Forgive and Forget? ...by Paul Krugman
New York Times Last Sunday President-elect Barack Obama was asked whether he would seek an investigation of possible crimes by the Bush administration. “I don’t believe that anybody is above the law,” he responded, but “we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards.” I’m sorry, but if we ...
Accountability ...by Gold Star Mother Amy Branham
Today I write as an American -- an American who is a wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, aunt and friend. I am the daughter of a Vietnam Vet and the mother of a dead soldier. I am the mother-in-law of a soldier serving active duty in Iraq. I am a ...
Suit claims Halliburton, KBR sickened base
By Kelly Kennedy / Army Times A Georgia man has filed a lawsuit against contractor KBR and its former parent company, Halliburton, saying the companies exposed everyone at Joint Base Balad in Iraq to unsafe water, food and hazardous fumes from the burn pit there. Joshua Eller, who worked as ...
By Naomi Klein / Rolling Stone Editor's note: The online version of this story has been amended to reflect developments since the publication of the print edition. On October 13th, when the U.S. Treasury Department announced the team of "seasoned financial veterans" that will be handling the $700 billion bailout ...
Looking For the Truth? ...by Gold Star Dad, John Scripsick
Norman Transcript My son died in Iraq one year ago and it has made me study the reasons we went to war, as any parent would do looking into the loss of their child. George W. Bush is coming to Oklahoma City today to raise money for John McCain. I ...
US contractor in Iraq accused of electrocution deaths
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The biggest US military contractor in Iraq, KBR, was steeped in another scandal Friday as lawmakers, families and experts accused it of recklessly causing the electrocution deaths of US soldiers."While I had always been prepared to hear that one of my sons died by way of a ...
Army Overseer Tells of Ouster Over KBR Stir
By James Risen / New York Times WASHINGTON — The Army official who managed the Pentagon’s largest contract in Iraq says he was ousted from his job when he refused to approve paying more than $1 billion in questionable charges to KBR, the Houston-based company that has provided food, housing ...
ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
Kucinich.House.gov 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 ...
UVM anti-war group pushes divestment
By Tim Johnson / Burlington Free Press The anti-war movement at the University of Vermont showed flashes of both the old and the new in the semester just ending. The old was a sit-in that occupied the president's office one afternoon last month. Some sit-ins -- like the four-day version ...
Despite Alert, Flawed Wiring Still Kills G.I.â??s
By James Risen / New York Times WASHINGTON — In October 2004, the United States Army issued an urgent bulletin to commanders across Iraq, warning them of a deadly new threat to American soldiers. Because of flawed electrical work by contractors, the bulletin stated, soldiers at American bases in Iraq ...
Employees of contractor in Iraq face more charges of rape
By Suzanne Gamboa / Associated Press An Illinois woman who says she was raped while working for a contractor in Iraq recounted the experience in a congressional hearing Wednesday. A woman who made similar allegations before Congress last year listened and fought back tears. Dawn Leamon of Lena, Ill. said ...
Anti-war protest snarls traffic
RUTGERS STUDENTS MARCH ON ROUTE 18, SIT DOWN IN STREET By Christine Sparta / Gannett NEW BRUNSWICK — Hundreds of demonstrators on Thursday afternoon briefly blocked George Street, marched up Route 18 and rallied at Rutgers University's Voorhees Mall on College Avenue during student-led protests against the war in Iraq. ...
One year later, protesters return downtown
Students bring city to a halt By Pablo Albilal / Daily Targum The intermittent blare of car horns cut through the silence on George Street yesterday afternoon as hundreds sat quietly in the middle of an intersection. Traffic lights flashed yellow to red to green as protesters commemorating the five-year ...
Who is Congressman Welch Representing, Anyway? ...by Dan DeWalt
When Congress reconvened for the New Year, Rep. Henry Wexler made an impassioned speech on the floor of the House, saying we could no longer ignore the unconstitutional actions of Vice President Cheney. He also has asked fellow members to sign on to a letter that he is sending to ...
Justice Silent on KBR Rape, Sex Assault Cases
DOJ's Silence Frustrates Lawmakers Searching for Answers By Justin Rood / ABC News The Justice Department is declining to talk to concerned lawmakers about its handling of rape and sexual assault cases involving American women in Iraq, making several of them unhappy. Rep. Ted Poe of Texas, a Republican who ...
Hundreds of students protest Halliburton recruiters at UW-Madison
By Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press A couple hundred students jammed into a University of Wisconsin-Madison building Thursday to protest Halliburton Co.'s recruiting at a campus job fair. The protesters sat in front of the company's booth, virtually blocking access to the its four recruiters. Engineering student and protest ...
Students Block Access To Halliburton Recruiters
Halliburton Officials Attend UW-Madison Career Fair Channel 3000 MADISON, Wis. -- Students have packed a University of Wisconsin-Madison career fair Thursday afternoon, but they're not looking for a job. They're protesting Halliburton's presence at the event. The students sat in front of the company's booth, singing anti-war songs and virtually ...
Evoking Vietnam Clash, UW Students To Protest Halliburton Visit
Company To Visit Engineering Career Fair MADISON, Wis. -- University of Wisconsin-Madison students plan to protest Thursday's recruiting visit by Halliburton. Protesters said they plan to disrupt the company's visit to an engineering career fair by discouraging students from talking to its representatives. They said they are inspired by a ...
Iraq corruption whistleblowers face penalties
Cases show fraud exposers have been vilified, fired, or detained for weeks Associated Press One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted. Or worse. For daring to report illegal arms sales, ...
"Inshallah" ...by Cindy Sheehan from Amman, Jordan
"The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is ...
War Protesters March on Cheney's Home in Wyoming
Hundreds Cheer 'Toppling of Vice President's Statue' By Gil Brady / New West Politics WILSON, Wyo. — Demonstrators gathered Saturday afternoon at the rustic crossroads of U.S. Highway 22 and the Village Road to protest the war in Iraq and local resident Vice President Dick Cheney. Following anti-war speeches and ...
Strange Bedfellows ...by Cindy Sheehan
Since I announced my challenge to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi a few days ago, I have been very thrilled that issues like impeachment and the inherent corruption of the "two" party system have been brought to the forefront of public discourse. Every interview that I have done has ...
Senators Question Halliburton Executive About Dealings in Iran
By Michael Luo / New York Times WASHINGTON, April 30 — A Halliburton executive, facing withering criticism from Democratic lawmakers during a Senate hearing on Monday about the company’s business dealings in Iran, insisted that the firm had not broken any laws. The official, Sherry Williams, a Halliburton vice president ...
'The Yellow Badge of Cowardice' ...by Cindy Sheehan
There was an unbelievable story in The Cove Herald last week that comes from near where George Bush and I own property: Copperas Cove, Texas. Apparently two residents: Bill and Georgia Thomas decided that the Resident in Chief deserved one of the three Purple Hearts that Bill earned in Vietnam ...
By John Nichols / The Nation It is no secret that Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich has been toying with the idea of moving articles of impeachment against a member of the Bush administration. And he appears to be focusing more and more of his attention on the man that many ...
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