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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Brownbaggers not Teabaggers
On February 17th, PDA will be joined by CODEPINK, AfterDowningStreet, Democrats.com, the California Nurses Assn./National Nurses United, and United for Peace and Justice in holding brownbag vigils outside (or inside) at least 36 congress members' offices.

Sunday, February 7, 2010
We Need Government Funded Medias
(4 comments) What it would have cost us to publicly fund independent media that would have prevented the invasion of Iraq wouldn't amount, in a year, to what we spend on a month of occupying that country.

Friday, February 5, 2010
12 Leaders Cosponsor Amendment to Block Corporate Election Buying
(4 comments) Congresswoman Donna Edwards' bill proposing a Constitutional Amendment to deny corporations the free speech rights of persons in the form of unlimited election bribery spending has now been cosponsored by: John Conyers, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Jim McGovern, Keith Ellison, Chellie Pingree, Barbara Lee, Andre Carson, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Betty Sutton, Raul Grijalva and Ed Markey.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Do Those Who Oppose Torture Oppose War?
(2 comments) An appeal on "closing gitmo".

Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Edwards and Conyers Just Intro'd Constl Amendment to Overrule SCOTUS
(1 comments) Congresswoman Donna Edwards has just introduced a Constitutional amendment, together with Congressman John Conyers

Monday, February 1, 2010
Rep. Delahunt Backs War to Please Obama
Add Congressman Bill Delahunt to the list of misrepresentatives who claim to oppose wars when a Republican is president but agree to support them when a Democrat moves into the White House.

Monday, February 1, 2010
Blocking War Funding Just Got Easier
(6 comments) Last June we were handed an opportunity to block the funding of our illegal, murderous, counterproductive, catastrophic, and hated wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The president insisted on an off-the-books "emergency supplemental" bill, and the Senate added an IMF bailout to the bill, leading all the Republicans in the House to commit what for years they'd called treason: they all voted No on war money.

Saturday, January 30, 2010
Now We Impeach Jay Bybee
(6 comments) No one disputes that Jay Bybee's name is at the bottom of memos that were, and to some extent still are, treated as laws which legalized aggressive war at the pleasure of a president and a variety of acts of torture. For many months the House Judiciary Committee has had two excuses for not impeaching Judge Bybee, even while proceeding with the impeachments of a judge for groping and another judge for petty corruption.

Saturday, January 30, 2010
Rep Payne: Obama Makes War OK
(2 comments) Congressman Payne: I Won't Oppose War Money Because Obama's President

Friday, January 29, 2010
Tony Blair Forced to Testify on War Crimes
(2 comments) Former prime minister Tony Blair's testimony was streamed live at 4:30 a.m. ET at the Iraq Inquiry website and on other sites, such as the UK newspaper the Telegraph which allowed viewers to rank Blair's responses on a "Lie Meter". Telegraph readers' top desired questions pre-hearing were:

Thursday, January 28, 2010
Give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union
The president is supposed to inform Congress on how things are going in his work of executing the laws they pass.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Gone a Week and You Trash the Country
(3 comments) Wow, I was gone less than a week to the Conch Republic, and now return to a nation in which I would heartily recommend to any city, county, or state that it follow the example of the Florida Keys and secede from the so-called union.

Saturday, January 23, 2010
Powerful Video Response to SCOTUS Inc
(4 comments) Jamin Raskin, professor of constitutional law and the First Amendment at American University, has spoken out powerfully on behalf of a new campaign at FreeSpeechForPeople.org that aims to undo the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to remove limitations on corporations' election spending.

Thursday, January 21, 2010
Supreme Court Rules: Corporations Are Persons, Spending Money Is Speech
PUBLIC INTEREST GROUPS CONDEMN SUPREME COURT'S RULING ON CORPORATE MONEY IN ELECTIONS, CALL FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO OVERTURN COURT DECISION

Monday, January 18, 2010
What Bush Did to Haiti
(1 comments) If a group of dedicated scholars, attorneys, journalists, and activists had tried to generate a comprehensive list of impeachable offenses committed by George W. Bush as president, and only 35 of them had been introduced into Congress, one of the many discarded ones, in rough and overly detailed form, might have read something like this.

Monday, January 18, 2010
Vancouver: Liquid City
(2 comments) When they schedule the olympics in a city, the city usually schedules a massive international advertising campaign for its greatness as "the best place on earth," which is actually the brilliant and oh-so-convincing motto selected by Vancouver, Canada, next host of the winter olympics.

Sunday, January 17, 2010
When Woolsey Met Harman
(1 comments) Jane Harman has never seen a war she didn't like or a crime by anyone important that she couldn't excuse.

Saturday, January 16, 2010
Movement Music
(3 comments) "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution," said Emma Goldman, who might also have said "If we don't dance, not enough people will work long and hard enough in our revolution."

Thursday, January 14, 2010
A Fable for Our Time
(1 comments) Several years ago we started a community garden where I live. We worked at it quite energetically. We got more and more people involved. Much of the hardest work involved digging irrigation ditches to bring water to the soil.

Monday, January 11, 2010
Bring Back the Signing Statement
Having denounced for years the presidential practice of altering laws with signing statements, I now want the practice restored, because the current president has created something even worse.

Monday, January 11, 2010
Good News: Will We Hear It?
(2 comments) Whenever I write about U.S. politics, people ask me "Don't you have any good news?" (Unless the Republicans are in power, in which case people ask me "Who are you going to vote for?") But I do have good news, boatloads of good news, if Americans want to hear it.

Thursday, January 7, 2010
FOIA Request Filed for OPR Report on Bush's Lawyers
(1 comments) An organization of attorneys, journalists, and advocates today filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act requesting the long-suppressed report from the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) regarding the conduct of President Bush's top lawyers in the Office of Legal Counsel who authored memos purporting to authorize torture and aggressive war.

Saturday, January 2, 2010
Shooting Handcuffed Children
(6 comments) The occupied government of Afghanistan and the United Nations have both concluded that U.S.-led troops recently dragged eight sleeping children out of their beds, handcuffed some of them, and shot them all dead.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009
McCain Could Have Meant Less War
(9 comments) After two stolen elections by Bush-Cheney, an election of Grandpa John "Bomb Bomb Iran" McCain and his sorority president sidekick -- whether honest or blatantly stolen and tolerated -- would have said something hugely depressing and debilitating about the American people. But arguably it could have saved a great many lives around the world. Here's how.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009
No, We're Not a Broken People
(9 comments) In 2004 I began speaking at rallies and forums around the country on issues of peace and justice, something I've done off-and-on ever since. Up through 2008, it was extremely unusual for questions from the audience to consist of pure defeatism. In 2009, it was rare to get through a Q&A session without being asked what the point was of trying.

Sunday, December 27, 2009
An Avatar Awakening
(8 comments) Let's face it, if James Cameron had made a movie with the Iraqi resistance as the heroes and the U.S. military as the enemies, and had set it in Iraq or anywhere else on planet earth, the packed theaters viewing "Avatar" would have been replaced by a screening in a living room for eight people and a dog.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Health Insurance Mandate vs. the Constitution
(3 comments) Does the United States Constitution allow Congress to force people to purchase a product (health insurance) from a private corporation, and fine them or tax them if they refuse? The answer is a matter of debate, but there is little dispute that such an act of Congress would be unprecedented.

Monday, December 21, 2009
Resolutions, Not Hopes
I resolve to do everything in my ability, while preserving my power to continue in future years, to reverse the destruction of the environment, the proliferation of weapons and wars, and the concentration of wealth.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Don't Act Now, It's Not Too Late Yet
(1 comments) The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote today, Wednesday, December 16th, on a war funding bill that will pay for the escalation of the war in Afghanistan. Nobody will tell you that.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Look Who Just Funded the Escalation
(1 comments) The U.S. House of Representatives approved on Wednesday another $130 billion for the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and (it goes without saying) Pakistan, money that will be used to continue the wars and to escalate the war in Afghanistan.

Saturday, December 12, 2009
Wars or Jobs: Decide Now
(3 comments) Can you imagine the outcries of national shame from liberal commentators if George W. Bush had accepted a peace prize by advocating for war and announcing his right to launch wars of aggression? What an embarrassment that would have been!

Friday, December 11, 2009
Unemployment Insurance in a War Bill
It's always something that could pass just fine on its own. But it's included as lipstick on the recurring and ever-fattening pigs of U.S. politics: war funding bills.

Thursday, December 10, 2009
Obama's Rejection Speech
(14 comments) That was not a peace prize acceptance speech. That was an infomercial for war. President Obama took the peace prize home with him, but left behind in Oslo his praise for war, his claims for war, and his view of an alternative and more peaceful approach to the world consisting of murderous economic sanctions.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009
What the OPR Torture Report Will Not Say
(1 comments) It's October 23, 2002, and you're Jay Bybee, the man in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel in the United States Department of Justice. John Yoo and a bunch of other lawyers willing to claim that absolutely anything is legal work for you. But you'd much rather be a judge. That would be a cushy job, a lifetime job, a job with a book of the Bible named for it, a job where you would get to decide which crimes to legalize...

Thursday, December 3, 2009
News from the Counting House
In every village of the kingdom the heralds would cry out the news. And always it would be the same news from every herald who wore the purple sash. But other heralds would cry out different news, crazy news, news that wasn't news at all.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009
WAR: It's Not the President's Decision
(3 comments) The U.S. Constitution leaves the decision to wage war to Congress, and Congress can enforce its decision not to wage war by refusing to fund it. Blocking a funding bill for wars requires the House of Representatives alone, and both Democrats and Republicans in the House are rapidly joining us in saying No to war funding.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009
David Obey Still Thinks You're an Idiot
(2 comments) Two years ago, the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, David Obey, screamed at a friend of mine, Tina Richards, denouncing "idiot liberals" who are foolish enough to suggest that opposing a war should involve ceasing to fund it.

Monday, November 30, 2009
Afghanistan: Our 177th Colony
(2 comments) During a televised football game on Sunday, an announcer welcomed the members of the U.S. military viewing the game in 177 nations around the world. When the news came on, the topic was the same one it's been for weeks, speculation as to whether and how much a single individual will escalate war by sending tens of thousands of additional troops to nation number 177, Afghanistan.

Friday, November 20, 2009
IRAQ MASH
I had to read a lot of books about the current war and occupation in Iraq before I found one that's laugh out-loud hilarious.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Why Can't We Do to DC What We Did to Seattle?
(3 comments) I've been reading a brand new book called "The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle," which is in large part an analysis of what worked in the protesting of the World Trade Organization 10 years ago. Why is it, I wonder, that activists were able to shut down the center of this major city in Washington state, but for years we have been unable to shut down the center of Washington, D.C., in opposition to wars.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
KSM and MSM
(2 comments) Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the corporate "mainstream" media make quite a pair. We're hearing a very "balanced" debate over whether KSM should be tried in New York City, and whether the most insane objections to that proposal are really insane or not. But what are we not hearing?

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
They Should Get a Union
(1 comments) "If a majority of workers want a union, they should get a union. It's that simple. We need to stand up to the business lobby and pass the Employee Free Choice Act. That's why I've been fighting for it in the Senate and that's why I'll make it the law of the land when I'm president of the United States." --Barack Obama

Sunday, November 15, 2009
Asking Republicans for a Favor
(9 comments) And, like you, I think President Barack Obama has way, way, way too much power. But, unlike you, I'm not principally to blame for that.

Friday, November 13, 2009
Authoritative Rejection of Afghanistan War
(9 comments) Even on its own terms defending the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iraq as validated by experts is a miserable failure.

Thursday, November 12, 2009
If the Congressional Progressive Caucus Were Progressive
(4 comments) The Congressional Progressive Caucus has 82 members, 81 in the House and 1 in the Senate, but has taken the anti-progressive onslaught of recent years lying down.

Thursday, November 12, 2009
Come Together Right Now
If you have an interest in grassroots organizing, international alliance building, the peace movement, the labor movement, the conversion of the U.S. economy from weapons to human needs, the preservation of life on earth (come on, admit it), the weaponization of space, or the autobiographical insights of smart and determined people, then I cannot more strongly recommend that you get a copy of "Come Together Right Now"

Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Our Debt to Italy
The United States of America owes much of the hope it has right now of remaining what John Adams called "a nation of laws, not men" to Italian law enforcement. Were it not for the fact that Italian prosecutors, unlike their American counterparts, answer to the law rather than a president, the enforcement of laws against a massive crime spree by U.S. officials (and their Italian accomplices) would not have begun.

Saturday, November 7, 2009
How to End Wars
(9 comments) It's not how you think.

Thursday, November 5, 2009
Between Hate Speech and Adoration
Statements of undisputed facts about President Obama's actions can generate declarations on progressive websites that one has "gone too far" or said something that "should not be said." Honesty has been replaced by loyalty. The most common place to find accurate statements on presidential abuses of power is buried in a sea of lunacy on rightwing websites that conclude their analyses with encouragement of violence.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Weiner Amendment Vote on Friday Will Fail and Serve as a Cover for Removing Kucinich Amendment
(2 comments) Word is that the full House will vote on national single-payer Medicare for All on Friday. This vote is a cover for the removal of an amendment that was in the House "healthcare" bill until Pelosi stripped it out. That amendment would have made it easier for states to enact single-payer, and still would if a conference committee is persuaded to reinstate it.

Monday, November 2, 2009
Between Hate Speech and Adoration
(3 comments) Room needs to be created for other types of speech. We must be able to criticize and even legally prevent incitement of political violence, while at the same time examining what has made some people susceptible to that kind of talk, and while simultaneously speaking honestly about the failings of the people being targeted.

Sunday, November 1, 2009
The Two Percent Robustness
Black is white. War is peace. Love is hate. 2 percent is robust.

Friday, October 30, 2009
Dangerous People Needed
(2 comments) On Thursday night I had the privilege of viewing a premier of a film together with its star. The theater was in the U.S. Capitol, and the film was "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers"

Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Congress Must Stop Torture
(3 comments) ADD YOUR NAME TO THOSE OF 83 HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS AND LEADERS

Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Which Side Are You On?
(2 comments) There appear to be two teams in Washington playing under the banners of elephants and donkeys. But . . .

Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Healthcare Hoax from Hell
(8 comments) An amendment allowing states to create state-level single-payer healthcare has been stripped out of the House healthcare bill, after having passed in committee back in July by a vote of 27 to 19.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Fox Is News, Bad News
(5 comments) It matters because there is a more destructive force in our communications system than a transparently rightwing buffoons gallery. That destructive force is the persistent myth of "objective" "viewpoint-free" reporting.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009
States Permitted to Worsen But Not Improve Healthcare?
(39 comments) The absence of a civilized healthcare system in the United States, almost alone among wealthy nations, results in tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths every year. But if something is to be done soon to save lives it is not going to be done in Washington, D.C. It is going to be done in Sacramento, Harrisburg, Columbus, Springfield, Augusta, Denver.

Thursday, October 22, 2009
Bricks in the Chamber Pot of Commerce
(1 comments) The US Chamber of Commerce blew a mere $39 million on lobbying in Washington in the past three months. Lobbying for the promotion of global warming, the denial of healthcare, the further deregulation (if possible) of the financial "industry", blockage of the right to unionize, the lowering and elimination of minimum wage laws, maintenance of tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas, and protection of the "right" of corporations

Thursday, October 22, 2009
Blocking Escalation of War Not Good Enough
(1 comments) Why is it that every time we elect "peace" candidates we defund the peace movement, stop calling for an end to wars, and limit our demands exclusively to opposing war escalations?

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Your Town Can Demand Justice More Loudly Than You
(3 comments) Most city council members take oaths to defend the Constitution. The Constitution makes the rights and standards in its amendments and in international treaties the supreme law of the land. Our nation has a rich tradition of local governments lobbying state and national governments through the passage of resolutions. Under Clause 3, Rule XII, Section 819, of the Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives local governments m

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Tom Donohue and the Chamber of Open Secrets
(1 comments) Pulling pranks on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is just too easy. The Yes Men held a press conference this week pretending to speak for the chamber and fooled the journalists in the room, because "We are no longer going to promote the destruction of the earth's climate" is such a compelling position that it's very tempting to imagine that any human being could adopt it.

Saturday, October 17, 2009
Army Experience Center's Bad Experience: Turns out Training Kids to Kill Not Popular with Public
(27 comments) The military says they're not going to clone the Army Experience Center because recruiting is up due to the economy. You wouldn't expect them to admit that protesters opposing the experiment in military war 'porn' as they described it, actually played a significant role in shutting it down with protests that led to arrests, including the arrest of OEN managing editor Cheryl Biren, who was not protesting, merely taking photos

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Imperial Presidency 2.0
(7 comments) Will you love every future president?

Thursday, October 8, 2009
Rep. Obey Joins Us Idiot Liberals
(1 comments) Congressman David Obey (D., Wis.) is the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. He's in charge of spending our money. And until this week, he has always maintained that spending hundreds of billions of our dollars on wars was something he just had no choice about.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Top 15 Reasons to Get Out of Vietghanistan
(7 comments) There are many more.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Peace Activists Arrested at White House
(2 comments) On Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, just after noon, about 60 activists were arrested at the White House for failing to obey a police order. The nonviolent “Civil Resistance” action was the largest such antiwar demonstration at this particular site, since President Barack Obama took office.

Monday, October 5, 2009
We Were Arrested for Speaking
(12 comments) U.S. Park Policeman (USPP) who shall remain nameless on Monday, October 5, 2009: Next! Me: Is that me?

Saturday, October 3, 2009
Who SHOULD Decide About War?
(2 comments) Who should decide: we the people of the world, through democratically created and enforced international and national and state laws.

Friday, October 2, 2009
McChrystal Must Testify
(2 comments) On Thursday, 22 Democratic congress members introduced a bill to deny funding to any escalation of war in Afghanistan, and 60 Democratic senators voted that Congress should not even speak to a general about that war until after the president has decided whether to escalate it. These two actions come out of very different understandings of war powers.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009
New York Times Hypes Iran Threat By Pretending Not To
The New York Times doesn't mention the pivotal role it played in lying us into a war in Iraq, but it doesn't have to. Everybody knows. On Wednesday, the Times put this article on its front page, and I highly recommend it as an ideal liner for bird cages:

Tuesday, September 29, 2009
16 Arrested at Aetna for Demanding Healthcare
(14 comments) Sixteen people were arrested this morning at 99 Park Ave in New York City for entering the lobby of the health insurance company Aetna and demanding that Aetna stop denying healthcare approved by doctors.

Sunday, September 27, 2009
ACORN Versus Serious Criminals: Defund Lockheed
(4 comments) First let's put the crusade to defund ACORN in context.

Friday, September 25, 2009
ACORN Took Over IL Repub Party
The ACORN member said, "ACORN has taken over the Republican Party in Illinois. Can I help you?"

Thursday, September 24, 2009
The Conyers-Bybee Love Story
There is strong evidence that John Conyers, Patrick Leahy, and most of the rest of us are in love with torture-lawyer Jay Bybee. I'm not talking about sexual love and wouldn't, because people's lives are lost to such bread-and-circuses journalism every day. I'm talking deep personal devotion.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
No Good War, No Good Drone
(4 comments) Eight years of slaughter, and not so much as a hint at what a "victory" would look like. It's gotten to the point where even polls by Fox News show a majority of Americans against escalating the war in Afghanistan, and polls by more honest organizations show a majority wanting to bring home the troops that are there now.

Monday, September 21, 2009
Dallas Does Progressivism
(5 comments) This past Saturday, I joined in a protest at a former president's house, took part in a four-hour progressive politics forum in an enormous theater packed with an enthusiastic crowd, and spoke at a fundraiser for GI resistance in a giant gay cathedral, all in the heart of the hinterlands: Dallas, Texas.

Monday, September 21, 2009
Is Andrew Sullivan King of America?
(1 comments) You decide.

Monday, September 14, 2009
Army's Shopping Mall Death Hall Closed
The Army Experience Center, an amusement hall built in a Philadelphia area shopping mall to make killing and dying look like fun to kids, has been the focus of repeated protests and criticism. This past weekend hundreds again protested at the AEC, and police arrested six protesters and one journalist. The journalist was not with the protesters, and was picked out of a crowd, apparently because of her professional camera.

Monday, September 14, 2009
Twelve Twisted Truths
Sarah Palin was right and other shocking facts

Monday, September 14, 2009
Virtual JFK, Actual Johnson
(4 comments) "Virtual JFK" actually consists of a review of the evidence from Kennedy's actions before he died and of the situation that confronted Lyndon Johnson as president, thereby making the case that had Kennedy lived we would not have seen a full-scale war in Vietnam.

Saturday, September 12, 2009
Go Inland, Young Progressives!
(2 comments) Separating the Midwestern state of Ohio, where soda's called "pop" and workers are sometimes allowed to unionize, from my East Coast home state of Virginia, where a governor perched on a diseased branch of my own family tree gave the nation its first right-to-work-for-less law, is nothing other than the beautiful and brutal mountains of West Virginia. As you climb those mountains headed west two things plummet to the valleys

Monday, September 7, 2009
At the Beck and Call of a Sunshine Patriot
(3 comments) Fox News screaming head Glenn Beck now tells President Obama to fire White House employees, and Obama obeys. While Obama presumably believes obedience will cause Beck to like him and begin praising him, Beck is building a list of additional people whose heads he will demand and denouncing Obama as hiding vast secrets by having complied with the demand to fire Van Jones.

Monday, September 7, 2009
Rep. Sutton Commits on Pub Option
I'm in Congresswoman Betty Sutton's home town in Ohio and just spoke with her as she got ready to march in a Labor Day parade.

Monday, September 7, 2009
I'm Finally Hopeful
(5 comments) I'm a progressive and you're a progressive, but I'm starting to find reason to hope as you're coming off a giant sugar high and plunging into the deep despair of one betrayed and scorned. What gives?

Friday, September 4, 2009
There Are So Many Days That Have Not Yet Broken
(8 comments) I got pulled over for speeding in Texas yesterday and the officer looked like the kind of guy who dreamed about using his taser. So when he asked for my license and registration, I slowly got them out and handed them over.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Day Is Breaking (And Bye Bye Beck)
(2 comments) My new book "Daybreak" is now, on its first day of publication, ranked on Amazon.com as the #4 politics nonfiction book, the #7 nonfiction book, and the #22 book, not to mention the #1 leaders and leadership book, the #1 criminal law book, and the #1 law enforcement book.

