Withdrawing From Debate on Iraq
The forthcoming report from the independent Iraq Study Group, which according to press reports will possibly recommend a gradual and tentative withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq while rejecting any deadlines or timetables to carry it out, seems likely to further marginalize advocates of meaningful troop withdrawal in the media debate over Iraq.
Peace Groups Hold “Mandate for Peace” Congressional Call-in
Thousands call Congress to remind their representatives that voters issued a Mandate for Peace in the mid-term elections and expect Congress to end the war and bring the troops home now!
Bolton will leave UN post, says White House
John R. Bolton, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, will leave that post when his recess appointment expires, the White House announced today. His action is the latest aftershock to hit the Bush administration since the Democratic party's victories in the mid-term elections on November 7.
The Death of a President Who Never Was: The Bobby Kennedy Assassination
Disturbing evidence concerning the 1968 assassination of Bobby Kennedy surfaced recently near the time of what would have been Kennedy's 81st birthday.
Hearings on Bush's Crimes Will Unite Nation
An astonishing 44 percent of Americans do not want President Bush impeached (Newsweek), 36 percent approve of the job he's doing (AP-Ipsos), 33 percent support the Iraq War (CNN). What, you may ask, is the matter with these people? Well, primarily this: they get their news by watching television and occasionally glancing at a magazine or newspaper. They don't know the things you know if you listen to progressive radio or search out news on the internet or read the ends of articles that begin on page 18.
Doomed By Politics, And by Ourselves
Are current political systems--our own and others around the world--fundamentally incapable of dealing with the biggest crisis facing mankind, indeed facing life on earth?
Bush and B.S.
Last year Harry Frankfurt, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, wrote a great non-Marxist book about our time and place in the 'information age.' 'On Bullshit' is its catchy title.
