Author: Some in Congress calling for war crimes trials
The Bush administration’s laxity towards torture of prisoners could expose its top officials to war crimes charges.
The Bush administration’s laxity towards torture of prisoners could expose its top officials to war crimes charges.
Former Deputy Secretary of Defense argues that America’s leadership role in the post-Bush world may depend upon ‘how threatening the world appears’
While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still sees the prospect of actually booting the president from office as “off the table,” discussing the idea now at least seems OK.
Hedges is one of many plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the US government brought by the ACLU that seeks to scuttle an update to the FISA signed by President Bush Thursday
Kucinich is now asking Congress to support a single article of impeachment which accuses President Bush of leading the country to war based on lies– after the 35 articles he previously introduced were ignored.
Almost 8,000 U.S. recipients of the vaccine used to protect against cervical cancer have reported adverse reactions, ranging from pain at the injection site to serious side-effects, says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Danny Langford, a former KBR employee testifies before the Senate Democratic Policy Committee on his exposure to chromium and other hazardous chemical while working on a water treatment plant in Iraq for KBR.
The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history.
Instead of negotiating a long-term presence in Iraq, the United States should be negotiating a withdrawal.
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One thing the United States doesn’t get about guerrilla warfare: It’s not over until the guerrillas win.
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Under the guise of “terrorism,” Bush has helped his corporate ‘base’ create a ‘New World Order’ in which robber barons of big oil, assisted by ‘big media’, rule the world and plunder its resources. Bush is their tool!
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We are fast approaching the final six months of the Bush administration– and it’s no secret that the U.S. is currently putting the finishing touches on several contingency plans for attacking Iranian nuclear and military facilities.
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What or who is behind a water management policy in the United States that allowed our infrastructure to crumble?
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“It was not the United States of America alone that believed [Saddam] had weapons of mass destruction,” Rice recently told an international audience.
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From police tasers to Gitmo, a recent report by Amnesty International takes the United States to task on human rights.
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From police tasers to Gitmo, a recent report by Amnesty International takes the United States to task on human rights.
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Anyone who “might be sticking around on the off-chance the other guy might get shot has no business being the president of the United States,” Olbermann declared. As Newsweek’s Howard Fineman noted, Clinton’s is “a campaign that probably needs to be put out of its misery real soon.”
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National intelligence spooks are all but promising that history will be repeated for a third time running, and the new President of the United States - likely Barack Obama or John McCain - will be welcomed into office by a terror attack that will occur within the first year of his tenure.
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The Neo-Cons’ sick obsession with assassinating Barack Obama took another bizarre turn yesterday when Fox News guest Liz Trotta openly expressed a desire to see someone “knock off” the Democratic candidate.
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An “Everyware” world, as Adam Greenfield calls it, is a world in which computers are embedded and merged seamlessly everywhere in the environment.
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Apparently, in the United States, we don’t have an upper class; we have elites — a complimentary term that obscures true differences in opportunity.
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Don’t think motive is ever to be considered in anything in America - it is not an important factor. Just listen to the paid shills on TV every night brush over topics like 52 year old D.C Madam hanging in a shed right before crunch time.
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Sec. Def. Gates denies the obvious — the U.S. is ramping up for an attack against Iran, probably before the decider-commander leaves office.
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