Sibel Edmonds Speaks and Bob Dreyfuss Explains

Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show I'll be talking with Sibel Edmonds about the new Vanity Fair article which finally disclosed the reason for her gagging: The corruption of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. National Security indeed. In the second hour...

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Who is at Crawford, TX with Cindy Sheehan?

 From  Military Families Speak Out Celeste, Dante and Raphael Zappala of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Celeste and her son Dante arrived in Crawford on Tuesday August 9; son Raphael will arrive Friday night August 12. Celeste's son Sgt. Sherwood Baker...

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How do you like your “democracy” now?

Drink-soaked former Trotskyist popinjay Christopher Hitchens, in yet another of the near formulaic "clap louder"articles churned out by warbots desperately looking for someone, anyone to blame for the violent quagmire they instigated in Iraq, pens this whiny,...

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Sibel Edmonds and David Rose on Democracy Now!

Tomorrow morning (Wednesday), Democracy Now! will feature FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds and David Rose, author of the interview with Edmonds appearing in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. The show is available via multiple media: On the Internet at the Democracy Now!...

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6 More GIs Killed in Iraq, 45 Dead in 10 Days

Six U.S. soldiers were killed when insurgents attacked their patrol in a northern Iraqi city, and a car bomb targeting a joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol in Baghdad killed seven people, including one U.S. soldier, the military said Wednesday. A sixth died by small arms fire...

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Cindy Sheehan to Be Arrested

According to a poster on Daily Kos, Cindy Sheehan, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq, has been informed that she and her group will be arrested Thursday as a "threat to national security" for protesting the war on a road near Bush's "ranch" in...

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Declare Victory and Bring Them Home

Politics1.com is a very useful site for political information. The politics1.com site includes pages for each state, with lists of announced and potential candidates, links to party websites and news websites for each state. Politics1.com also carries long,...

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The Plame/AIPAC-gate Connection

Swopa cites Mark Kleimen on the AIPAC spy scandal -- who points out that Larry Franklin and his cohorts are "simply charged with giving classified information to those without security clearances, in pursuit of a political agenda" -- and makes the Plame-AIPAC-gate...

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