Saturday, August 29, 2009
Hurricane Dubya Four Years On
(3 comments) Hurricane Katrina is not as sexy as torture, but has killed more people and ruined more lives, and -- like many non-natural disasters in recent years -- has a chief culprit who has now settled in at 10141 Daria Place, Dallas, Texas, where he clears very little brush and where -- to my knowledge -- not a single politician or journalist or author has sought his wisdom on the affairs of the past seven months. George W. Bush, who

Friday, August 28, 2009
Bush Tortured
(5 comments) It seems almost trivial to accuse someone who launched an illegal war that has killed over a million people of torture. But if we are going to prosecute the lowest ranked torturers, it makes sense to look up the chain of command.

Friday, August 28, 2009
Holder's Bad Applism and Our Own
(2 comments) Attorney General Eric Holder is addressing a war crime without addressing the wars, and is focusing on the lowest ranking participants in that crime without addressing its status as official policy established by higher ups and openly confessed to by a former president and vice president. This is bad applism, the same approach that has held a handful of recruits responsible for Abu Ghraib, claiming to thereby remove bad apple

Friday, August 28, 2009
Torture Memos in a Book
(2 comments) The New Press has just published seven of the torture memos with a 40-page introduction by David Cole and a 3-page forward by Phillipe Sands. For those who prefer books to lengthy PDFs or printouts thereof, this is a real service. If we were a literate society, a book like this would put a number of important people behind bars.

Sunday, August 23, 2009
Astroturfing on the Left
(3 comments) We've grown accustomed to recognizing astroturfing on the right. But what about astroturfing on the left? How do we feel about that? Here's an example.

Thursday, August 20, 2009
Obama IS Leading, But in the Wrong Direction
And you can overturn any of the most foul smelling developments in Congress's crawl to healthcare, and you'll find that Obama told the Democrats exactly what to do, and they did it.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Truckfuls of Bodies
(2 comments) Michael Vick, the football player who's all over the news, should have tortured humans instead of dogs. Then we would have been told to overlook it for the sake of moving forward.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Nascence to End Work
Cultures isolated from modernity have tended not to engage in anything resembling what we call work. When we began inventing modern time-saving devices and increasing productivity in our factories (and, yes, exploiting other peoples to do the factory work) we were always told we'd be able to work less -- often by people who clearly imagined there were limits to human greed and cruelty.

Thursday, August 6, 2009
Six Months of Immunity
Drafted in preparation for panel discussion at Veterans for Peace national convention August 7, 2009, on topic of "Holding the Architects of Illegal Wars and War Crimes Accountable."

Friday, July 31, 2009
PDA Spends Fifth Birthday on Healthcare Not Warfare
Progressive Democrats of America has turned five. I've written before about what PDA has accomplished. On Thursday night it celebrated the five-year mark with a party at the end of a long day of rallying, lobbying, and strategizing on Capitol Hill.

Friday, July 31, 2009
Single Payer Summer
(2 comments) The U.S. House of Representatives has committed to bringing single-payer healthcare to a vote following summer recess. Stranger things have happened, greater obstacles have been overcome, than what would be involved in winning that vote, winning in the Senate, and compelling the president to sign the bill.

Thursday, July 30, 2009
Friday: Crucial Vote on Single Payer Healthcare
Friday: Crucial Vote on Single Payer Healthcare

Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Change in the SOFA
In November 2008, then President George W. Bush and then Puppet Nouri al-Maliki negotiated an unprecedented, unconstitutional treaty to "legalize" three more years of war in a manner not unlike the "legalization" of invasions, detentions, torture, and warrantless spying by secret decree of the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Artists, and Advocates Urge Attorney General Holder to Uphold the Rule of Law
Several prominent Americans, including authors, artists, legal experts, and renowned voices of conscience, today transmitted a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder urging the appointment of a prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture and other violations of human rights and civil liberties committed by former government officials and others.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The Joint Public Option Single Payer United Front
(4 comments) If you support a healthcare bill with a public option in it, chances are many single-payer advocates don't trust you. If you supported that same bill in exactly the same way and also advocated leaving in it the language that allows states to create single-payer, those same missing passionate advocates might not line up perfectly with you, but many of them would be willing to work together -- or at least have a beer.

Monday, July 27, 2009
Nine More Go to Jail for Single Payer
(5 comments) Following a pattern of civil resistance in Washington D.C. and around the country, citizens in Des Moines Iowa on Monday risked arrest to press for the creation of single-payer healthcare, the establishment of healthcare as a human right, and an end to the deadly practices of Iowa's largest health insurance company, Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Sunday, July 26, 2009
Holder Joins Conyers in Demanding Action
(15 comments) House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers has called on Attorney General Eric Holder to open a criminal investigation into the misdeeds of former president George W. Bush and former vice president Richard B. Cheney.

Friday, July 24, 2009
The Risks of a Partial Prosecution
(2 comments) If Attorney General Eric Holder creates a special prosecutor for torture but forbids him or her to prosecute the lawyers who facilitated torture or the top officials who ordered it, proposing to go after only torturers who exceeded the limitations outlined in the lawyers' memos, what are the risks?

Friday, July 24, 2009
US Troops Hiding in Iraqi Homes
(1 comments) A few words from U.S. troops in Iraq, all quoted in Chapter 1 of Dahr Jamail's brilliant new book "The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan":

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Single-Payer Healthcare Gets a Vote
(1 comments) Congressman Anthony Weiner (D., N.Y.) has introduced an amendment in the House Energy and Commerce Committee that would replace the convoluted please- the- public- and- the- insurance- companies- at- the- same- time healthcare bill with the single-payer plan found in HR 676 and backed by 86 members of Congress.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Call now for single payer healthcare vote!
Please call for single payer, especially if you live in one of the swing representative's districts. It is entirely possible that Weiner's single-payer amendment will pass, but even if it does not pass, the support it musters will nonetheless serve to improve the bill and maintain a useful public option. Without it, the compromise to win over the worst Democrats has to begin with the current bill and move down from there.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Healthcare and Free Press: Two Human Rights We Lack
(12 comments) Another name for "what's called a single-payer system" would be: healthcare as a human right, not a commodity to be purchased. Many humans have this right. They just aren't Americans.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009
If Media Were Any Good
(1 comments) A week ago, I published a report on 1,200 photos of U.S. torture that I have examined but the public at large has not seen. I talked about the photos on a few progressive radio shows. I received calls from some advocacy groups that have been trying for years to get hold of these photos. But I received not one single inquiry from the corporate media. Even most good blogs ignored this story despite a handful of prominent blogs.

Monday, July 20, 2009
Not What Obama Promised
(4 comments) In six months as president, Barack Obama has aggressively done the opposite of many specific things he explicitly and unequivocally promised as a candidate. A lot of these were things Obama's fiercest opponents never wanted. And Obama's fiercest supporters favor censoring this information. But if we expect public servants to be public servants, the public must know the facts, make of them what it will.

Friday, July 17, 2009
House Lets States Do Single-Payer
On Friday morning at 9:45 a.m. ET in the House Committee on Education and Labor, the committee members voted 25 to 19 to pass Congressman Dennis Kucinich's amendment to the healthcare reform bill.

Thursday, July 16, 2009
Will Congress Ban States from Providing Healthcare?
The healthcare legislation under consideration in Congress would prevent states from improving on what Congress creates. An amendment is under consideration right now in a House committee that would change that, leaving the federal initiative as is but permitting states to do better.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Happy Fifth Birthday, PDA!
The most useful tool progressive political activists have in the United States, at the local, state, and national levels, was created from scratch five years ago, and has been developed and sharpened while proving itself time and again in each and every week since.

Monday, July 13, 2009
I've Seen 1,200 Torture Photos
(12 comments) This moment, in which the Attorney General of the United States claims to be considering the possibility of allowing our laws against torture to be enforced seems a good one in which to reveal that I have seen over 1,200 torture photos and a dozen videos that are in the possession of the United States military.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Two Ways to Pay As You Go
The day after ramming through nearly $100 billion more for wars and $100 billion in loans to European banks through the IMF, the majority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, Steny Hoyer, introduced a "PayGo" bill, requiring that any spending be paid for with cuts in other spending.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Reading the Rules of Disengagement
(1 comments) Should soldiers follow illegal orders? Should they take part in illegal wars and occupations? And if they don't want to do so, what choices do they have?

Tuesday, July 7, 2009
March on Congress or President?
(1 comments) It might be ideal to protest, pressure, and lobby both the Congress and the president, but if you have to choose the top priority, which is it?

Sunday, July 5, 2009
Remove the Filibuster from the Senate Rules
(1 comments) When the Democrats were in the minority and out of the White House, they told us they wanted to work for us but needed to be in the majority. So, in 2006, we put them there. Then they told us that they really wished they could work for us but they needed bigger majorities and the White House. So, in 2008/2009, we gave them those things, and deprived them of two key excuses for inaction. We took away the veto excuse and the fil

Saturday, July 4, 2009
Declaration of Indictment
(1 comments) It is the Right of the People to demand the prosecution of the criminals and to refuse subservience to that Government until this Demand is met, and thereby to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Friday, July 3, 2009
A Plan to End the Wars
(9 comments) In my analysis, we should be focusing on three things, which for purposes of brevity and alliteration I will call: Communications, Congress, and Counter recruitment / resistance.

Thursday, July 2, 2009
Waking from Madison's Nightmare
The book I just read is in the running, in my estimation, for second-best text on how to undo the imperial presidency.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Declaration of Indictment
(7 comments) When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with a gang of lawless thugs and insist on the appointment of a special prosecutor to enforce the laws of the land even against those until recently holding the reins of Power

Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Italy to Declare Independence from U.S. Military
Do they have a fourth of July in Italy? That's not a trick question. This July 4th, Italians plan to gather in Vicenza to take nonviolent action aimed at freeing Italy from U.S. occupation and opposing the proposed construction of an enormous new U.S. military base in a town already swarming with U.S. troops stationed at existing bases.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Why Are Two Top Torture Lawyers Working for Obama?
John Yoo and Jay Bybee wrote the worst of these memos. But the memos take the form of responses to inquiries from a guy named John Rizzo. Yes, Mr. Rizzo, you may slam that guy against a wall. No, Mr. Rizzo, you may not drown that one unless you have a doctor present. And so on.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Senate Bill Would Allow Prosecution of Bush for Iraq War
(4 comments) Senators Dick Durbin, Russ Feingold, and Patrick Leahy have introduced a bill in the United States Senate (S. 1346) that would allow the prosecution of George W. Bush and his subordinates for the invasion of Iraq.

Monday, June 29, 2009
Cheney's Top Torture Lawyers Now Work for Obama
(2 comments) Two of the worst now work for President Barack Obama.

Saturday, June 27, 2009
The Emperor's Seven Signing Statements
(11 comments) Lawless detention is the least of it. State secrets and warrantless spying scrape the surface. Drone attacks and ongoing torture begin to touch it.

Friday, June 26, 2009
Our Political Prisoners
Did you know the United States has in recent years prosecuted hundreds of people for political reasons? This is a crime, or rather a crime wave, that has thus far been addressed primarily by ignoring it.

Thursday, June 25, 2009
Why Demand to Prosecute Torture Will Grow
(7 comments) (Remarks at Torture Accountability Action Day rally in Washington, D.C., June 25, 2009 -- video of this and other speeches at AfterDowningStreet.org)

Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Trading Press Events for Votes: What Should Press Do?
If you were a reporter and suspected that the PR stunt you were "reporting" on was very likely part of a deal to win a vote for war and bank bailouts, would you mention that circumstance? Would you perhaps refuse to cover the "event" at all? Would you choose to cover the deficit and green jobs events but report separately on the vote-whipping and partisan corruption? Or would you simply sit back and allow yourself to be played

Monday, June 22, 2009
Rallies Around U.S. To Demand Accountability for Torture
(2 comments) Thursday, June 25, 2009, has been designated Torture Accountability Action Day by a large coalition of human rights groups planning rallies and marches in major U.S. cities, including a rally in Washington, D.C.'s John Marshall Park at 11 a.m. followed by a noon march to the Justice Department where some participants will risk arrest in nonviolent protest if a special prosecutor for torture is not appointed.

Sunday, June 21, 2009
U.S. Govt. Threatens to Prosecute Waterboarding
(2 comments) The greatest hypocrisy is not that our president is speaking up for protesters as long as they are in Iran, while the Pentagon considers protesting to constitute "low level terrorism" when practiced within the United States. The greatest hypocrisy is that laws are being enforced while the most important laws and the most egregious violations are being ignored as a matter of loudly announced principle.

Sunday, June 21, 2009
What Bush Told Blair Could End the Wars
(5 comments) The single most powerful, and yet largely ignored, document yet to emerge, might, now in 2009, finally, produce results. And, of course, it is our friends over in England who are, as always, two steps ahead of us.

Friday, June 19, 2009
U.S. Govt. Threatens to Prosecute Waterboarding
(3 comments) Is this good news?

Thursday, June 18, 2009
It Could Happen to Yoo
(2 comments) Sometimes, during a tsunami of bad news, it's nice to come up for a breath of encouraging air. The only way to do that this week that I know of is to read a beautiful 42-page order by a judge (PDF). Usually such things don't strike me as beautiful, but this one says that leading torture lawyer John Yoo can be sued in court by one of his victims.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
McGovern: Reporter Made It Up, I'm Voting NO on War $
I just spoke with Keith Stern, communications director for Congressman Jim McGovern and asked him whether the report in Congress Now yesterday was true, that McGovern, who has been one of the most reliable members of Congress in opposing wars, would now be voting Yes on the war money.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
In Congress: 32 Heroes, 21 Frauds
(6 comments) Of the original 51, 30 stayed strong.

Monday, June 15, 2009
An Exit Strategy That Keeps Wars Going
(1 comments) If George Orwell could see this he'd probably curse himself for not having thought of it. We are apparently about to see wars perpetuated by an exit strategy. How is this possible?

Sunday, June 14, 2009
Funding Wars Is Good for Babies and Your Garden
(1 comments) The executive director of something called the National Security Network, named Heather Hurlburt, offers -- I kid you not, and that's really her name, so try not to hurl -- Six Reasons to Love the Supplemental and Celebrate Progressives in Government.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Put Wars and Banksters on PAYGO
(1 comments) On Tuesday President Obama proposed that any increases in federal spending on anything useful, such as healthcare or retirement security, must be balanced by cuts and savings to something else useful, such as healthcare or retirement security.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Why Would Anyone Oppose Torture?
(5 comments) Someone recently asked if I could please explain to him why anybody would oppose torture. After all, we defend killing in wars, so why not defend torture? And wouldn't I torture to save my kidnapped child?

Monday, June 8, 2009
Moran for Virginia
I ran into Creigh Deeds, candidate for Virginia Governor, at the farmer's market in Charlottesville on Saturday.

Monday, June 8, 2009
Omnibus CYA Act of 2009
(1 comments) A healthy rivalry between the branches of government is the soul of our republic, so when the Senate's proposed ban on releasing photos and videos of torture fell short of completely covering things up, the White House proposed allowing prisoners to plead guilty to capital crimes and be executed without actual trials that might reveal evidence. Preemption being the technique of the hour, I'm going to preemptively fill you in

Monday, June 8, 2009
Making It Worse: Campaign for America's Future vs. Single-Payer
(2 comments) Rather than apologizing, which even Max Baucus has done sort of, CAF decided to put forth a bunch of insultingly false reasons why single-payer is a terrible idea.

Monday, June 8, 2009
Congress Could Investigate War Fraud With a Mirror
(1 comments) The greatest war fraud is the funding of war by individuals who claim to oppose it and who vote against funding it whenever a bill is guaranteed to pass.

Saturday, June 6, 2009
Join a Convoy to Gaza
(2 comments) We need to show the world that Americans care.

Friday, June 5, 2009
Stop the War Supplemental
The House is about to vote on another supplemental spending bill for continued and escalated wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We're not accustomed to winning in our efforts to block war money, but the Democratic leadership has delayed the vote out of concern that we will.

Thursday, June 4, 2009
A New Beginning: If Only
(2 comments) President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo probably did a world of good. It was packed with truth telling and noble sentiments. But imagine how much more good would be done if all the best parts of it corresponded to reality.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Baucus Tells Single-Payer Advocates No
(14 comments) Senator Max Baucus met Wednesday with advocates for single-payer healthcare, including Senator Bernie Sanders, and told them that he might drop criminal charges against 13 people arrested for speaking up in his hearings, but that he would not include any supporters of single-payer health coverage in any future hearings.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009
America's Future Moves Forward
Every year in Washington, D.C., the Campaign for America's Future (CAF) convenes the largest conference of activists positioned anywhere to the left of wherever the center has drifted off to.

Saturday, May 30, 2009
#1 Idea on Obama's Site
(3 comments) The number one policy proposal on the president's website and now second most popular proposal over all calls for prosecuting Bush and Cheney.

Friday, May 29, 2009
Open Govt Extends Hours: What Will You Vote For?
The president's open government site was supposed to allow brainstorming through May 28th, but the top policy proposal and third highest ranked proposal overall, as of the end of the 28th, was "End the Imperial Presidency."

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
"Looting of America" Author Sees Opportunity in Meltdown
(2 comments) I've just interviewed Les Leopold, who blames the recent financial disasters on trends that began over 30 years ago, explains how a great deal of Wall Street's "investing" has had as much connection to the real economy as fantasy baseball has to baseball, diagnoses the failures of labor and the left to resist the financialization of the economy, views the current situation with genuine optimism as a rare moment in which...

Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Obama's Open Forum Opens Possibilities
(2 comments) Now President Obama is asking for our opinions on a website. This is a good thing but should be gone into with some caveats.

Sunday, May 24, 2009
The 45th President
(3 comments) Imagine the next president is the worst you can conceive of. Now, let's stop to consider what powers #45 will inherit from the previous 44 men, what powers have been used by at least one previous president in recent years without being blocked by Congress or the courts or a subsequent president: the powers to rewrite laws with signing statements, to create laws by simple decree, to draft and act on secret laws...

Friday, May 22, 2009
Fantasy Finance and Real Fixes
If you're like me you find it at least a bit disturbing that we're giving trillions of dollars to save the economy to the very people who wrecked it, and more disturbing that we're doing so without any solid basis for expecting to get much of it back and without making fundamental changes to prevent a repetition.

Thursday, May 21, 2009
Does Cheney Make Obama Look Good Enough?
(2 comments) Dick Cheney could make anyone look decent, honorable, and law-abiding by comparison. But is the existence of someone worse, no matter how many hours our media monopoly gives him, enough to make Obama's decisions acceptable? Let's look at their pair of speeches given on Thursday in Washington, D.C., and depicted as a debate by the media.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Priorities
(2 comments) What are they?

Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Too Slow Zelikow: UVA Backs Torture
(6 comments) If I could feel more shame over my country's torture it would be over my university's support for torture.

Monday, May 18, 2009
Disbarring 12 Torture Lawyers
(9 comments) Broad Coalition Of Groups Files Disciplinary Complaints Against Twelve Bush Administration Lawyers Who Advocated Torture Of Detainees

Thursday, May 14, 2009
Holder's Plans as Clear as Gonzales' Memory
"I don't recall" is now "that would depend."

Thursday, May 14, 2009
76 Members of Congress Oppose Staying in Afghanistan Forever
(1 comments) "Everyone I know – including President Obama – keeps telling me that there is no military solution in Afghanistan, only a political solution."

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
200 Orgs Ask for Special Prosecutor for Cheney and Bush
(9 comments) 200 Organizations Ask Holder to Appoint a Special Prosecutor for Bush, Cheney, et alia

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Baucus Arrests Five More Doctors, Nurses, Activists
(12 comments) As Chairman Max Baucus called the hearing to order, about 20 members of the California Nurses Association (CNA) stood and turned their backs on the committee.

Monday, May 11, 2009
Three Worst Reasons to Delay Putting Cheney in Prison
#1: Cheney says that he and Bush ordered torture but did nothing wrong.

Friday, May 8, 2009
In the Name of Womanhood and Humanity
(1 comments) Imagine that tomorrow you begin to feel ill and rush to the hospital where you are eventually diagnosed with a horribly debilitating and probably incurable disease.

Thursday, May 7, 2009
Baucus v. Democracy
(4 comments) I can't recall a better corporate news video segment in at least the past decade than the story that Ed Schultz just aired on MSNBC in which he interviews Margaret Flowers of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and Senator Debbie Stabenow on the topic of healthcare reform.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
It's National Nancy Off the Table Day
(4 comments) That's right, children, it's national Nancy Day, honoring the occasion on May 7, 2006, when Nancy Pelosi first allowed Tim Russert to badger her into agreeing that she wouldn't permit the impeachment of Saint George or Father Dick, not even if they barbequed children on the White House lawn.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009
An Even Worse Bybee Memo
This memo justified a war of aggression and all the crimes and abuses of power abroad and at home that were justified by the war. Jay Bybee has a lifetime appointment as a federal judge wearing black robes drenched in the crimson blood of his victims. His crimes are on paper in black and white for the world to see. If he is not impeached and prosecuted, similar horrors await our planet in the near future.

Monday, May 4, 2009
An Even Worse Bybee Memo
Jay Bybee wrote another memo that nobody has noticed, one purporting to authorize crimes far worse than torture, the same crimes the torture was itself intended to create false justifications for.

Monday, May 4, 2009
Give Everyone Healthcare By Shutting Insurance Companies
(20 comments) Our nation has more money than any other, more weapons than all the others combined, and a majority of its citizens believing it is, in some undefined sense, superior.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The Wrong Torture Question
(7 comments) When Americans get "ethical" these days they ponder the great moral mysteries, like "Is public health coverage fair to insurance companies?" or "If we increase the military budget but reduce one section of it, can the whole world still be safe?" or "Would you still oppose torture if it worked?"

Monday, April 27, 2009
Torture Is Foreplay for War
(2 comments) When did recent U.S. torture begin on a major scale? When September 11, 2001, provided a weak excuse to attack Iraq, an excuse that would need some bolstering. When did Bybee send the CIA a recipe for torturing Abu Zubaydah? A week after the Downing Street meeting.

Monday, April 27, 2009
The International Criminal Court and A Rogue Empire
(3 comments) This is largely a history of the development of international law, culminating in the surprising success of the creation of an international criminal court (ICC). The ICC now has 108 countries as state parties, and the theoretical power to prosecute war crimes by anyone anywhere on earth.

