Ralph Nader, DISSIDENT VOICE — The meeting at the Jones Library in Amherst, Massachusetts on July 5, 2007 was anything but routine. Seated before Cong. John Olver (D-MA) were twenty seasoned citizens from over a dozen municipalities in this First Congressional District which embraces the lovely Berkshire Hills. The subject — impeachment of George W….
The Associated Press A U.N. human rights expert is calling on the United States to prosecute or release suspects detained as “unlawful enemy combatants” and to move quickly to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. Martin Scheinin, the U.N.’s independent investigator on human rights in the fight against terrorism, said in a report released Monday…
By Walter F. Roche Jr, Los Angeles Times A Defense Department medical services contract worth up to $790 million was awarded last month to a Wisconsin-based company three months after it hired a former Bush administration appointee who had supervised military health programs at the Pentagon for the last six years. William Winkenwerder Jr., assistant…
Jason Linkins, Huffington Post FEMA Administrator David Paulison, appropriately chastised by the “Anglo-Saxon” remarks of David Chertoff, wants you to know that he’s sorry for the pretend press conference his organization staged last week. A fall guy has been selected and dealt with, various personnel deck chairs are being reshuffled, and the whole episode is…
