Dissent in the Ranks: Many soldiers oppose and resist participation in Iraq war

Remove George Bush: Vermont Senate first state legislative body to demand it.

Bill Moyers Journal  episode on "Buying the War" on PBS is a great expose on how media groveling to Bush administration falsehoods and absurdities helped lead to the Iraq war. The program focuss on the villains and bootlickers in the press.  It also contained...

At last, the Democrats are moving on the let's-investigate-how-they-lied-us-into-war front, with Rep. Henry Waxman (D-California) homing in on what Waxman describes as a "fabricated claim that Iraq sought uranium in Niger." Waxman's Government Oversight Committee has...

I see America's Mussolini Mayor is giving us a preview of the Republican strategy in 2008: "Rudy Giuliani said if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001. But if a Republican is...

We've had a lot of people asking why we would run this article from the New York Times on Somalia. Well, we're not ones to crush news, and quotes like this: Omar Hussein Ahmed, an olive oil exporter in Mogadishu, the capital, said he and a group of fellow traders...

Working for the Clampdown: Congress gives president new martial law powers

The Military Industrial Consequence: Historian ranks FDR near top of worst presidents list

Occupying Afghanistan Never Works: Not even when America does it

I have noted the growing convergence of left and right on various issues, from the war in Iraq to the fight in defense of civil liberties on the home front, and here’s another proposition that is a part of this developing left-right consensus: the rise of Jonah...