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08.18 Kuwait's inferno: how will the world's hottest city survive climate change?
08.18 We saved the whale. The same vision can save the planet
08.17 New Research Suggests Memory Loss in Alzheimer’s Patients May be Reversible
08.17 We Just Figured out How to Activate Stem Cells to Treat Baldness
08.17 1 in 9 Deaths are from Air Pollution & Trump is making it Worse
08.16 Ignoring Threat of Rising Seas, Trump Eliminates Flood Risk Standards
08.16 In Egypt, A Rising Sea — And Growing Worries About Climate Change's Effects
08.16 Australian coal-power pollution would be illegal in US, Europe and China – report
08.15 Tagus river at risk of drying up completely
08.15 Pesticides could wipe out bumblebee populations, study shows
08.15 Sierra Leone's deadly mudslide: thousands missing as search continues
08.15 Monsanto sold banned chemicals for years despite known health risks, archives reveal [immoral capitalism]
08.18 Climate change will likely wreck their livelihoods – but they still don't buy the science [a willfully ignorant people? or a public conned by oil-industry subsidized news media distortions?]
08.15 Dems Demand Answers About FCC's Apparent Favoritism Toward Sinclair
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08.18 GOP Senator Drowned Out By Cheers for 'Single Payer' at Town Hall [might our 'representatives' understand better if we took their free healthcare away?]
08.18 If a top Trump aide leaves, it could 'start a run on the bank'
08.18 The United States was never immune to fascism. Not then, not now [2:54 video; “Stupid is as stupid does.” –Forrest Gump]
08.18 Trump's evangelical panel remains intact as others disband. Who are his religious cheerleaders? [“Stupid is as stupid does.” –Forrest Gump]
08.18 To understand the US's complex history with slavery, look to Thomas Jefferson
08.17 Cuckoo D'État: The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum
08.17 Stranding CEOs Too Slow To Quit, Trump Disbands His Own Business Councils [could a wider boycott accomplish resignations or positive change?]
08.16 Mark Ruffalo, Michael Moore Lead NYC Protest Against 'Absolutely Racist' Trump [short video]
08.16 Companies Linked To Mike Pence Seek An Upper Hand In Infrastructure Policy [our Public Infrastructure is at risk of being transformed into Private Infrastructure with tolls ad infinitum]
08.16 Surviving America’s Political Meltdown
08.16 Burying the Lie of the “Alt-Left”
08.16 The Guardian view on Donald Trump and racism: a moral failure that shames America
08.16 Republicans denounce bigotry after Trump's latest Charlottesville remarks
08.16 Indiana prosecutors want to incarcerate the opioid crisis away [“Stupid is as stupid does.” –Forrest Gump]
08.18 Buses in Seoul install 'comfort women' statues to honour former sex slaves [immoral crimes are hard to forget]
08.14 Americans once carpet-bombed North Korea. It's time to remember that past
08.15 Why Are Drug Prices So High? These Politicians Might Have The Answer [especially since the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling, BIG money corrupts & controls U.S. government to the public’s detriment]
08.18 Spain attacks: Suspects shot dead in Cambrils after van-ramming
08.17 Tesla Just Made A Futuristic Tiny House
08.17 Investment Bank Report Predicts the Cost of Electric Vehicles Will Match Regular Cars by 2018 [pressure is building for electric utilities to become 100% renewable or we'll die]
08.17 German Politicians think Trump is dangerously close to Neo-Nazis, and they Should know
08.15 As Yemen Cholera Cases Reach 500,000, US and UK Condemned for Complicity
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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.
