighbors, hanging their clothes from trees, building all kinds of things-Buddhas? I don't know what they were-couches, sofas, chairs, permanent living facilities on my front sidewalk. If they were poor and they were sleeping on my sidewalk, they would be arrested for loitering, but because they have..

Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Peace and Impeachment in Los Angeles
This past Friday night and Saturday, Ann Wright and I spoke at four events in the Los Angeles area on the topics of peace and impeachment.

Monday, November 5, 2007
Why Kucinich Should Concede Nothing
(4 comments) When someone whose opinions I respect as much as John Nichols' joins those who have been saying since 2003 that Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich should announce that he's not REALLY running for president, I feel compelled to reply.

Monday, November 5, 2007
Kucinich to Move Impeachment of Bush After Cheney
(4 comments) Congressman Dennis Kucinich said on a conference call Monday evening that after moving to impeach Vice President Cheney on Tuesday he will also introduce, at a future date, a resolution to impeach President Bush.

Monday, October 29, 2007
Jonesborough Justice
Of the eleven major peace rallies organized around the country by United for Peace and Justice last Saturday the smallest and most unusual took place in Jonesborough, Tennessee. Jonesborough is a town of about 4,000 people in the northeast corner of Tennessee, within a couple of dozen miles of both Virginia and North Carolina. The people of Jonesborough can imagine the number of U.S. troops who have died in Iraq by imagining

Monday, October 29, 2007
Obama Comes to Virginia
(1 comments) I'm live-blogging an Obama rally here in Charlottesville VA. I just wrote 10' tall in chalk on the Charlottesville "Freedom of Expression Wall" the following: "Hey, Barack, If you'll filibuster the spying, why won't you filibuster the war funding?" I'd love to actually ask him, but I couldn't afford the $1,000 for the small gathering that is just ending.

Saturday, October 27, 2007
Depleted Uranium and Depleted Democracy
(3 comments) Remarks at October 27, 2007, rally in Jonesborough, Tenn., preceding march to Aerojet Ordnance, manufacturers of Depleted Uranium weapons.

Friday, October 26, 2007
What Is Rahm Emanuel Talking About?
(9 comments) Congressman Rahm Emanuel is chairman of the Democratic Caucus. Congressman, people out there are wondering why did they elect the Democrats to end the war in if the war is still going?

Thursday, October 25, 2007
We're Sorry Too, Pete
(2 comments) We're at least as sorry as you are, Pete. You can be sure that your apology hurts us more than it hurts you. And it's a safe bet it'll hurt Iraqis and Iranians even more.

Saturday, October 20, 2007
Peace Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
(2 comments) If you haven't already, you really should read Chris Hedges' book "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning." The portrait of war and wartime propaganda and emotion is brilliant and deadly accurate. But the headline is misleading. War does not give us lasting solid self-assured meaning. War gives us a temporary high that is rooted in desperate self-deception.

Friday, October 19, 2007
It Was Never About Children's Health
Beginning last November and ever since, I have repeated a standard conversation with many Congress Members and staffers. It starts out with me urging them to impeach Bush and Cheney. They then stress all their other priorities that this would supposedly distract from, including often children's health insurance (SCHIP). I then tell them that any decent bill on any issue will be vetoed. They then get a very clever look...

Thursday, October 18, 2007
123 Silent Congress Members
(10 comments) Over two years ago, the following 123 Democratic Congress Members did something extraordinary.

Thursday, October 18, 2007
Dodd Ends Spying, No Senator Will Do Same for War
(5 comments) Senator Chris Dodd on Thursday single-handedly blocked a bill to legalize unconstitutional spying and immunize criminals who have engaged in it. But by doing so, Dodd may have made the biggest blunder Washington has seen in many months. He advertised the fact that a single senator with nerve has the power to block a bill, including – of course – every bill to further fund the occupation of Iraq.

Thursday, October 18, 2007
US Will Tip Its Hand Before Attacking Iran
(2 comments) If Bush and Cheney attack Iran, we will almost certainly know it's coming. For months prior to the invasion of Iraq, even while the corporate media bombarded us with the pretense that Bush and Cheney had not yet decided on war, other stories further back in the pages of newspapers and on the internet informed us, or should have informed us, that an attack was coming.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Ten Silent Senators
(1 comments) On June 22, 2005, Democratic Senators Kerry, Johnson, Corzine, Reed, Lautenberg, Boxer, Kennedy, Harkin, Bingaman, and Durbin sent the following letter to the Republican Chairman and Democratic Ranking Member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The letter stressed the urgent need for an investigation that over two years later has not been done. Only, now the Democrat is Chairman of the committee, and the other 10 Democrats..

Monday, October 15, 2007
War Lies