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In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran. The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and (…)

petition here
Demand that Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald be Empowered to Investigate the President’s Role in Manipulating Intelligence on Iraq Now that the White House has acknowledged that it was President Bush who ordered the selective leaking of classified intelligence in order to justify his invasion of Iraq, will he be held accountable for what he has said and done?
Please join me in demanding that Attorney General Gonzales expand the special prosecutor’s mandate on (…)

Publisher’s note: John Conyers introduced this right after the illegal wiretapping revelations
I think that many more congresspeople would sign on if the impeachment resolution was about the illegal wiretapping only. The case for impeachment over illegal wiretapping is cut and dry. Bush admitted to breaking the law on national TV and has said he will continue to do so.
When this information came to light, everyone was in an uproar and the momentum was so moving toward immediate (…)

Before we bomb Iran with nuclear weapons, a short inventory of the mentality that made it possible...
War on Terror’s Hit Parade An Islamophobia Retrospective by Trish Schuh, USA
It was the potshot heard round the world that touched off a counter-crusade. Packaged in western free speech cliches, and marketed as innocent satire, the newspaper Jylland-Posten’s depiction of the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist/suicide bomber with a ticking bomb for a turban was "provocation-entrapment" (…)

LEVELAND — A 61-year-old man was arrested after an alleged poll rage incident, NewsChannel5 reported.
Officials said the man was arrested after breaking a voting machine. He faces disorderly conduct, obstructing official business and resisting arrest charges.
It took several people to restrain the man who was trying to vote at a 4330 Jennings Road.
It’s unclear what caused the man to become upset.
http://www.newsnet5.com/politics/9146477/detail.html?taf=nn5

U.S. Violates Treaty Against Torture Abroad and at Home (4/27/2006)
ACLU Report to the Committee Against Torture > Complete Report (PDF) > Executive Summary (French, Spanish PDFs) > Contents (with Audio Commentary) > Audio Commentary > F.A.Q. - Committee Against Torture > Statement - Anthony D. Romero > Press Statement
LEARN MORE > Government Torture and Abuse
TAKE ACTION > Sign Our Petition FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: media@aclu.org ACLU Submits Report to U.N. (…)

Actors and Writers Read Works from Luminaries Censored at the Border (4/27/2006)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: media@aclu.org
ACLU and PEN Highlight Foreign Scholars Barred from United States
LEARN MORE > Censorship at the Border
> An Evening Without... NEW YORK — Prominent authors and actors convene tonight in lower Manhattan to read from the works of writers and scholars who were banned from the United States because of their political opinions.
Tonight’s event, “An Evening (…)

New Army documents reveal US knew of and approved torture before Abu Ghraib scandal 05/02/2006 @ 1:20 pm Filed by RAW STORY
BREAKING HARD — FROM AN ACLU RELEASE TO RAW
New Army documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union today reveal that Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez ordered interrogators to "go to the outer limits" to get information from detainees. The documents also show that senior government officials were aware of abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan before the Abu (…)

Stephen Colbert was the celebrity entertainer at the 2006 White House Correspondent’s Dinner. But you wouldn’t know it if you only paid attention to main stream media outlets. That is because the main stream media is proving Stephen Colbert right. Colbert, in his persona as a conservative, flag waving, Bush supporting cable show host, unloaded on the Washington press and the administration in a bit of satirical, comedic genius. But the main stream press has decided to pretend it didn’t (…)

Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert’s biting routine at the White House Correspondents Association dinner won a rare silent protest from Bush aides and supporters Saturday when several independently left before he finished.
"Colbert crossed the line," said one top Bush aide, who rushed out of the hotel as soon as Colbert finished. Another said that the president was visibly angered by the sharp lines that kept coming.
"I’ve been there before, and I can see that he is [angry]," said a (…)