Thursday, April 23, 2009
Holder Just Made Me a Promise
(2 comments) As Attorney General Eric Holder left an appropriations subcommittee hearing on Thursday I spoke loudly from the third row as he prepared to leave the room:

Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Take Heart and Have Courage
(1 comments) We've pushed long and hard to put accountability, impeachment, prosecution, and the restoration of congressional power on the American table, and they've all just landed with a thud and splatter of gravy and cranberry dressing. So, eat up, take heart, and prepare to work harder than we have over the past several frustrating years of path breaking and pressure building.

Friday, April 17, 2009
Jerrold Nadler Requests Special Prosecutor for Torture
(9 comments) Congressman Jerrold Nadler has just publicly asked that the Attorney General appoint a special prosecutor.

Thursday, April 16, 2009
Obama Protecting Bush from Spain?
(5 comments) The official story is that Spain has decided not to prosecute Bush's torture lawyers. Yet the known facts suggest something else entirely.

Thursday, April 16, 2009
Personal Torture Laws: Your Tax Dollars at Work
(1 comments) On August 1, 2002, then-Assistant Attorney General of the United States Jay Bybee sent an 18-page official memorandum from the Office of Legal Counsel to the Acting General Counsel of the CIA John Rizzo. Such memos are treated as laws within our government, not opinions, not theories, not briefings, but laws.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Obama's Press Secretary Explains Rights, Laws, and Lack Thereof
(4 comments) If you missed Tuesday's press conference at the White House, press secretary Robert Gibbs got himself into some trouble, and it all started with those two little syllables:

Monday, April 13, 2009
Bag the Tea Bagging
(6 comments) Sadly, those involved in these events across the nation support tax policies more in line with King George than with most colonists.

Saturday, April 11, 2009
Inventing the Terrorist Threat
(12 comments) Virginia is for lovers, but there's a terrorist behind every dogwood. Or so you might gather from the "2009 Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment" by the "Commonwealth of Virginia Department of State Police Virginia Fusion Center" which is part federal and therefore not Virginian and part private and therefore not commonwealth.

Friday, April 10, 2009
Perfect Politicians: Grading Congress on a Curve
Raise your hand if you recall the 110th Congress (2007 - 2008) as having spent two years funding a war in Iraq that it had been elected to end, increasing the military's bloated budget, and adamantly refusing to hold war criminals accountable?

Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Up Is Down: The Military Budget
(6 comments) The largest military budget in the history of the world is being increased. Certain weapons are being cut back, others expanded. But the overall budget is going UP. However, you don't need me to tell you that. You've learned it from these fine news sources:

Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Listen to Francis Boyle
(2 comments) As evidence of Bush and Cheney's crimes is slowly pried loose from President Obama's fingers, it's easy to forget just how long ago numerous articulate voices were identifying and denouncing those crimes, none more so that Francis Boyle, who told Bill O'Reilly on his Fox News show on September 13, 2001:

Monday, April 6, 2009
Afghanistan: Two Lonely Acts of Courage
(2 comments) One member of Congress stood alone 7.5 years ago against the original authorization to attack Afghanistan. And one member of Congress, a different one, stood alone last week against funding a massive escalation of that war.

Monday, April 6, 2009
What's the Real Reason?
(2 comments) The Pentagon is starting to cut weapons programs, and peace groups are bound to cheer.

Saturday, April 4, 2009
Feith Dares Obama to Enforce the Law
(100 comments) Doug Feith is bluffing big time, and he's lifted Dick Cheney and George Bush onto the table as his bet. Now if only he could stop visibly sweating.

Thursday, April 2, 2009
Truth, Crimes, Commissions, and Hope
(8 comments) Good news is being taken as bad.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
John Yoo Arrested
(31 comments) It's a first step.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Happy Birthday, Cesar Chavez!
(2 comments) No, he's NOT the president of Venezuela.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Myths of the Robber Class?
(18 comments) "Myth America: 10 Greatest Myths of the Robber Class and the Case for Revolution."

Monday, March 30, 2009
MoveOn Is Not New to Supporting War
(1 comments) While General David "Betray Us" Petraeus must be thrilled with his conversion from traitor to saint in the eyes of the pseudo-left and amazed that such things can be accomplished simply by changing the political party of the president, the group that formerly bashed him with an ad in the New York Times and now supports whatever Obama does is not as new to supporting wars as this simple story suggests.

Saturday, March 28, 2009
Muchas Gracias Compadres
(1 comments) Spain has begun a criminal investigation into six of Bush and Cheney's torture lawyers, and our own Justice Department has got some 'splaining to do.

Thursday, March 26, 2009
Townhall Talk and a New Way Forward
Obama's Thursday "town hall" featuring questions submitted online produced some interesting comments from our president.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Hears Complaints Against United States
(1 comments) Leading human rights organizations in the United States on March 20th presented charges of human rights abuse and torture against the U.S. government to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Congress: Tell Them in Person April 4 - 19
It's just spring, when the world is puddle-wonderful, and your representative and your two senators pack up their lingerie and come dancing from hop-scotch and toy soldiers to make the trek outside the Beltway for a well-earned vacation.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Method to March Madness
In which I scientifically prove the outcome of the NCAA tournament, sort of.

Monday, March 23, 2009
What More in the Name of Love
If there is a day for mass action in the United States for peace and justice, April 4 is it. And if there is a place for it right now, it's Wall Street. April 3rd is a Friday, so more robber barons will be at "work" that day, but April 4th is a Saturday, so more of the robbed will be off work and able to take part.

Sunday, March 22, 2009
Iraq: Deaths Rise, Pretense We Care Fades
While the U.S. media obsesses over teeny fractions of the trillions of dollars the U.S. government is giving to bankers, 130,000 troops and 160,000 contractors continue to occupy Iraq in the name of the United States, and very few Iraqis are convinced they will ever leave, while even fewer want them to stay.

Thursday, March 19, 2009
Rotten at the Core
(3 comments) --Remarks on March 19, 2009, in a park in which people are living in Richmond, Va., in front of offices of the Federal Reserve--

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Spring Break for Iraq
(2 comments) We're now at 6 years of bloody and horrific occupation of Iraq, and 7.5 years in Afghanistan. That means that most college students in the United States were not yet college students when this began.

Monday, March 16, 2009
Torture Revealed Yet again
(5 comments) As with the evidence that Bush, Cheney, and gang intentionally lied us into a war, or the evidence of illegal and unconstitutional spying, each time a major new piece of evidence of torture emerges, it is impossible not to hope that this is the one that will compel the Justice Department or Congress or the courts or the American people to act decisively.

Thursday, March 12, 2009
Signing Statementing Our Way to Empire
(5 comments) President Obama's second signing statement has generated a great deal of news coverage referring to it as his first. And the coverage largely suffers from the shadow of Obama's predecessor (and of Bush's fat sidekick), not to mention the shadow of Obama's recent statement about signing statements.

Thursday, March 12, 2009
You Are Friends With an Atheist
(14 comments) If you live in the United States, you are almost certainly friends with at least one atheist, agnostic, nonbeliever, skeptic, or unaffiliated humanist, whether you know it or not. And your friend almost certainly endures prejudice and unequal treatment, whether you know it or not. And your friend is roughly as decent, good, loyal, honest, courageous, and generous as your other friends, and you know it.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Six Years of Illegal War: Demand Accountability
(1 comments) We are fast approaching the end of the sixth year since the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and seven and a half in Afghanistan. There has been no accountability for the criminals who launched these wars of aggression. The current congress and president are continuing both and escalating one.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
One Step Forward, Two Steps Toward Monarchy
(5 comments) It has become almost commonplace, since the release last week of seven "legal" opinions written in 2001 and 2002 by the Justice Department, to remark that unbeknownst to us we came within an inch of dictatorship. And with President Obama announcing an end to torture and a new policy on signing statements, it is extremely common to speak as if we are moving quickly and deliberately in the opposite direction. But this picture is

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Guess Who Wants a Special Prosecutor
(5 comments) 142 Organizations Agree With Leading Senators and Congress Members: The Crimes of Bush, Cheney, and Other Top Officials Must Be Prosecuted

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Demand Single-Payer March 5, 10, 11
(6 comments) If you want everyone in the United States to have health coverage simply paid for by the government for less money than we spend now, eliminating all health insurance companies, but allowing you to choose any private doctor or hospital of your choice, and boosting the economy with a net gain of 2.6 million jobs ...

Sunday, March 1, 2009
Power Shift in the Air
(1 comments) This weekend in Washington, D.C., there was a lot of preparation for Monday's massive civil disobedience for clean energy at the Capitol power plant. Nonviolence trainings, sign creation, conferences. On Sunday night, just before it began snowing hard, I attended a gathering of authors, poets, singers, and the lead organizers of the action in a large university auditorium, and blogged as follows:

Saturday, February 28, 2009
Why Dems Liked Mukasey Better Than Holder
(1 comments) Democrats in Congress respected former Attorney General Michael Mukasey beyond any measure he appeared to have earned, and to the extent of fully expecting him to perform his duties even in the most difficult circumstances. In contrast, the same Congress members do not believe Attorney General Eric Holder is up to the job.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Groups Request Special Prosecutor for Bush, Cheney, et alia
(15 comments) We urge Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a non-partisan independent Special Counsel to immediately commence a prosecutorial investigation into the most serious alleged crimes of former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Richard B. Cheney, the attorneys formerly employed by the Department of Justice whose memos sought to justify torture, and other former top officials of the Bush Administration.

Sunday, February 22, 2009
GEOGHEGAN: RHYMES WITH REAGAN, SOUNDS LIKE WELLSTONE
Progressive Democrats of America has endorsed Tom Geoghegan in his bid to replace Rahm Emanuel in the House seat representing Illinois' 5th Congressional District.

Saturday, February 21, 2009
Propelling Prisoners' Heads into Concrete Walls
(1 comments) SUMMARY OF PRELIMINARY MEMORANDUM OF THE JUSTICE ROBERT H. JACKSON CONFERENCE ON FEDERAL PROSECUTION OF WAR CRIMINALS

Thursday, February 19, 2009
What Is a Populist Caucus?
(2 comments) Now along comes a new caucus of Democrats called the Populist Caucus, which has at least 23 members thus far, including my own Congress member, Tom Perriello.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Join the UFPJ Working Group on Accountability and Prosecution
(1 comments) The UFPJ Working Group on Accountability and Prosecution works to achieve accountability and prosecution of high officials guilty of war crimes, including the supreme crime of aggressive war.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Honestly, Judge, I Did It But Let's Look Forward
(1 comments) Now here's a horrendously bad piece of thinking from a usually terrific website that occasionally lets loyalty to a political party trump common sense. Cynthia Boaz, who has written much better stuff, writes:

Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Perriello, Peace, and Justice
(1 comments) Peace and justice activists in Virginia's Fifth District were thrilled last November when we and our neighbors replaced Congressman Virgil Goode with Tom Perriello. We got together and held a couple of meetings to discuss what we might begin talking with the new congressman-elect about. On February 17th we finally met with him. This brief report may prove somewhat useful to others meeting with their representatives.

Monday, February 16, 2009
Best Book on Iraq Occupation?
A nomination.

Friday, February 13, 2009
United for Peace and Jelly? Junipers? Jerkarounds?
Some months back, United for Peace and Justice held a big conference in Chicago for three days, and hundreds of us from all over the country spent most of those three days voting on the language to go in the documents that would determine what UFPJ would work on in the coming year and a half, especially the program document.

Thursday, February 12, 2009
Complete Recipe for Accountability: Just Add Sweat
(4 comments) This is what it's going to take.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Will War Ever End?
(10 comments) I wrote recently about the possibility of outgrowing the use of war. Today I got a book in the mail that makes a strong argument intended as a tool for ending war.

Monday, February 9, 2009
Building a Bush Memorial
(12 comments) A letter to the editor in my local newspaper, the Charlottesville Daily Progress, has persuaded me to rethink the truly remarkable accomplishments of President George W. Bush and inspired me to join the movement to erect a Bush Memorial on the National Mall.

Sunday, February 8, 2009
Eliminate Filibuster and With it the Need to Debate Republicans
(5 comments) From the pains Democrats take to out-argue and/or to compromise with the fringe minority party called the Republicans you'd think no other course of action was available, specifically you'd have to assume that the filibuster -- the power of senators representing 11 percent of us to block all work by the House and Senate -- is written in stone. In reality, 51 senators could eliminate the filibuster or change the number of votes

Sunday, February 8, 2009
Abandoning Torture But What About War?
(4 comments) If we can move beyond torture, do we not have a responsibility also to think for a moment about the obvious fact that torture is not the cruelest thing we do? Torture offends us, in part, because the torturer is not at risk, but neither are most pilots dropping bombs.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Putting War Waste on the Chopping Block
(3 comments) After what he said this week on ABC, it will be interesting to see whether Congressman Barney Frank is permitted on television anymore.

Sunday, February 1, 2009
Impeach Bybee
(5 comments) Impeaching Jay Bybee would not just put Congress back on the map. It would also derail a potentially very lengthy career as a powerful appeals judge for a man whose work was central to facilitating the crimes of the past eight years. And that might help move the criminal prosecutions along as well.

Thursday, January 29, 2009
Single Payer Moment
(1 comments) While a Democratic polling firm has just found, as pollsters always do, dramatic public support for public health coverage, Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill appear divided, as they have always been, over whether to take a comprehensive approach to health care.

Sunday, January 25, 2009
Dangerous Executive Orders
(11 comments) The Center for Constitutional Rights has expressed concern that President Obama's executive order banning torture may contain a loophole. But no president has any right to declare torture legal or illegal, with or without loopholes. And if we accept that presidents have such powers, even if our new president does good with them, then loopholes will be the least of our worries.

Thursday, January 22, 2009
Rep. Tammy Baldwin Asks Colleagues to Hold Bush Gang Accountable
It's about time!

Monday, January 19, 2009
Obama Supporters in DC Want Bush Arrested
(68 comments) Who doesn't?

Friday, January 16, 2009
Let Judgment Be Bush's History
History cannot be the judge of Bush and Cheney. The corporate news really is the first draft of history, and there will be no magical leap from its dishonesty to an honest account.

Friday, January 16, 2009
Lee Rejects Bush's 3-More-Years-in-Iraq Treaty
(4 comments) Congresswoman Barbara Lee has just reintroduced a resolution opposing the treaty Bush made with his puppet government in Iraq to supposedly legitimize three more years of war.

Thursday, January 15, 2009
Holder Will Have to Prosecute
(10 comments) After comments made in his confirmation hearing, Attorney General nominee Eric Holder will be hard pressed not to prosecute Bush, Cheney, and their co-conspirators, or to appoint a special prosecutor.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Conyers Explains Why He Hasn't Impeached
(44 comments) Over the past three years, a great many people have lobbied Conyers to impeach Bush and Cheney. I've worked with him and his staff, been arrested protesting in his office, and everything in between. Conyers includes in his new report a foreword that amounts to a seven-page letter to disappointed impeachment advocates.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009
FBI Building's Surprising Inaugural Message
(4 comments) 3,000 in Front of FBI Building for Inaugural Parade to Demand Bush's Arrest

Sunday, January 11, 2009
What to Ask Eric Holder
(3 comments) On Thursday, January 15, at 9:30 a.m., the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold its confirmation hearing for Attorney General nominee Eric Holder. If the Senators are willing to work together and to listen to those of us who elected them, the questioning might go something like this:

Friday, January 9, 2009
Goodbye to Bush in Three Minutes
(5 comments) Cindy Sheehan asked if I could record a 3-minute goodbye message to Bush and Cheney for her radio show, so I wrote down and read the following:

Friday, January 9, 2009
Report Says White House Rejected All Advice from Government Agencies That Torture Was Illegal
(1 comments) REPORT NAMES 30 BUSH OFFICIALS COMPLICIT IN TORTURE

Friday, January 9, 2009
Speaking of Blanket Pardons
(3 comments) The good and the bad.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Unlawful Assembly
(13 comments) As the 111th Congress was being sworn in on Tuesday, a seemingly endless line of figures dressed all in black with stark white masks slowly marched single-file around Capitol Hill.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Boot Bush on 19th
(5 comments) Join us in DC!

Monday, January 5, 2009
How Did Perriello Beat Goode?
And what does this election upset mean?

Sunday, January 4, 2009
March of the Dead to Greet Congress on Tuesday
(2 comments) A long column of figures dressed all in black with white death masks and bearing the names of those killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine. The march will be followed by a dramatic nonviolent action intended to awaken Congress to the need to end the wars.

Friday, January 2, 2009
Ruth Marcus Supports Torture
(13 comments) Washington Post editorial writer Ruth Marcus has joined the side of the executioners and provided a clear example of how that is respectably done in our time and place. But, "it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."

Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Epiphany
(1 comments) Congress will be greeted on day 1 this year by a march of war dead on Capitol Hill.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Ask Obama Part 2
"Do you believe the pardon power extends to allowing a president to authorize a crime and then pardon his subordinate? Are you aware that the Geneva Conventions and the Convention Against Torture commit the United States to prosecuting violators?"

Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Resolved: Will Create Peace on Earth
(2 comments) New Year's resolutions come in a lot of shapes and sizes. I don't think New Year's 2009 is a year to aim low. So, I'm resolving to create peace on earth. And I intend to follow through. The catch, of course, is that unless a couple of million other people make the same resolution and really commit to it, then I will have been a liar.

Saturday, December 27, 2008
Yes We Can UnPardon War Criminals
(10 comments) On his third day in office President Grant revoked two pardons that had been granted by President Andrew Johnson. President Nixon also undid a pardon that had been granted by President Lyndon Johnson.

Friday, December 26, 2008
Did Bush Sr. Kill Kennedy and Frame Nixon?
(31 comments) Russ Baker's new book presents an account of the U.S. government that is both remarkably new and extensively documented.

Sunday, December 21, 2008
The Purloined Constitution
(3 comments) The wonderful thing about big lies is their kettle logic. The term, of course, derives from the story of the man who offered several mutually incompatible excuses for returning his friend's kettle in damaged condition: "It broke too easily." "It was like that when I got it." "I improved it for you." "I never borrowed the thing." Et cetera. A big lie is not just a beautiful creation because the bigger you make it the more firml

Wednesday, December 17, 2008
How History Will View Bush
(11 comments) As George Bush prepares to leave office, he and his aides are trying desperately to rewrite history, especially on Iraq.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The Best Defense Iran Could Have
(2 comments) Given the fates of the other two members of Bush's axis of evil, some would argue that the best defense Iran could have would be a nuclear bomb. They would, however, be wildly wrong.

Monday, December 15, 2008
Bush Comparison Seen As Unfair to Dogs
(3 comments) If they throw shoes at your face are you a combat troop or a noncombat troop?

Saturday, December 13, 2008
Liz Holtzman for Senate
(5 comments) New York state could soon be represented in the U.S. Senate by a woman with more respect for and understanding of democratic representation, the Constitution, and the rule of law than we've grown accustomed to finding in Washington, D.C., a woman who has done more to oppose the abuses of power of the Bush administration than have most current members of the House or Senate.

Saturday, December 13, 2008
Nation's Largest Anti-War Coalition Resolves to Work for Prosecution of War Criminals
(1 comments) United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ), the largest coalition of peace organizations (over 1,400 of them) in the United States, held a national assembly in Chicago December 12-14, and drafted documents establishing the movement's agenda for the coming year.

Thursday, December 11, 2008
Somebody Should Arm the Senate Armed Services Committee
(1 comments) I've never had any use for the Senate Armed Services Committee before, or even for the idea that someone who was armed could provide a service, but the report on U.S. torture policy that the committee released on Thursday is noteworthy.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Stuart Taylor Jr.'s Crusade for Torturers
(1 comments) The Pardon Scorecard is expanding rapidly, tracking punditry and advocacy against and in support of Bush pardoning crimes he authorized. Happily, the Against column is much longer than the Support column.

Saturday, December 6, 2008
When Would You Say Enough?
(12 comments) Would you say "Enough!" Even if you'd been to law school?

Friday, December 5, 2008
Proposal for United for Peace and Justice
(1 comments) I think it is imperative that we deter future wars, as well as defunding them, that we reestablish the rule of law in addition to simply requesting that certain laws be voluntarily obeyed for the moment. We can do this by prosecuting high officials who are guilty of war crimes, including the supreme crime of aggressive war. We can also shift power away from the Pentagon and the White House.

Friday, December 5, 2008
Unlimited Pardon Power and Five Other Impossible Things Before Breakfast
(1 comments) Alice squinted as she peered up through the rabbit hole at sunlight wondering how many books she might have to stand on to be able to climb back out. She hadn't even begun to make up her mind when she was completely distracted by a large elephant on a motor scooter who grabbed her with his trunk and stuck her on the back seat as he sped off down a dark gravel path.

Thursday, December 4, 2008
The Filibuster Excuse Lives
(1 comments) For the past two years, Congress has pretended that ending a war requires passing a bill and blamed its failure to pass a bill on Republican filibusters and presidential vetoes. The veto excuse is gone. But the pretense that a bill is needed is firmly entrenched, and the filibuster excuse lives.

Thursday, December 4, 2008
Pardon Whom?
(1 comments) The ACLU sent out an Email on December 4th joining a chorus of voices in declaring that Bush has the power to pardon crimes he authorized but shouldn't use it.

Thursday, December 4, 2008
Prosecute Yoo?
(5 comments) Requesting the prosecution of a known criminal ought not to be an action that requires any particular consideration or debate.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008
When Will We Liberate the Iraqis?
(2 comments) I know, I know, Bush liberated the Iraqis. But when will we liberate them from Bush's liberation?

Monday, December 1, 2008
As Congress Lay Dying
(3 comments) The debate among progressive activists and commentators in recent weeks has tended to range from the leave- Obama- alone- and- he'll- fix- everything position to the stage- a- protest- at- Obama's- house- for- the- next- month position, including numerous stances in between those extremes.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008
You Cannot Pardon a Crime You Authorized
Statement from the Steering Committee for the Prosecution for War Crimes of President Bush and His Subordinates

Friday, November 21, 2008
Congress Opposes Bush Pardons
(4 comments) Nadler Introduces Resolution Opposing Possible Bush Pardons of His Own Subordinates for Crimes He Authorized

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Bush Firing Disloyal Federal Employees
(6 comments) Bush has, for some time now, been terminating large numbers of employees in the federal government, people known as whistleblowers, people suspected of disloyalty.

