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Congresswoman cuts off AIPAC: A hero of our times.
This is one for the record books. For the first time a US politician stands up to the Israel lobby. Watch for AIPAC’s attempts to destroy her politically.
"A congresswoman says the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is unwelcome in her office until it apologizes for an activist who called her a terrorist supporter. Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) said that the supporter told her chief of staff that “Congresswoman McCollum’s support (…)

Today Tony Blair visited George Bush and the both took the podium in the Rose Garden.
BLAIR: It exhilerates me to stand here in the Rose Garden, basked in the shining and enthralling sun of the United States. Irrefutably and indubitably I am humbled to stand in the vicinity of your Capitol and enunciate profound and deep admiration for your aspirations and objective paradigms which are specifically and demonstrably an integral and inseperable contribution to the essence of humanity, (…)

In effect, Bush is asserting the powers that accrued to Hitler in 1933. His Federalist Society apologists and Department of Justice appointees claim that President Bush has the same power to interpret the Constitution as the Supreme Court. An Alito Court is likely to agree with this false claim.
Dictatorships seldom appear full-fledged but emerge piecemeal. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with one Roman legion he broke the tradition that protected the civilian government from (…)

At a time when the Republican Party is divided on immigration reform and when the Democrats and the Republicans are positioning themselves for the mid-term elections on such issues as gay marriage, Congress is demonstrating alarming bipartisan unity on Iran.
On April 27 the House of Representatives passed the Iran Freedom Support Act by a vote of 397 to 21. The bill tightens sanctions imposed on Iran under the Iran Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) of 1996 and tightens sanctions on companies that (…)

By Sarah Meyer
I used to be a Guardian Hay Festival addict. Good talks, good bookshops, good food. This year the festival is a bit incestuous. The blog editor of The Guardian is interviewing Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, for example. Now this would have been a stimulating conversation if one of the Media Lens editors had conducted the interview. The BBC, under continual criticism from bloggers for ‘unbalanced’ reporting, is much again in evidence at Hay - unchallenged. It (…)

On May 16th I was invited to participate in a Congressional Briefing hosted by Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, at the Longworth Office Building, Washington DC. This briefing was to call attention to Conscientious Objection and Military Recruitment practices. The Briefing was re-broadcast twice on C-Span TV, and is scheduled to be shown again on C-Span this weekend. It has been broadcast on C-Span Radio as well. I have attached a transcript of Kevin’s and my statements as I (…)

Methodist Leader Calls For President’s Impeachment
(May 23, 2006)—The United Methodist Church’s chief social-issues spokesman, the Rev. Jim Winkler, says Congress should impeach President Bush "to advance the kingdom of God."
Winkler proposed that during the annual "Ecumenical Advocacy Days," attended by delegates from his church and other denominations, most of them members of the National Council of
Churches.
In his view, "there was nothing Christian" in President Bush’s response to (…)

Zogby released a new poll exposing the extraordinarily high levels of public mistrust of government and business. Only 24% trust George Bush, only 11% trust the media, only 7% trust corporate leaders, and only 3% trust Congress.
When asked "What 2 or 3 specific changes would have to take place in order to improve your trust in government today?", the winner by far was "personnel changes/impeachment proceedings."
So the next time the pundits (and Democratic leaders) say "Americans don’t (…)

By Marc Ash,
Fitzgerald Investigation
I’d like to break this posting into two categories: What we know, and what we believe. They will be clearly marked.
We know that we have now three independent sources confirming that attorneys for Karl Rove were handed an indictment either late in the night of May 12 or early in the morning of May 13. We know that each source was in a position to know what they were talking about. We know that the office of Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald will (…)

by David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of PRAVDA.Ru
The Bells did not toll in remembrance on April 9, 2006. The flags did not fly at half-mast. The rubbish that passes for “news” in the world of corporate-controlled media did not mention his name. Even the glut of television programs and networks devoted to the sycophantic worship of “celebrities” failed to acknowledge him.
He was, after all, a man of substance, and substance finds no home in a culture obsessed with sensationalism and (…)