The trail of breadcrumbs in the US attorney scandal starts at the Department of Justice, goes into the White House and heads right down the halls into the Oval Office. By Larry Beinhart, alternet.org About a year from now, pundits and instant historians will point back at the firing of the federal prosecutors and say,…
By Stephen F. Rohde, t r u t h o u t Forty years ago today, on April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a powerful and inspiring speech at Riverside Church in New York City which has become known as Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence. One year to the day…
By Rick Maze, Army Times The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget. This is not because the war has been won, lost or even called off, but because the committee’s Democratic leadership doesn’t like the phrase. A memo for the committee staff, circulated March 27,…
By William Fisher, t r u t h o u t Leading voices in the conservative movement are demanding that the Democrat-controlled Congress restore checks and balances within the government and rein in the power of President George W. Bush. But their point of view is consistently being drowned out by the “Anne Coulter wing”…
