POLITICS-US: Analysis by Aaron Glantz* SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 21 (IPS) – If John McCain is elected the next U.S. president, wounded veterans could be in for a world of hurt. On the campaign trail, the Republican’s presumptive nominee has talked of a new mission for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and argued that veterans [...]
Archive for August 21st, 2008
21 Aug
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Antiwar.com August 20, 2008 by Weather The first crisis over North Korea’s nuclear program arose in late 1994. It was obvious there was not much the United States could do to step in unilaterally and disarm the North Korean regime. Sanctions, the normally inevitable option short of war, had no meaning – the [...]
21 Aug
McCain’s Warped Worldview
By Robert Scheer, Truthdig. Posted August 20, 2008. McCain’s campaign is an irrational mix of patriotic swagger and blindness to reality that’s proving scarily successful with uninformed voters. The world according to John McCain is one in which America is triumphant at home and abroad thanks to the Bush legacy, rolling to victory internationally and [...]
21 Aug
I Spent Years as a POW with John McCain, and His Finger Should Not Be Near the Red Button
By Phillip Butler, Military.com. Posted August 21, 2008. A fellow Vietnam POW of McCain’s warns of the candidate’s “quick and explosive temper” and suggests McCain is exaggerating his imprisonment. Also in Election 2008 Is It Racist to Say Obama’s Untested??Patricia J. Williams A Working Guide to That ‘Other’ Convention in Denver?Don Hazen The Real Elitist: [...]
21 Aug
Impeachable Offense?
?By Bruce K. Gagnon | Organizing Notes I’ve been closely following Nancy Pelosi’s book tour protests at the After Downing Street web site during the last two weeks. You know the story, Pelosi says that she was not aware of any Bush-Cheney impeachable offenses. So activists have been showing up at her events trying to [...]
21 Aug
ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
Washington, Jun 10 - Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio In the United States House of Representatives Monday, June 9th, 2008 A Resolution INDEX Article I Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq. Article II Falsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the Attacks of September 11, 2001, With Misrepresentation [...]
21 Aug
Spendthrift Nation
GLOBE EDITORIAL THE RECORD is mixed on whether documentary films can provoke political action. Just ask Michael Moore, whose Oscar-winning “Bowling for Columbine” had little real effect on the nation’s gun control laws. Still, the producers of “I.O.U.S.A,” which opens in selected theaters tomorrow, are hoping to muscle in with an even more difficult [...]
