[Op Ed] Gen. Wesley Clark (ret.) on Iran
Former Presidential candidate General Wesley Clark explains why he strongly feels any attack on Iran would be a mistake and what you can do to stop it from taking place.
Gareth Porter, Huffington Post The Lieberman-Kyle amendment has just passed the Senate overwhelmingly after two sections were removed to satisfy Democrats that it will not serve as a backdoor authorization for war against Iran, using U.S. forces operating in Iran. Even after that compromise, it remains a poison chalice, because it endorses a set of…
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By Eric Haas, Rockridge Nation Last April, President Bush told members of American Legion Post 177 that “we owe the families and the soldiers the best health care possible.” That debt is still unpaid. According to a new report by Harvard Medical School researchers, published last week in the peer-reviewed American Journal of Public Health,…
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By Simona Perry, t r u t h o u t On January 2, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) sent a letter to the Office of the Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency asking for an investigation into the decision-making process leading to denial of a Clean Air Act preemptive waiver to the State of…