Ann M. Simmons, LA Times Dozens of Iraqi lawmakers walked out of parliament Wednesday to protest what they view as overly aggressive and humiliating treatment by U.S. soldiers as representatives enter Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, where the legislature is located. “I and many of my colleagues who live outside the Green Zone face a…
By Betty Hall, Democracy for New Hampshire Until Congressman Kucinich courageously made the privileged motion forcing a vote on his Resolution 333 to impeach Vice President Cheney in November on the floor of the US. House of Representatives, I still did not know who I would support for President in the primary. But when I…
Salon.com — During the past six years, leading Republicans in Congress have prioritized allegiance to a Republican president above all other governmental and constitutional concerns. But there was a time when U.S. lawmakers, regardless of party affiliation, actually voted the way of their conscience. There was a time when a president could not break the…
While Bush was speaking at the UN on Tuesday, deriding what he considers the “brutal regimes” of the world (while his that has made torture legal, invaded and occupied two countries with one million people dead, and is making plans to attack a third country), about one thousand people were outside the UN in protest….
