Political writers and policy thinkers weigh in. K.A. GEIER, REBECCA TRAISTER, ED KILGORE, KAI WRIGHT, MOIRA WHELAN, CHRISTOPHER HAYES AND PAUL STARR | June 6, 2008 | web�only Hillary Clinton will announce tomorrow that she is suspending her presidential campaign. We asked seven leading political writers and policy thinkers to tell us one key [...]
Archive for June 21st, 2008
21 Jun
Bush’s Misplaced Regrets
The American Prospect George Bush says he regrets that his rhetoric did not make him sound like a “man of peace.” But his actions, not his rhetoric are what destroyed his party and his legacy. TERENCE SAMUEL | June 16, 2008| web only George W. Bush has been running around Europe misting up and [...]
21 Jun
India: Wal-Mart’s Drug Connection
Wal-Mart’s Cheap Drugs Come A Long Way?By Al Norman In 2003, a new kind of “drugstore” appeared across America, promoting cheaper prescription drugs from Canada. Instead of pills, these stores had fax machines and computers that could process orders from senior citizens in the U.S. desperately seeking lower cost drugs. But federal and state regulators [...]
21 Jun
Food Stamps Buy Less, and Families Are Hit Hard
By LESLIE KAUFMAN Published: June 22, 2008 Making ends meet on food stamps has never been easy for Cassandra Johnson, but since food prices began their steep climb earlier this year, she has had to develop new survival strategies. Enlarge This Image Andrew Henderson/The New York Times June Jacobs-Cuffee of Brooklyn now opts for canned [...]
21 Jun
Sick Around the World
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/ Five Capitalist Democracies & How They Do It Each has a health care system that delivers health care for everyone — but with remarkable differences. Visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/etc/graphs.html to view: * Graphs: U.S. Health Stats Compared to Other Countries * Health Care Systems — The Four Basic Models United Kingdom [...]
21 Jun
Bush Adminstration Post-Constitutional Order: “It Was Real ‘Manchurian Candidate’ Stuff”
by Tom Burghardt Global Research, June 19, 2008 Antifascist Calling… A Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) investigation has concluded that top Pentagon officials had assembled lists of harsh torture techniques in the summer of 2002 for use on prisoners in America’s Guantánamo Bay prison gulag. The Senate’s findings strongly refute claims by [...]
21 Jun
Kucinich threatens 60 impeachment articles if Judiciary doesn’t act
by Nick Juliano Global Research, June 19, 2008 Raw Story Rep. Dennis Kucinich warned the House Judiciary Committee that it would be wise not to ignore the 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush last week. If the committee does not act within a month, he plans to introduce even more articles. The Ohio Democrat [...]
21 Jun
FEMA Flood-Risk Maps Failed Residents in Midwest
Published on Friday, June 20, 2008 by Associated Press by Tammy Webber and Maria Sudekum Fisher GULFPORT, Ill. – Juli Parks didn’t worry when water began creeping up the levee that shields this town of about 750 from the Mississippi River — not even when volunteers began piling on sandbags. After all, local officials had [...]
21 Jun
Bush’s Obstruction Binge
After having issued 10 veto threats in May, President Bush has issued another nine in the first three weeks of June, obstructing bills that would help fight global warming, help the long-term unemployed, continue passenger rail funding and provide a comprehensive set of remedies to the subprime mortgage crisis. Our updated “Presidential Veto Watch” chronicles [...]
21 Jun
IMPEACH GEORGE W. BUSH
Information update on impeachment process… Take Action. Latest News from Congress. The 35 Articles of Impeachment with video, commentary and blog links, and documentation. Video of Congressman Dennis Kucinich reading all 35 articles. Statements in Support. Other Impeachment News. Don’t Forget Cheney. Answers to All Your Questions. Impeachment Resource Center.
21 Jun
Attack Iran? Cheney’s Already Tried
By Gareth Porter, IPS News. Posted June 10, 2008. How Pentagon officials firmly opposed a proposal by Dick Cheney last summer for airstrikes against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps. WASHINGTON – Pentagon officials firmly opposed a proposal by Vice President Dick Cheney last summer for airstrikes against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) bases by [...]
21 Jun
Bomb Iran? What’s to Stop Bush?
By Ray McGovern, Consortium News. Posted June 20, 2008. Unlike the attack on Iraq five years ago, to deal with Iran there need be no massing of troops. And, with the propaganda buildup already well under way, there need be little, if any, forewarning before shock and awe and pox — in the form of [...]
