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CLINTON-The Iraq War is a mess that’s only getting messier, Sen. Russ Feingold said before and during a listening session Monday.
"The mantra for Fox News is that we only hear the bad news," Feingold, a Democrat, said of the media outlet thought by many observers to be right wing.
"I was over there (in February), and we don’t hear enough bad news," Feingold said before the session.
He traveled with four other senators, including Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Rodham (…)

The following was released by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) on the Downing Street Minutes this morning. Kennedy becomes the first senator to raise the issue in the Senate, after earlier reports that Massachusetts’ junior senator, John Kerry, would speak about the minutes in Washington. #
“The contents of the Downing Street Minutes confirm that the Bush Administration was determined to go to war in Iraq, regardless of whether there was any credible justification for doing so. The (…)

HALF THE COUNTRY
By Peter Fredson
During the past four plus years we have witnessed a great divide in the nation. It has been precipitated by neoconservatives, composed of Far Right Christians and corporate executives managing world-wide enterprises. They both have the same goal in their imagination: total domination. In one case it is total domination of Christianity over all other sects, cults, beliefs and denominations of religion. The Far Right Christian dominionists and (…)

Time for an Economic Bill of Rights
By Mark Kato
The call for an economic Bill of Rights is not a new idea. FDR made such a proposal in his 1944 State of the Union address to Congress. He said:
“It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction (…)

Inaction raises a question over the entire Government
by Brian Richards
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 06/07/05 — Eighty-nine members of the House of Representatives have called on George W. Bush to answer a series of five questions:
1. Do you or anyone in your administration dispute the accuracy of the leaked document?
2. Were arrangements being made, including the recruitment of allies, before you sought Congressional authorization to go to war? Did you or anyone in your (…)

Senator Hillary Clinton castigated President Bush and Washington Republicans today as mad with power and bent on marginalizing Democrats during a speech to 1,000 supporters at her first major re-election fund-raiser, which netted about $250,000.
Mrs. Clinton, who is running for a second term in 2006 and is widely described as a possible Democratic nominee for the presidency in 2008, said that her party is hamstrung because Republicans dissemble and smear without shame and the news media (…)

AMY GOODMAN: Our guests are Jeremy Scahill, Democracy Now! correspondent; John Bonifaz, author of Warrior King : The Case for Impeaching George W. Bush; as well as Hans Von Sponeck, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, formerly.
Looking at this Times of London piece that came out last month John Bonifaz, I’d like you to respond to this secret document from the heart of government, revealing that Tony Blair privately committed Britain to war with Iraq and then set out to lure (…)

Mr. B., that resident alien in the White House, appears to want to conquer the world along with his $$$ cronies, and turn it inside out in his own warped image. Wolf-owitz will run the world money henhouse, Frist is surgically removing democracy from the Senate, the Supremes are at it again, denying patients relief from unspeakable pain by criminalizing use of marijuana (gasp!) (where are the state’s rights advocates now? Hmmmm?), Rumsfeld tells people what they want to hear, regardless of (…)

Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and his press office remain silent as controversy mushrooms around a planned floor speech on minutes of a secret 2002 meeting between the officials of the U.S. and UK at which the director of British intelligence warned the intelligence was being “fixed” around the policy, RAW STORY has learned.
The minutes have fueled concern among Democrats in Congress that the concern over Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was staged, a ploy to get Congress to go along with (…)

Rally in Allentown PA, Monday, June 6th, calling to Impeach Bush due to information in The Downing Street Memo, drew approximately 50 protesters.
150+ flyers were handed out containing information on the memo.
It was a great, enthusiastic event with lots of car honking showing support for our cause! News was covered by 2 local TV stations, one of which even mentioned downingstreetmemo.com website to viewers!