Voice for Peace Mass Mobilization in St. Paul, MN 9/23


The Independent Return to Fallujah Three years after the devastating US assault, our correspondent enters besieged Iraqi city left without clean water, electricity and medicine By Patrick Cockburn Fallujah is more difficult to enter than any city in the world. On the road from Baghdad I counted 27 checkpoints, all manned by well-armed soldiers and…
therawstory Top ‘Attorneygate’ investigator: No ‘blind faith’ for the White House Michael Roston On a 7-3 ruling, House Democrats moved rapidly Thursday afternoon to rule that the White House had asserted executive privilege in a manner that was ‘not legally valid.’ During the proceedings, a top House Democratic investigator of the firing of nine US…
Residents of Vermont Towns Vote to Support Hypothetical Bush-Cheney Indictment JOHN CURRAN AP News Voters in two Vermont towns approved measures Tuesday calling for the indictment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for what they consider violations of the Constitution. More symbolic than anything, the items sought to have police arrest Bush and…
Michael Roston, Raw Story A federal judge in Chicago last week rejected a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against a Belgium-based bank transfer clearinghouse that collaborated with an anti-terrorism spying program led by the US Department of Treasury. The judge’s decision will allow two plaintiffs to press their case that the Society for Worldwide…
Slate The vice president has run utterly amok and must be stopped. By Bruce Fein Under Dick Cheney, the office of the vice president has been transformed from a tiny acorn into an unprecedented giant oak. In grasping and exercising presidential powers, Cheney has dulled political accountability and concocted theories for evading the law and…
REALTIME NEWS Department of Peace Bill Has Bipartisan Support in Congress Maryland’s Representative Wayne Gilchrest is First Republican to Support the Bill HR 808, the proposed legislation to create a U.S. Department of Peace and Nonviolence, now has bipartisan support in the U.S. House of Representatives. Republican Congressman Wayne Gilchrest of Maryland joined 69 Democrats…