Published on Monday, June 16, 2008 by CBS News Why Does GOP Candidate Scorn Supreme Court’s Affirmation Of Right Of Habeas Corpus? John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, told a crowd of supporters in New Jersey Friday that the Supreme Court?s latest Guantanamo Bay ruling is ?one of the worst decisions in the history of this [...]
Archive for June 19th, 2008
19 Jun
The Supreme Court Gets One Right
Imagine that you’re a non-U.S. citizen living outside the United States. A U.S. government official decides that you’re an enemy of the United States, captures you and takes you to a prison outside the United States. You’re not wearing the military uniform of a country on which the United States has declared war. In fact, [...]
19 Jun
War, Economy Can’t Be Decoupled
June 19, 2008 by Rep. Ron Paul What is the importance of the war in Iraq relative to other current issues? This is a question I am often asked, especially as Americans continue to become increasingly aware that something is very wrong with the economy. The difficulty with the way the question [...]
19 Jun
Is Clinton the Ticket for Obama?
By Robert Scheer, Truthdig. Posted June 18, 2008. Why not Hillary? Not my first choice — Al Gore is — but I find all of the pro-and-con debate about Hillary Rodham Clinton to be beside the point. She is, as Barack Obama said, likable enough, and the Dems are not likely to pick anyone better. [...]
19 Jun
Obama Commits to Halting Some of Bush’s Crimes If Elected
From Barack Obama: Thank you for contacting me in support of core constitutional principles, such as support for basic civil liberties and opposition to torture and indefinite imprisonment. I strongly agree with these views and you can see that in my record. As a constitutional lawyer, law professor and public servant, I have been clear, [...]
19 Jun
Democrats Give White House Another Blank-Check For Iraq
By Jason Leopold, The Public Record A Democratic engineered emergency supplemental bill to continue funding the occupation of Iraq and the war in Afghanistan to the tune of $162 billion is expected to win bipartisan support early Thursday, aides to leaders in the House said late Wednesday. The bill, as currently drafted, does not contain [...]
19 Jun
Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater is Still in Charge, Deadly, Above the Law and Out of Control
By Antonia Juhasz, AlterNet. Posted June 19, 2008. Think Blackwater’s days are numbered? Think again. Jeremy Scahill explains why its slaughter of Iraqis has not stopped the notorious mercenary firm. On June 3, Jeremy Scahill’s bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army was released in fully revised and updated paperback form. [...]
19 Jun
Not Alex ? The MoveOn Ad That’s Sweeping the Nation
From Citizentube: Moveon.org is calling their new political ad, ‘Not Alex’, “the most effective ad we’ve ever put together.” It features a young mother and her son and is aimed at Senator McCain’s Iraq policy. And not only was the production of the spot paid for by money donated by Move On’s membership… they’re now [...]
19 Jun
TPMtv: McCain’s Social Security Bamboozle
Your Daily Politics Video Blog: One of the most entertaining things about the 2008 campaign has been watching John McCain embrace all of President Bush’s policies and word game flimflams. And there’s no better example than Social Security where McCain has not only adopted President Bush’s proposal to phase out Social Security and replace it [...]
19 Jun
Bush Blames Torture Policy on U.S. Troops
REPORTER: I mean, you’ve talked a lot about freedom. I’ve heard you talk about freedom — I think every time I’ve seen you. GEORGE W. BUSH: Yes. REPORTER: And yet there are those who would say, look, let’s take Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib and rendition and all those things, and to them that is [...]
