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By David Swanson
We should impeach Vice President Dick Cheney first, and President George Bush immediately thereafter. This idea is not original with me. It’s been seen on bumper stickers for quite some time. My attention has been called to it by the fact that Congresswoman and Judiciary Committee Member Maxine Waters is talking about it. See below.
I’m persuaded of thevalue of this approach for several reasons. Among activists who very much want impeachment, one can hear a long list of (…)

By Matthew Cardinale, Atlanta Progressive News
Atlanta - 36 US House Representatives have signed on as sponsors or co-sponsors of H. Res 635, which would create a Select Committee to look into the grounds for recommending President Bush’s impeachment, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.
The two latest co-sponsors, as of Friday, were US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) and US Rep. Chaka Fattah (D- PA).
"For the House to impeach and the Senate to convict a President, the public must be (…)

By Harold Meyerson
This morning, for the first time in two months, it will be a day with immigrants at the University of Miami. On Monday the university’s janitors — almost all of them immigrants, and the vast majority refugees from Fidel Castro’s Cuba — won a nine-week battle with the university and its janitorial contractor over their right to be represented by a union. Today they report back to work. When the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) set out to organize the janitors, (…)

’Good economy’ remains an illusion
By Ernest F. Hollings
With the Iraq debacle, the Washington establishment campaigns for the elections in November on: "The economy is good, the economy is good." As in the old movies, let’s have a "preview of coming attractions."
First, Washington hasn’t paid a bill in five years. Inheriting a budget "with surpluses as far as the eye can see," the president and Congress have been spending. In five years they have added $2.5 trillion to the national (…)

www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1956
Inflation and Unemployment fall, Minimum Wage Rises in Venezuela
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
Venezuela’s economic boom has continued into the first part of 2006, with consumer inflation and unemployment down, and a 10 percent minimum wage hike.
Consumer inflation, which in Venezuela is measured in Caracas, was 0.6 percent in April, less than half that of the same month last year, and down from last month according to number released yesterday (…)

www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1710
A U.S. Intelligence Hoax on Venezuela?
Wednesday, Apr 19, 2006
By: Michael Fox - Venezuelanalysis.com
Yesterday morning, Caracas awoke to the news in the Venezuelan daily paper, 2001, that US intelligence sources had reported the existence of a secret agreement between Iran and Venezuela whereby Iran will be sending nuclear weapons to Venezuela and Cuba.
Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Relations, Ali Rodriguez Araque, was up before (…)

MAY 4, 2006 9:22 AM
CONTACT: School of the Americas Watch Christy Pardew, Eric LeCompte, 202-234-3440, 202-903-7257, media@soaw.org Declassified FBI Files Reveal Years of Surveillance of Peaceful Demonstrations by FBI’s Counterterrorism Division ACLU and School of the Americas Watch filed for documents; much information blacked out, some pages not released
WASHINGTON - May 4 - The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Georgia today released new evidence that the Federal (…)

South American leaders to study Bolivia’s decision to nationalize gas reserves 04.05.2006 Source: URL: http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/79861-Bolivia-0
Presidents of Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela asked Bolivia’s Evo Morales for an urgent meeting to discuss his determination.
Presidents of Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela meet on Thursday with the Bolivian leader, Evo Morales, in northern Argentina, to dicuss the decision of La Paz to nationalize its energy sector, a (…)

Tibet ozone hole alert Thursday 04 May 2006 10:02 AM GMT
Chinese scientists have said that a 2.5-million-square-kilometre ozone hole may be forming over the Tibetan plateau.
While it does not yet qualify as a regular ozone hole, like those over the two poles, the area has seen a large drop in ozone density in recent years, the Xinhua news agency said on Thursday, citing China’s Scientific Report journal. The decrease in ozone over the plateau was caused by atmospheric air movements (…)

Three years since Bush’s “Mission Accomplished”: Torture, corruption, growing resistance in Iraq
By Patrick Martin
May 4, 2006 World Socialist Web Site
May 1 marks three years since President George W. Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln for a rally, choreographed by White House spin-doctors, to celebrate "Mission Accomplished" in the US war against Iraq. Organized military resistance by the regime of Saddam Hussein had collapsed. Fewer than 150 American soldiers (…)