(7 comments) SHARE        Friday, July 29, 2011
Here's How We Can Take a Couple Steps Back From the Brink First, raise the debt ceiling until December 31, 2012, without it being contingent on cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or increases in taxes or cuts in taxes or cuts in spending.

(25 comments) SHARE        Thursday, July 28, 2011
We are the United States of America, the greatest country on earth. We don't default. Here is what we should do to avoid default: increase the debt ceiling with no strings attached. Here is how to get out of debt: End the wars -- save one trillion over ten years. Repeal tax cuts to the wealthy: Save another trillion.

(4 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, July 26, 2011
The White House Now Conceals Plan to Cut Social Security Last Friday, the President told the nation that he offered a plan that would cut $650 billion from Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Last night in his address to the nation, the President didn't want to 'bore' Americans with the details of his plan but threatened that Congress must accept a deal on the debt ceiling or seniors face the possibility that Social Security checks won't go out.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 25, 2011
Kucinich: Protect Social Security; Numbers Show Lifting the Caps Works Social Security has been falsely interjected into a discussion about our nation's debt and deficit. Seniors have been threatened that their checks will not go out and that long term cut backs could include an extension of the retirement age and reductions in benefits. This is a false solution to a fake crisis.

SHARE        Thursday, July 21, 2011
No 'Legislative Pardon' for Boeing's Violation of the National Labor Relations Act The Education and Workforce Committee today held a hearing to examine a bill that is effectively a 'legislative pardon' for Boeing management for violations of the National Labor Relations Act. (For a legal background of the Boeing case, click here.)

(4 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, July 19, 2011
More Washington Doublespeak on Social Security Today the so-called 'Gang of Six' published a draft report that acknowledges the solvency of Social Security, but incorporates it into a deficit reduction plan anyway.

(4 comments) SHARE        Thursday, July 14, 2011
Debt Political Theater Diverts Attention While Americans' Wealth is Stolen The rancorous debate over the debt belies a fundamental truth of our economy -- that it is run for the few at the expense of the many, that our entire government has been turned into a machine which takes the wealth of a mass of Americans and accelerates it into the hands of the few. Let me give you some examples.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, June 30, 2011
Efforts for Non-Violence Help Achieve Security Pull Back in Syria How the U.S. and the international community, including the media, assess the crisis in Syria will affect whether Syria experiences a transformation to democracy, or whether it becomes the flash point for a new war in the Middle East.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, June 21, 2011
10 Reasons to Oppose the War in Libya Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has led House opposition to the illegal, unconstitutional and unwarranted war in Libya, today distributed the following leaflet to his colleagues ahead of the consideration of the Fiscal Year 2012 Department of Defense Appropriations bill:

SHARE        Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Kucinich Announces Blueprint for Libyan Peace Plan Congressman Dennis Kucinich, whose pivotal involvement in the House of Representatives has resulted in bi-partisan efforts to impose Constitutional restraints upon the President's exercise of war power in Libya, today put forth an 10 point plan for peace with the intention of beginning a discussion among the diplomatic community and interested parties.

(8 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 23, 2011
Saying No to Permanent Global War The annual re-authorization of the Department of Defense contains unprecedented and dangerous language that gives the president virtually unchecked power to take the country to war and keep us there. This bill significantly undermines the Constitution, the institution of Congress and sets the United States on a path of permanent war.

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 20, 2011
Actions Not Words Show US Middle East Policy The President wants to "advance economic development for nations that transition to democracy." It would be good to advance economic development in the United States, since there are over 14-million Americans who are out of work. Such a high level of unemployment degrades our own democracy.

(5 comments) SHARE        Thursday, April 28, 2011
With PR Stunt on Manning, Pentagon Offers No Answers, Only Contrivance Today the Army is hosting a 'Media Day' at the prison where Private First Class (Pfc.) Bradley Manning, the Army soldier accused of leaking documents to WikiLeaks, is being held. Pfc. Manning was moved to the Joint Regional Correctional Facility, Ft. Leavenworth from the Marine Corp Brig Quantico following criticism of his treatment there which may have violated his constitution rights.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, April 13, 2011
My experience dealing the Department of Defense regarding Pfc. Manning has been Kafkaesque Since my initial request to visit Private First Class (Pfc.) Bradley Manning on February 4, 2011, the Department of Defense (DoD) has consistently sought to frustrate any attempts to communicate with Pfc. Manning regarding his well-being.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Kucinich Describes "Kafkaesque" Experience with DoD Over Manning Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who has requested to meet with Private First Class (Pfc.) Bradley Manning to witness the conditions of his confinement, today made the following statement after news that the United Nations (U.N.) Special Rapporteur on Torture was denied an unmonitored meeting with Manning

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Why Doesn't the President Lead? Well, let's think about this. The president is going to accept the lead of his deficit reduction commission. I have an idea. Why doesn't the president lead? Why doesn't the president challenge these corporations who have basically single-handedly driven the United States economy over a cliff? Why doesn't the president challenge the military-industrial complex, which is now putting us into a fourth war?

(21 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 8, 2011
Responding to the Office of Legal Counsel's Positively Orwellian Rationale for Libyan War Responding to the Office of Legal Counsel's Positively Orwellian Rationale for Libyan War

(15 comments) SHARE        Thursday, March 31, 2011
Congressman Dennis Kucinich's Address to Congress on the War in Libya

(60 comments) SHARE        Thursday, March 24, 2011
Kucinich Demands Immediate End to U.S. Role in the War in Libya Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to President Obama that it was improper to commit the United States to a military intervention in Libya. Kucinich's amendment to defund U.S. military intervention in Libya is cosponsored by Representatives Walter Jones (R-NC), Pete Stark (D-CA) and Ron Paul (R-TX).

(6 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Act Now to End the War in Afghanistan The American people are being asked to shoulder the costs for wars that undermine our national, moral and economic security and opposition is growing. We must ask ourselves whose nation we are building when we ask people here at home to give up benefits they have earned in order to nation-build abroad.