The visit of Obama to Iraq on Monday underscores once again that the opposition to militarism among millions of Americans has been completely disenfranchised by the Dem Party. Obama used the trip to clarify his commitment to indefinite occupation of Iraq
THE U.S. is dangling carrots in front of Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program--but only after smacking the Iranians with some increasingly big sticks in the form of sanctions.
Who knows? There's so much sweetheart dealing, kickbacking & other corruption in these military (and other government) contracts. All I know is I am boiling mad over these auditors being for telling the truth. RIPPED OFF AGAIN by our friends in DC.
Yet another example of the lack legal - and moral - accountability that has been the hallmark of nearly all US federal agencies during the George & Dick show. Contemptible!
July 20th at the "DNC/RNC Bay Area Consulta" in San Francisco, the first open meeting of local activists interested in participating in direct actions against the Democratic and Republican national conventions, plans
Obama's approval rating with registered Latino voters, the nationwide Pew Hispanic Center poll found, is at 66 percent versus 23 percent favoring McCain.
The Bush administration told the CIA in 2002 that its interrogators working abroad would not violate U.S. prohibitions against torture unless they "have the specific intent to inflict severe pain or suffering," according to a previously secret Justice
...a small crowd is better than a large one, a passionate crowd inferior to a bored one, where drawing a million people in Berlin is less likely to be compared with Ronald Reagan or John F. Kennedy but to Hitler Youth chanting ``Sieg heil!''
Slightly more than half (53%) of Americans in the new poll do not approve of candidates making statements contrary to U.S. government policy while visiting U.S. troops in a war zone. Only 29% believe that it's okay to do so.
