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How We Can Take the Constitution Back From the Brink
By Tara Lohan, AlterNet. At no time in our country’s history has the abuse of power by the executive branch been more flagrant and more dangerous to democracy. In just the past month, the Bush administration has ordered employees to ignore congressional subpoenas, asserted broad new parameters for executive privilege and issued an executive order…
Over 20,000 Gitmo sessions taped likely lost or erased
Defendants’ Lawyers Fear Loss of Potential Evidence at Guantanamo Bay By Josh White, Washington Post Lawyers representing military detainees at Guantanamo Bay have expressed concern that the government has violated a federal court order by losing or erasing several years’ worth of digital video recordings that could shed light on the legality of detainee treatment….
Red Cross warns of Iraq’s ever-worsening humanitarian crisis
By AJP and agencies, aljazeera.com The International Committee of the Red Cross warns that the humanitarian situation for ordinary Iraqis is getting steadily worse, and calls for greater protection of civilians. In a report, titled “Civilians without protection: The ever-worsening crisis in Iraq“, the ICRC deplores the daily acts of violence such as shootings, bombings,…
Where Nobody Is Accountable
By Ali al-Fadhily, Inter Press Service http://dahrjamailiraq.com Killings, crime, lack of medical care, collapse of education, the list goes on. But with the occupation by U.S.-led forces now into a fifth year, and a supposedly democratic government in place, no one knows who to hold accountable for all that is going wrong. It is the…
Pelosi: Arrest constituents rather than talk to them
indybay.org Five Women Arrested Outside Pelosi’s Office by Jody Paulson My elected representative won’t have a public dialogue with her constituents about peace, and Code Pink wants to know why. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House and congressional representative of my district in San Francisco, hasn’t held a public meeting with her constituents about anything…
Now Fourteen Washington State Legislative Districts have passed Impeachment Resolutions
AfterDowningStreet.org Washington State’s 17th Legislative District Joins Call for Impeachment of Bush-Cheney Submitted by Chip on Mon, 2008-02-04 15:52. Activism | Impeachment Linda Boyd, Director of Washington For Impeachment, announced that Washington State’s 17th Legislative District passed a resolution of impeachment. She wrote: Support for impeachment keeps growing in Washington State! The Democrats of the…