Saturday, November 15, 2008
Veterans Occupy National Archives
(1 comments) This was the second time that a group of veterans opposed to illegal wars and in favor of the rule of law had taken over the National Archives building in Washington, D.C. The first time, several weeks ago, a group of them had climbed onto a ledge on the front of the building with flags and banners. This time, they aimed higher.

Saturday, November 15, 2008
Single-Payer Healthcare Alliance Forms in Washington, D.C.
(1 comments) With Barack Obama about to assume the presidency and take up the healthcare issue, leaders of single-payer healthcare organizations met for two days, November 11 - 12, at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Thursday, November 13, 2008
What If Labor Opposed War?
(3 comments) I think the peace movement and every justice movement in the United States should simply overwhelm Congress members during the next two months with one and only one demand.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
What Does Iran Have to Do With Your Town?
(1 comments) Here's What It Has to Do With Mine

Monday, November 10, 2008
Sign Petition for Monetary System That Puts People First
(6 comments) An Open Letter Regarding the Upcoming G-20 Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Saturday, November 8, 2008
How to Treat a President Elect
(11 comments) Hint: it's different from a king.

Friday, November 7, 2008
Obama Appointments: First the Good News
(3 comments) I know yall want the good news first. Here it is.

Friday, November 7, 2008
Celebrating Resisters on Veterans' Day
(1 comments) November 11th is Veterans' Day in the United States and Remembrance Day, Armistice Day, or Poppy Day in various other countries. It was on a November 11th that World War I ended.

Thursday, November 6, 2008
Tom Perriello Up By 814
Good bye Virgil Goode. We'll try to recover from your damage, you do the same.

Thursday, November 6, 2008
Recount Fictions in Virginia's Fifth
As of about 9 p.m. ET on Thursday, 316,476 votes had been counted in Virginia's Fifth District congressional race between incumbent bigotted xenophobe Virgil Goode and challenger Tom Perriello, with 158,562 going to Perriello and 157,914 to Goode, for a difference of 648 votes or 0.2 percent of the total.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Blue Virginia
(1 comments) Virginia and the rest of the old South always voted for Democrats for president when the Democratic party stood for racism, and for Republicans when the Republican party stood for racism, until tonight.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Goode v Perriello: Recount?
It should be done.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Subpoena Dementia
(1 comments) Subpoenas? What are those? Miers? Rove? Who are they? Are they from Chicago? Do they believe in change?

Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Al Gore Comments on "Do Not Concede" Letter to Obama
(2 comments) Former Vice President, and the man elected president in November 2000, Al Gore was asked on the radio this morning about a letter that Gore Vidal and many others have sent to presidential candidate Barack Obama urging him not to concede a stolen election.

Saturday, November 1, 2008
Obama: DO NOT CONCEDE!
(9 comments) Both of the last two elections were conceded by the Democratic presidential candidate. The 2004 election was handed to George Bush while votes were still being counted in closely-fought Ohio. While the 2000 election was contested to the Supreme Court, it too was ultimately conceded to Bush "for the good of the country."

Friday, October 31, 2008
How and Why I Just Voted
(5 comments) Having spent the past several years trying to end wars and militarism, I have just voted for a presidential candidate who seems intent on expanding them.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The Attorney General Candidate Who Promises to Prosecute Bush
(11 comments) Ask her about it yourself tonight online.

Monday, October 27, 2008
Frank Breaks Taboo on Military Spending
(8 comments) When a Congress member steps forward and courageously articulates a forbidden truth that is absolutely necessary for our survival and well-being (and by "our" I mean our species, not just our nation), he must be praised, rewarded, and defended at all costs, without question or hesitation.

Friday, October 24, 2008
See the Warrior
I know this play is powerful from reading the script, so I can only imagine and look forward to how moving it will be to see it performed live.

Friday, October 24, 2008
Not Only McCain Palled Around With Pinochet
Without the efforts of a number of fine upstanding Americans, there never would have been a President Pinochet.

Thursday, October 23, 2008
McCain and Hate Mongering DVDs in Virginia
(1 comments) The DVD seeks to teach people that an entire religion, Islam, is aimed at terrorizing and killing them. The distributors of the DVD have clearly determined by some respectable and scholarly method that this information is most edifying for residents of swing states.

Thursday, October 23, 2008
Pardon Me, Congress?
(1 comments) Jerry Seib, executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal said on the Diane Rehm Show on NPR last week that he expects Bush, Cheney, and their subordinates to be prosecuted for torture. This expectation is spreading.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Nonviolence Now
(2 comments) Change is in the air. How about a change away from violence?

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Do Not Remove U.S. Uniform When Raping or Murdering
(1 comments) Do not sit down on this SOFA.

Monday, October 20, 2008
Sweeping Astroturf
(5 comments) Imagine for a second that it's November 5th, and the Democrats are set to control both houses of Congress and the White House. Perhaps they even control 60 Senate seats, making Republican filibusters impossible. Now what?

Monday, October 20, 2008
Powell Not Qualified for Government Work
Barack Obama would like to bring Colin Powell into his new administration. But Americans consider Powell only marginally more credible than how the rest of the world views him, and the rest of the world thinks he lies like a rug. Powell either wholeheartedly backed the biggest crime thus far this century, or he secretly opposed it but worked to make it happen anyway. I'm not sure which is worse, but either disqualifies him.

Monday, October 20, 2008
A McCain "Win" Will Be Theft, Resistance Is Planned
(21 comments) If your television declares John McCain the president elect on the evening of November 4th, your television will be lying. You should immediately pick up your pre-packed bags and head straight to the White House in Washington, D.C., which we will surround and shut down until this attempt at a third illegitimate presidency is reversed.

Saturday, October 18, 2008
Ending the War Without End
(4 comments) The three participants in the third U.S. presidential debate last week pretended Iraq didn't exist, but if you go to a rally of supporters for either candidate it's the top issue talked about. Baghdad, a city in ruins, divided into ethnically cleansed fiefdoms of rubble, rats, and open sewage, a place where one risks death by walking outside, is managing major rallies of tens of thousands of people in opposition to the treaty

Saturday, October 18, 2008
Stoning Dubya
(3 comments) Now in theaters.

Friday, October 17, 2008
How You Can Help Prosecute Bush in Two Minutes
(5 comments) You'll want to do this.

Thursday, October 16, 2008
Trump Should Be Fired as a Citizen
(10 comments) Donald Trump told Wolf Blitzer on CNN on Wednesday that Bush should have been impeached for lying us into a war, and that he was surprised Nancy Pelosi hadn't done it.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
What If God Loses the Election?
(34 comments) Then what?

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Nadir
Warm up for tonight's debate without watching the pundits.

Monday, October 13, 2008
Lies, Damn Lies, and Polls
(4 comments) 64.8 percent of statistics are made up on the spot.

Monday, October 13, 2008
New Book: The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush
(5 comments) Feral House offers this important and urgent publication of Dennis Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment this election season in two formats: an offset-printed paperback book available for the cost of $12 and a free downloadable PDF available below.

Saturday, October 11, 2008
When the Corporate Media Apologizes
(3 comments) Don't believe it.

Saturday, October 11, 2008
Chicago ACORN Is Braver and Better Than McCain
(5 comments) Obama should be proud.

Saturday, October 11, 2008
Media Criticism of Hate Speech Is Long Overdue
(1 comments) And welcome.

Saturday, October 11, 2008
ACORN's Response to McCain's Lies
(1 comments) and the lying liar who told them.

Saturday, October 11, 2008
That's Religulous
(2 comments) Or is it?

Friday, October 10, 2008
ACORN Is Not the Nut Here
(9 comments) About the attacks.

Friday, October 10, 2008
Does Justin Rood Hate Bloggers?
Or just love dirty money?

Friday, October 10, 2008
It's the War Crimes, Mickey
M-I-C-K-E-Y

Thursday, October 9, 2008
AP Exclusive: Documents Say Candidate Near Insanity
(1 comments) United States Senator John McCain, according to the documents obtained, has begun referring to Americans as "my fellow prisoners," and adopting the habit of denying prisoners names. McCain now refers to his opponent, Senator Barack Obama, as "that one."

Thursday, October 9, 2008
After Hope
(1 comments) There's that word: change. This may be the time for it. It's going to take a lot more than hope.

Thursday, October 9, 2008
ABC Is Lying About NSA
On Thursday, ABC News reported a big new break in the story of illegal and unconstitutional spying that our government has engaged in for years now, except that there was nothing new in the story and the important parts were left out.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Bugliosi on Radio and on tour
(2 comments) The plan to lock Bush up.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Warming to Palin
(5 comments) She's hot.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Cindy, Charlotte, and Our Constitution
(1 comments) As you watch the presidential debates, here's a game to play that won't even get you drunk (unless you want to add tequila shots to it).

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
They Lived to Tell: Winter Soldier
(3 comments) Last March, veterans of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan gathered to talk about what they'd seen and done and survived. The event was called "Winter Soldier" and the soldiers' testimony is recorded in a powerful new book: "Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations," by Iraq Veterans Against the War and Aaron Glantz.

Monday, October 6, 2008
Why a City Should Oppose Attacking Iran
1.-Why the United States should not attack Iran; 2.-Why there is a serious danger that the United States will attack Iran; 3.-Why Charlottesville City Council should pass a resolution opposing such an attack.

Saturday, October 4, 2008
Vote Like Mike
(1 comments) Michael Moore's new book.

Friday, October 3, 2008
Vincent Bugliosi's Lock-Bush-Up Tour
(2 comments) Don't Miss It.

Friday, October 3, 2008
The Day Hank Paulson Lied
(3 comments) A long, long time ago... I can still remember Seeing houses used to make me smile. And I knew if I got a loan That I could call some house my own And, maybe, we'd be happy for a while.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Mockery and Empathy
Prioritizing.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Project Uncensored
Viewer discretion advised.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Lawyers, Guns, and Money
Bail out this.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
ACORN Is Right, Lou Dobbs Is Wrong
(1 comments) As usual.

Monday, September 29, 2008
Why the Bailout Vote May Fail
(18 comments) Help Make Sure it Does!

Monday, September 29, 2008
Bailout Round II: A New Shade of Lipstick
But the thing still oinks.

Sunday, September 28, 2008
How to Put the Torturers in Prison
(4 comments) The real world.

Friday, September 26, 2008
McCain Tonight
(5 comments) Dear Jim Lehrer,

Friday, September 26, 2008
Calming the Fearful Mind
(2 comments) Breathe.

Friday, September 26, 2008
Foreign Policy Debate All About Wars
There was only one foreign policy asked about in Friday night's foreign policy debate: war and potential wars.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
The Price of Right
And the cost of fear.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Speak With President of Vets for Peace Who Occupied National Archives
(1 comments) Tonight, Wednesday, September 24th, you can speak live on the radio or submit your questions through an online chat room for Elliott Adams, the president of Veterans for Peace and one of five veterans who yesterday climbed a 9-foot fence and occupied a 35-foot high ledge to raise a 22x8 foot banner stating, "DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION. ARREST BUSH AND CHENEY: WAR CRIMINALS!"

Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Blood, Sweat, and Bailouts
Have you heard the latest news? John McCain is now in favor of regulating Wall Street.

Monday, September 22, 2008
"No Blank Check" or "No %$#!*@ Check"
(8 comments) The last time the Democrats all started bleating "No blank check - No blank check" it meant only one thing. They were signing a check and scribbling a bunch of nonsense in the memo line.

Monday, September 22, 2008
We Can Stop Paulson's Plunder
If we hurry.

Monday, September 22, 2008
Jane Mayer Boosts John McCain as Torture Opponent
But he boosts torture.

Monday, September 22, 2008
A War Criminal in Academia
(1 comments) Rewarded for his crimes.

Sunday, September 21, 2008
The Eight Year Bailout
Drink up!

Sunday, September 21, 2008
Viewing the Constitution from the Right
(2 comments) Worth taking a look.

Sunday, September 21, 2008
200 Years of Standing Up to U.S. War Lies
(3 comments) More of us each time.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Speak With Ann Wright and Emma's Revolution Tonight Online and On Radio
Be part of the conversation.

Monday, September 15, 2008
What You Can Do to Put Bush and Cheney Behind Bars
(37 comments) You can do a lot in the time Sarah Palin thinks it took to create the world.

Monday, September 15, 2008
Can Bush Pardon Himself?
(4 comments) Are you willing to bet he won't try?

Friday, September 12, 2008
Xmas Letter to Obama: How You Could Have Won
(2 comments) I'm sending this early, Senator, because of my confidence that you won't open it until Christmas and my concern that when you do you'll say I should have spoken up sooner.

Friday, September 12, 2008
John McCain Supports Torture
(1 comments) But he opposed it before he supported it.

Thursday, September 11, 2008
People Don't Make Stupid Voters, the Media Does
Play along at your own risk.

Saturday, September 6, 2008
Imagine There's No Heaven
(1 comments) not that easy after all

Friday, September 5, 2008
Why We're Planning to Prosecute Cheney and Bush
(18 comments) Next weekend in Andover, Mass., a group of attorneys, academics, and activists will gather to plan the prosecution of Dick Cheney, George Bush, and the lawyers and advisors who, together with them, are responsible for war crimes. The conference is open to the public and expected to be well attended: http://war-crimes.info

Thursday, August 7, 2008
The DNC Platform: Belief You Can Change In
(4 comments) Read it and wonder.

Thursday, August 7, 2008
The Age of the Blogger
(1 comments) For better or worse.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
How to Put Rove Behind Bars for Years
Inherent contempt: it's not just what you feel for Congress; it's what you want Congress to do.

Monday, August 4, 2008
President's Job Is to Pardon
(2 comments) and not much else

Sunday, August 3, 2008
Prosecuting Bush and Cheney
(2 comments) Yes we can.

Friday, August 1, 2008
Pelosi Claims Republicans Want Impeachment
(19 comments) But do they? Here's the answer.

Thursday, July 31, 2008
Cara Italia: Can Italy Save America?
Many of my fellow Americans will, I am sure, join me in asking you to lend us, your friends, a much needed helping hand. In doing so, I think you will be coming to the aid of yourselves as well, and of the rest of the world.

Thursday, July 31, 2008
The Two Facts War Supporters Are Least Likely to Know
(6 comments) Do you know them?

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Should Conyers Impeach or Write Another Book About Bush's Crimes?
(6 comments) If anyone buys Conyers' staffs' new forthcoming book, it will be because Conyers is (or at least was) chair of the Judiciary Committee. And yet, the book's existence will demonstrate and it will document that Conyers was never any such thing, that in fact he's just a professor who uses public funds to pay his teaching assistants to write books in his name.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Pelosi Tells The Nation Magazine Why She Won't Impeach
(15 comments) See if you can follow her logic.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Pelosi to Oppose Impeaching President McCain
(1 comments) You read it here first.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
$1,000 to Ask Pelosi a Question
(2 comments) We'll gladly pay you $1,000 to ask Nancy Pelosi a question.

Monday, July 28, 2008
The U.S. Department of Media
(7 comments) Last Friday one of two things indisputably happened. Either a dozen senior Congress members and several well-known expert witnesses went certifiably and collectively insane, or charges of the most extreme executive abuses of power ever heard in the history of this nation were backed up by overwhelming evidence during a six-hour hearing of the House Judiciary Committee focused on the possible need to impeach the President.

Monday, July 28, 2008
How to Get a Job By Shooting Up a Church
Imagine being so angry that you couldn't find a job that you were able to decide, as a man in Tennessee just did, that the way to solve your problems was to attack liberals - the people who support (albeit ineffectively) workers' rights, union rights, and fair trade, who oppose NAFTA, oppose tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas, support investing in job creation at home rather than wars abroad...

Thursday, July 24, 2008
Congress Hears Ringing Call for Impeachment
(6 comments) The House Judiciary Committee today, Friday, July 25th, will put impeachment squarely back "on the table" and restored to its prominent place in our Constitution.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Miller v. Forbes: Virginia's Fourth Congressional District
A race to get involved in, no matter where you live!

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Perriello v. Goode: Virginia's Fifth Congressional District
A race to get involved in.

Monday, July 21, 2008
American Samaritans
(2 comments) They exist by the millions.

Friday, July 18, 2008
English Translation of a John Conyers Press Release
(6 comments) Below is the original text of a July 17, 2008, media advisory from House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers in the original Pelosiconi, followed by the English in all caps.

Friday, July 18, 2008
Guess Who's Coming to the Impeachment
(3 comments) How They'll Try to Bury Impeachment and Fail

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Impeachment Begins July 25th
(3 comments) Finally!

Thursday, July 17, 2008
AP's Problem Is Not What It Thinks
There's been a lot of public discussion of late of the Associated Press's Washington Bureau Chief Ron Fournier's changes in style rules. Out with "just the facts," in with opinion and perspective. Or so the story goes. The changes that are afoot at the AP appear to be part of a broader trend, influenced - in part - by the internet, the medium itself and the competition from bloggers.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Speak With Elizabeth Kucinich Live Online Tonight
Showtime: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 8:00pm-9:00pm Eastern

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Dear Chief Prosecutor
(3 comments) An Open Letter to Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Monday, July 14, 2008
Obama's Plan for Iraq
(3 comments) The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Friday, July 11, 2008
A Note to the Peace Movement
(3 comments) What now?

Thursday, July 10, 2008
Impeachment Is Beginning
(34 comments) This is the part where justice rolls down like a mighty stream.

Thursday, July 10, 2008
What Dennis Has Done
(3 comments) And why impeachment is happening.

Sunday, July 6, 2008
On Protest and Patriotism
(2 comments) and finding a flag big enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people

Friday, July 4, 2008
Why I Interrupted Bush at Monticello
(10 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
(3 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) J�rgen Todenh�fer 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 Investigation: Rockefeller Says He'll Get to It Someday
(1 comments) A constituent of Senator Jay Rockefeller, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, sent his office an article I wrote lamenting his failure to conduct over the past 10 months the investigation of White House war lies that he spent the previous three years criticizing the Republicans for not doing. Rockefeller's office replied thus:

Friday, October 12, 2007
PNACo Fascism Awareness Week
(2 comments) During the week of October 22-26, 2007, the nation will be rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever – Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses. Already over 368 people have expressed interest in participating.

Thursday, October 11, 2007
ACORN Gives Members Only 4 Choices
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is robocalling its members and offering them a choice of Edwards, Clinton, Obama, or Richardson. That's it. No other choices. The smart money says Kucinich loses this one.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Only One Congress Member Gets It
(5 comments) On Wednesday, I spoke with Congresswomen Barbara Lee and Lynn Woolsey about getting out of Iraq. They are moving in the right direction, but are not yet serious about ending the occupation this year. They are resigned to putting up an effort in a misguided approach, and then hoping to actually end it in 2009. It has not yet penetrated anyone's understanding that the best chance we have to end the occupation of Iraq between...

Monday, October 8, 2007
Laura Flanders and Norman Solomon Challenge the Warfare State
Their remarks and the discussion that followed provide key insights into the political situation we find ourselves in right now.

Monday, October 8, 2007
Sen. Reid Struggles for a Reason to Oppose Impeachment
(1 comments) Christiane Brown (KJFK, Reno) interviews Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in this audio clip from last week and presses him on why he admits impeachable offenses have been commited but opposes impeachment.

Saturday, October 6, 2007
Constitution, Flag, and Leaving Iraq
(1 comments) Remarks on October 6, 2007, at a rally in Richmond, Va., celebrating the U.S. Constitution and flag.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Is Marie Cocco Coocoo?
Liberal columnist Marie Cocco maintains her progressive positions right up to the point where she might diverge in the slightest from the Democratic leadership in Congress. Last spring she wasn't so noticeable. Most progressive pundits back in March and May were playing right along with the pretense that the Democrats in Congress didn't have the power to end the occupation of Iraq. This was and is simply not true.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Senate Intel Committee Reverses, Nobody Notices
(3 comments) When Republican Senator Pat Roberts chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee, he refused to conduct an investigation into how Bush and Cheney misled the Congress about the case for invading Iraq. The investigation, part of what was known as Phase II, had been agreed to, but Roberts refused to do it prior to the November 2004 elections on the grounds that it could impact the elections. After the elections he refused...

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Leading Americans Ask U.S. Military to Refuse to Attack Iran
(3 comments) Country music legend Willie Nelson, literary icon Gore Vidal, Gold Star Mother Cindy Sheehan, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, retired U.S. Army Colonel Ann Wright, former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega, author and radio host Thom Hartmann, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Rabbi Steven Jacobs, and dozens of other prominent Americans have signed a letter asking the Joint Chiefs

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Bush Meets With Man 3 Days After He Beats Up Gold Star Father
(3 comments) Bush Meets With and Honors Man Three Days After He Attacked Gold Star Father

Monday, October 1, 2007
The Lie That Keeps the Occupation of Iraq Going
(4 comments) It is a lie that Congress must pass a bill to end the occupation of Iraq.

Monday, October 1, 2007
Exactly How the Good Guys Finally Won
(1 comments) This were handled differently in 1973.

Thursday, September 27, 2007
What Now?
(3 comments) Over the past day or so, the following things have happened:

Thursday, September 27, 2007
Whistleblowers on Tape
While they may not be in Congress, there are members of our government willing to risk their careers and more to blow the whistle on the criminal takeover of our former democracy.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Presidential Candidates Diverge
(1 comments) There are now two types of Democratic presidential candidates, the ones who promise to end the occupation of Iraq, and the ones who say they may very well keep it going for another four years.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Observing Our Government Through Blackwater
(2 comments) Jeremy Scahill, author of a terrific book on the Blackwater mercenary army, spoke in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Tuesday to a packed hall. He took questions at the end, and one man asked something to the effect of "Why does the government want to privatize the military? We taxpayers have been paying for the Army."

Monday, September 24, 2007
Peace and Hillary Clinton
(6 comments) This past Sunday, crime thriller author John Grisham hosted a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in my town. I talked with a lot of the people attending. Some said they supported Clinton because they wanted to keep troops in Iraq. But most were there because they opposed Bush and Cheney's policies on Iraq. Who was confused, and who was not? Or could they both be right?

Sunday, September 23, 2007
We Have Nothing But Fear Itself
(13 comments) But most Americans appear paralyzed by fear. And that includes many Americans with the power to put a halt to our slide into martial law.

