Why Cville Should Oppose Attacking Iran http://charlottesvillepeace.org/node/1748 By David Swanson Tonight, Monday, October 6, 2008, a group of citizens in Charlottesville, Va., organized by the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, will attend the City Council’s meeting to urge the Council to take up at its November meeting a resolution opposing a U.S. attack on…
Justice Department memos show performance issues were being detailed after the fact in order to justify the terminations. By Richard A. Serrano, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer March 21 2007 Senior Justice Department officials began drafting memos this month listing specific reasons why they had fired eight U.S. attorneys, intending to cite performance problems such…
Via Smirking Chimp by David Swanson — Elizabeth Holtzman knows something about struggles for justice in the U.S. government. She was a member of Congress and of the House Judiciary Committee that voted for articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon in 1973. She proposed the bill that in 1973 required that “state secrets” claims…
After a very thorough description of the series of events which culminated in many complicit Democratic and Republican Senators killing the New Mexico impeachment resolution after it had successfully survived the leaderships attempts to kill it in 3 committees, this open letter requests the Governer use his powers to restart the process: Democracy for New…
WASHINGTON – Voters did not hand Democrats control of Congress two years ago in order to impeach President Bush, said Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean Wednesday. Dean was responding to questions about the Articles of Impeachment against Bush, introduced this week by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, and signed by Rep. Robert Wexler, a Florida…
BY JAMES GORDON MEEK NY DAILY NEWS President Bush added a “signing statement” in recently passed postal reform bill that may give him new powers to pry into your mail – without a warrant. President Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans’ mail without a judge’s warrant, the Daily News has learned….
