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Congressman Kucinich offered an amendment to H.R. 2863, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006.
"Mr. Chairman, this budget-neutral amendment will improve the health of veterans past, present and future by funding research on Gulf War illnesses. I am proud to do so with my colleagues, Mr. Shays, and Mr. Sanders. I thank both of the cosponsors for their commitment to veterans’ health.
"I would also like to point out that this amendment is endorsed by the American Legion, (…)

HOW LONG AGO DID YOU START TO HATE BUSH?
By Peter Fredson
June 22, 2005
This is an off-shoot of the famous WATERGATE question: “What did you know and when did you know it?” It took quite a while for anyone to stay that he knew anything, and even then the object of the investigation played the denial game to the end, but gradually much of the true story oozed out through administration censorship.
Still today, with Deep Throat revealed, the conspirators are unrepentant, bitter, and (…)

Hello boys and girls.
Well, we had a brief glorious father’s day weekend when AP, USA Today, MSNBC, & ABC (among other MSM) broke-through and provided us with front-page coverage of The Downing Street Minutes and Briefings.
How sweet it was!
Now comes the really hard part — Keeping the DSM in the spotlight until George W. Bush is impeached. Already, there have been popular publications dismissing The Downing Street Memos as "old news" and pretending that there is "nothing to see (…)

The sounds of mortar fire punctuated the American soldiers’ words as he spoke in code over the radio: "Red on red." It was another day of Operation Thunderbolt, now ongoing near the Iraqi-Syrian border, but the insurgents weren’t firing at the Americans - they were battling each other.
It’s red-on-red in America, too, as the split in the Republican party widens: what we’re seeing is the beginning of a political insurgency against the war coming from the Right. As our (…)

by Wayne Besen
It often seems like the religious left won’t realize it has a dog in the fight against fanaticism until the right’s pit bulls are lunging at its timid throat. For too long, Christian moderates have been invisible, submissively surrendering and allowing the most destructive elements in America to claim the mantle of God. Fortunately, it appears that people of faith and reason are finally awakening from their long scriptural slumber.
In last week’s New York Times, former (…)

Communiqué from the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee - General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.
Mexico. June 19, 2005
To the People of Mexico: To the Peoples of the World:
Brothers and Sisters:
As of today, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation has declared, throughout all rebel territory, a
GENERAL RED ALERT
Based on this, we are informing you:
First - That at this time the closure is being carried out of the Caracoles and the Good (…)

A Shel Silverstein cartoon of a few decades past depicts two prisoners, shackled to the wall of an ancient dungeon. One says to the other, “Now here is my plan.”
One must admire the prisoner’s indomitable will, however unrealistic. Fortunately, the present political situation in the United States is not hopeless, though one might think so to read some of the e-mail responses to our essays:
The fact of the matter is, the new Republican Party is in power, and it will (…)

* This report is submitted as evidence to the Jury of conscience during the culminating session of the World Tribunal on Iraq, Istanbul 23-27 June
New report by Dahr Jamail: “Iraqi hospitals ailing under occupation”
Bert De Belder
From April, 2004 through January, 2005, Dahr Jamail surveyed 13 hospitals in Iraq in order to research how the healthcare system was faring under the US-led occupation. While the horrendous security situation in Iraq caused him to confine the survey to (…)

New US ambassador vows to crush Iraq’s insurgency
by Beth Potter- Baghdad
The new US ambassador to Iraq said Tuesday he would work with the population to crush the insurgency that is throttling much of the country despite massive operations against the rebels.
"I will work with Iraqis to break the back of the insurgency," said Zalmay Khalilzad, who presented his credentials to President Jalal Talabani on the way to Brussels for an international conference on rebuilding Iraq.
"Foreign (…)

by John Newby June 19, 2005
I’m not here to discuss the merits of the new Homeland Security mirage. I must admit that having served in the Military for 10 years, I was always taught the duty of the Defense Department was to protect the homeland. But now we can all take comfort in the fact that our newly alloted tax dollars are well at work. Our fearless Homeland Security Leader Michael Chertoff believes using Americans to spy on each other is a great idea. We just ask non-profits to report (…)