Friday, September 21, 2007
Telling the Truth
(2 comments) Sam Provance exposed the torture in Abu Ghraib and as thanks had his career ruined, was threatened with prison, has had his wife leave him, and is now barely scraping by. He said Thursday evening that on a personal level his choice to speak out was not worth it. "But," he said, "this is not about me."

Thursday, September 20, 2007
Corpse's Point of View
(1 comments) From the point of view of a corpse, Thursday's die-in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol was overwhelming and diminishing. I was one of twenty some corpses lying dead in a river of blood in front of police and tourists and a color guard of Iraq veterans. I was one of a pile of corpses. You could have added or taken away a corpse or two, and nobody would have noticed.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Polk Puts Cost at $6 Trillion, Warns of Terrorism in US
11:31 Woolsey said she knows Bush will veto any bill that ends the occupation. She asks Polk if Congress should only pass what it knows is right, even knowing it will be vetoed. For the first time all day the room breaks out into applause, loud applause.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
The Best President Money Can Buy
(1 comments) Does the super wealthy sliver of the American population that "contributes" the vast bulk of the money choose to fund candidates because they're ahead in the polls, or do the sort of people who are willing to answer questions from strangers who phone them during dinner tend to prefer the candidates who have the most money?

Sunday, September 16, 2007
Is Peace or Impeachment Possible?
(9 comments) I went to a party yesterday in Washington, D.C. You might think we have very little to celebrate, but this was a party to say goodbye and good riddance to Alberto Gonzales!

Sunday, September 9, 2007
Questions for General Petraeus
(3 comments) Are you here to communicate your own view, that of the White House, or both?

Sunday, September 9, 2007
The Obama-Edwards Ticket
(11 comments) A top priority for progressives regarding next year's presidential election should be convincing Barack Obama and John Edwards to join forces as a ticket and defeat Hillary Clinton.

Friday, September 7, 2007
Betray Us Report
(3 comments) In the end, General David Petraeus will appear in Congress on Monday, ask each Congress Member to turn and kneel, and put a bullet in the back of each of their heads. At first, that sounds outlandish. But let's review.

Thursday, September 6, 2007
Get Out of the Valley of Elah
(1 comments) I walked out stunned, shaken, far more angry than I'd been, and convinced that we shouldn't be asking Congress Members to end the occupation, we should be asking them to watch this movie.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Worlds Apart
(4 comments) The other day I wrote a column that no corporate newspaper would ever dream of printing, but submitted it to all of them anyway in hopes it might jar something loose. The Editorial Page Editor of Barron's Weekly wrote me back to disagree with my column, and I wrote him back, and he wrote me back, and so forth. The exchange, reproduced below, suggests that two people can read about the same events for several years and yet...

Monday, September 3, 2007
World War III
(2 comments) The administration of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney is set on a course that leads directly to a third world war. And a third world war leads almost inevitably to most of us dying horrible deaths. And we're not talking about it.

Saturday, September 1, 2007
Slavery, Iraq, and Justice Delayed
The Governor of Virginia, Timothy M. Kaine, has just pardoned Gabriel Prosser for leading a slave revolt in Virginia over 200 years ago. Prosser sought to organize thousands of slaves to accomplish the "wholesale massacre" of whites in Richmond and other slave-holding areas, according to historian Virginius Dabney.

Friday, August 31, 2007
Peace, Injustice and Ron Paul
(26 comments) If Ron Paul had been president for the past 6 years, a million more Iraqis would be alive, and another 4 million would not be refugees. The world would be a safer place, and Americans would have lost fewer freedoms. But more Americans would lack decent health care. More American children would lack adequate education. More families in America would struggle in poverty. Immigrant families would face increased threats and ...

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
BREAKING NEWS: Cheney Denies Being Human
(5 comments) "I am not human," Vice President Dick Cheney said twice during a 10-minute statement today following news that...

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Kucinich: Congress Must Tell the President No to Additional War Funding
(2 comments) "We do not have to fund the war. The Democratic leadership must tell the President NO to any additional funding. No legislation is required. No vote is required. We have the money to bring the troops home. It does not require a vote. The only thing required is honesty, integrity and a willingness to end the war," Kucinich said.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Secret to Forcing Compliance with Subpoenas
(1 comments) On April 10th, the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the Justice Department for papers and Emails related to the apparently politically motivated firings of U.S. attorneys. The deadline passed. The DOJ did not comply.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Report: US Has Prepared to Attack Iran
(9 comments) Detailed Pentagon plans for a military attack on Iran are far more extensive than has been reported in the U.S., according to top British military analysts. There have been occasional news reports on various strategic bombing options - both conventional and nuclear - but this is the first comprehensive look at the full range of Pentagon plans.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Rep. Conyers' Latest Excuses
(6 comments) Well, my response is that we have several things to do in -- I begin this part of our conversation by indicating that I have nothing but the highest regard for Cindy Sheehan. But the question of how we orchestrate moving a congressional schedule forward of accomplishments -- we're pretty proud of what we've done in eight months...

Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Honor the Dead, Add No More to Their Number
(1 comments) Moveon provided me with suggested things to say, but – for better or worse – and with gratitude for their organizing work, I'm going to make a few changes to what they suggested.

Sunday, August 26, 2007
Made Love, Got War
"Made Love, Got War" is the title of Norman Solomon's latest book, an autobiographical account of the peace and disarmament movements in the United States over the past half century. Better than his other books, I think, this one achieves the level of artistic composition found in Solomon's brilliant and frequent columns on the media, war, and peace. But the value of "Made Love, Not War" lies in the lessons it provides...

Sunday, August 26, 2007
The 18 Percent Congress
(2 comments) If you were a member of Congress, wouldn't you behave completely differently from how most members of Congress behave?

Thursday, August 16, 2007
Bill Fletcher Weighs in on Impeachment
(1 comments) In fact, the bulk of Fletcher's article is devoted to opposing impeachment on the grounds that we should concentrate on ending the occupation, creating single-payer health care, and because the Senate might not convict.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007
How Congress Will End the Occupation
(1 comments) Public pressure on Congress to end the occupation of Iraq resulted in a fundamental breakthrough on July 19th when 70 congress members sent a letter to the president.

Saturday, August 11, 2007
It Really Is a Democratic Congress
(1 comments) Should it go without saying that the current Congress is Democratic? The Democrats have the majority, control the agenda, and chair and hold a majority on every committee. But does that make the Congress Democratic?

Saturday, August 11, 2007
Electoral, Media, and Family Traditions
(1 comments) If NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox had provided the storyline for the 1808 U.S. presidential election, it would have looked something like this.

Friday, August 10, 2007
Resistance of One
(5 comments) There is something else we can try. If you've given up on staging marches and rallies, or if – like me – you haven't but you want to try something else as well, and if you've given up on lobbying Congress as pointless, or if – like me – you haven't but you want to try something else as well, and if educating your fellow citizens as to exactly how completely corrupt the whole system is seems like an incomplete answer...

Friday, August 10, 2007
A Word from Congressman Nadler's Predecessor
As far as I know, nobody has heard lately from former Congressman Don Edwards. He was the chair of the subcommittee on civil and constitutional rights. Congressman Jerrold Nadler is the current chair of the new version of that subcommittee. And it is to that subcommittee that the bills proposing the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been sent.

Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Failure to Stop Bush Is Not a Victimless Crime
If you support the ongoing occupation of Iraq, I'm sure you have your reasons and that they're based in hard scientific calculations. But please indulge me for a moment and help me do this little math problem:

Monday, August 6, 2007
Senator Dodd Thinks You're Stupid
(2 comments) Even though 54% of Americans favor impeaching Cheney, and 40% oppose, Dodd opposes impeachment because, he says, he bases his actions on what the average American thinks, and...

Sunday, August 5, 2007
The Dumbest Thing the Washington Post Could Print
(4 comments) The Washington Post today published an article by Michael Tomasky called "The Dumbest Move the Dems Could Make." With a lot of publications, this article itself would have been the dumbest thing they'd ever printed. Of course, we're talking about the Washington Post...

Sunday, August 5, 2007
Six Judiciary Committee Members for Impeachment
(1 comments) Congressman Steve Cohen from Tennessee, and Congresswoman Shiela Jackson-Lee of Texas have signed onto H. Res. 333. That makes six Judiciary Committee members ready to impeach the Vice President.

Friday, August 3, 2007
The Likelihood of a Republican President in 2009
(28 comments) America is quite likely to elect a Republican president in 2009.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007
33 Congress Members for Impeachment
(9 comments) I ran into Congressman Donald Payne Tuesday evening and asked him if he would sign on to cosponsor H Res 333, articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. He said yes immediately and brought his legislative director in on the conversation. They both said yes, as a matter of course, as if all they'd been waiting for was someone to ask them.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007
34 Congress Members for Impeachment
Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D., Wisconsin) and Congressman Donald Payne (D., N.J.) have signed on as cosponsors of H. Res. 333, a bill proposing articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney, according to Congressman Dennis Kucinich's office. Kucinich is the original sponsor of the bill. Baldwin is the fourth member of the House Judiciary Committee to have added her name to the bill.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007
People's Peace Delegation to Iran Reports Back
On Tuesday morning in Washington, D.C., a five-member group of Americans reported on their just-completed 12-day trip through Iran. As with other delegations of this sort, they reported on a country that bears very little resemblance to the horrifying axis-of-evil member we hear about on U.S. television.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007
300 Towns, Cities, States Oppose Iraq Occupation
John Cavanagh of the Institute for Policy Studies opened an event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Cavanagh announced that with the recent addition of Santa Fe, N.M., a total of exactly 300 towns, cities, and states have passed resolutions against the occupation of Iraq. These governments, he said, represent about 50% of the people in the United States.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Gonzales, Pelosi, and the Survival of Congress
(1 comments) Speaker Nancy Pelosi said today that if she were not Speaker she would probably back impeachment. Other Congress Members are of course free to do what even she admits she would do in their position. They should, I think, start taking her advice and ignoring her ban on impeachment.

Monday, July 30, 2007
Rep. Conyers Discusses Impeachment
(4 comments) On July 20th, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers discussed the prospects for impeachment at greater length than has previously been widely reported.

Saturday, July 28, 2007
Reparations
When a Member of Congress wants to push an agenda forward, even one supported by very few other Congress Members, he or she will introduce or sign onto a bill and urge others to do the same. Almost every Congress Member is willing to do this sort of thing, often on very controversial issues. But when a Member of Congress wants to oppose an agenda without explaining why, he or she will tell you "I can't sign onto that because..

Friday, July 27, 2007
Rep. Bobby Scott Debates Impeachment
Some colleagues and I spent much of Thursday and Friday meeting with Congress Members and their staffers to discuss impeachment. Some of them were on the edge of backing it, others miles away but inching closer. Congressman Bobby Scott, a Democrat from Virginia who serves on the Judiciary Committee, was one of the furthest from backing impeachment but one of the most interesting to debate the topic with.

Friday, July 27, 2007
Bush Fulfills His Grandfather's Dream
(11 comments) But what really struck me was the BBC story aired on July 23rd documenting President George W. Bush's grandfather's involvement in a 1933 plot to overthrow the U.S. government and install a fascist dictatorship. I knew the story, but had not considered the possibility that the grandson was trying to accomplish what his grandfather had failed to achieve.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Joel Wendland Means Well, Gets It Dangerously Wrong
(2 comments) Wendland objects that Conyers represents Detroit. But Detroit City council unanimously passed a resolution demanding that Cheney and Bush be impeached and removed from office. The resolution was introduced by Conyers' own wife. I realize that doesn't qualify her to speak on this issue, so let me hasten to add: she's black.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Another Congress Member for Impeachment
(1 comments) Congressman Robert Brady, (D., PA), who represents portions of Philadelphia, on Tuesday signed on as a cosponsor of House Resolution 333, articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007
The Conyers Legacy
(22 comments) About 47 of us spent 8 or 9 hours yesterday in jail for protesting a man who, at least when he woke up yesterday morning, only thought of himself as on the side of those who protest power.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007
NIE: Normalizing Idiocy and Exaggeration
(1 comments) Remember the last NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) that made really big news? Remember how it helped defraud a nation into an aggressive war and occupation that has left nearly a million Iraqis and 4,000 Americans dead? Remember how the declassified bits distorted the truth much further than the full report?

Monday, July 16, 2007
Edwards Brings Progress to Progressives?
(6 comments) And, yes, Edwards' money supports, among other things, some of the most deadly health insurance companies around.

Monday, July 16, 2007
Orange Revolution
(1 comments) Enough is enough, and this July 23rd we will launch a new phase in the movement for peace and justice.

Sunday, July 15, 2007
John Edwards' Fortress
(3 comments) Glancing through the full alphabet of companies, it is immediately apparent that Fortress represents the polar opposite of an ethical investment opportunity.

Saturday, July 14, 2007
Hillary for Emperor
(5 comments) I've decided to drop my advocacy for the impeachment of Cheney or Bush and focus on something more realistic: making Senator Hillary Clinton our next emperor. After all, when the candidate is someone good, you should want them to have as much power as possible. Bear with me a minute, and I think you may agree.

Saturday, July 14, 2007
Bush Has Photos of Pelosi
(16 comments) Bush has photos of Pelosi doing... WHAT?

Friday, July 13, 2007
John Edwards' Money and His Health Plan
(4 comments) In "Sicko," Dr. Linda Peeno appears testifying before Congress that, when working for Humana, she made a decision to deny a Humana member treatment for a heart transplant, a decision that cost the patient his life but saved the company $500,000. Peeno says she was not punished, but rather rewarded, for such conduct. The money she saved the company was approximately the same amount paid to Edwards as salary.

Thursday, July 12, 2007
Why Would Anyone Protest John Conyers?
(3 comments) "I have a choice. I can either stand by and lead my constituents to believe I do not care that the president apparently no longer believes he is bound by any law or code of decency. Or I can act."

Wednesday, July 11, 2007
15 Congress Members for Impeachment
(2 comments) Congressman Sam Farr (D., Calif.) is the latest member of Congress to respond to intense pressure from his constituents and co-sponsor H Res 333, articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney.

Monday, July 9, 2007
Want to Impeach Cheney? Think July 23rd
The impeachment movement is gaining traction, and now - over the next two weeks - is the time to push it all the way to success.

Friday, July 6, 2007
Greenwald's Impeach Cheney Video
That's right, we said the "I" word. And you should be saying it too -- to your family, your friends, your neighbors, your pets and the hearty 26% of Americans who somehow still believe the Bush/Cheney team more worthy of sitting in the Oval Office than an undisclosed location stripped of all authority to further damage the country we love.

Friday, July 6, 2007
54% Want Cheney Impeached
(6 comments) A new poll conducted by american research group finds that 54% of American adults want the US House of Representatives to begin impeachment proceedings against Vice President Dick Cheney, including 76% of Democrats, 17% of Republicans, and 51% of Independents.

Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Commuting Scooter
George Mason (1725-1792), the father of the Bill of Rights (1791-2002), argued at the Constitutional Convention in favor of providing the House of Representatives the power of impeachment by pointing out that the President might use his pardoning power to "pardon crimes which were advised by himself" or, before indictment or conviction, "to stop inquiry and prevent detection."

Tuesday, July 3, 2007
CNN and 4 Dems Opt to Skew Debate
(2 comments) CNN allowed the eight Democratic presidential campaigns to vote: Should CNN continue to place its preferred candidates together in the center of the stage in order to keep the candidates it ignores off camera at the edges, or should it follow the model PBS used last week and choose candidate positions on the stage by random drawing?

Monday, July 2, 2007
An Open Letter to America: "Now Is The Time for Us to Stand Up and Stand Together"
(1 comments) The power of our voices against the U.S. occupation of Iraq is reaching the top echelons of the military and the administration. Our government is persecuting Americans who speak out against the U.S. military presence in Iraq. The U.S. military has launched politicized attacks on its own military members and moral leaders who oppose the war to discredit their voices of dissent.

Sunday, July 1, 2007
New NSA Whistleblower Speaks
(2 comments) A former member of U.S. military intelligence has decided to reveal what she knows about warrantless spying on Americans and about the fixing of intelligence in the leadup to the invasion of Iraq.

Sunday, July 1, 2007
Impeachment in Kennebunkport
We are here on a day when journalists from around the world are here, not so that we might embarrass our president, but in order to make clear to the world that he embarrasses us.

Saturday, June 23, 2007
The I Word in the Boston Globe
(5 comments) Here's an article in Sunday's Boston Globe about impeachment, followed by a letter submitted to the Globe's editor.

Friday, June 22, 2007
Cynicism and Generosity to Congress
In May of 2005 the Downing Street Memos came out, and some of us started a website and coalition called After Downing Street. And for many months we worked closely with Congressman John Conyers and many other Democrats in Congress, holding unofficial hearings, trying to pass resolutions of inquiry, and educating the public about impeachable offenses. But for the past year or so, including the past six months...

Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Hillary Clinton Booed Again at Take Back America
(8 comments) Ellen Malcolm introduced Hillary Clinton, talking about health care, and Clinton opened her speech with a promise to lift a ban on stem cell research.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Kucinich Comes to Take Back America
(2 comments) My friend Steve Cobble gave Kucinich a great introduction, receiving applause for each point he made about Kucinich's platform and past performance, arguing that Kucinich was right four years ago that opposition to the war and support for fair trade were key to winning, and that's how Democrats won in 2006.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Curbing the Imperial Presidency
(1 comments) We must end the worst excesses of the imperial presidency, Conyers said. (What about the rest of the imperial presidency?)

Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Hip Hop Comes to Take Back America Conference
"Hip Hop Artists and Activists: Politically Empowering a Culture of Resistance" was the name of a panel at the Take Back America Conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Cherryl Aldave from National Hip Hop Political Convention MC'd.

Monday, June 18, 2007
We've Started Taking Back America
(2 comments) The fifth annual Take Back America Conference began this morning with a press conference at which Bob Borosage of Campaign for America's Future, Karen Ackerman of the AFL-CIO, Eli Pariser of MoveOn, Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood, Brad Woodhouse of Americans United for Change, and Jerome Ringo of Apollo Project explained how we're going to take back America – or rather the fact that they believe we already have.

Sunday, June 17, 2007
Take Back Impeachment
Impeach Bush and Cheney at the Take Back America Conference

Friday, June 15, 2007
Impeachment FAQ
(13 comments) Why would we want a President Cheney? Why not just wait for the next election? Won't impeachment take up too much time and distract from other goals? Isn't it more important to end the war? Isn't it more important to win the next election(s)? Wouldn't impeachment split the Democrats? Why not do investigations and see where they lead? Isn't impeachment an extreme remedy? Doesn't there have to be an actual crime committed?

Thursday, June 14, 2007
Nixon Ignored Subpoenas Too
Condoleezza Rice is refusing to comply with a subpoena to appear before Congress. The Justice Department is refusing to produce subpoenaed documents. Harriet Miers and Sara Taylor will almost certainly refuse to comply with subpoenas to appear. Dick Cheney has said that if he is subpoenaed he will not testify. Karl Rove has made his refusal to obey the law so clear that...

Thursday, June 14, 2007
Obama Says He'll Use Force Unilaterally to Protect "Vital Interests"
(1 comments) It is an indication of how far to the right Washington opinions on war and peace have shifted, that a Democratic candidate for president can write the following:

Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Rorty: The Best We've Ever Had
Whenever anyone asks me what author has had the greatest impact on me, I don't hesitate. There's no doubt that it's Richard Rorty. I consider him the most significant author of the past century, something I once told him, and which he had the humility to say and honestly believe was ludicrous. Richard Rorty died this week...

Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Sen. Clinton Wants Troops in Iraq for at Least 10 Years
(3 comments) ...And Koppel adds that he spoke with someone from the Pentagon who briefs Clinton, and that she had told this person that if she is elected and reelected, she expects to have troops in Iraq at the end of her second term.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Eight Congress Members for Impeachment
(1 comments) Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Chair of the Out of Iraq Caucus, has joined Congresswomen Barbara Lee and Lynn Woolsey, the two Co-Chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, as well as Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Chief Deputy Whip and a member of the Steering and Policy Committee, and Congress Members Yvette Clarke, William Lacy Clay, Albert Wynn, and Dennis Kucinich in cosponsoring Articles of Impeachment...

Monday, June 11, 2007
Father's Day, Peace, and Masculinity
(1 comments) The most creative, energetic, and effective peace activists in the United States right now are women organized explicitly as "CODE PINK: Women for Peace." While CODE PINK welcomes the participation of men (and when I'm in DC I stay at the CODE PINK house), the group is organized around the idea that women have a special role to play in working for peace. Why don't we have a group of Men for Peace?

Monday, June 11, 2007
Impeachment Sells
The latest version of the lengthy report on Bush and Cheney's crimes produced by John Conyers' staff on the House Judiciary Committee includes a foreword by former Congresswoman Liz Holtzman...

Sunday, June 10, 2007
War Opposition Made Easy
(3 comments) The new film "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death" makes arguing against wars easy. If you get into a debate about war, just make the points made so clearly in this film, or - better yet - convince a war supporter to watch the film.

Friday, June 8, 2007
Seven Congress Members for Impeachment
Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has joined Lynn Woolsey, the other Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and Congress Members Yvette Clarke, Jan Schakowsky, William Lacy Clay, Albert Wynn, and Dennis Kucinich in cosponsoring Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney (H. Res. 333).

Thursday, June 7, 2007
Six Congress Members for Impeachment
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has joined Congress Members Yvette Clarke, Jan Schakowsky, William Lacy Clay, Albert Wynn, and Dennis Kucinich in cosponsoring Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney.

Thursday, June 7, 2007
Rep. Nadler Says Bush a Criminal
Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, said today that there is no question that the warrantless wiretaping engaged in by the Bush Administration is a felony offense and that the President and Attorney General engaged in a criminal conspiracy worse than Watergate.

Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Iraq Idea: Better Than Calling Congress
Americans should keep lobbying Congress to end the occupation of Iraq, but should also try lobbying the Iraqi government, which appears more open to listening.

Monday, June 4, 2007
Ritter's Repudiation Ritual
(6 comments) In March 2006, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter posted an article online proposing that the antiwar movement learn techniques from warriors. Ritter developed the article into the recently released book "Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement." At the same time, Ritter has just posted online a new provocative article urging the impeachment movement to advocate instead for "repudiation."

