Bush Era

Self-Impeachment by Signing Statement

By David Swanson, afterdowningstreet.org Imagine a president who violates numerous laws that predate his presidency. Imagine that Congress redundantly and repeatedly re-bans that criminal behavior. Imagine a president who repeatedly throws out the new bans […]

Bush Era

Silence Is Betrayal

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 […]

Bush Era

No more “Global War On Terror”

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 […]