(Mario Penalver walking to DC) Mario Penalver, marching to Washington DC from Chicago, IL calling for peace through justice in the form of the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney, is heading east through Indiana today as he begins his fifth day of walking today. (Nick Egnatz and Mario) Mario was…
By Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone Earlier this year, the world’s top climate scientists released a definitive report on global warming. It is now “unequivocal,” they concluded, that the planet is heating up. Humans are directly responsible for the planetary heat wave, and only by taking immediate action can the world avert a climate catastrophe. Megadroughts,…
By Ben Fox, Associated Press An Army officer with a key role in the U.S. military hearings at Guantanamo Bay says they relied on vague and incomplete intelligence and were pressured to declare detainees “enemy combatants,” often without any specific evidence. His affidavit, released Friday, is the first criticism by a member of the military…
After Downing Street — The following speakers discussed and debated impeachment at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., on Saturday. I didn’t go, so there’s no report. Apparently nobody who went took notes. But this group organized the event and may report on it someday, and WPFW and Fairfax Cable taped audio and video respectively…
