David Swanson Endorses Mary Pallant for Congress

David Swanson of AfterDowningStreet.org endorses Mary Pallant For Congress in her effort to unseat Elton Gallegly.
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Fox News: Like Viewing a Video Version of the Nation Enquirer

And when other news media pick up on their “spin” it’s just nauseating. Whatever happened to journalist that had integrity? The truly Ugly Americans here are the media journalists without values and integrity and their corporate owners.

Ruppert must sure be getting throttled by Karl Rove to put on this garbage. Americans just [...]

May Day! - Americans Strike Against Criminal Leadership!

May 1st is shaping up to be quite a day of resistance, with strikes by the ILWU, the Teamsters, Postal Workers, plus immigrant rights rallies, and peace and impeachment activities. It’s Mission Accomplished Day (5 Years!) It’s Downing Street Minutes Day (3 Years!) It’s May Day, the original Labor Day (122 Years!) [...]

U.S. Troops in Iraq Suffer Bloodiest Week of 2008

Clearly there is no possible Bush-Cheney-McCain spin that the surge is working. The surge was a mistake.  Our troops need to be brought home before more unnecessary loss of life.   It looks like matters are getting worse despite our paying insurgents to not fire on our troops.   Whatever could the Bush Administration say at [...]

Gore and Carter Lining Up to Ask Hillary to End It Now

By Chris Stephen
in New York
DEMOCRAT grandees Jimmy Carter and Al Gore are being lined-up to deliver the coup de grâce to Hillary Clinton and end her campaign to become president.
Falling poll numbers and a string of high-profile blunders have convinced party elders that she must now bow out of the primary race.
Former president Carter and [...]

Impeachment Vote This Week - Go New Hampshire - Make Us Proud!

The deepest core of every American soul holds a painful
shame, an embarrassed humiliation that most today feel
impotent to address.

Our forefathers recognized that there would be times
when the government’s executive and legislative
branches could become so corrupted and unreliable to
protect the Constitution that it would be up to the
people.

So they gave us a special tool, mentioned no [...]

CA Universal Health Care SB840 - Senator Kuehl’s efforts

Steve Wiegand: California “creeping” along on universal health care
By Steve Wiegand - swiegand@sacbee.com
Published 12:00 am PDT Saturday, April 5, 2008
Historian John D’Emilio has written that social movements can be categorized as either “leaping” or “creeping” in terms of their pace.
Over at the Hart Senior Center on 27th Street today, the apostles of Senate Bill 840 are [...]

The Tallest Building In The World And Still Growing

It is the tallest man-made structure in the world – and it is still growing. When complete next year the Burj Dubai will stretch half a mile into the sky over the United Arab Emirates, taller than three Canary Wharf towers balanced on top of each other. Already 2,200 ft tall, and the [...]

10 Things to Know About John McCain

10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don’t):
1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has “evolved,” yet he’s continued to oppose key civil rights laws.1
2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, [...]

Conyers Speaks on Impeachment if Iran Invaded

From David Swanson:
Conyers is circulating a letter among his colleageus for signatures, a letter addressed to Bush letting him know that an attack on Iran will result in impeachment hearings. LET’S ASK EVERY MEMBER OF CONGRESS TO SIGN ON! I know it seems bassackwards and we want impeachment before a new war, not after, but [...]

Project Censored - Keeping the Mainstream News Honest

Here is a great resource discovered on digg.com - Project Censored from Sonoma State University.

Check out their site, which has the endorsement of Walter Cronkite - “Project censored is one of the organizations that we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and our broadcast outlets are practicing thorough and ethical journalism.”
Here is [...]

Greenspan: Economy worst since WWII - Gallegly still thinks tax cuts are great

Interesting. Bush appeared at the Economic Club of New York just recently to say the US economy was just fine. Bush continually appears out of touch with reality. Even the experts around him can’t cover for his madness and dishonesty any longer.
How long are the Republicans going to protect their “man” as [...]