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08.15 RIDE FOR THE OVERRIDE
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09.24 Talking with Strangers: A Journey to the Heart of the Right
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09.24 How to reduce the risks of carmageddon
09.24 Existing coal, oil and gas fields will blow carbon budget – study
09.24 Dutch parliament votes to close down country's coal industry
09.24 Trump to Fossil Fuel Execs: 'You Will Like Me So Much'
09.24 Earth Could Reach Critical Climate Threshold in Decade, Scientists Warn [we'll all die if denial idiocracy prevails]
09.23 Soil carbon storage not the climate change fix it was thought, research finds
09.23 The New, New Climate Math: 17 Years to Get Off Fossil Fuels, Or Else
09.23 Tribes Across North America Unite in 'Wall of Opposition' to Alberta Tar Sands
09.23 Air Pollution Is Linked to a Diabetes Marker
09.23 Ratifiying the Paris agreement will be a major step but must be the first of many
09.23 Farming on the edge: the Indian salt producers coping with 48C heat
09.23 100 countries push to phase out potentially disastrous greenhouse gas
09.23 Burger King and KFC called out for lagging behind on antibiotic-free meat
09.21 Drugmaker raises price of acne cream to $10,000 a tube [Only in America, land of opportunity...]
09.21 The devastating insulin scandal big pharma is hiding from you [Only in America, land of opportunity...]
09.21 375 top scientists warn of 'real, serious, immediate' climate threat
09.21 UN agrees to fight 'the biggest threat to modern medicine': antibiotic resistance
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09.24 Channeling Sanders, Clinton Proposes Whopping Billionaire Estate Tax [worldwide normalization of taxes—with full visibility of income and wealth for fairest taxation—must be achieved. Automation is capable of eliminating 45% of jobs NOW, and it will happen rapidly to realize profits.]
09.24 Thousands of Verizon customers are battling data over-limit fees: Money Matters
09.24 HILLARY CLINTON: DEAD-ON COMIC, DULL POLITICIAN
09.22 Lies and Lapses on the US Campaign Trail
09.22 Mike Pence, a heartbeat away from the presidency? Now that’s frightening
09.22 Bernie Sanders: The ‘Nation’ Interview
09.22 Whom Should We Blame for Our Deranged Democracy?
09.22 Make the Public Health Insurance Option Central to the 2016 Campaign
09.22 Trump's Giant Conflict of Interest Just Got Bigger
09.22 Meet the Horde of Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and Other Extremist Leaders Endorsing Donald Trump
09.22 Clinton hasn't won over millennials. And no, sexism isn't to blame
09.22 The Trump Foundation: what's known is shocking. We need to know more
09.21 Campaign Was Not Radical, Says Sanders, Just 'What Most Americans' Want
09.21 Top Six US Problems worse than Terrorism
09.21 Millennials Arrested at Paul Ryan's Office Denouncing GOP's Politics of Hate
09.21 Calling Syrian refugees like me Skittles would be funny if it weren't so cruel
09.21 Trump's plan to seize Iraq's oil: 'It's not stealing, we're reimbursing ourselves' [giggle giggle]
09.21 SEC Probe Called Possible 'Moment of Reckoning' for Exxon's Climate Crimes
09.21 Warren Skewers Wells Fargo CEO for Greed and 'Gutless Leadership' [8:57 C-Span video]
09.22 Stopping the War on Children
09.21 Russian planes dropped bombs that destroyed UN aid convoy, US officials say
09.23 Carney backs green finance to cut emissions and boost growth
09.23 Helicopter money is back in the air
09.23 Wells Fargo's toxic culture reveals big banks' eight deadly sins
09.21 The Coming European Debt Wars
09.21 TTIP 2.0? New Leak Exposes Threats of Lesser-Known TISA Trade Deal
09.24 Syria bombings leave 1.75 million without running water in Aleppo [videos]
09.24 Larry Sanders, Bernie's Brother, to Fight for David Cameron's MP Seat
09.24 THE COMING CRISIS IN MOSUL
09.23 Eugene V. Debs and the Urgent Need for a New Anti-War Movement
09.23 A Single Migration From Africa Populated the World, Studies Find [we're all distant cousins]
09.23 Obama Puts Syria at Arm’s Length as Carnage Drags On
09.23 The Best News You Don’t Know
09.22 "Indifferent to Yemen's Misery," Senate Approves Massive Saudi Arms Deal [Cardin and Mikulski voted “Yea”]
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STRONG COMMENTARY:
On Constitution Day: Talk of Impeachment and Rumors of War
I spoke on the morning of Sept. 17, along with John Nichols of the Nation, David Green of Hofstra, former federal prosecutor and author Elizabeth de la Vega, and long time anti-war activist Marcus Raskin. Later, in the afternoon, a second group of people spoke on the same topic, including veteran former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, Jennifer van Bergen (who first exposed Bush's secret "signing statements"), Michael Avery, president of the National Lawyers Guild, and former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman (D-NY).
And yet, scarcely one generation later, the threat of presidential abuse of power is back, including the same crime of illegal spying--this time more seriously than before.
Holtzmen observed that when Nixon was ordered by the Supreme Court to produce the tape recordings that the government had learned had been made in the Oval Office, after some hesitation, he agreed, and his fate was sealed. This time, she suggested ominously, Bush and his gang might decide to ignore orders from the Supreme Court.
As the NLG's Mike Avery noted, at that point, the only remaining recourses for the American People would be impeachment, or Thomas Jefferson's other remedy: "revolution."
"It would appear," one well-connected Washington source informed me after hearing about the Naval maneuvers, "that the Bush administration's internal polling is telling them that they are in serious trouble in November and that they are getting desperate."
This time, though, such a desperate, jingoistic strategy may not work. In fact, if such an act of unprovoked war leads Iran to unleash Shi'ia militias in Iraq against American forces, it will lead to an exponential increase in American casualties at a time that Americans are massively turning against that war.
Crucial in determining which way things would go is how Democrats respond to news of a new war in the offing. If they run true to form and start cheering for more war, they will have nailed the coffin shut on the Democratic Party as a functioning political organization. If they finally stand up against this abuse of American power and say no to yet another Bush war, the end to this nightmare could be in sight.
And which way the Democrats react will depend on what the American people do between now and any new Bush war.
As McGovern said darkly, "We have only seven weeks to act to stop this from happening."
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This story was published on September 18, 2006.
