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Antiwar Activists Plan Nationwide Protests to Mark Seventh Anniversary of Iraq Invasion
Antiwar activists are gearing up to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq with a weeklong series of events to protest the ...
Healthcare Not Warfare Vigils in 82 Districts on March 17th
Labor and advocacy groups organized "brown bag" lunch vigils against war funding in 22 congressional districts in January and 67 in February. Currently 82 are ...
Does Meaningful Financial Reform Have Any Chance?
Senator Dodd’s financial reform bill will be introduced in the Senate Banking Committee today. Unfortunately, on the major issue – too big to fail financial ...
Green Zone
"Green Zone" looks at an American war in a way almost no Hollywood movie ever has: We're not the heroes, but the dupes. Its message ...
We are resolved to follow our national dream.
On my walk across the nation several years ago, I had the honor of speaking from a pulpit where Dr. King once preached. How I ...
The Torture 68: Congressional Oversight or Complicity
On February 25, 2010, the intrepid researchers at Jurist noted in Documents reveal CIA briefed lawmakers on enhanced interrogation techniques that 68 members of Congress ...
More Than Words
It can be argued that when Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol accused nine lawyers in Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department of being the "al-Qaida ...
The Cure That Dares Not Speak Its Name
In all of the debates about health care reform, one of the stubborn realities is that neither the Obama plan, nor any of the Republican ...
States will usher in health care reform
Forget Congressional action on meaningful health care reform. It’s clear that whatever national health care legislation is passed, its main intent will be the preservation ...
Will the call become 'Go east, young man'?
It would reverse the 19th century mantra that conjured the promise of the American West. Much depends on how California responds to the crisis facing ...
Berkeley Schools, Colleges Gear Up for March 4 Day of Action
Schools, classrooms, corridors and cafeterias in Berkeley are buzzing with excitement over the March 4 Day of Action in California. An idea born out of ...
Jessica Sharp on Why She Got Involved in Fight for Campaign Finance Reform
"I was driving home from work, and turned on NPR ... I had Samantha in the back seat, and I looked at her, and I ...
Turning Point: When Soldiers Have Had Enough
Stand up and repeat these words in marching cadence:"I went down to the market Where all the people shop I pulled out my machete And ...
The Attack on Climate-Change Science
Twenty-one years ago, in 1989, I wrote what many have called the first book for a general audience on global warming. One of the more ...
Rep. Louise Slaughter makes remarks on preexisting conditions at White House health summit
SLAUGHTER: Thank you, Mr. President. And thanks to all of my colleagues for (inaudible). I am pretty succinct and pretty timely. I will not take ...
The Missing Voices at the Healthcare Summit
President Obama and congressional Republicans arrived at the White House health care summit with talking points -- not just for the summit itself but for ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi makes closing remarks at White House health summit
OBAMA: Thank you, John. DINGELL: Thank you, Mr. President. OBAMA: Speaker Pelosi wants to say a brief word. John, do you want to say anything ...
An American Cry for Help
OLBERMANN: Finally tonight, a Special Comment about health care reform and tomorrow's summit at Blair House. If I prove to have trouble getting through this, ...
Polls: In Key States, Public Option Far More Popular Than Senate Plan
Okay, this should really give a boost to those arguing that Dems should pass the public option via reconciliation — for the specific reason that ...
A Successful Model?
Despite the fact that over a million people remained homeless in Haiti one month after the earthquake, the U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, Ken Merten, is ...
Democrats, play hardball and force a reconciliation
President Obama's renewed effort to revive health-care-reform legislation by calling for a bipartisan summit Feb. 25 may be headed to the waiting room, as Republicans ...
Cheney Exposes Torture Conspiracy
If the United States had a functioning criminal justice system for the powerful – not just for run-of-the-mill offenders – former Vice President Dick Cheney ...
'This Week' Transcript: Former Vice President Dick Cheney
…KARL: If you have somebody in custody like Abdulmutallab, after just trying to blow up an airliner, and you think he has information on another ...
Israel Grows More Comfortable with the Status Quo
"If, and as long as between the Jordan (River) and the [Mediterranean] Sea there is only one political entity, named Israel, it will end up ...
Afghans must rebuild own country
More than 7,500 U.S. Marines, Afghan and British troops took part in an offensive Saturday in Taliban-held Marjah that hopefully will bring order and re-establish ...
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