Monday, June 4, 2007
Audio: Matt Rothschild and David Swanson Discuss Impeachment
Here's audio of a discussion of impeachment and of the 2008 elections.

Thursday, May 31, 2007
Iraq, Cowboys, and the Enormity of 18 Months
Eighteen months ago Congressman John Murtha and other pro-war Democrats had not yet developed even a muddled half-hearted opposition to the occupation of Iraq, Joe Lieberman had not lost a primary, MoveOn.org and the Center for American Progress were pretending there was no such thing as Iraq, and the Democratic Party had shoved its collective head so far up...

Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Rep. John Conyers Backs Impeachment
(6 comments) Advocates for impeachment can take some measure of encouragement not just from the 85 cities and towns and 14 state Democratic parties that have passed impeachment resolutions, or the 11 state legislatures that have introduced them (Maine was #11 on Tuesday), but also from comments made Tuesday evening in Detroit by House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers.

Monday, May 28, 2007
The Holy Occupation of Iraq
(1 comments) But why would religions be trying to recruit people who, like me, want the United States to get out of Iraq? I thought about it for a minute before I realized what the answer was: they've already got their claws in virtually every American who supports the Iraqi Occupation. Their target rich environment is the peace movement.

Saturday, May 26, 2007
Is Our Peace Activists Learning?
Over the past two months of repeated Congressional votes to fund the occupation of Iraq, culminating in President Bush's signing the bill on Friday, what – if anything – have we learned? Have we learned anything about individuals or political parties or activist organizations to trust or despise, or have we learned better what to demand of them regardless of such emotions? Have we learned anything about policies to support...

Friday, May 25, 2007
New Senate Report Is Worst Betrayal Yet
(1 comments) Here it is, yawn, on the Friday before Memorial Day Weekend and on the day after a war debate in Congress, all 229 pages of it, and as riveting as a phone book: the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on Bush and Cheney's war lies. This is what we've waited all these years for? Nancy Pelosi shaved her legs for THIS?

Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Of Congressional Surrenders
(1 comments) Dick Cheney and Jim Wright Saved Reagan: What Can Cheney and Nancy Pelosi Do for Bush?

Tuesday, May 22, 2007
W Stands for Wisconsin Impeachment Summer
(1 comments) What it's going to take is not just people who answer surveys correctly. It's going to take activists.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Kucinich to Speak for Full Hour on House Floor on Iraq Oil Law -- Watch C-Span
(1 comments) WASHINGTON DC - WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2007 - At approximately 11:00 a.m. today, Congressman Dennis Kucinich will invoke a rarely used procedure to offer a privileged motion claiming one hour of time to speak on the floor of the House of Representatives about current legislative plans to privatize Iraq's oil.

Saturday, May 19, 2007
13 State Democratic Parties Demand Impeachment
(1 comments) Thirteen state Democratic parties have now passed resolutions demanding impeachment, nine of them since Nancy Pelosi ordered the Democratic Party away from impeachment.

Friday, May 18, 2007
What Do These Crimes Have in Common?
(5 comments) There is a theme that may unite this particular crime with a significant subset of the crimes of President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

Thursday, May 17, 2007
24 Organizations Ask Pelosi and Reid to Leave Iraq Its Oil
If Democrats are perceived to be advocating withdrawal only after access to Iraqi oil has been assured this will do little to reassure critics.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007
It's Year Five, Do You Know Where Your Senators Are?
(1 comments) On Wednesday morning, the U.S. Senate voted on a proposal from Senator Russ Feingold (D., Wisc.) to end the war by next March.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Detroit City Council Passes Impeachment Resolution; Sponsor Married to John Conyers
(2 comments) A resolution calling on the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney was passed today by the unanimous vote of the Detroit City Council.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Agnew v. Cheney - How Did the Good Guys Finally Win?
Nailing Dick Cheney for tax evasion would be like nailing Al Capone for tax evasion. But the last time a U.S. president faced a strong movement for impeachment for actual impeachable offenses, one of the major road blocks was fear that an unpopular vice president would take his place, and this road block was removed when Spiro Agnew resigned in the face of criminal charges of cheating on his taxes.

Saturday, May 12, 2007
Questions for Candidates
(4 comments) If, like General Electric and Fox News, ordinary citizens were permitted to ask questions of candidates for U.S. President, these are a few of the questions I think they might ask:

Friday, May 11, 2007
They're Not Benchmarks
(3 comments) So, what's left in the bill that Bush doesn't like? Benchmarks! But there are two problems with this. Bush DOES like them. And they're NOT benchmarks.

Thursday, May 10, 2007
HOUSE VOTES ON WAR TODAY
(1 comments) Today the House of Representatives is expected to vote on a variation of Rep. Jim McGovern's bill HR 746 to mandate the withdrawal of most American forces from Iraq. Then the House is expected to vote on a Supplemental war spending bill that gives Bush and Cheney money to continue the war and does not include even a nonbinding withdrawal date.

Thursday, May 10, 2007
Powell's Chief of Staff Proposes Impeachment
(8 comments) On Thursday, May 10, 2007, Lawrence Wilkerson, speaking on National Public Radio, proposed impeaching President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Puzzling Out Pelosi
(1 comments) President Bush vetoed a war spending bill because it included a deadline for ending the war, albeit a non-binding one. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has proposed to hold a vote on Thursday on a new bill that will not include even a nonbinding "timeline." The media and even activist groups have almost immediately and almost unanimously described this as standing tough and refusing to give in to Bush.

Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Rep. Maxine Waters Speaks Out for Impeachment
Congresswoman and House Judiciary Committee Member Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) has spoken up in support of impeaching President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Waters said she advocates impeaching Cheney first, which is the same approach taken by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D., Ohio) in his bill, H. Res. 333. Waters has not yet cosponsored that bill.

Monday, May 7, 2007
The Hard Bigotry of the New York Times
(1 comments) There is nothing "soft" about the bigotry that allows the belief that Iraqis cannot best run their own country and manage their own resources.

Friday, May 4, 2007
20 Peace Organizations Send Letter to Reid and Pelosi
The undersigned organizations write to urge you in the strongest possible terms to respond to President Bush's veto of the supplemental appropriations bill with a stronger bill, not a weaker one.

Friday, May 4, 2007
Anti-U.S. Uproar Sweeps Italy
(1 comments) The U.S. government has proposed to make Vicenza, Italy, the largest US military site in Europe, but the people of Vicenza, and all of Italy, have sworn it will never happen.

Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Video of Portland, ME, Impeachment Rally
(1 comments) Maine's "Impeachment Day" event was the Maine Impeachment Town Meeting held April 28, 2007, at the First Parish Church in Portland, Maine.

Monday, April 30, 2007
Pelosi, Conyers, the People, and Impeachment
(1 comments) At stake is not just an offensive use of signing statements. At stake is accountability for (and I am neither exaggerating nor using metaphor) – at stake is accountability for mass murder.

Thursday, April 26, 2007
The GE Presidential Debate
(2 comments) MSNBC, owned by weapons-maker General Electric, opened Thursday night's debate with the unavoidable topic of Iraq, and unavoidably allowed each of the eight candidates on the stage to address it. Two of them, Congressman Dennis Kucinich and former Senator Mike Gravel, spoke in favor of ending the war.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Moving Impeachment Forward
(1 comments) Congressman Dennis Kucinich plans to introduce articles of impeachment against Vice President Cheney. It's time now for us to follow through by asking the rest of Congress to get on board with the American public, and by letting the media know where we stand.

Sunday, April 22, 2007
War Money in a Frame
(1 comments) You can't put a trillion dollars in a frame and hang it on the wall, but if it weren't for another kind of frame we would never spend this kind of money on war. When we frame the debate over war money with the idea that funding war amounts to "supporting troops," the debate is constrained to range from funding the war to funding the war more and faster.

Thursday, April 19, 2007
Putting the Gone in Gonzales
Kyle Sampson, Gonzo's Chief of Staff, is a gentleman who well deserves his name given the apparently superhuman feat he's performed of running the Department of Justice for years in exactly the direction his boss did not want it to go. That being said, Gonzales stands by every decision he never made, even the ones he remembers not making.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Another Path to Peace: The Case for Kucinich
The Democratic leadership in Congress wants the war to be around in 2008 so that a Democrat can win the White House by "opposing" the war. Congressman Rahm Emanuel has explained this to the Washington Post. The ONLY way to convince the top Democrats that this calculation is wrong is to promote in the presidential primary the only candidate who is trying in every way possible to end the war now. If we do that...

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Say It Loud: Subpoena!
(2 comments) Subpoena is a beautiful word. Sub means Under, as in "The subservient subject submitted along with his subordinates to the rule of law." Poena means Penalty, as in "There's an opening at the penal colony." Subpoena means a nation under laws, not unitary executives. Three and a half months later than some of us had hoped, it is finally subpoena season, not to mention spring.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Step it Up for Peace and Planet
(1 comments) The Cheney energy meeting, the Iraq Study Group, the Supplemental spending bill, the choice of which buildings to defend after Shock and Awe, Iraq's proposed new hydrocarbon law, the threat of an attack on Iran, and the sudden recognition of reality that comes from throwing away your television, all suggest that we've just wasted four years, hundreds of thousands of lives, and hundreds of billions of dollars, for oil.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Peace Movement Backs Impeachment
(2 comments) UFPJ Statement on Impeachment

Sunday, April 8, 2007
You Can't Hurt a Troop by Defunding a War
(3 comments) When Senator Russ Feingold and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid propose cutting off the funding for the war, they are proposing the only thing that can possibly benefit U.S. troops. In fact, there is no way to make any sense of the idea that they could possibly be hurting U.S. troops. The funding is not for the troops.

Saturday, April 7, 2007
10 States Introduce Impeachment
(4 comments) In 10 U.S. states, either this year or last year or both, the state legislature has introduced and considered, though not yet passed, a bill to petition the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach Bush and Cheney. The question, of course, is what in the heck is wrong with the other 40 states?

Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Self-Impeachment by Signing Statement
(1 comments) Imagine a president who violates numerous laws that predate his presidency. Imagine that Congress redundantly and repeatedly re-bans that criminal behavior. Imagine a president who repeatedly throws out the new bans with signing statements and continues to violate the same laws. This is the heart of the matter of the Bush "signing statements." It is an unprecedented use of signing statements.

Thursday, March 29, 2007
Veto This
(2 comments) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is right to point Unitary Executive George W. Bush toward a copy of the Constitution. The President (should Bush care to resume that legal role) is permitted to veto bills but not to write them. In particular, the President cannot rewrite legislation after it has been voted on and before he signs it. Nor can any member of Congress.

Thursday, March 29, 2007
A Veto Is a Vote for Eternal War
(1 comments) For George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, 2008 is too soon to end a war that they intend to last forever. 2008 is too soon to stop constructing enormous military bases in Iraq and abandon them. 2008 is too soon to bring our men and women home to their families and the criminally inadequate health care and nonexistent job assistance that we travel around the world to murder whole nations in defense of.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007
How's the Progressive Caucus Progressing?
Seventy-one members of Congress, all Democrats, most House Members, two Senators, belong to the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Sunday, March 25, 2007
Let Rove Lie
(1 comments) I think Karl Rove should be permitted to testify to Congress in private, without taking any oath, and without any record being kept of what he says. I had hoped we could avoid the indecency of having to spell out the reason why, but apparently we can't.

Friday, March 23, 2007
MoveOn.org Versus Its Members
(1 comments) MoveOn polled its membership without including the Lee alternative, offering a choice of only Pelosi's plan or nothing. Amazingly, Eli Pariser of MoveOn has admitted that the reason MoveOn did this was because they knew that their members would favor the Lee amendment.

Thursday, March 22, 2007
Woolsey Speaks Out Against Supplemental
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey is leading efforts to block the Supplemental bill in the House to fund the war.

Thursday, March 22, 2007
Why the Progressive Caucus Should Vote No on War Money
(1 comments) The Supplemental spending bill proposed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi funds the war.

Thursday, March 22, 2007
A Measure of Morality in Congress
(8 comments) If you could secretly tell a magic genie "Yes" and receive a million dollars but cause the deaths of a million people you've never met in China, would you say No? This is no longer just a philosophical brain teaser.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007
No Mo Money for War
(4 comments) The Democrats in Congress are doing less to oppose the war now that they have the majority than they did in the minority. While in the minority, Democrats in a sizable and growing number voted against funding more war. While in the minority, Democrats pushed hard for Resolutions of Inquiry into the lies that launched the war. While in the minority, Democrats in significant numbers signed onto a bill to...

Tuesday, March 13, 2007
What If the FBI Hired Someone Honest to Look into 9-11?
(5 comments) It did. Her name was Sibel Edmonds. This is her story, as she told it to me. Edmonds discusses what she knows, whom it implicates, and what she's been through and what hope there is in the new Congress to start an investigation.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007
How the Blogosphere Is Saving the Boob Tube
Judy Daubenmier spent 25 years as a reporter for the Associated Press and saw the field of news reporting sliding downhill. Now she works to reform our system of communications through the internet. Daubenmier is the author and editor of "Project Rewire: News Media from the Inside Out." I talked to her about her work and her hopes for news reporting in the future.

Saturday, March 10, 2007
On David Sirota, David Obey, and "Idiot Liberals," Never Mind Ending the War
(1 comments) At the Democrats' March 8, 2007 press conference, Obey made clear that he did not want to end any war at all. He wanted to shift the war from Iraq to Afghanistan, where the U.S. could, he said, attack "the people who attacked us."

Monday, March 5, 2007
Can Congress End the War?
(4 comments) The shortest route to ending the Iraq war (and preventing additional wars) is almost certainly through Congress. Influencing the White House directly is unimaginable, and stopping the war through the courts unlikely. Clearly, Congress is the way to go. But what specifically can Congress do?

Sunday, March 4, 2007
Former Pentagon Staff Speaks Out on Crimes of Doug Feith, Dick Cheney, and Planning of Iran War
(5 comments) The following is a remarkable interview of Karen Kwiatkowski who retired from the active duty USAF as a Lieutenant Colonel in early 2003. Her final assignment was in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Under Secretary for Policy Near East South Asia (NESA) Policy directorate. In her responses below, Kwiatkowski describes the manipulation of intelligence on Iraq and Iran and what it would take to avoid an Iran war.

Friday, March 2, 2007
I'm More Pro-Troop Than You Are
While political journalists are mostly tied up with the imminent national elections a mere 20 months away, there is also a lot of serious focus in the media on this contest for the most pro-troop proposal.

Friday, March 2, 2007
The Employee Free Fire Zone Act
Well, now workers ARE clearly on the front lines, but they don't seem to be on the same side of the battle as the White House.

Friday, March 2, 2007
NY Times Spins Health Coverage Opinion
After a long list of questions that confused any distinction between health care and health coverage, the New York Times/CBS asked:

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Only Nonviolence Will End The War
(1 comments) A handful of pro-war people, some volunteer and some probably paid to be there, will stage a counter-demonstration. This relatively tiny pro-death contingent will garner 50 percent of the media coverage if those on the side of peace do everything right.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Doug Feith versus The Blogosphere
(4 comments) So who is this guy briefly, Doug Feith, I mean, he looks like a nice enough guy on TV, you see him on their all the time. I saw him within the past couple of weeks chatting away with Charlie Rose, and he seemed like a very friendly guy with a lot of integrity who was trying to protect our political process from those who would harm it and so forth, and I did not hear any views to the contrary. Who is he?

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Testimony for Senate Impeachment Hearing
(2 comments) FOR THE WASHINGTON STATE SENATE HEARING CALLING FOR THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES TO INVESTIGATE AND CONSIDER HEARINGS ON EVIDENCE THAT COULD LEAD TO THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH AND VICE-PRESIDENT RICHARD B. CHENEY

Sunday, February 25, 2007
Cindy Sheehan, George Will, and Loving Your Enemies
(3 comments) Peace activist and gold star mother Cindy Sheehan and spokesman for a war-based oligarchy George Will both published columns this weekend arguing that non-Americans are human beings.

Saturday, February 24, 2007
To Impeach or Not to Impeach
(11 comments) There are those who believe that Bush and Cheney have committed impeachable offenses but that we should not try to impeach them.

Friday, February 23, 2007
Our National Hopes and Dreams in Images
BUSH IS OVER (if you want it)

Friday, February 23, 2007
Why Congress Must Reauthorize the Use of the Constitution
It is at least conceivable that Congressman Jack Murtha and company are backing off on requiring that Bush and Cheney send only prepared, equipped, and rested men and women to the slaughter for more than one reason. One reason, of course, is that Fox News has called Murtha and company traitors. But there could be a second reason. Someone somewhere may just have pointed out that Congress has enacted these limitations before.

Thursday, February 22, 2007
Impeach07 Campaign Launched
(3 comments) The impeachment movement is uniting and expanding. We're joining with many other organizations to launch Impeach07, a coordinated series of actions aimed at impeaching Bush and Cheney through widespread public protest, creative dissent, media activism, education, and lobbying: http://www.impeach07.org

Thursday, February 22, 2007
IRAN NUMBERS
What is 99,289? That's the number of people who have signed a petition opposing an attack on Iran. What is 711? No, it's not a convenience store. Oh, you didn't think that? See, you're quicker than our unitary executive!

Thursday, February 22, 2007
Peace Activists Throw Out Prime Minister - Too Bad It's Italy's
Prime Minister Richard Cheney may be glancing around with more nervousness and menace than usual after recent news reports, not just from the Libby trial, but also from Italy, where the peace movement has just thrown out a prime minister.

Monday, February 19, 2007
The Fierce Urgency of Impeachment
(2 comments) The founders knew that democracy could only be maintained through eternal vigilance. But we – or perhaps more G.E. and Disney than we – have substituted for eternal vigilance an eternal election season.

Friday, February 16, 2007
What Lincoln Really Said
(3 comments) Alaska Congressman Don Young just attempted on the floor of the House to quote Abraham Lincoln's opinion on opposition to presidents' war plans. Young failed rather dramatically.

Friday, February 16, 2007
Conyers and the Impeachment Table
(11 comments) Congressman John Conyers, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, has used the following rhetoric repeatedly in recent weeks:

Thursday, February 15, 2007
Murtha Only Intends to Undo the Escalation
(5 comments) In a video interview with Tom Andrews Congressman Jack Murtha makes clear that the limitations on additional war money that he intends to include in the forthcoming "emergency" supplemental bill are aimed only at undoing the recent escalation (a.k.a. "surge"), not at ending the war.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Shut Up and Stop the War!
(1 comments) An Iraq vet named Charlie Anderson told me that he likes to get his photo taken with senators and House members, and then have his friend fiddle with the camera, so that Charlie gets to talk while the elected official has to stand there and smile. And this is what Charlie says: "Congressman, I work every day to try to end this war. You only talk about it. I'd like it if we switched roles: you do something, and I'll talk...

Sunday, February 11, 2007
Iran Lies
(5 comments) Here's the latest reason they must be telling the truth about Iran and the need for a new war: they lied about the last one.

Saturday, February 10, 2007
Sex and Torture in America
How does sex differ from torture? The one is good and the other bad, might be your immediate reply. But were I to describe an act of torture, this would be taken as a serious article. Were I to describe an act of sex, then political publications wouldn't publish it, spam filters wouldn't allow you to receive it, and if you did receive it, you might turn away.

Friday, February 9, 2007
Feith Based Intelligence
(2 comments) The presentation purports to show that Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda were working together and had been for years. Not only was this a presentation of intelligence at odds with what the legitimate intelligence community was saying, but the first slide in the presentation provides reasons why the intelligence community had it wrong. This hardly looks like the product of an office doing only policy work, rather than intelligence

Friday, February 9, 2007
Truth Exposed at Senate Armed Services Hearing
(11 comments) The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing today at which the Inspector General of the Pentagon, Thomas Gimble, testified that – and I'm loosely paraphrasing – the Iraq War was launched on a pack of lies.

Thursday, February 8, 2007
Dems Change the Gas, Claim It's a New Car
(7 comments) Of course, the American public would very much like to see real investigations into the war, especially into the lies that launched it. But that's not what this list of 52 hearings is about.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Peace and Global Cooling
Those are our two goals now, and we are facing dual catastrophes spearheaded by a single unimpeached president. Some people have understood the goals of peace and environmental protection for quite some time. If the Democratic Party ever finds its soul, when it arrives in Denver for the 2008 Convention it should honor a resident of that city who is currently 91-years-old.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Majority of Senators Quietly Vote Against Escalation
This fairly well cuts through the courageous debate over whether to have a debate over whether to meaninglessly dissent from Bush's escalation plans for a war that most Americans want ended.

Friday, February 2, 2007
Tomgram: Swanson and Schwarz, The New Investigation Season
(1 comments) Beyond Oral Sex The Bush Investigations By David Swanson and Jonathan Schwarz

Friday, February 2, 2007
How a Bill Becomes a Signing Statement
At the House Judiciary Committee hearings on Bush's use of signing statements on Wednesday, two exchanges at the end were quite revealing.

Friday, February 2, 2007
Rightwingers Attack War Supporters
(1 comments) This is what it's come to. The local newspaper in my town in Virginia today ran an op-ed by rightwinger Cal Thomas attacking Hillary Clinton for her past support for the war.

Wednesday, January 31, 2007
The Bills That Can End the War
(1 comments) Senator Feingold held a hearing on the topic yesterday and plans to introduce a bill today to end the war by denying the President the money to continue it. Congress Members Lynn Woolsey, Jim McGovern, and Jerrold Nadler have bills in the House to do the same. But the bills are not all the same.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Lobbying for Impeachment
(1 comments) Our president took us into war before Congress gave its so-called authorization. He did so without telling Congress or the American people and without Congress appropriating any funds for the purpose. In the summer of 2002, Bush took $2.5 billion – according to the Congressional Research Service – away from other projects, including Afghanistan, and used it to build airfields in Qatar and to begin bombing Iraq...

