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Report on Monday CodePink disruption of the Petraeus hearing in the House. Led by Tallahassee’s own Lydia Vickers (that’s her standing on the chair shouting down the ‘good’ general… What a fabulous start in D.C. CODEPINK (Desiree, Barbara, Lelsie A., Medea B., Mona, Arizona Liz, and myself), IVAW, Col. Wright, David Swanson and others waited…
Chad Groening-An author and investigative journalist believes President Bush is playing a high stakes game by digging in and refusing to pardon two former U.S. Border Patrol agents who many people believe should never of have been charged with crimes related to the shooting of an illegal alien drug smuggler. One Congressman has even mentioned…
Jason Rhyne, Raw Story The federal official helming a probe into potentially illegal partisan political activities conducted by Karl Rove and other White House officials is himself the focus of a federal investigation. Scott Bloch, the Bush-appointed head of the US Office of Special Counsel, is under investigation for the alleged improper deletion of emails…
therawstory Old-line Republican warns ‘something’s in the works’ to trigger a police state Muriel Kane Thom Hartmann began his program on Thursday by reading from a new Executive Order which allows the government to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies. He then introduced old-line conservative Paul Craig Roberts — a…
David Edwards and Nick Juliano, Raw Story Ciara Durkin warned her family before returning to Afghanistan, “If anything happens to me, you guys make sure it gets investigated.” What seemed a joke at the time could have been eerily prescient as Durkin, a National Guard specialist, was found dead, shot once in the head, within…
width=”163″ height=”136″ align=”right”Torture and Democracy, Part II: Scholar Darius Rejali Details the History and Scope of Modern Torture April 15, 2008 The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. As the ACLU calls on Congress…