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by Wayne Besen
In the very week Saddam Hussein was sentenced to hang, George W. Bush has found his presidency in the gallows. Hussein now awaits his fate as a dead duck, while Bush will usher in his final two years as a lame duck. How bitterly ironic it must be that the Democratic landslide victory was fueled on outrage over the quagmire in Iraq and the president’s refusal to "change the course" even after the facts repeatedly changed on the ground. This is more a victory for reality than (…)

Cheney and Rumsfeld are on the outs. Scowcroft, Baker and Gates are in. Can they get America out of Iraq?
WEB EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY By Howard Fineman Newsweek Updated: 5:11 p.m. ET Nov. 8, 2006
Nov. 8, 2006 - President George W. Bush’s Iraq policy is now in the political equivalent of receivership-a bankrupt project that is about to be placed in the hands of the worldly-wise pragmatists who surrounded the president’s own father. Think of them as receivers in bankruptcy, looking for ways (…)

In 2006, how to explain so much poverty around the world? Today, november 9th, a conference about poverty among children, the "Millenium promise conference", is opening in Montreal, Canada. Will be there, star actress Mia Farrow and former US President, Bill Clinton. It is strange indeed to see Clinton there, the man who cut welfare benefits when he was president. Maybe he is a new man now.
It is difficult to explain why our political leaders with plenty of diplomas from top (…)

November 9, 2006
AS I LAY DYING
John Chuckman
Sadly, little coming from America’s politics can fire my enthusiasm. During my lifetime, America has busied itself with the task of burying liberalism, reminding one of October’s frenetic squirrels hunting and burying acorns.
The nation is pretty much at ease with ugly imperial government. Liberalism, and I mean liberalism in the broadest, richest sense of the word, is a topic of bathroom humor.
We read and hear a great deal about the (…)

The New Democratic majority must restore the U.S. Constitution By Mary MacElveen November 9, 2006
In going through all 517 photos showing the reactions to many different races either won or lost, the ones showing Senator-elect Jon Tester were the ones that especially hit home. After all it was our test to see whether or not a common man can go on to represent the people he grew up amongst. He was the ‘tester’ to see anyone of us can run and go on to win a senate seat.
We all think (…)

“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Take a bow Cindy Sheehan, Ann Wright, Ramsey Clark, Mike Ferner, Max Obuszewski, Michael Berg, David Swanson, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Ray McGovern, Medea Benjamin and Brian Becker! You, and many other activists, like yourselves, in the Anti-Iraqi War Movement, have helped to source a sweep of GOP members from the House of Representatives, and also to return control of the (…)

By Nicola Nasser*
http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/176/32/
American and European official and public opinion reactions to Saddam Hussein’s guilty verdict on Sunday artificially removed both the trial and the death sentence out of context and focused instead on “flaws” in the legal technicalities of a fair trial and on death penalty as a punishment, which exposed the trial/s in Baghdad as merely another episode in the U.S.-British so far unsuccessful efforts to establish (…)

12:53 ET, Wed 8 Nov 2006
WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the face of U.S. war policy and a lightning rod for critics worldwide, will step down, President Bush said on Wednesday.
The announcement followed dramatic victories by Democrats in Tuesday elections fueled by public anger over the Iraq war in which Democrats seized control of the House of Representatives and were close to taking the Senate.

This is something I just noticed while visiting the CNN.com site. They show a tight race for the Senate. 49 to 49 seats. However, they show Independent chairs as 0. They are counting one independent as a Democrat. That Independent is Joe Lieberman. Who was booted from the Democratic party just a few months ago. Yes although he had been the Vice presidential candidate for Al Gore, they booted him. He had to run as an Independent. He is no longer technically a Democrat.
Very interesting. (…)

The Democratic Victory: ‘It’s the people’s agenda, stupid’ By Mary MacElveen November 8, 2006
When Congresswoman, Nancy Pelosi the incoming Speaker of the House stated that impeachment was not on the table in relation to Bush, it angered most on the more liberal side of the Democratic Party including myself. Hindsight being what it is, it was smart of her to say that. In fact, if that had been our main platform, there would have been a sharp rebuke by the electorate itself. The take (…)