Friday, January 26, 2007
Putting it on the Table: Kucinich Says Bush Risking Impeachment
(8 comments) "The degree to which this President continues to take steps to go to war against Iran without consulting with the full Congress is the degree to which he is increasingly putting himself in jeopardy of an impeachment proceeding." - Dennis Kucinich

Friday, January 26, 2007
Putting it on the Table: Kucinich Says Bush Risking Impeachment
(8 comments) "The degree to which this President continues to take steps to go to war against Iran without consulting with the full Congress is the degree to which he is increasingly putting himself in jeopardy of an impeachment proceeding." - Dennis Kucinich

Friday, January 26, 2007
Bush's Four Anti-Terror Successes All Fictional
(1 comments) President Bush claimed in his State of the Union speech to have prevented four terrorist plots. Phew! It's a good thing to know that we tossed out our Bill of Rights for some actual REASON – I mean other than turning Iraq into a training ground for terrorism. Except that we didn't.

Friday, January 26, 2007
"Don't Let Dick Cheney Get Me!"
(3 comments) This country has learned to be afraid... of Dick Cheney. The number one reason a significant minority of Americans still hesitates to get behind impeachment of Bush is fear of Dick Cheney. This will remain the case even should Cheney die, I am convinced. Certainly it remains the case no matter how many times I explain the following six reasons why it's INSANE, but I'm going to try one more time.

Thursday, January 25, 2007
Congress Announces First Investigation of Bush's Crimes
HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE Oversight Hearing on: "Presidential Signing Statements under the Bush Administration: A Threat to Checks and Balances and the Rule of Law?"

Thursday, January 25, 2007
Congress Announces First Investigation of Bush's Crimes
HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE Oversight Hearing on: "Presidential Signing Statements under the Bush Administration: A Threat to Checks and Balances and the Rule of Law?"

Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Demanding Truth from Power
(5 comments) It was disturbing to see so many members of Congress in both parties clamoring to get Bush's autograph on their copies of his State of the Union-not because it was such a dishonest speech that did such a disservice to this country, and not because they should have been handing him subpoenas instead. Rather, my concern arises from the habit Bush has developed following the signing of any document.

Monday, January 22, 2007
How We Can End the Occupation of Iraq
(2 comments) President George Bush deflects criticism of his war plans by claiming that his critics have no plans of their own. Vice President Dick Cheney, meanwhile, asserts that matters of war must be left in the hands of the President (presumably no matter how brilliant your alternative plan).

Monday, January 22, 2007
Rep. Jim McGovern to Introduce Bill to Bring Troops Home
Rep. Jim McGovern will introduce new legislation, which replaces HR 4232 "End the War in Iraq Act of 2005". In the new bill, "The Safe and Orderly Withdrawal Act," the U.S. would begin the safe and orderly withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq within 30 days of enactment to be completed within 180 days.

Sunday, January 21, 2007
Video: War, Media, Impeachment
With Amy Goodman, John Nichols, David Swanson, Larry Everest, Mark Manning, Robin Andersen, Sam Husseini, Normon Solomon, Jeff Cohen, Peter Hart, Russ Baker, Sunsara Taylor, Peter Phillips

Sunday, January 21, 2007
Huddle Up!
You think you're tired and worn down and you got beat bad, right? Is that what you think? When you pulled off the most powerful offensive attack in league history on February 15, 2003, putting millions of people in the streets against this war, you think no points went up on the board, right? You need to understand that you sidelined three-quarters of their lineup.

Thursday, January 18, 2007
Follow Pelosi, or Follower Pelosi
(3 comments) Larry Everest made an interesting comment on a panel we did in Memphis last weekend. He said that if Nancy Pelosi, who claims her top priority is ending the war and who claims to support democracy, were to ask people to come to Washington, D.C., on January 27th to march against the war, probably 20 million people would come.

Thursday, January 18, 2007
It All Started With an American Taliban
(2 comments) It began with that monstrous young man so evil we needed to blindfold him and strap him to a board, that confusing young man who looked like Christ but cast us in the role of crucifiers, that treasonous young man who brought dark and heathen evils across linguistic and cultural borders and brought torture onto the list of accepted government actions.

Sunday, January 14, 2007
If Beale Street Could Talk - Part 1
I'd like to request that nobody shout during this event, and I'll tell you why. I watched Bush's speech with some people who thought it would be a good idea to take a sip of liquor every time he told a lie. Three days later my head is aching.

Sunday, January 14, 2007
If Beale Street Could Talk - Part 2
By any serious standard of journalism, impeachment should be in the news right now. This illustrates the worst problem with our media. It's not how they cover stories. It's how they do not cover stories.

Friday, January 12, 2007
Land of Enchantment and Impeachment
(1 comments) There is a decent chance that within the next month or two the New Mexico State Legislature will ask the U.S. House of Representatives to begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Why Do We Need a National Conference for Media Reform?
Bush just connected Iraq to 9-11 again, and the media will not tell you it was a lie.

Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Videos: Cindy Sheehan and David Swanson on Next Steps to End War
The Iraq War and occupation is at a key crossroads. The peace movement needs to be focused and take advantage of the opportunities and challenges before us.

Friday, January 5, 2007
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Makes the Case for Impeachment
(1 comments) Congresswoman McKinney on December 27, 2006, entered into the Congressional Record (pages E2253 - 2255) extended remarks on impeachment that merit our close attention.

Thursday, January 4, 2007
Democrat's Open-Mic Press Conferences
(2 comments) Unlike the previous majority party in Congress, the Democrats who take power today know their weaknesses. They know they're not very good at the whole press conference thing where you're supposed to stand there and say something people care about. So they've announced an open-mic policy.

Sunday, December 31, 2006
The Ethics of Palestinian Resistance
(8 comments) With Jimmy Carter's book a best seller and the Iraq War a top political concern, many Americans may have an interest right now in thinking about Israel and Palestine. I'd like to recommend to anyone with that interest picking up a copy of a short and brilliant book by the British philosopher Ted Honderich called "Right and Wrong and Palestine, 9-11, Iraq, 7-7."

Wednesday, December 27, 2006
New Year's Utopianism Needed Fast
(3 comments) We are approaching a point at which all of the following will become unavoidable: massive desertification, rising sea level, explosive growth of insect populations, widespread habitat destruction, mass extinctions, mass migrations (including of humans), the disappearance of sea life, and in all likelihood wars over drinking water that will make the wars over oil look civilized.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Congress v. Muslims
This article helps explain why I spend so much time trying to lobby other people's Congress Members, hoping that perhaps I share the same century with them.

Monday, December 18, 2006
Video: Powell Asked About His Pre-War Lies
(3 comments) Husseini asks Powell simply whether he knew that Hussein Kamel had said there were no WMDs.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006
How to Spend the War Money
Since we Americans apparently have no other need for any money, and since we enjoy paying our taxes so much, they're planning to approve another $160 billion in "emergency" (off the books) cash for the war early next year. That's billion with a B.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Videos of an Impeachment Rally
Videos from Impeachment Rally in Santa Barbara, California, by John Calvert

Thursday, December 7, 2006
The Best Reasons Not to Impeach, And Why They're Wrong
(1 comments) Among those who believe Bush has not committed any impeachable offenses, the most common reason is that he has not lied under oath.

Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Permanent Bases and Temporary Presidents
Did you notice something about the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group Report? It recommends all sorts of changes, all of them far short of actually ending the war, but it recommends them all to the same person responsible for the disastrous situation we're in now.

Monday, December 4, 2006
Mandate for Peace Sends Letter to Every Democrat in House and Senate
Dear Democratic Representatives and Senators, You are about to head into a week that will include a Democratic forum on December 5th to discuss the future of Iraq, and the release of the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group.

Sunday, December 3, 2006
Honesty in Iraq
(1 comments) These are the statements of a man who knew he was lying, a man who believes nobody should care whether he lies or not, a man who doesn't much care himself, but still nonetheless a sane – albeit heartless, cruel, and stupid – human being who knew he was lying.

Thursday, November 30, 2006
Closer to Home
I did something worse than St. Augustine did when I was a kid. I must confess I broke into a house on the other side of town, and I did it just because it was such an ugly beat-down house that needed work so badly. Well, that and I kind of wanted to move out of my parents'.

Thursday, November 30, 2006
Hearings on Bush's Crimes Will Unite Nation
(1 comments) An astonishing 44 percent of Americans do not want President Bush impeached (Newsweek), 36 percent approve of the job he's doing (AP-Ipsos), 33 percent support the Iraq War (CNN). What, you may ask, is the matter with these people?

Thursday, November 30, 2006
We Support Rush Holt for Intelligence Committee Chair!
(2 comments) We, the undersigned, urge the Honorable Speaker Nancy Pelosi to appoint Rep. Rush Holt to be the next Chair of the House Intelligence Committee.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Be All That You Can Be: Leave the Army
(19 comments) Approximately 6,000 Americans have refused to report for duty or deserted in order to avoid taking part in this war, or to avoid taking further part in it.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006
The Melbourne Minutes: New Downing Street Memos from Down Under
On February 27, 2002 – just five months after 15 Saudis, 2 Lebanese, and 2 Yemenis flew airplanes into U.S. buildings – Trevor Flugge, who was then chairman of AWB, the Australian Wheat Board, a private corporation, told AWB's board that John Dauth, who was then Australia's ambassador to the United Nations, had revealed to Flugge the plans of the U.S. and Australian governments for war on Iraq.

Tuesday, November 21, 2006
U.S. v. Bush
Now, we almost all agree that Bush and Cheney have done bad things. But have they actually committed crimes? If you know anyone who has any doubts on this topic, may I recommend a brilliant little book for you to stick in their stocking next month?

Friday, November 17, 2006
Want to End the War? Demand Investigations!
Public awareness of the lies that led to the war and the crimes committed during the war helps build public demand for the troops to come home. Not every committee in Congress can work fulltime on simply ending the war: a legislative process that must be pursued but which will be uphill and subject to veto or signing statement. Many committees in the House and Senate, without taking any energy away from ending the war, can..

Thursday, November 16, 2006
Will They or Won't They? Last Chance for Democrats
(2 comments) So, if the Democrats are playing games until they have their committee chairs, if they're convinced that talking impeachment prior to the "investigations" will lead to fatal attacks from the media, if they're planning to do their jobs and defend our democracy come February, then there is hope for them and for us.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
IMPEACHMENT BY SPRING: HERE'S THE PLAN
Steps to get us there.

Thursday, November 9, 2006
Throwing Stuff Over the White House Fence
(1 comments) Then a line of police officers stepped in the way and blocked the fence. So we began throwing pages, about 50 double-sided sheets at a time, over their heads and over the fence.

Thursday, November 9, 2006
Off the Table: A Farce in One Act
Hello? Why do you ask? Yes, I'm sure. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Impeachment is off the table.

Wednesday, November 8, 2006
A Bulk Rate on Printing Subpoenas?
(5 comments) Chairman John Conyers Jr. Chairman Henry Waxman. Those titles will prove to be the most important outcome of yesterday's elections, even if the Dems get the Senate too.

Sunday, November 5, 2006
Bush Chain Gang Campaigns for George Allen
Bush, Cheney, Rummy, and Condi are taking time out from cleaning our nation's highways and putting some of their chain gang service into campaigning to reelect Senator George Allen.

Saturday, November 4, 2006
Ed Asner on Illegal War and Impeachment
(1 comments) "Well, you know, most of the time when I encounter Rumsfeld on the news, etc, it's like talking to the white rabbit . . . . We are an unmotivated, cowering people. We will say, 'Shame on you, shame on you, shame on you,' but teachers are dying in the streets in Mexico from the federales. Do you think teachers would be dying in the streets in Peoria?"

Saturday, November 4, 2006
The Plan Bush Is Looking For
(3 comments) Our President is pretending that the Democrats have no plan for Iraq, and the media is repeating that pretense unchallenged. But a lot depends on which Democrats we look to.

Wednesday, November 1, 2006
To the Virgins, to Make Less of Passing Legislation
So you think you can pass bills now You're dipping your quills now You're ready to legislate

Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Oneonta
"Mr. Swanson – Can you address the counter-argument to your idea. That if we leave Iraq a worse leader will take power and attack the US again?"

Friday, October 27, 2006
Republicans for Slave Labor
What if there were Republicans in Congress who supported forced abortions and prostitution and slave labor? And what if there were progressive Democrats running against them? Meet Republican Congress Members John Doolittle and Richard Pombo and their challengers in California's 4th and 11th districts.

Thursday, October 26, 2006
Karl Rove Announces Plans to Steal Elections
(2 comments) White House political head honcho Karl Rove was interviewed by National Public Radio yesterday. He effectively announced plans to steal the coming elections.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld to Be Prosecuted by Ed Asner
(4 comments) The evidence that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld lied us into a war is overwhelming but also dry and dense. But imagine seeing it presented coherently and systematically in a dramatic performance full of humor and emotion.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Rumsfeld and Saddam: Partners in Guilt
(1 comments) The White House has arranged to announce two days before the November 7, 2006, elections a guilty verdict for Saddam Hussein and, no doubt, plans to finally murder him. Meanwhile an appeals process is delaying until at least five days after the elections release of photos of members of the U.S. military and its contractors raping and murdering children and adults at Abu Ghraib.

Monday, October 23, 2006
ImpeachPAC Announces New Endorsements
(6 comments) Each of the candidates endorsed supports immediate impeachment hearings for President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Each of them has expressed this position publicly.

Friday, October 20, 2006
Interview with Dennis Loo, Co-Editor of "Impeach the President"
...the scales on some people's eyes in America were washed away by that storm, and by the federal response to it, and it made it possible at that point to conceive of a movement possibly getting strong enough to be able to drive out this r�gime...

Thursday, October 19, 2006
The Industrial Services Complex Formerly Known as the Military
(1 comments) The U.S. military no longer cooks its own food, washes its own laundry, repairs its own vehicles, or guards its own V.I.P.s. We've privatized everything, right down to the shooting -- mercenaries make up the second largest contingent in the Coalition of the Killing.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Taking Stands
(3 comments) Recently someone Emailed me a brief policy statement on four major issues. They'd received it from a political activist group, they said, and were passing it along with praise. I think it's worth commenting on, because the positions are those many progressive groups take, but – far from being "stands" on the issues, as my correspondent described them, they are closer to being methods of rolling over.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Transcript of Trupiano Interview
No, I'll fight like hell to make sure every vote is counted, even if it ends up going against me; truly the process is about November 7, that's what this is all about, that one day, let's make it count, but let's make sure the votes count, and I'm with you 100% on that one.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Bush as Brat: Pretensions to Empire
Lewis Lapham, essayist extraordinaire and editor of Harper's magazine, asked Congressman John Conyers what he thought the point was of publishing a lengthy report laying out evidence of Bush's impeachable offenses. Conyers' response was:

Friday, October 13, 2006
Did They Fool You on Iraq? Are You Ready for Iran?
(2 comments) To understand the lies we're already hearing and the lies we may soon hear about Iran, it's important to understand just what was wrong with attacking Iraq.

Friday, October 13, 2006
A Blue District Gone Red, Coming Back
(1 comments) From a nearer angle, the contest between Goode and Weed, in which Goode's lead is dwindling rapidly, is one between a radical right winger and a progressive with a vision for enlightened change.

Sunday, October 8, 2006
The Genius of John Nichols
(1 comments) With "The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism," John Nichols has produced a masterpiece that should be required reading in every high school and college in the United States.

Thursday, October 5, 2006
The Impeachment Moment
(1 comments) The first subpoena sent to the White House will be refused, of course, and the conflict will develop from that point. Democrats and any Republicans of conscience should be prepared for that and have a plan that will see us through to George Bush's removal from office for the highest of high crimes and misdemeanors.

Thursday, September 28, 2006
Treating Criminality As Daring Boldness: The Media on Bush
(1 comments) Bush as a daring rebel outsider taking on a bunch of timid traditionalists. It's cowboy Bush versus the Washington elite – though presumably not any longer the nation-building, foreign-entanglement-prone elite that Bush campaigned against in 2000.

Thursday, September 28, 2006
Mommy, What's Waterboarding?
(3 comments) Remember the great harm done to the moral core of our nation when, according to the excited news reports following Kenneth Starr's great work in life, children were asking their parents what oral sex was? Neither do I.

Thursday, September 21, 2006
Nuclear Winter, Global Warming, or Impeachment
We are sending missiles to Iran on a ship departing my home state of Virginia next week, and the water the ship will be passing through is warmer than it used to be, and there's more of it.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Videos from Impeachment Day at Camp Democracy
John Nichols, Marcus Raskin, Elizabeth Holtzman, Dave Lindorff, Elizabeth de la Vega, David Green, David Swanson, David Waldman, Ray McGovern, Jennifer Van Bergen, Geoff King, Michael Avery,

Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Verdict: Bush Is Guilty
(1 comments) There can no longer be any doubt that the Bush Administration did not experience a failure of intelligence, but rather a success of stupidity and arrogance.

Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Be At Camp Democracy This Weekend
Peace Day and Impeachment Day are this Saturday and Sunday

Monday, September 11, 2006
Dedicating September 11th to Bush
On September 11th we must recognize that one of the ways in which we make ourselves comfortable with our failure to act against this criminal government is by fantasizing about this government possessing superhuman powers...

Saturday, September 9, 2006
4 Iraq War Vets Detained at Pentagon
Four veterans of the current war in Iraq and one supporter were detained at the Pentagon today after they attended an open house and left behind flyers providing information about the lethal effects of depleted uranium. "Iraq vets who have suffered the effects of depleted uranium have every right to educate others about the terrible effects of this illegal substance used in weapons produced by th

Thursday, September 7, 2006
This Is What Democracy Sounds Like
Listen to this 30-second message from Rev. Lennox Yearwood.

Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Come to Camp Democracy
Camp Democracy opened on the Mall in Washington on Tuesday, and will run through September 21st. We need you to come and join us now!

Saturday, September 2, 2006
The Cablization of Network News
(1 comments) On Tuesday, September 5th, at least three things will change. Congress will finish vacationing and return to its long and difficult task of destroying the world; many of us will welcome our Congress Members back to Washington with a giant protest camp called Camp Democracy; and Network News will officially go Cable with Katie Couric playing the role of Edward R. Murrow.

Friday, September 1, 2006
Vets and Military Families to Welcome Congress Back
Veterans and Military Families Hold Press Conference and Day of Events to Open Camp Democracy September 5th

Friday, September 1, 2006
Veterans and Military Families to Open Camp Democracy September 5th
September 5th in Washington DC will witness the opening of a 17-day event called Camp Democracy, a non-partisan camp for peace, democracy, and the restoration of the rule of law.

Thursday, August 31, 2006
Greg Palast to Hold Fundraiser for Camp Democracy
Join us Monday night in Washington DC.

Monday, August 28, 2006
Camp Democracy Is One Week Away
Read about our press conference at the National Press Club on Tuesday, August 29th and all of the amazing speakers lined up for Camp Democracy

Sunday, August 20, 2006
The Best War Ever
Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber have a new book, which is always a good thing; but this one is especially good. It's called "The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq."

Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Camp Democracy to Open in DC
(2 comments) On September 5, 2006, Cindy Sheehan will move her camp from Crawford Texas to the nation's capital, and expand it into a weeks-long demonstration against the war, for justice here at home, for environmental sanity, and for accountability from the White House and Congress.

Saturday, August 12, 2006
Veterans for Impeachment
"Your attention please. Due to heightened security, please permit suspension of the Bill of Rights, the rule of law, and peace on earth. Your attention please...."

Thursday, August 10, 2006
Bush Versus the Constitution
(1 comments) Impeachable offenses are public knowledge, backed by overwhelming evidence and public confession. But, rather than introducing articles of impeachment, Congressman Conyers has backed off promoting H. Res. 635.

Tuesday, August 8, 2006
San Francisco Puts Impeachment on November Ballot
(1 comments) San Francisco Approves Ballot Initiative to Call for Impeachment; Announcement Comes on Anniversary of Nixon Resignation

Friday, August 4, 2006
Conyers Releases Massive New Report on Bush-Cheney Crimes
(4 comments) ...a staggering report, just released, which documents the hard evidence of crimes and abuses committed by President Bush and his administration (breaking 26 specific laws)....

Thursday, August 3, 2006
Planning an Impeachment Blog Action
(1 comments) Starting at noon ET on September 1, 2006, and lasting 24 hours, websites and blogs all across the internet are being asked to replace their front pages with the single word "Impeach" in simple white text on a black background.

Tuesday, August 1, 2006
The Shame of Not Being Mexican
I'll grant you that in the United States our two big political parties never nominate a candidate of, by, or for poor people. Nonetheless, we have now established a pattern of stolen elections, and we have NOT taken over our nation's capital to demand justice.

Monday, July 31, 2006
Time for California to Impeach Bush and Cheney
Next week marks a pivotal moment for the California Impeachment Resolution (AJR39).

Thursday, July 27, 2006
Where Were You When They Took Your Rights Away?
Can you name the one country on earth where the government can steal elections, strip away basic rights, spy on citizens, and launch wars based on lies, but where the people do not take over the nation's capital in protest?

Monday, July 24, 2006
Impeachment: Why and How
(3 comments) The reasons why, and the steps to make it happen.

Friday, July 21, 2006
Friday Night Impeachment Teach-In
Join us tonight!

Thursday, July 20, 2006
Conservatives and Conscience
(1 comments) John Dean, former legal counsel to Richard Nixon, is 95% recovered from a long bout of conservatism, and he doubts that many others can make the same recovery, but I don't.

Monday, July 17, 2006
Rupert Murdoch Hosted Hillary Fundraiser
On Monday, July 17, 2006, at Fox News headquarters in New York City, Rupert Murdoch hosted a fundraiser breakfast for Hillary Clinton. Then he rushed off to a fundraiser lunch for John McCain, and Hillary rushed off to announce her unqualified support for Israel's and Bush's war policies.

Sunday, July 16, 2006
Containing the Military Industrial Complex
(1 comments) We say the phrase "military industrial complex," but the lies that it hides behind permeate our thinking and dominate the politics of both major parties. Some of these lies are...

Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Republican Congressman Says Bush Should Be Removed from Office
(1 comments) How does Congressman Paul think history will look on one of the 435 people in a position to act who declared action needed and then sat down and did nothing, who actually summoned the courage to admit publicly that he recognized the slide to fascism, but stood aside and wished the country well as it slid down the slope?

Friday, July 7, 2006
Command Rape
(2 comments) Suzanne Swift's story begins in an all-too-familiar way. A dead-end job, a friendly military recruiter, a promise that signing-up as military police would mean no deployment to Iraq, a broken promise, and a trip to war.

Thursday, July 6, 2006
Cindy Sheehan to Move Camp to DC
(1 comments) Cindy Sheehan and activists in the growing peace movement plan to establish Camp Casey in Crawford, Texas, again this August 16 to September 2. They then plan to move the camp to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., beginning September 8.

