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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Kucinich wins hearings but not on impeaching Bush
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The House on Tuesday voted 238-180 to send his article of impeachment for Bush's reasoning for taking the country to war in Iraq to the Judiciary Committee. This time the panel will open hearings. But House Democratic leaders emphatically said they would not be about Bush's impeachment.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Is the Fourth Estate a Fifth Column?
By Bill Moyers: Corporate media colludes with democracy's demise.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Report: Iran to Hit Israel if Attacked
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The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned that Tehran would respond to an attack against it by barraging Israel with missiles, and controlling a key oil passageway in the Persian Gulf.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Scott Horton Interviews Ray McGovern (audio)
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Former CIA analyst and antiwar activist Ray McGovern discusses his open letter to Adm. Fallon and the probability of a U.S. attack on Iran, the history of Robert Gates and his weak influence on Bush, the corporate media's corrupt relationship with the state, the Pentagon's bogus Iranian arms expose and the near total indifference of the press, Adm. Fallon's firing for speaking out against attacking Iran, etc.
Friday, May 9, 2008
Prolonging The Inevitable
Once again the U.S. military is conducting major combat operations in Baghdad's Sadr City slum. The targets are Shiite extremists who have been killing our troops and obstructing the so-called progress of a freely elected Iraqi government. For the foreseeable future the violence rages on, US troops will continue to die, Iraqis will die, and according to President Bush it is all for the cause of our freedom here at home.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Time Is Not On Our Side
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John Bruhns, Iraq war veteran and legislative coordinator for UFPJ, discusses the recent rise in violence in Iraq, Bush's agenda, and the urgent need to lobby Congress to not give Bush another "blank check" - this one to the tune of 105 billion.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Lawyer: Gitmo Trials Pegged to '08 Campaign
The Navy lawyer for Osama bin Laden's driver argues in a Guantánamo military commissions motion that senior Pentagon officials are orchestrating war crimes prosecutions for the 2008 campaign.
Friday, March 14, 2008
US/IRAQ: "We Reacted Out of Fear, and With Total Destruction"
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Mar 14 (IPS) - Hart Viges joined the U.S. Army the day after Sep. 11, 2001, in the belief that he could help make the world a safer place.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Advocates Say Ruling Chills Reporters
A judge is trying to bankrupt an ex-reporter with daily fines as much as $5,000 for refusing to disclose her sources for stories about the 2001 anthrax attacks, press advocates said Saturday.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Pull the Plug on the War
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By John Bruhns, Iraq war veteran and anti-war activist.
The continued presence of the U.S. military in Iraq is fanning the flames of global anti-Americanism while stretching our military to a breaking point. To change course for the better, we have to truly understand the enemy we face and make the needed adjustments to our military strategy.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
A Wave of the Watch List, and Speech Disappears
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Steve Marshall is an English travel agent. He lives in Spain, and he sells trips to Europeans who want to go to sunny places, including Cuba. In October, about 80 of his Web sites stopped working, thanks to the United States government.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Patriot missiles: Iraq Veterans Against the War
Once again media from overseas covers critical news our media won't. From the Sunday Times: After Vietnam, American veterans testified to the atrocities they witnessed. Now soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan are about to do the same.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Ramadan Giving Presents Dilemma for American Muslims
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As the mid-September Ramadan fast approaches, many American Muslims are in a quandary about how to fulfill their Quranic obligation to contribute to charity - since the US government has closed down and frozen the assets of many of the leading philanthropies that have traditionally championed Muslim causes, for providing "material support" to terrorist organizations.