Mario Penalver interview in Ohio: “a world without strangers”
Mario Penalver, who is walking from Chicago, Illinois to DC for Peace is interviewed in Fireside, Ohio.
Mario’s Poetry:
By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, Newsweek (Photo credit) The Bush administration is warning that U.S. cooperation with German intelligence agencies could be jeopardized if that country pursues attempts to extradite 13 CIA officers charged with illegally abducting a German Muslim on suspicions of terrorist connections. U.S. concerns, communicated to German authorities through diplomatic channels,…
rights organizations, published its report to challenge the findings of a self-assessment the U.S. government filed with the U.N. Committee on Ending Discrimination (CERD) last April. The United States ratified human rights standards from the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) in 1994 (meaning they have the force of…
By vtfinest on DailyKos — Wow. Just as we expected, this teach-in delivered! For those of you on the fence re: investigations on impeachment, watch the following YouTubes, ESPECIALLY John Nichols of The Nation. According to Paul Heintz of the Brattleboro Reformer “Though billed as a “teach in” and held at Dartmouth College, impressionable students…
DAVID ESPO, Associated Press …Under Gonzales and Bush, “the Department of Justice suffered a severe crisis of leadership that allowed our justice system to be corrupted by political influence,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who has presided over the investigation into the firings of eight prosecutors whom Democrats say were axed for political reasons. Majority…
Raw Story “Fallout” from the ‘Attorneygate’ scandal is beginning to hit federal courtrooms, according to an article in Monday’s L.A. Times. “Defense lawyers in a growing number of cases are raising questions about the motives of government lawyers who have brought charges against their clients,” Richard B. Schmitt reports for the paper. “In court papers,…
White Christmas Colors for the White House: Red, White and Impeach Washington Post When Deborah Lawrence got the invitation from the White House, the Seattle-based artist decided to make a lefty political statement. But she never expected it would hang on the official Christmas tree. Laura Bush asked members of Congress to pick local painters…