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


By Robert Schmidt, Bloomberg U.S. businesses, with the help of civil libertarians, are on the verge of outmaneuvering federal prosecutors and persuading Congress to limit the government’s power to pursue corporate fraud. Lawmakers are considering a measure that would, among other things, bar the government from demanding that companies reveal confidential talks with their lawyers…
afterdowningstreet.org By David Swanson A new poll conducted by www.americanresearchgroup.com finds that 54% of American adults want the US House of Representatives to begin impeachment proceedings against Vice President Dick Cheney, including 76% of Democrats, 17% of Republicans, and 51% of Independents. The same poll found 46% of voters in favor of the same thing…
By ANGELA K. BROWN Associated Press Writer The Associated Press CRAWFORD, Texas — Six weeks after announcing her departure from the peace movement, Cindy Sheehan said Sunday that she plans to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unless she introduces articles of impeachment against President Bush in the next two weeks. Sheehan said she will…
“RAWSTORY — A federal judge ordered the Bush administration to issue two scientific reports on global warming, siding with environmentalists who sued the White House for failing to produce the documents,” AP reports Wednesday. Excerpts: U.S. District Court Judge Saundra Armstrong ruled Tuesday that the Bush administration had violated a 1990 law when it failed…
Golden Gate Express Pentagon Papers leaker decries Iraq war Daniel Ellsburg calls President Bush a war criminal by Justin Hughes, staff writer About 100 people came to see anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg speak at the Unitarian Universalist Church in San Francisco on March 30 as he condemned the war in Iraq as a “supreme war…
Gothamist.com — Yesterday, the city was filled with parades and events paying tribute to the members of military who have given their lives or continue to fight on our behalf. At a wreath laying ceremony at the Soliders’ and Sailors’ Monument in Riverside Park, Mayor Bloomberg said, “These brave soldiers and so many others will…