Cindy for Congress '08 People Before Politics We are seeing several clear indications that Nancy Pelosi is feeling the heat of our campaign. Two weeks ago, the Harvey Milk Democratic Club invited Cindy for Congress to their meeting to vote on un-endorsing Nancy Pelosi and endorsing US. The vote was ...
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Anti-Palin rally calls for Colberg removal
TROOPERGATE: More than 1,000 protesters gather in downtown Anchorage park. By Kyle Hopkins / Anchorage Daily News A protest slamming Gov. Sarah Palin's handling of the state's so-called Troopergate investigation -- and calling for the attorney general to lose his job -- drew more than 1,000 people to the Delaney ...
Anti-war activist faces long odds to unseat Pelosi
By Erica Werner / Associated Press WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to win an easy re-election to Congress on Nov. 4, but not before her liberal San Francisco constituents get the chance to cast symbolic votes against the war she has failed to stop and the president ...
Asif Ali Zardari issues warning over military action on Pakistan's soil
New president voices growing resentment against US-led strikes in Pakistani territory By Peter Walker / Guardian Pakistan's new president today said that his country cannot accept violations of its sovereignty "by any power", in a clear warning to the US over recent cross-border military strikes. Asif Ali Zardari, the widower ...
AG candidate backs prosecution of President Bush for murder
By Daniel Barlow / Rutland Herald BURLINGTON — Charlotte Dennett, the Progressive Party candidate for Vermont attorney general, said Thursday that if elected she would prosecute President Bush for murder. Dennett, an attorney from Cambridge challenging incumbent Democrat William Sorrell, was joined by Vincent Bugliosi, a famed prosecutor who took ...
Vermont candidate to prosecute Bush if she wins
By John Curran / Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. — Lots of political candidates make campaign promises. But not like Charlotte Dennett's.Dennett, 61, the Progressive Party's candidate for Vermont Attorney General, said Thursday she will prosecute President Bush for murder if she's elected Nov. 4.Dennett, an attorney and investigative journalist, says ...
Kucinich shifts his impeachment focus to the economy
By Betsy Rothstein / The Hill Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), who introduced 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush earlier this year, is shifting his focus to the economy. Kucinich held a press conference Wednesday to unveil his new plan that would create a National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation. ...
McDermott signs on to impeachment resolution
Associated Press Seattle Congressman Jim McDermott has signed on to the resolution seeking to impeach President Bush. McDermott said in a speech Tuesday on the House floor that "America cannot regain its moral leadership in the world if America cannot hold its leaders accountable." "There is no decision that one ...
Congressman joins call to impeach Bush
SEATTLE (UPI) -- A Washington congressman said he has joined the effort to impeach U.S. President George Bush on grounds he misled the country before the Iraq invasion. U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that three recent books on the Bush administration convinced him that the president ...
McDermott joins call to oust Bush
Impeachment group won't let even the election stop it By Levi Pulkkinen / Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle Congressman Jim McDermott wants to see George Bush impeached, whether or not, he says, Bush is still in office. The long-serving Democrat and outspoken advocate for liberal causes made his displeasure with the president ...
By Karen Goldberg Goff / Washington Times Protesters from the group Code Pink (motto: "Make out, not war") prevented House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from starting her discussion at the "Unconventional Women" forum on Monday. Rep. Pelosi, California Democrat, was the among the speakers for the nonpartisan symposium urging women to ...
Vermont doesn't look like Bush country
It's only state he hasn't visited while in office By Ken Herman / Cox News Service BRATTLEBORO, VT. — It's not that President Bush is ignoring Vermont, which twice gave him the fewest votes of any state. Heck, on Friday he declared part of it a disaster. It's just that ...
The Why-Havenâ??t-You Impeached-the-President Tour
By Carl Hulse / New York Times WASHINGTON -- When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi set out to promote her new motivational book this month, she simultaneously touched off her national why-haven't-you-impeached-the-president tour. As she made the coast-to-coast rounds of lectures, television interviews and radio chats the past two weeks, Ms. ...
US missile strike kills 9, Pakistan says
Attack may signal stepped-up drive against militants By Laura King / Los Angeles Times ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - In what could herald an intensified US campaign against Islamic insurgents in Pakistan's tribal areas, a suspected American missile attack killed at least nine people near the Afghan border, local officials said yesterday. ...
Former Star Wars program director to speak in GJ today
By Sharon Sullivan / Grand Junction Free Press GRAND JUNCTION, CO — Some would say Robert Bowman is a patriot in more ways than one. Bowman is a former fighter pilot who flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam. He’s the former director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the United ...
Critics don't divert Pelosi in speech at Dominican
By Richard Halstead / Marin Independent Journal Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was dogged by protesters when she appeared at Dominican University of California in San Rafael Tuesday night to speak about her new book, "Know Your Power." The protesters, who fault Pelosi for failing to support efforts to ...
It's the most winnable presidential election in American history - but the Democrats are old hands at losing. Michael Moore offers some helpful hints on how they might gift it all to the Republicans. This is an edited extract from Mike's Election Guide, by Michael Moore / The Guardian "Let's ...
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan on the ballot
By John Wildermuth / San Francisco Chronicle SAN FRANCISCO -- Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan qualified Friday for a November showdown with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, collecting the signatures needed to get on the ballot as an independent candidate for Congress. "We're very excited," said Sheehan, 51, the mother of a ...
Congressional candidate calls for impeachment
By Bill Carey / News 10 Now SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- It doesn't cost Howie Hawkins a lot to run for Congress. No big media buys. No consultants. These days, Hawkins is often out, by himself, slowly collecting the thousands of signatures he'll need to take a spot on the November ...
Book says White House ordered forgery
By Mike Allen / The Politico A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein. Suskind writes in “The Way of the World,” to be published Tuesday, that ...
Kucinich Seeks to Punctuate His Efforts to Abbreviate Bush's Term
By Molly K. Hooper / CQ Politics Anyone who thought Dennis J. Kucinich would quiet down after Democratic leaders gave him a public forum to talk about impeaching the president hasn’t met Dennis J. Kucinich. The Ohio Democrat was allowed to make his case for impeachment at a House Judiciary ...
I got up at 5:00 a.m. this morning so that I could get into the hearings of the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C. -- and I sat through the hearings. I think they should have been real impeachment hearings and not sham hearings about the abuse of executive power. ...
Bush critics get an unimpeachable forum
By Jim Abrams / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Call it the un-impeachment hearing. The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Friday it insisted was not about removing President Bush from office. But critics of Bush's policies couldn't pass up the chance to charge the president with a long list of ...
Michigan congressman opens critical Bush hearing
By Deb Price / Detroit News WASHINGTON -- House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers of Detroit said Friday there is "credible and substantial" evidence of wrongdoing in the Bush administration. But at a high-profile committee hearing, Conyers, a Democrat, departed from his prepared statement to avoid even saying the word ...
Kucinich Presents Case For Impeaching Bush
Florida representative Robert Wexler supported Kucinich's case WASHINGTON (CBS4.com) ? A crowd gathered outside of the room for Friday's hearing in the House Judiciary Committee that focused on executive power and the possibility of impeachment of President George W. Bush. The hearing was brought about when former Democratic presidential candidate ...
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March 13th, 2013
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February 26th, 2013
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February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
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February 20th, 2013
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September 11th, 2010
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December 14th, 2010
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Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
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May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
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November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
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September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
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December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
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November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
