By Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian Was I a good American? How good an American was I? Did I do what I could to resist the takeover of my country and the brutalisation of my fellow human beings? How much further could I have gone? Were the crimes of the Bush administration those that demand you…
By William Roberts, bloomberg.com The Senate rejected Democratic- backed legislation that calls for U.S. troops to be withdrawn from Iraq just hours after a House panel approved a plan to bring the troops home. In the Senate, a measure sponsored by Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada fell 12 votes short of the 60 needed…
Whose Oil Is It, Anyway? By ANTONIA JUHASZ, San Francisco New York Times, Published: March 13, 2007 TODAY more than three-quarters of the world’s oil is owned and controlled by governments. It wasn’t always this way. Until about 35 years ago, the world’s oil was largely in the hands of seven corporations based in the…
The ties that bind us– Grassroots Impeachment – Are Elected Dems With Us? OpEd News March 14, 2007 by Dan DeWalt One week ago, the calls for impeachment at Vermont town meetings showered sparks across our state, igniting a smoldering populace. We are coming to realize how great our numbers are, and we shall now…
