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Congressman calls for Bush impeachment
U.S. Rep. John Lewis said Monday in a radio interview that President Bush should be impeached if he broke the law in authorizing spying on Americans.
The Democratic senator from Georgia told WAOK-AM he would sign a bill of impeachment if one was drawn up and that the House of Representatives should consider such a move.
Lewis is among several Democrats who have voiced discontent with Sunday night’s television speech, where Bush asked Americans to (…)

Dec. 19, 2005 - Finally we have a Washington scandal that goes beyond sex, corruption and political intrigue to big issues like security versus liberty and the reasonable bounds of presidential power. President Bush came out swinging on Snoopgate-he made it seem as if those who didn’t agree with him wanted to leave us vulnerable to Al Qaeda-but it will not work. We’re seeing clearly now that Bush thought 9/11 gave him license to act like a dictator, or in his own mind, no doubt, like Abraham (…)

The following is the text of a Formal Complaint sent to the International Criminal Court over UK-US State Terrorism and Coalition War Crimes in Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan:
19 December 2005
Office of the Prosecutor,
International Criminal Court,
The Hague, The Netherlands
Dear Mr Moreno-Ocampo, Mr Brammertz and Mrs Bensouda,
On 14 October 2004 I made a formal complaint against the Australian Government and its Coalition allies over war crimes in Iraq, specifically illegal (…)

So I get this note - would I like to write an essay under the heading of ’Capitalism: Rejected’, to which I immediately added the question mark, after all, a host of countries rejected the damn thing throughout the course of the 20th century only to see their labours, their dreams shattered as capitalism launched its successful counter-revolution.
Nevertheless, what are the chances that we could, once more, reject the beast, at least within our lifetimes? This is, as far as I’m concerned, (…)

Thanks to Pachamama, Mother Earth, thanks for the Coca Plant.
We, Aymaras and Quechuas, original nations of the Andes, have survived the onslaught of the white man until today thanks to our coca leaf. From the moment the white man came to our land he has tried to control our leaf for his own enrichment. He has abused it here and now he is abusing it everywhere else. Since it has escaped his control he is intent on destroying it.
He has labeled our sacred plant a drug, to be prohibited (…)

The Defense Department paid contractors $8 billion over five years in bonuses on weapons programs that were often dogged by severe cost overruns, performance problems and delays, the Government Accountability Office said.
The agency, an independent auditor for Congress, reviewed 93 of 597 military contracts in force between 1999 and 2004 that included the possibility of a bonus. Contractors on average were awarded about 90 percent of the bonus money available, the agency said in the draft (…)

By Evan Augustine Peterson III, J.D. December 16 , 2005
In Washington politics, things are seldom what they appear to be - especially when devious Machiavellians are running the White House. And we often end up getting a fairy-tale version of reality because the USA’s government-corporate-media complex prefers to ignore unpleasant-but-true stories while it promotes pleasant-but-false stories.
For instance, the mainstream media is burying a major Bushite deception right now, so as to (…)

Iraqi National Resistance and other Iraqi Political Forces Terms for Ceasefire and End of Occupation By Kevin Zeese December 15, 2005
Mounzer Sleiman, Ph.D. is a vice president and founding member of the National Council of Arab Americans . He is an independent political-military analyst with expertise in U.S. national security affairs, the subject of his doctorate dissertation. In addition, he is an independent media consultant with more than twenty five years of experience in Middle East (…)

From a release issued to RAW STORY by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) in response to President Bush’s admission Saturday that the president personally authorized wiretaps of individuals who emailed or phoned other countries.
“Yesterday morning, Republican and Democratic Senators blocked a flawed bill that extended parts of the Patriot Act that are set to expire without fixing the fundamental problems with the law. Nobody wants these parts of the Patriot Act to expire — we want to fix them before (…)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
With a slip of the tongue, U.S. President George W. Bush briefly turned Osama bin Laden into Saddam Hussein on Monday.
Bush momentarily switched the names of his two greatest nemeses in a news conference at the White House where he was defending his decision to authorize eavesdropping on Americans suspected of links with al Qaeda and other organizations in the U.S. war on terrorism.
"In the late 1990s, our government was following Osama bin Laden because he was (…)