therawstory Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) will call for the withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq in Iowa today. Excerpts follow. “Let me be clear: There is no military solution in Iraq and there never was,” he will say, according to advance remarks from the speech. “The best way to protect our security and to…
(Adam Kokesh of IVAW protesting at Petraeus Hearings) By Nancy A. Youssef and Leila Fadel McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — The Bush administration’s top two officials in Iraq answered questions from Congress for more than six hours on Monday, but their testimony may have been as important for what they didn’t say as for what they…
By Norman Solomon, AlterNet. It evokes a tragedy that marks an epoch. From the outset, the warfare state has exploited “9/11,” a label at once too facile and too laden with historic weight — giving further power to the tacit political axiom that perception is reality. Often it seems that media coverage is all about…
By Ruth Rosen, Tomdispatch.com Disgraceful, shameful, illegal, and yes, dangerous. These are words that come to mind every time the Bush administration makes yet another attempt to consolidate executive power, while wrapping itself in secrecy and deception. And its officials never stop. In May, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonprofit group, filed…