Thursday, June 29, 2006
On the Fourth, Read the Declaration of Impeachment
(1 comments) Veterans for Peace has drafted a Declaration of Impeachment using nothing but excerpts from the Declaration of Independence.

Wednesday, June 28, 2006
A Portrait of a Progressive Congressman
I sat down with Congressman McDermott on Monday to discuss the Iraq War and the possibilities for peace. He offered insights and lessons from history that we would all do well to bear in mind.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Congressman Jim McDermott Speaks on Iraq
Congressman Jim McDermott was kind enough to sit down with me for 45 minutes today and record this interview.

Friday, June 23, 2006
4,435 Dead in Vain
(1 comments) Supporting our troops and working to ensure that they not have died in vain are notions that no longer apply to the soldiers who died in the fields around my house in Virginia.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Democracy Corpse
(1 comments) The Take Back America conference produced some stunningly boring speeches, speeches that many had heard before, speeches (like Hillary's) that no one had any use for, speeches that make Al Gore seem lively. But the pollsters from Democracy Corps(e) took the prize.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Feingold Rocks TBA Conference
Eli Pariser introduced Russ Feingold this morning, who was cheered with "Run, Russ, Run!" as he arrived, and who received four standing ovations just during the introduction and many, many more during his speech.

Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Tomgram: David Swanson on War Porn and Iraq
(1 comments) Many of these images were sent by American soldiers to a website that marketed pornography. Presumably, these were viewed as war pornography. Presumably, they were created by people who have come to love war.

Monday, June 12, 2006
BLOGGING FROM TAKE BACK AMERICA CONFERENCE
The first event was a meeting for bloggers with movie star Robert Redford and Jerome Ringo, President of the Apollo Alliance, which is "challenging Americans to achieve energy independence by 2015." www.apolloalliance.com

Friday, June 9, 2006
No Permanent Bases: Passed Both Houses, Removed in Conference Committee
(1 comments) When the House and the Senate pass similar but not identical bills, they create a conference committee to work out the differences. When they both passed amendments to the "emergency supplemental" spending bill stipulating that none of the money could be used to build permanent bases in Iraq, the conference committee, behind closed doors this week, resolved that non-difference by deleting it.

Thursday, June 8, 2006
Safe Passage on the Earth
(2 comments) A response of "Hey, wow, it's cold out, why don't you take my coat," or "Absolutely not, now put that gun away," tended to protect people much better than a response of "Oh God, don't hurt me," or "Get back, I've got a knife."

Thursday, June 8, 2006
How to Impeach a President
Announcing a "National Teach-In" on impeachment organized by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Melville House, launching nationwide on July 19 in cities and towns across the country.

Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Nine State Democratic Parties Back Impeachment: Whose Table Is It, Nancy?
(1 comments) Nominal leader of the Democrats in Congress Nancy Pelosi, following talking points produced by the Republican National Committee, recently told her fellow Dems to keep impeachment off the table. This past weekend, the Democratic Parties in Maine, New Hampshire, and Hawaii passed resolutions demanding impeachment. This, of course, raises the question: Whose table is it, Nancy?

Monday, June 5, 2006
Let's Stay in Iraq Until it's Peaceful or We're Sane, Whichever Comes First
(1 comments) Have you ever heard someone try to argue that the Iraq War was a mistake but that now the proper course is to continue the mistake a bit longer or to carefully end it in a long and complicated way that could take months or years? Have you ever wondered how such a position, if examined in detail, could possibly make any sense?

Saturday, June 3, 2006
Eleven Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military
(1 comments) But even such a person, facing a highly unpleasant and unrewarding work life, and facing a taxpayer-funded multibillion-dollar advertising campaign for military recruitment, would not for an instant consider joining the military if they had read "10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military."

Saturday, June 3, 2006
John Bonifaz Rocks the House
Reports confirm John rocked the House at the Massasschuettes Democratic State Party Convention this AM with his speech!

Friday, June 2, 2006
Bush and Cheney's Ethics for Soldiers
And PhD candidates will be required to address the eternal enigma involved in the question: Is it morally good to aggressively attack another nation if you tell a bunch of lies about it first?

Monday, May 29, 2006
Peace in a Gas Pump or Bringing Pharaoh's Armed Madhouse Home
Can you imagine the political ramifications if Republicans upset about both war lies and gas prices understood that the war was, in fact, launched in order to raise the gas prices?

Saturday, May 27, 2006
California Can Impeach Bush and Cheney
(1 comments) There are three paths leading to impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. All three are being led by California.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006
RNC Line on Impeachment: Verily, This Is That
(3 comments) Black is white. War is peace. Impeachment is good for Republicans. Haven't you heard? The Republicans say so. The Democrats say so. It just must BE so.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006
So, How WOULD a Patriot Act?
Glenn Greenwald's new book "How Would a PATRIOT ACT? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok," lays out a powerful, concise, and well-researched argument that President Bush is a threat to our government's system of checks and balances and to our individual liberties.

Sunday, May 21, 2006
Be a Part of the Growing Pro-Impeachment Grassroots Movement
(3 comments) Republicans are beginning to understand that being associated with Bush and Cheney is a liability.

Friday, May 19, 2006
What Happened at Rumsfeld's House
Account of May 18th Action

Monday, May 15, 2006
Iraq War Images Uncensored
This collection of photos is the most complete we are aware of. Many of them are being made public here for the first time. Many of them are extremely gruesome.

Friday, May 12, 2006
Bush Beats Out Nixon: Least Liked President Ever
President Bush claims the titlelong held by Richard Nixon: Least Liked President Ever (or at least since there have been polls).

Thursday, May 11, 2006
Poll: Bush Lied About Iraq, Has No Right to Attack Iran
(3 comments) A new poll conducted in Pennsylvania by Zogby International and commissioned by OpEdNews.com asked some of the questions the corporate media has failed to ask. The answers are surprising. One revelation is this: the single greatest predictor of an American's political views is whether she or he watches Fox News.

Thursday, May 11, 2006
Cindy Sheehan's New Book: Dear President Bush
(1 comments) Cindy Sheehan's interviews, essays, and speeches get better with each passing month, as her pain continues, her passion and insight grow, and the war that killed her son goes on – as the president who killed her son goes on being president.

Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Ray McGovern Is Going to Rumsfeld's House
Ray McGovern wasn't aiming to make Donald Rumsfeld stutter and stammer like a kid caught cheating on a test when he asked him last week why he'd lied us into a war. That was just a side benefit. Ray wants answers, and he's taking his demand to Donald Rumsfeld's house in Washington, D.C.

Sunday, May 7, 2006
RNC Attack on John Conyers Demands Action from Democrats
(2 comments) The Republican National Committee (RNC) has launched an aggressive campaign to smear Congressman John Conyers.

Sunday, May 7, 2006
Atheists for Peace
(1 comments) With the exception of Jews and African-Americans, no demographic group in the United States voted more heavily against Bush and for Gore and Kerry than did atheists, who make up 10 percent of the electorate. Atheists tend to be disproportionately progressive. So do atheistic countries.

Saturday, May 6, 2006
Wrongly Convicted, Almost Executed, Awarded $2.25 Million
$2.25 million to Earl Washington, whom the state of Virginia came within days of killing for a crime he had been clumsily and obviously framed for. Washington is mentally retarded, poor, and black.

Friday, May 5, 2006
Washington Post Blogger Makes Laughable Attempt to Defend Rumsfeld Against McGovern
(1 comments) There is not a word here on the topic of whether Rumsfeld lied. Arkin should resign immediately.

Friday, May 5, 2006
J. Jill, Ann Taylor, Liz Claiborne: Made By Slaves, Backed by Congress
... beautiful tropical islands described by disgraced House Majority Leader Tom Delay as "a perfect petri dish of capitalism."

Thursday, May 4, 2006
Lobbying Hitler's Legislature for Peace
(1 comments) ...many citizens (myself included) no longer believe Congress has the power to affect anything other than by removing Bush and Cheney from office.

Monday, May 1, 2006
Impeach Cheney First
(1 comments) We should impeach Vice President Dick Cheney first, and President George Bush immediately thereafter.

Sunday, April 30, 2006
Today Is Mission Accomplished Day
At 9:00 a.m. ET on Monday, May 1, "Mission Accomplished Day," in Room 235 of the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C., Ellen Tenney of Rockingham, Vermont, will present the Speaker of the House with petitions from three towns in Vermont calling for the impeachment of President Bush. The towns each passed resolutions to send the petitions.

Saturday, April 29, 2006
Calif Dem Party Platform: Immediate Withdrawal
(2 comments) The platform committee has passed and is recommending to the full party on Sunday inclusion in the platform of a call to end the occupation of Iraq and immediately bring the troops home.

Friday, April 28, 2006
Mission Accomplished, May 1, Three Years On
May 1 marks three years since George W. Bush staged his "Mission Accomplished" aircraft landing in San Diego Harbor and "delivered good news to the men and women who fought in the cause of freedom: their mission is complete and major combat operations in Iraq have ended."

Wednesday, April 26, 2006
The War Looks Different from Inside Congress
(1 comments) Some in Congress are willing to take half-way and tenth-of-the-way steps in the direction of ending the war, some of them from within such fantasyland worldviews that they are "threatening" to stop occupying Iraq if the Iraqis don't behave better (that is, threatening something that over 80 percent of Iraqis desire).

Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Cindy Sheehan and Ann Wright to Speak in Charlottesville, VA
At 7 p.m. ET on Wednesday, May 17, Cindy Sheehan and Ann Wright will speak on the Iraq War and answer questions at an event in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Monday, April 24, 2006
Pacifica Radio to Air Congressional Iraq Forum Live
I'll be co-hosting with Verna Avery-Brown of Pacifica Radio a live broadcast on Pacifica from 8:30-11 a.m. ET on Thursday, April 27, of a forum on Capitol Hill hosted by Congresswomen Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee. http://www.pacifica.org/stations

Monday, April 24, 2006
California Becomes Second State to Introduce Bush Impeachment
(2 comments) Joining Illinois, California has become the second state in which a proposal to impeach President Bush has been introduced in the state legislature. And this one includes Cheney as well.

Saturday, April 22, 2006
A Living Wage Revolution
"The president of the University of Virginia on Friday acknowledged that students fighting for better pay for university workers have a valid case for change, calling the debate "revolutionary" in its shifting of the poverty burden from government to the private sector."

Friday, April 21, 2006
Congressional Hearing on Iraq Planned
Congresswomen Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee will host a hearing on the Iraq War next Thursday, April 27, 8:30-11 a.m., in 2325 Rayburn House Office Building (with an overflow room planned for anyone wanting to attend who can't fit in).

Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Iranian Irony
Self-confessed terrorist activities against the Iranian government? Hmm. Who is it that is currently proposing to engage in some of those? Wait, don't tell me.

Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Iran Through the Media
Diplomacy, Gearan informs us, should be put down as "plodding," and as having not borne fruit. When it was tried and what fruit it was supposed to have borne need not even be explained. The point is to put down diplomacy.

Monday, April 17, 2006
Impeach John Casteen
(3 comments) Presidents and Prime Ministers who most deserve to be ridden out of office on a rail: George W. Bush, Tony Blair, and John Casteen.

Sunday, April 16, 2006
U of Virginia Has Students Arrested, Pays Poverty Wages
17 UVa students staging a peaceful sit-in inside Madison Hall since April 12 for a living wage for all University employees, were arrested last night (Saturday) and taken to jail. Their bond hearing will be tomorrow morning (Monday).

Saturday, April 15, 2006
May Day, Memo Day, Mission Accomplished Day
The first of May is May Day, the real labor day, the commemoration of the Haymarket Massacre and the fight for an 8-hour day in Chicago – an American holiday celebrated everywhere except America. But the first of May is two other things as well in more recent but already fading history.

Friday, April 14, 2006
Students Still Sitting In at U of Virginia for Living Wage
Here's the latest on the sit-in: Wednesday night, the protesters had their wireless internet cut off.

Friday, April 14, 2006
Arrests in Crawford Happening Now
Barbara Cummings just phoned from outside Bush's ranch in Carwford, Texas, to say that she and about 14 others, including Cindy Sheehan, are about to be arrested for trespassing.

Thursday, April 13, 2006
How to Talk About Iran
(2 comments) John Aravosis suggests some talking points on Iran, but I'd like to suggest some changes.

Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Students Sit In at U of VA, Prof. Arrested, Living Wage Demanded
A sit-in has begun to encourage the University to pay its workers a living wage. All information is below.

Sunday, April 9, 2006
Stop the Next War Now
Now might be the time to read, if you haven't already, "Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism," an amazing book edited by CODE PINK cofounders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, which includes a forward by Alice Walker and an introduction by Arundhati Roy.

Saturday, April 8, 2006
Hawaii Legislature Works to End War
The Hawaii State Senate has passed a resolution "CALLING UPON THE GOVERNOR OF HAWAII TO TAKE STEPS TO WITHDRAW THE HAWAII ARMY AND AIR NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS FROM IRAQ."

Friday, April 7, 2006
Hawaii Legislature Takes Steps to End War
(2 comments) The Hawaii State Senate has passed a resolution "CALLING UPON THE GOVERNOR OF HAWAII TO TAKE STEPS TO WITHDRAW THE HAWAII ARMY AND AIR NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS FROM IRAQ."

Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Public Energy Is Misdirected
(2 comments) What would happen if politically active progressive Americans suddenly stopped devoting their energies to drafting better sound bites, and instead directed all that time and passion into a serious and strategic campaign of civil disobedience?

Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Not One More Death
The book is composed of short essays by Brian Eno, John Le Carre, Harold Pinter, Richard Dawkins, Haifa Zangana, and Michael Faber. It's as good a statement as I've seen of why this war is cruel and destructive and why we must devote our energies to ending it as soon as possible.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Truth Seeping Through Media After Ten Months
(1 comments) Within days of the LA Times mentioning permanent military bases in Iraq, Bush admitting he intends never to pull out of Iraq, and the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post covering the growing movement for impeachment, the New York Times has chosen at long last to acknowledge the White House Memo.

Monday, March 27, 2006
Towns, Cities Pass Resolutions Urging Impeachment
Brattleboro, Vermont, has joined nine other towns and cities, five state Democratic parties, and 19 local Democratic committees in passing resolutions urging the impeachment of President Bush and -- in most cases -- Vice President Cheney.

Saturday, March 25, 2006
Impeachment News Weekend
(1 comments) New Topic for the Washington Post's Front Page: Impeachment

Thursday, March 23, 2006
Interview With an Anti-War Candidate
Want to replace a leading pro-war Congress Member with an outstanding anti-war candidate? Listen to Marcy Winograd in this 30-minute interview recorded earlier today.

Tuesday, March 21, 2006
DOJ Confirms Voting Rights Violations in Massachusetts
On March 10, the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) confirmed it is investigating Voting Rights violations in Springfield.

Sunday, March 19, 2006
Media Avoids Covering Vote on Permanent Bases
(1 comments) Something happened in Congress last Thursday that most Americans have not heard about.

Friday, March 17, 2006
Republicans for Impeachment
(1 comments) Everyone's on message. The right-wing pundits, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Rush Limbaugh, Nancy Pelosi. They're all trying to tell us that raising a demand for impeachment is good for Republicans.

Thursday, March 16, 2006
Homeland Dreamland
(1 comments) If you have not yet seen the film "Occupation Dreamland," I highly recommend it. Co-Director Garrett Scott died on March 2, but he truly accomplished something before he left.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Harman vs. Winograd, Tough Choice?
For the past 10 months I've worked on a project at www.afterdowningstreet.org to urge Congress Members to hold the Bush Administration accountable for crimes and abuses of power. Some Democratic members of Congress have been as helpful in this effort as Fox News. Some have been less. In that last category you can list Jane Harman.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Impeachment and Connecticut
Read the first line of this front page article from today's Hartford Courant and then ask Congressman Larson to cosponsor H Res 635:
Phone: (860) 278-8888 | Fax: (860) 278-2111

Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Audio of War and Impeachment Forum
Listen to March 13th forum on war and impeachment.

Tuesday, March 7, 2006
"We Are Human, Like You"
A delegation of women from Iraq told stories last night in Washington, D.C., unlike anything we've ever heard about this war from the media in the United States. And the media was not there, so I'm going to tell you what they said.

Monday, February 27, 2006
About That Anthrax
So, the word Anthrax is back in the news, but not because Saddam Hussein's vast stockpiles have been found, not because Bush has apologized for inventing those vast stockpiles, not because Forest Whitaker has agreed to play Colin Powell in "The Sting II: Hustling the United Nations" ...

Saturday, February 25, 2006
Huge March Planned for Eve of Katrina Evictions
(1 comments) FEMA moved the evictions to March 15, so activists have moved the march to March 14. A press conference on Capitol Hill will be followed by a march through Washington, D.C., past FEMA, past the Department of Homeland Security, and to the White House, where a permit has been obtained to rally in Lafayette Square Park until midnight.

Thursday, February 23, 2006
Sweat Shop Workers Tour US Colleges That Sell Their Products
Theirs are stories of success. They work in factories in Mexico and El Salvador that have unionized and won worker rights and higher pay and benefits with help from the activism of US students.

Monday, February 20, 2006
Antiwar and Impeachment in Virginia
Here are upcoming antiwar and pro-impeachment events in Virginia.

Saturday, February 18, 2006
Founding Fathers, Baseball, Apple Pie, and Impeachment
(1 comments) Impeachment has been part of American culture longer than baseball or apple pie. Only Mom has been around longer than impeachment.

Saturday, February 18, 2006
Road to Peace Goes Through Santa Cruz
I'm honored to have been asked to come and talk in the US town that least needs to hear about why this war is wrong and why its architects need to be impeached, removed from office, and prosecuted.

Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Taking Protest to Congress Members' Homes
Groups are organizing nonviolent peaceful demonstrations every weekend in front of the homes of congress members.

Monday, February 13, 2006
How You - Yes, You - Can End the War
There is a multitude of ways in which each of us can alter our daily habits to help make this happen.

Saturday, February 11, 2006
Debating Impeachment Among Democrats
Are you going to tell me that nonviolent people's movements can create democracy in Russia, can kick the British out of India, can resist the Nazi occupation in Denmark, but can't win the votes of 15 Republicans.

Thursday, February 9, 2006
Impeachment Versus Arianna
Joe Scarborough hosted a discussion of impeachment last night on MSNBC.

Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Inequality and War
Ending the extreme inequality of wealth and well-being in the United States would end the war in Iraq. Ending the war in Iraq and others like it would go a long way toward reducing the inequality.

Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Cities and State Parties Pass Impeachment Resolutions
The past month has seen a burst of resolutions supporting impeachment in city councils, state democratic parties, and even chapters of Democrats Abroad.

Monday, February 6, 2006
Specter Supports Impeachment
(1 comments) The question at hand goes beyond whether Congress should subpoena additional evidence of criminality. The question is whether those who know impeachment is the proper course will act on it.

Monday, February 6, 2006
Iran and Venezuela Plan War on Israel
Ahmadinejad of Iran told President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, "Iran is thinking of flying reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Israel...

Thursday, February 2, 2006
WH Memo: Phony UN Planes to Provoke War
"that the US was so worried about the failure to find hard evidence against Saddam that it thought of 'flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft planes with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours'. Mr Bush added: 'If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach [of UN resolutions]'."

Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Being a National Activist
Remarks prepared for California Democratic Party Progressive Caucus meeting in Los Angeles, Jan. 28, 2006

Friday, January 27, 2006
85 Percent of Democrats in PA Likely to Vote for Pro-Impeachment Candidates
A new poll conducted in Pennsylvania (a battleground "purple" state) by Zogby International and commissioned by OpEdNews.com found that 84.9 percent of Democrats said they would be likely to vote for a congressional candidate who "supports having impeachment proceedings against President Bush."

Thursday, January 26, 2006
Call Media on Lies
Don't let lies by the media go unchallenged. Demand a correction! Especially when the topic is impeachment.

Saturday, January 21, 2006
Testimony from Bush Crimes Commission
Testimony for International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration, Riverside Church, New York, Jan 20-22, 2006.

Monday, January 16, 2006
Woolsey's Way to Peace
The largest cut by far that most Americans would make in federal discretionary spending is in the military budget.

Sunday, January 15, 2006
Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping
(1 comments) By a margin of 52% to 43%, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge's approval.

Thursday, January 12, 2006
War Lies and Journalistic Constipation
So, what would we have to think if we were to discover that the New York Times has been sitting on a story about who it was that Dearlove met with – and that it was not "national security aides"?

Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Most Popular Idea at Last Weekend's Out of Iraq Events? Impeachment.
The most popular topic was not the horrors of war or any legislation to end it, but the demand to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

Saturday, January 7, 2006
A Peace Movement Demanding the Rule of Law
President Nixon famously said that if the President does it, it's legal. And he didn't think that up on his own – that's a way of thinking that has long had currency in America.

Friday, January 6, 2006
The Madness of Michael Medved
Masochist that I am, I'm going to spend an hour today doing something I've done once before: trying to talk some sense into right-wing radio nutjob Michael Medved – or at least reach some of his listeners.

Friday, January 6, 2006
Forum with Congressmen Moran and Murtha Packs Hall, 500 Turned Away
A town hall forum hosted by Congressman Jim Moran and featuring Congressman Jack Murtha packed a large room in Arlington, Va., Thursday evening, and filled an overflow room, and had to turn away another 500 people.

Thursday, January 5, 2006
130 Out of Iraq Events on Jan. 7
Local organizations have planned over 130 Out of Iraq events around the country on or about January 7th.

Wednesday, January 4, 2006
What the Republicans Really Do Not Want
What campaign was the RNC spokeswoman referring to? We can be sure it is something the RNC really really does not want to see succeed.

Tuesday, January 3, 2006
Greed and Gall: Asking Iraq to Pay for Its Occupation
So, I was disgusted to see a website promoting rebuilding New Orleans with payments from Iraqis.

Monday, January 2, 2006
Out of Iraq Events Planned Nationwide on January 7th
Local organizations have planned over 70 Out of Iraq events around the country on or about January 7th.

Monday, January 2, 2006
ImpeachPAC Forms Citizens Impeachment Commission
ImpeachPAC today announced the formation of a Citizens Impeachment Commission to make 2006 the "Year of Impeachment."<